Edward C. Franklin 1928–1982

✍ Scribed by Gerald Weissmann

• Book ID: 101645992
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 106 KB
• Volume: 25
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0004-3591
• DOI: 10.1002/art.1780250826

✦ Synopsis

The untimely death of Edward C. Franklin has removed from Rheumatology one of its most creaiive investigators, from his University a voice of clear reason, and from his close associates, a remarkable soul. Ed Franklin was born in Berlin in 1928 and came to New York in the wake of the Hitler era. Graduating from Harvard (magna cum laude, 1946), he entered New York University College of Medicine and graduated in 1950. After internship and residency training at Beth Israel and Montefiore Hospitals, he served for 2 years in the U.S. Army and returned to the Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital before embarking on his research career at the Rockefeller Institute in the laboratory of Henry Kunkel.