Marc Tiffeneau

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

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]

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.

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).^[3]
• 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.