Ernest Fourneau

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Ernest Fourneau
Portrait of Ernest Fourneau by his son Jean-Claude Fourneau
Born	(1872-10-04)October 4, 1872 Biarritz, France
Died	August 5, 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 (1872–1949) 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

(French) Jean-Pierre Fourneau, « Ernest Fourneau, fondateur de la chimie thérapeutique française : Feuillets d'album », in Revue d'histoire de la pharmacie, vol. 34, n° 275, December 1987, pp. 335-355 ISSN 0035-2349 (Complete text. Consulted on June 28th, 2011).

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Notes

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

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Name	Fourneau, Ernest
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Date of birth	1872
Place of birth	Biarritz, France
Date of death	1949
Place of death	Ascain, France

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