Marc Tiffeneau

Marc Tiffeneau
Born	November 5, 1873(1873-11-05) Mouy, France
Died	May 20, 1945(1945-05-20) (aged 71) Paris, France
Residence	France
Nationality	French
Fields	Chemistry, Pharmacology
Institutions	Faculté de Pharmacie de Paris Faculté de Médecine de Paris Hôpitaux de Paris Académie des Sciences Académie de Médecine
Alma mater	École de pharmacie de Paris
Known for	Tiffeneau-Demjanov rearrangement
Notable awards	Prix Jecker, of the Académie des Sciences (1911 and 1923)

Marc Émile Pierre Adolphe Tiffeneau (November 5, 1873 – May 20, 1945) was a French chemist who discovered the Tiffeneau-Demjanov rearrangement.

Tiffeneau received his Ph.D in science in 1907 and his Ph.D in medicine in 1910. Tiffeneau worked at the hospitals Hôpital Boucicaut and from 1924 at Hôtel-Dieu de Paris. In 1926 he became professor at the Sorbonne. At the time of his death in 1945 he was president of the French Chemical Society.

References

• S., (1945). "Nekrologe". Zeitschrift Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 1 (5): 125. doi:10.1007/BF02152975. 
• Alex McKenzie (1945). "Prof. Marc Tiffeneau". Nature 156 (3970): 656 – 657. doi:10.1038/156656a0. 

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Name	Tiffeneau, Marc
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Date of birth	November 5, 1873
Place of birth	Mouy, France
Date of death	May 20, 1945
Place of death	Paris, France