Ernest Fourneau

Ernest Fourneau

Portrait of Ernest Fourneau
by his son Jean-Claude Fourneau
Born (1872-10-04)4 October 1872
Biarritz, France
Died 5 August 1949(1949-08-05) (aged 76)
Ascain, France
Residence France
Nationality French
Fields Chemistry, Pharmacology
Institutions Pasteur Institute
Alma mater École de pharmacie de Paris
Notable awards Prix Jecker, of the Académie des Sciences (1919 and 1931)
Notes
Son-in-law of Paul Segond
Brother-in-law of Marc Tiffeneau
Father of Jean-Claude Fourneau

Ernest Fourneau (4 October 1872 – 5 August 1949) was a French medicinal chemist who played a major role in the discovery of synthetic local anesthetics, as well as in the synthesis of suramin. He authored more than two hundred scholarly works, and has been described as having "helped to establish the fundamental laws of chemotherapy that have saved so many human lives".[1][2] He was a member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine.

Bibliography

references

  1. "Fourneau, Ernest". Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 2008.
  2. Henry, T. A., "Ernest Fourneau". 1872–1949. J. Chem. Soc., 1952, pp. 261–272.


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