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Born in Halland, Sweden , Skoog emmigrated to the United States during a trip to California in 1925 , and was naturalized as a citizen almost a decade later. He competed, and finished fourth, in the 1500 meter race during the 1936 Olympics . In 1936 , he received his PhD in biology from Caltech for his work done with Auxin , a type of plant growth regulator. Skoog's professional career advanced significantly with his arrival at the University Of Wisconsin in 1947 . Carlos Miller discovered Kinetin in 1954 , and Benzyladenine and related compounds were later synthesized in Skoog's lab. In 1962 , Skoog and Toshio Murashige published what is probably the best-known paper in plant tissue culture; in a fruitless attempt to discover a yet-unknown plant growth regulator in Tobacco juice for his doctoral thesis, Murashige and Skoog instead developed a greatly improved salt base for the sterile culture of tobacco. Now referred to as Murashige And Skoog Medium , the final paper (Murashige T and Skoog F (1962) A revised medium for rapid growth and bioassays with tobacco tissue cultures. Physiol Plant 18: 100-127) is considered one of the most often-cited papers in biology. Now almost 45 years after its publication, M&S salt base remains an essential component in plant tissue culture. |
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