Education
In 1899 he graduated from the École de pharmacie de Paris, and afterwards began work as a pharmacy intern in Paris hospitals.
In 1899 he graduated from the École de pharmacie de Paris, and afterwards began work as a pharmacy intern in Paris hospitals.
In 1904 he was named chief pharmacist at the Hôpital Boucicaut, and from 1927, worked in a similar capacity at the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris. From 1926 to 1944 he was a professor of pharmacology to the faculty of medicine at the Sorbonne. Tiffeneau received his Doctor of Philosophy in sciences in 1907 and his Doctor of Philosophy in medicine in 1910.
At the time of his death in 1945 he was president of the Société chimique de France.
French Academy of Sciences. Académie Nationale de Society Française Médecine Légale]
He was a member of the Académie Nationale de Society Française Médecine Légale (from 1927), dean to the faculty of medicine (1937) and a member of the Académie des Sciences (from 1939).