Silly Pullman
Alberte Pullman (* as Alberte Bucher, August 26, 1920 in Nantes ; † January 7, 2011 ) was a French theoretical chemist ( quantum chemistry , biochemistry ).
Pullman studied at the Sorbonne from 1938 and was a student of Raymond Daudel (from 1943 at the CNRS ), where she received her doctorate in 1946. She then married Bernard Pullman , with whom she worked closely and published several books. They established what they called quantum biochemistry, the application of quantum chemistry to biomolecules and in pharmacology, including the molecular causes of cancer. As early as 1946, she dealt with the carcinogenic properties of aromatics in her doctoral thesis (and defined a K region). She was Research Director of the CNRS and Honorary Director of the Theoretical Biochemistry Department at the Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique in Paris.
She wrote various reviews in Chemical Reviews (most recently in 1991 on theoretical investigations on ion transport through biological membranes, an area in which she herself was active).
She was a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science (1985 to 1991 she was president) and an honorary doctorate in Liège, Uppsala, Turin. Pullman received the Prix Bonneau (1958) and de Saulces de Freycinet (1963) of the French Academy of Sciences, 1956 the Prix Essec of the Ligue Nationale contre le Cancer, 1984 the Cori Award of the Roswell Park Memorial Institute and 1977 the Sir Yagdish Bose Medal of the Academy of Medical Sciences of India.
She was a Knight of the Legion of Honor and Commander of the Ordre national du mérite .
Fonts
- with Bernard Pullman: Les Théories Electroniques de la Chimie Organique, Masson, Paris 1952 (preface Louis de Broglie )
- with Bernard Pullman: Cancérisation par les substances Chimiques et Structure Moléculaire, Masson, Paris 1955
- with Bernard Pullman: Quantum Biochemistry, New York: Interscience 1963 (French edition La Biochimie Electronique, PUF, Paris 1963)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pullman, Alberte |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bucher, Alberte (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 26, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nantes |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 7, 2011 |