Marc Julia (23 October 1922 – 29 June 2010) was a French chemist and the winner of the 1990 CNRS Gold Medal in chemistry. He discovered the

Julia olefination The Julia olefination (also known as the Julia–Lythgoe olefination) is the chemical reaction used in organic chemistry of phenyl sulfones (1) with aldehydes (or ketones) to give alkenes (olefins)(3) after alcohol functionalization and reductive ...

reaction in 1973.

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Julia was born in 1922 in Paris as son of the renowned mathematician

Gaston Julia Gaston Maurice Julia (3 February 1893 – 19 March 1978) was a French Algerian mathematician who devised the formula for the Julia set. His works were popularized by French mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot; the Julia and Mandelbrot fractals are ...

. Julia studied physics at the

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. After receiving his diploma he joined the group of

Ian Heilbron Sir Ian Morris Heilbron DSO FRS (6 November 1886 – 14 September 1959) was a Scottish chemist, who pioneered organic chemistry developed for therapeutic and industrial use. Early life and education Heilbron was born in Glasgow on 6 November ...

and David G. Jones at the

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where he received his first PhD in 1948. Back to France he changed his subject to chemistry and subsequently received his second PhD for work with .

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