Information AboutAlbert Besson |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT ALBERT BESSON | |
| 1896 births | |
| besson,albert | |
| 1965 deaths | |
| french physicians | |
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BIOGRAPHY In 1916, as officer cadet, he was seriously injured at the fort de Vaux, during the battle of Verdun, after saving wounded soldiers, and at first, was considered as dead. On the way to recovery, he was admitted at the Faculty of Medicine of Paris, and published his first work even before the end of WW1 (see below), on relationship with the war diseases. Although he was originally a bacteriologist, he defended his thesis of medicine in the service of professor Levy-Valensi , psychiatrist, who remained one of his best friends. Elected as general councellor of Paris in 1930, 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 forbiding 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 Architecture School in Paris (Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture) and was elected as a member of the Agriculture Academy. ''At the Academy of medicine, he was Professor Jean Quenu 's colleague, Both had their summer residence in the fishers village of Audresselles .'' Albert Besson was painter Maurice Boitel 's father in law. PUBLICATIONS His main work is "l'hygiène de l'habitation", in which he made the link between medecine and architecture. At the beginning of the XXth century, slums were still numerous in the town centers and Albert Besson put as an evidence that, dark, damp and overcrowded, they were the main source of epidemics, chiefly tuberculosis and diphteria. Among the european physicians, he is the theorician of the architecture with large windows and use of impervious to water and parasitics materials, architecture which was developed by Le Corbusier . Two works of his own are registered at the Institut Pasteur :
A fourth edition of this last book can also be found at the Universidad De Navarra/Navarra , Spain):
Publicac. Paris : Librairie J.-B. Baillière et Fils. Edición 4e ed. ref. et augm. |
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