Marc Émile Pierre Adolphe Tiffeneau (November 5, 1873 – May 20, 1945) was a French chemist who co-discovered the Tiffeneau-Demjanov rearrangement.
Marc Tiffeneau | |
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.jpg) Marc Tiffeneau | |
| Born | November 5, 1873 |
| Died | May 20, 1945 (aged 71) |
| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | École de pharmacie de Paris |
| Known for | Tiffeneau-Demjanov rearrangement |
| Awards | Prix Jecker, of the Académie des Sciences (1911 and 1923) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Chemistry, Pharmacology |
| Institutions | Faculté de Pharmacie de Paris Faculté de Médecine de Paris Hôpitaux de Paris Académie des Sciences Académie de Médecine |
In 1899 he graduated from the École de pharmacie de Paris, and afterwards began work as a pharmacy intern in Paris hospitals. In 1904 he was named chief pharmacist at the Hôpital Boucicaut,[1] and from 1927, worked in a similar capacity at the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris. From 1926 to 1944 he was a professor of pharmacology to the faculty of medicine at the Sorbonne.[2]
He also sat as one of the four members of the Drug Supervisory Body (predecessor of the International Narcotics Control Board) from 1933 until his death.[3][4]
Tiffeneau received his Ph.D in sciences in 1907 and his Ph.D in medicine in 1910.[2] He was a member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine (from 1927), dean to the faculty of medicine (1937) and a member of the Académie des Sciences (from 1939).[1] At the time of his death in 1945 he was president of the Société chimique de France.[citation needed]
Selected works
- Le système nerveux autonome sympathique et parasympathique, 1923; (translation of John Newport Langley).
- Abrégé de pharmacologie, 1926, 7th edition 1947.
- Les Amines biologiques, 1934; (preface by Tiffeneau).[5]
- Vade-mecum de médecine pratique, 1940.[2]
References
- S. (1945). "Nekrologe". Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 1 (5): 125. doi:10.1007/BF02152975.
- Alex McKenzie (1945). "Prof. Marc Tiffeneau". Nature. 156 (3970): 656–657. Bibcode:1945Natur.156..656M. doi:10.1038/156656a0.