Clara Sandri
Clara Sandri (born May 2, 1918 in Chur ; † January 31, 2004 in Samedan ) was a Swiss laboratory assistant who specialized in histology and electron microscopy .
life and work
After finishing school in Chur, Clara Sandri trained as a medical laboratory assistant at the Engeried Hospital in Bern from 1939 to 1941 . She then worked as a laboratory assistant and secretary in various hospitals. For 13 years she worked with Erwin Uehlinger in the Pathological Institute at the Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen and later at the University Hospital Zurich . In 1961 she finally became head laboratory assistant at the newly founded Institute for Brain Research at the University of Zurich . Here she worked her way into the structural analysis of brain tissue . A six-month course at the University of Wisconsin – Madison made them familiar with the handling of the electron microscope in 1962. As a result, Clara Sandri became a recognized expert in the technology of neuron morphology.
During more than twenty years at the Zurich Brain Research Institute, headed by Konrad Akert , she made several groundbreaking findings in the area of the membrane structure of synapses and endplates . This work was reflected in over 60 publications. A monographic summary in the form of a comprehensive picture atlas was published in 1977. In the same year Clara Sandri - as a non-academic - was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Zurich, "in recognition of her excellent electron microscopic investigations into the membrane structure of nerve cells".
Publications
- Clara Sandri, John M. van Buren, Konrad Akert: Membrane morphology of the vertebrate nervous system. A study with freeze-etch technique . Elsevier Biomedical, Amsterdam 1977.
literature
- Hubert Steinke : Sandri, Clara. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Willi Wottreng : Traveling through the brain (obituary) . In: NZZ am Sonntag . March 21, 2004, p. 22 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dossier: Honorary Doctors and Guests of Honor: Sandri, Clara, 1918–2004, (1977). UZH archive . Signature: AF.1.435. link
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sandri, Clara |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss laboratory assistant specializing in histology and electron microscopy |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 2, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chur |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 31, 2004 |
| Place of death | Samedan |