Not only was he a scientific journalist, he was also a trained physicist. He was able to study physics in Berlin, Philadelphia, and Hamburg. Folsing worked as an academic research assistant for the German electron synchrotron names Desy. Between the years of 1973-2001 Folsing headed the Department of Nature and Science of the North German Radio and Television. Folsing has written several biographies of physicists, but his biography of Albert Einstein is the most famous.