Florentina Mosora


Florentina Ioana Mosora or Florentina Stan-Mosora was a Romanian and Belgian biophysicist. In her earlier years, before 1964, she was a film actress in the Romanian film industry.

Biography

Mosora initially had a career in acting and was noted for her role in Dragoste la zero grade. She also starred in Sub cupola albastră, Post-restant, and Băieţii noştri. She was a graduate of the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Physics. Later she moved to Belgium, where she worked on the use of stable isotopes in medicine. She was awarded the 1979-1981 Prix Agathon de Potter for outstanding research work in physics by the Agathon de Potter Foundation and the Belgian Royal Academy. In 1989 she was one of three scientists co-organizing a NATO workshop on Biomechanical Transport Processes. She died aged 56 in Liège.

Selected works