[Folling's disease]

Abstract

Norway is a small country and we have few examples of medical scientists that has discovered and cultivated unknown territory. One very good example is the man who discovered the first link between metabolic disease and brain development. Asbjørn Følling was born in 1888 and discovered "his disease" (phenylketonuria = PKU) in 1934. This article gives a description of his life, discovery and work.