Annemarie Weber

Annemarie Weber (11 September 1923 – 5 July 2012) was a German-born American physiologist who studied the biochemistry of muscle action. She was the daughter of the German physiologist Hans Hermann Weber, who also studied muscle structure and function.

Biography Weber was born in Tübingen, West Germany, where her father worked at the university, and grew up in Königsberg, Germany. Her brother Jürgen Weber (1928–2007) became a sculptor. She was often separated from family during World War II without any news about their welfare. and on actin polymerization. Her final academic position was as Professor Emerita of Biochemistry, University of Pennsylvania (1972–2012).

Annemarie Weber died on 5 July 2012 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from lung cancer, as she was on her way to her summer home in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

Honors Berwick award in 1985 University’s Provost Award in 2001

Selected works Weber, Annemarie, Ruth Herz, and Ingrid Reiss. "On the mechanism of the relaxing effect of fragmented sarcoplasmic reticulum." The Journal of general physiology 46, no. 4 (1963): 679-702. Weber, Annemarie. "Energized calcium transport and relaxing factors." In Current topics in bioenergetics, vol. 1, pp. 203-254. Elsevier, 1966. Weber, Annemarie, and John M. Murray. "Molecular control mechanisms in muscle contraction." Physiological reviews 53, no. 3 (1973): 612-673. Weber, Annemarie, Cynthia R. Pennise, Gary G. Babcock, and Velia M. Fowler. "Tropomodulin caps the pointed ends of actin filaments." The Journal of cell biology 127, no. 6 (1994): 1627-1635.