Marc Émile Pierre Adolphe Tiffeneau (November 5, 1873 – May 20, 1945) was a French
chemist
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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
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intern in Paris hospitals. In 1904 he was named chief pharmacist at the
Hôpital Boucicaut,
[Marc Pierre Emile TIFFENEAU (1873-1945)]
Société d'Histoire de la Pharmacie and from 1927, worked in a similar capacity at the
Hôtel-Dieu de Paris In French-speaking countries, a hôtel-Dieu ( en, hostel of God) was originally a hospital for the poor and needy, run by the Catholic Church. Nowadays these buildings or institutions have either kept their function as a hospital, the one in Paris b ...
. From 1926 to 1944 he was a professor of
pharmacology
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to the faculty of medicine at the
Sorbonne.
[TIFFENEAU Marc Émile Pierre Adolphe]
Sociétés savantes de France
He also sat as one of the four members of the
Drug Supervisory Body
The Convention for Limiting the Manufacture and Regulating the Distribution of Narcotic Drugs was a drug control treaty promulgated in Geneva on 13 July 1931 that entered into force on 9 July 1933.
History
The conference was held in Geneva on ...
(predecessor of the