Marc Julia

Marc Julia ( born October 23, 1922 in Paris, † 29 June 2010) was a French chemist who dealt primarily with organic chemistry.

He was the son of the mathematician Gaston Julia and grandson of Ernest Chausson. Julia studied from 1940 at the Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS ) with the Agrégation in Physics in 1946 and was then two years at Imperial College in Ian Heilbron. After that he was in the laboratory of Georges Dupont, where he received his doctorate in 1949. 1950 to 1957 he was at the Ecole Polytechnique ( Chef de travaux pratique ) and 1957-1970 at the Institut Pasteur, where he was laboratory and department head. In 1955 he became a lecturer ( Maître de conférences ) and 1963 until his retirement in 1992, Professor at the Faculté des Sciences in Paris (later University of Paris VI, Pierre et Marie Curie ) and from 1970 to 1992 director of the Laboratory of Chemistry of the ENS.

According to him the Julia olefination is named. He synthesized psilocin and lysergic acid, various terpenes and isoprene rubber. For Rhone -Poulenc, he developed the industrial synthesis of vitamin A.

In 1990 he received the Gold Medal of the CNRS. In 1994 he received the Prix Gay Lussac Humboldt. In 1977 he became a member of the Academie des Sciences, the Prix Louis Bonneau he received in 1960 the Prix Parkin in 1954 and whose Prix Jecker and their Berthelot Medal in 1973. 1966 and 1994 he was President of the French Chemical Society. In 1967 he was awarded the Prix Albert de Monaco the Academie de Medecine. 1988 was awarded the Gay - Lussac- Humboldt Prize. He was an officer of the Legion of Honour, Knight of the Academic Palms and Commander of the Ordre national du Mérite.

Writings

• Les Mécanismes électroniques en chimie organique, Gauthier Villars 1959