Researching Clay Armstrong
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The name Clay means "Mortal" and is of Teutonic origin.
Records of Clay Armstrong on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Clay Armstrong and the Armstrong Family History
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Armstrong Forums
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Some Famous People called Clay Armstrong
Clay Armstrong
Clay Margrave Armstrong (born 1934) is an American physiologist and a former student of Andrew Fielding Huxley. Armstrong received his MD from Washington University School of Medicine in 1960. He is currently emeritus professor of Physiology at the University of Pennsylvania. He has also held professorial appointments at Duke University and the University of Rochester.
Armstrong was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in 1996, and the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (shared with Bertil Hille and Roderick MacKinnon) in 1999, for his seminal contributions to our understanding of the functions of ion channel proteins in nerve cells.Armstrong was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1987, and was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999.He won the 2001 Gairdner Foundation International Award.
Armstrong is married to noted scientist Clara Franzini-Armstrong.
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