Dates

• Existence: 1914-

Biography

George Edgar Folk, Jr., was born on November 12, 1914, in Natick, Massachusetts. He graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1933. He received the B.A. (1937), M.A. (1940), and Ph.D. (1947) degrees in biology from Harvard University. Following graduation, Folk taught courses at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, for six years.   Folk joined the State University of Iowa faculty as associate professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics in 1953. He was made full professor in 1965. In 1957, Folk was one of the founders of the International Journal of Bioclimatology and Biometeorology. His research took him to the Arctic each summer from 1970 through 1982, where he and his students studied how mammals functioned in the environment. Folk was the recipient of the University of Iowa Teacher of the Year Award in 1983. He served as a consultant for the United States Army during the late 1940s and early 1950s on the topic of ""Moisture Relations Between the Human Foot and Its Environment."" Folk retired from the University of Iowa in 1985.   Folk married Mary Arp in June 1956 and the couple had one son, Christopher, and one daughter, Victoria. Following Mary's death, Folk married Bessie Beresford Kueny.

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