Fourneau, Ernest
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born on | 4 October 1872 at 14:00 (= 2:00 PM ) | ||||
Place | Biarritz, France, 43n29, 1w34 | ||||
Timezone | LMT m1w34 (is local mean time) | ||||
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Ernest Fourneau (Portrait by his son Jean-Claude Fourneau)
photo: Jean-Claude Fourneau, license cc-by-1.0
photo: Jean-Claude Fourneau, license cc-by-1.0
Biography
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". He was a member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine. He died on 5 August 1949, aged 76, in Ascain, France.
Relationships
- business associate/partner relationship with Tréfouël, Jacques (born 9 November 1897)
Events
Source Notes
Grazia Bordoni's Science database quotes Lescaut.
Categories
- Vocation : Science : Chemistry (Medicinal)
- Vocation : Writers : Textbook/ Non-fiction