SNCS-FSU13 janvier 2017
Henri Edouard Audier was born on February 18, 1940 in La Ciotat, a city on the French Mediterranean coast where he later returned every summer. He obtained his first scientific degree at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in 1962. Henri began research as “attaché de recherches” in the team of Marcel Fétizon at the Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles (ICSN) in the Centre National de la Recherche scientifique (CNRS) in Gif sur Yvette. In 1966, Henri presented his thesis on the use of mass spectrometry for the structural determination of natural products. In 1970, Marcel Fétizon created the “Laboratoire de Synthèse Organique” at the University of Orsay, which later moved to the Ecole Polytechnique in Palaiseau in 1974. Henri-Edouard Audier directed the mass spectrometry group in this laboratory until 1985. During the reorganization of the chemistry laboratories at the Ecole ...
