Marc Tiffeneau
Marc Émile Pierre Adolphe Tiffeneau 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, dean to the faculty of medicine and a member of the Académie des Sciences. 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;.
- Abrégé de pharmacologie, 1926, 7th edition 1947.
- Les Amines biologiques, 1934;.
- Vade-mecum de médecine pratique, 1940.
