Raymond Delaby

Raymond Marie Florent Delaby (born September 20, 1891 in Lens , † June 2, 1958 ) was a French chemist ( pharmaceutical chemistry , organic chemistry ).

Delaby was the son of a railway employee and attended school in Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais) with the bachelor's degree in 1908. He then made an apprenticeship as a pharmacist in Lens and studied pharmacy and chemistry in Lille , where he was the best student in his class , awarded a gold medal. In 1913 he received his diploma in pharmacy. He then studied natural sciences in Paris, especially chemistry and biochemistry. In 1914 he became a soldier at Verdun and was withdrawn from the front after being injured in a gas attack and was awarded the Croix de Guerre. From 1916 he worked in the laboratory of the Valle de Grace Army Hospital and from 1918 in the laboratory of Georges Urbain at the Sorbonne . In 1919 he was dismissed from the army and became a taxidermist at the chair of hygiene and hydrology with Marcel Delépine . In 1920 he became inspector and rose to general inspector (1940). In 1926 he was also the best in the competition for the Agrégation in Chemistry and in 1927 was Agrégé in Chemistry at the Faculty of Pharmacy in Paris. In 1937 he became professor for analytical chemistry and in 1939 for pharmaceutical chemistry (as successor to Paul Lebeau ).

He dealt with pharmaceutical chemistry, organic chemistry including synthesis and analytical chemistry.

In 1931 he became a member of the Académie de Pharmacie and in 1950 of the Académie de Médicine.

In 1955 he received the Paracelsus Prize (then still Paracelsus Medal).

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