Marc Tiffeneau

{{Short description|French chemist (1873–1945)}}

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| caption = Marc Tiffeneau

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1873|11|5}}

| birth_place = Mouy, France

| nationality = French

| death_date = {{death date and age|1945|5|20|1873|11|5}}

| death_place = Paris, France

| field = Chemistry, Pharmacology

| work_institution = 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

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| known_for = Tiffeneau-Demjanov rearrangement

| prizes = Prix Jecker, of the Académie des Sciences (1911 and 1923)

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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,[http://www.shp-asso.org/index.php?PAGE=tiffeneau 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. From 1926 to 1944 he was a professor of pharmacology to the faculty of medicine at the Sorbonne.[http://cths.fr/an/prosopo.php?id=100858# 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 International Narcotics Control Board) from 1933 until his death.League of Nations. (1939). Organisation d’Hygiène. Rapport au Conseil sur les travaux de la Trentième Session du Comité d’Hygiène (Genève, 4 au 6 mai 1939) [C.136.M.87.1939.III]. Geneva: League of Nations. p. 6"Dangerous Drugs in 1946: Estimated World Requirements." (1946, March 30). Australasian Journal of Pharmacy, pp. 174–175. Retrieved from https://ajp.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Vol027-1946-Mar-0167-0252.pdf

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.{{citation needed|date=December 2015}}