Pierre Lecomte Du Nouy
Du Nouy, Pierre Lecomte (1883-1947), a French scientist. He was noted for his research on the chemistry of living things. Du Nouy attended the Sorbonne and headed a hospital laboratory in World War I. He joined the Rockefeller Institute in New York and worked out an equation that made it possible to calculate the length of time it would require for a surface wound to heal. He devised many delicate instruments, one of which provided the first measurements of the three dimensions of a molecule.
Du Nouy returned to Paris in 1927, working first at the Pasteur Institute and later as director of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes at the Sorbonne. He lived in the United States during World War II.