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.
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Franzini-Armstrong, Clara |
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Microscopist |
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1938 |
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Florence, Italy |
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