Sure we all have referred on occasion to the Folch method used to extract the lipid fraction of a particular type of substrates. The name seems to indicate it but today, March 25th, 104 years ago the Catalan, JORDI FOLCH PI was born.  He was a doctor (by University of Barcelona) and a biochemist and became a leading figure in neuroscience (he was the first professor of this discipline at the Harvard University). He is recognized as pioneer in the field of chemistry of complex lipids and I think that from now on he will be a reference for us.
Son of the poet Rafael Folch, Jordi died in Boston in 1979.

By Prof Josep Boatella