Career
In 1916, as officer cadet, he was seriously injured at the fort Vaux, during the battle of Verdun, after saving wounded soldiers, and at first, was considered as dead *. On the way to recovery, he went back to the Faculty of Medicine of Paris, and published his first work even before the end of World War I (see below), on relationship with the war diseases. Elected as general councillor of Paris in 1929, and deputy chairman of the council of Paris and departement of the Seine in 1933, he was back to medicine in 1936 as general director of the Town of Paris Laboratories.
In the 1950s he promoted the vaccination against poliomyelitis, looked after the water quality for the inhabitants of Paris, obtained a law forbidding the hooter in town, and was one of the first to alert the authorities and the public about atmospheric and acoustic pollution.
At the end of his life, he was also asked to give lectures about human habitation hygiene at the École Spéciale d"Architecture in Paris, where future empress Farah Diba was one of his students. Albert Besson was painter Maurice Boitel"s father in law.