Nationality French Name Marc Tiffeneau | Residence France Fields Chemistry, Pharmacology | |
Born November 5, 1873
Mouy, France ( 1873-11-05 ) Institutions Faculte de Pharmacie de Paris
Faculte de Medecine de Paris
Hopitaux de Paris
Academie des Sciences
Academie de Medecine Known for Tiffeneau-Demjanov rearrangement Notable awards Prix Jecker, of the Academie des Sciences (1911 and 1923) Died May 20, 1945, Paris, France Alma mater Faculte de pharmacie de Paris | ||
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, 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.
Tiffeneau received his Ph.D in sciences in 1907 and his Ph.D in medicine in 1910. 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). At the time of his death in 1945 he was president of the Société chimique de France.