Jeanne Lévy

Jeanne Louise Lévy (5 November 1895 – 1 July 1993) was a French pharmacologist and communist. Originally studying chemistry, she published a monograph on bioassays, Essais et dosages biologiques des substances médicamenteuses, in 1930. After World War II, she joined the French Communist Party, ran twice for the National Assembly, and supported Lysenkoism. Biography Early life, early career, and wartime Jeanne Louise Lévy was born on 5 November 1895 in Algiers, located in the then-French colony of Algeria; Raised in the Catholic faith, she attended the Lycée Lamartine and obtained a baccalauréat scientifique in 1914, one of the first girls in France to do so. there, she obtained certificates in general chemistry (1915), general mathematics (1916), and general physics (1917). where she initially taught pharmacology, as well as the first woman to obtain an in biochemistry, in organic chemistry, and in pharmacology.

In 1948, she published an article supporting Lysenkoism, which she continued to do so by 1953. She was among several academics Denis Buican denounced in 1987 for "praising [this] false science".

She returned to the Paris Faculty of Medicine, where she became a lecturer in January 1949, and in 1959, their first chair professor She died on 1 July 1993 in the 14th arrondissement of Paris.

Publications Essais et dosages biologiques des substances médicamenteuses (1930)