Born October 6 1895, Saxon-Sion (Meurthe et Moselle). Died March 14 1986 in Paris.
Born into a family of teachers.
Training and professional career
- Secondary school in Pont-à-Mousson
- 1913 : SPCN at Nancy Faculty of Science
- 1914-1919 : Mobilized in December 1914, one month after enrolling in the Faculty of Medicine
- Participates in the Battle of Verdun (Croix de guerre 1916)
- Wounded during the Battle of the Somme
- Auxiliary doctor on the Salonika front
- 1919-1924 : Studied medicine at Strasbourg University
- 1920 : CES in General Physiology. Instructor in Histology at the Strasbourg Faculty of Medicine
- 1921 : CES in General Biology
- Preparer of practical work at the Strasbourg Faculty of Medicine
- Works in Pol Bouin's laboratory
- 1924 : Doctorate in Medicine, " Le cycle sexuel chez la femelle des mammifères. Study of the follicular phase
- 1926 : Lecturer in histology at the Algiers Faculty of Medicine
- 1927 : Doctorat ès Sciences Naturelles, Faculté d'Alger, " Determinisme des caractères sexuels secondaires chez quelques mammifères à activité testiculaire périodique "
- Agrégation in medicine, histology and embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Algiers
- 1931 : Professor without a chair, Faculty of Medicine, Algiers
- Full Professor, then Professor of the2nd class, then Honorary Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Algiers
- 1938-1966 : Professor at the Collège de France, holding the chair of Experimental Morphology and Endocrinology, at the suggestion of J. Jolly. Participated in the development of Life Sciences at the Collège de France, nominating Antoine Lacassagne (1941), Jean Roche (1947), Jacques Benoit (1952), Alain Horeau (1956) and Bernard Halpern (1960)
- 1939-1940 : Mobilized
- Laboratory director at École Pratique des Hautes Études
- With Joliot, Horeau and Süe, prepares radioactive iodine-labeled thyroxine