Florentina Ioana Mosora or Florentina Stan-Mosora (7 January 1940 in Cluj, Romania – 2 February 1996 in Liège, Belgium) 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 ("Love at Zero Degrees", 1964).^[2] She also starred in Sub cupola albastră ("Under the Blue Arch", 1962),^[3] Post-restant ("Poste Restante", 1961), and Băieţii noştri ("Our Boys", 1959).^[3][4] She was a graduate of the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Physics.^[5] Later she moved to Belgium, where she worked on the use of stable isotopes in medicine.^[1][6] She was awarded the 1979-1981 Prix Agathon de Potter^[7] for outstanding research work in physics by the Agathon de Potter Foundation and the Belgian Royal Academy.^[8] In 1989 she was one of three scientists co-organizing a NATO workshop on Biomechanical Transport Processes.^[9] She died aged 56 in Liège.^[1][10]

Selected works

• Jandrain BJ, Pallikaris N, Normand S, Pirnay F, Lacroix M, Mosora F, Pachiaudi C, Gautier JF, Scheen AJ, Riou JP, and Lefebvre PJ, BJ; Pallikarakis, N; Normand, S; Pirnay, F; Lacroix, M; Mosora, F; Pachiaudi, C; Gautier, JF; et al. (1993). "Fructose utilization during exercise in men: rapid conversion of ingested fructose to circulating glucose". Journal of Applied Physiology. 74 (5): 2146–54. doi:10.1152/jappl.1993.74.5.2146. PMID 8335542.((cite journal)): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Baque, C.; Mosora, F.; Caro, C.G.; Krause, E.; et al., eds. (1990). Biomechanical Transport Processes: Proceedings of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Biomechanical Transport Processes, held October 9–13, 1989, in Cargèse, France. New York: Plenum Press. p. 426. ISBN 978-0-306-43676-5.
• Florentina Mosora, "Experimental Studies of Variations of the State," in Pullman, Bernard (1981). Intermolecular forces: proceedings of the Fourteenth Jerusalem Symposium on Quantum Chemistry and Biochemistry held in Jerusalem, Israel, April 13–16, 1981. D. Reidel. pp. 489–98. ISBN 978-90-277-1326-1.
• Mosora F; Lacroix M; Luyckx A (1981). "Glucose oxidation in relation to the size of the oral glucose loading dose". Metabolism. 30 (1): 143–49. doi:10.1016/0026-0495(81)90033-0. PMID 6796801.
• I. Ebiner JR, Acheson KJ, Doerner A, F. Mosora, JR; Acheson, KJ; Doerner, A; Maeder, E; Arnaud, MJ; Jéquier, E; Felber, JP (1979). "Comparison of carbohydrate utilization in man using indirect calorimetry and mass spectrometry after an oral load of 100 g naturally labelled 13-C glucose". British Journal of Nutrition. 41 (3): 419–29. doi:10.1079/BJN19790057. PMID 465433.((cite journal)): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Mosora F., Lefebvre P, Pirnay F, Lacroix M, Luyckx A, Duchesne, J., F; Lefebvre, P; Pirnay, F; Lacroix, M; Luyckx, A; Duchesne, J (1976). "Quantitative evaluation of the oxidation of an exogenous glucose load using naturally labelled 13C-glucose". Metabolism. 25 (12): 1575–82. doi:10.1016/0026-0495(76)90110-4. PMID 994839.((cite journal)): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Lefebvre P., Mosora F., Lacroix M, Luyckx A, Lopez-Habib 0, Duchesne, J., P.; Mosora, F.; Lacroix, M.; Luyckx, A.; Lopez-Habib, G.; Duchesne, J. (1975). "Naturally labeled 13-C glucose: metabolic studies in human diabetes and obesity". Diabetes. 24 (2): 185–89. doi:10.2337/diabetes.24.2.185. PMID 1123106.((cite journal)): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Lacroix M, Mosora F, Pontus M, Lefebvre P, Luyckz A, Lopez-Habib G; Mosora; Pontus; Lefebvre; Luyckx; Lopez-Habib (August 1973). "Glucose naturally labeled with carbon-13: use for metabolic studies in man". Science. 181 (4098): 445–6. Bibcode:1973Sci...181..445L. doi:10.1126/science.181.4098.445. PMID 4718109. S2CID 28672406.((cite journal)): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)