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Marc Tiffeneau

French chemist (1873–1945) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Marc Tiffeneau
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Marc Émile Pierre Adolphe Tiffeneau (November 5, 1873 May 20, 1945) was a French chemist who co-discovered the Tiffeneau-Demjanov rearrangement.

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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]

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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]

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