Ernest Fourneau

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

• Fourneau, Jean-Pierre (December 1987). "Ernest Fourneau, fondateur de la chimie thérapeutique française : Feuillets d'album". Revue d'histoire de la pharmacie (in French). 34 (275): 335–355. ISSN 0035-2349. Retrieved 20 December 2013.
• Quirke, Viviane (2007). Collaboration in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Changing Relationschips in Britain and France, 1935-1965. New York & London: Rougledge. pp. 54–70 and 173–177 mainly. ISBN 978-0-415-30982-0. PMC 2706064.

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.