Marc Tiffeneau, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Marc Tiffeneau

French chemist

Date of Birth: 05-Nov-1873

Place of Birth: Mouy, Hauts-de-France, France

Date of Death: 20-May-1945

Profession: physician, pharmacist, chemist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

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.