Marc Émile Pierre Adolphe Tiffeneau (November 5, 1873 – May 20, 1945) was a French

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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

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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

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. From 1926 to 1944 he was a professor of

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to the faculty of medicine at the

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.TIFFENEAU Marc Émile Pierre Adolphe
Sociétés savantes de France He also sat as one of the four members of the Drug Supervisory Body (predecessor of the

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) from 1933 until his death. Tiffeneau received his Ph.D in sciences in 1907 and his Ph.D in medicine in 1910. He was a member of the

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(from 1927), dean to the faculty of medicine (1937) and a member of the

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(from 1939). At the time of his death in 1945 he was president of the

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Selected works

* ''Le système nerveux autonome sympathique et parasympathique'', 1923; (translation of

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). * ''Abrégé de pharmacologie'', 1926, 7th edition 1947. * ''Les Amines biologiques'', 1934; (preface by Tiffeneau).IDREF.fr
bibliography * ''Vade-mecum de médecine pratique'', 1940.

References

* * 1873 births 1945 deaths 20th-century French chemists French pharmacists Members of the French Academy of Sciences University of Paris faculty People from Oise Officiers of the Légion d'honneur {{france-chemist-stub