Marc Tiffeneau

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Marc Tiffeneau
Born November 5, 1873(1873-11-05)
Mouy,France
Died May 20, 1945 (aged 71)
Nationality French
Known for Tiffeneau-Demjanov rearrangement

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

Tiffeneau received his Ph.D in science in 1907 and his Ph.D in medicine in 1910 Tiffeneau worked at the hospitals Hôpital Boucicaut and from 1924 at Hôtel-Dieu de Paris. In 1926 he became professor at the Sorbonne. At the time of his death in 1945 he was president of the Fench Chemical Society.

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  • "Nekrologe" (1945). Zeitschrift Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 1 (5): 125. doi:10.1007/BF02152975. 
  • Alex McKenzie (1945). "Prof. Marc Tiffeneau". Nature 156: 656 – 657. doi:10.1038/156656a0. 
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