Marc_Tiffeneau

Marc Tiffeneau

Marc Tiffeneau

French chemist (1873–1945)


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]

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.
  1. Marc Pierre Emile TIFFENEAU (1873-1945) Société d'Histoire de la Pharmacie
  2. TIFFENEAU Marc Émile Pierre Adolphe Sociétés savantes de France
  3. League of Nations. (1939). Organisation d’Hygiène. Rapport au Conseil sur les travaux de la Trentième Session du Comité d’Hygiène (Genève, 4 au 6 mai 1939) [C.136.M.87.1939.III]. Geneva: League of Nations. p. 6
  4. "Dangerous Drugs in 1946: Estimated World Requirements." (1946, March 30). Australasian Journal of Pharmacy, pp. 174–175. Retrieved from https://ajp.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Vol027-1946-Mar-0167-0252.pdf
  5. IDREF.fr bibliography



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