Clara Franzini-Armstrong

Clara Franzini-Armstrong FMRS (born 1938 Florence) is an American electron microscopist,^[1] and Professor Emeritus of Cell and Developmental Biology at University of Pennsylvania.^[2][3]

Life

She graduated from the University of Pisa with a PhD degree in 1960. She was a Research Assistant at University College, London, with Andrew F. Huxley. She has taught at the University of Pennsylvania since 1975.

Dr. Franzini-Armstrong was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences in 1995.

She is married to Dr. Clay Armstrong.^[4]

Works

• Andrew Engel, Clara Franzini-Armstrong (eds) Myology: basic and clinical, Volume 2, McGraw-Hill, 1994, ISBN 9780070195592
• Andrew Engel, Clara Franzini-Armstrong, Myology: Dystrophinopathies, McGraw-Hill, 2004, ISBN 9780071371803
• Robert Malcolm Simmons, ed (1992). "The structure of the triad: local stimulation experiments then and now". Muscular contraction. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521417747. http://books.google.com/books?id=52L-BA-HPSsC&pg=PA53&dq=Clara+Franzini-Armstrong&hl=en&ei=nmGYToeeHofw0gHD2KXCBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Clara%20Franzini-Armstrong&f=false. 

References

1. ^ http://www.biophysics.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=tX8tD%2FOI7VE%3D&tabid=524
2. ^ http://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g20001040/p9936
3. ^ http://www.med.upenn.edu/pmi/members/armstrong.shtml
4. ^ http://www.vet.k-state.edu/depts/ap/clarenburg/franzini.htm

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Persondata
Name	Franzini-Armstrong, Clara
Alternative names
Short description	Microscopist
Date of birth	1938
Place of birth	Florence, Italy
Date of death
Place of death