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Dr. Fernando E. Franca (May 28, 1925- July 1, 1992) was an explorer, physician, airplane pilot and an inventor. Dr. Fernando Estanislao Franca Martínez was born in Havana, Cuba in 1925 to Dr. Fernando Franca Reguéira a physician, and Marina Martínez Barreto de Franca. He was the younger of 2 children. His older sister Olga Franca Martínez de Wolfer was a lawyer. Dr. Franca was the cousin of Economist Porfirio Franca y Álvarez de la Campa who was a President of the Cuban Republic under the Pentarchy of 1933. Dr. Franca's uncle was physicist-mathematician of eminence Pablo Miquel Merino, a colleague and collaborator of Albert Einstein and the founder of the Society of Cuban Physics and Mathematics Sciences. In the early 1950s, Dr. Franca (then known as el Bebi) hosted a number of nightclubs and cabarets located in Old Havana and in Havana's Chinatown. In 1955 Dr. Franca married Eva Quesada Condis in Havana. They had 2 sons both born in Havana: Frank Franca a photographer currently living in New York, and Eduardo Franca a physician currently living in Miami. Dr. Franca held Medical Doctorates from the University of Havana, Cuba; The University of Salamanca, Spain, and The University of Miami, US. He was also a graduate of Belen Jesuit College in Havana, where one of his classmates was Fidel Castro. Among his many interests, Dr. Franca was an inventor, notably of medical and surgical instruments designed to ease the work of surgeons performing delicate surgical procedures.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan )〕 Franca Glacier in Antarctica is named in honor of Dr. Franca for his work in the Antarctic: In 1973 and 1974, Dr, Franca served as the Medical Officer and Station Manager of Palmer Station in Antarctica.〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=http://www.palmerstation.com/history/6575/6575.html )〕 Palmer Station is an American scientific research center for the study of marine biology. The station also houses year-round monitoring equipment for global seismic, atmospheric, and UV-monitoring networks, as well as a site for the study of heliophysics. Palmer also hosts a radio receiver that studies lightning over the Western Hemisphere. Franca Glacier is a glacier in Antarctica, flowing northeast into the head of Solberg Inlet, Bowman Coast, to the south of Houser Peak. The glacier was photographed from the air by the United States Antarctic Service, 1940, and the U.S. Navy, 1966. It was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, 1946–48, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1977 after Dr. Fernando E. Franca, Medical Officer and Station Manager, Palmer Station, 1974.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=December 27, 2014 )〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fernando E. Franca」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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