Vol. 9 No. 1 (2025)
In Memoriam

Professor Marc Henry (1958-2024)

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  • Sylvie Henry-Réant,
  • Ashraf Bakkar,
  • Romain Attal,
  • Miroslav Radman,
  • Laurent Schwartz
Ashraf Bakkar
Faculty of Biotechnology, October University for Modern Sciences and Arts, Giza, Egypt
Romain Attal
Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, 30 avenue Corentin-Cariou, 75019 Paris, France
Miroslav Radman
Medils University of Split, Croatia
Laurent Schwartz
Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris, 75000 Paris, France
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/Substantia-3302

Published 2025-03-04

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Henry-Réant, S., Bakkar, A., Attal, R., Radman, M., & Schwartz, L. (2025). Professor Marc Henry (1958-2024). Substantia, 9(1), 127–129. https://doi.org/10.36253/Substantia-3302

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Abstract

Professor Marc Henry passed away on November 2024 aged 66 after a long fight against cardio-vascular disease. His academic career focused on the physical nature of water. This is of particular importance in the chemistry of gel-sol compounds, and quantum physics was essential to his understanding of this phenomenon. In the later part of life he focused on the role of water in life.

With his collaborators, the conversations were never futile but deeply rooted in the key problems of life. He could share and explain, in simple terms, chemistry or physics for hours on end. As his interest on the chemical complexity of water was not shared by his colleagues, he reached to the public with short and concise books or conferences on topics as varied as life, water, homeopathy and quantum physics.

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References

  1. Livage, J., Henry, M., & Sanchez, C. (1988). Sol-gel chemistry of transition metal oxides. Progress in solid state chemistry, 18(4), 259-341.
  2. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marc-Henry-2#research-items
  3. Gigant, K., Rammal, A., & Henry, M. (2001). Synthesis and molecular structures of some new titanium (IV) aryloxides. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 123(47), 11632-11637.
  4. Alam, T. M., & Henry, M. (2000). Empirical calculations of 29 Si NMR chemical shielding tensors: A partial charge model investigation of hydrolysis in organically modified alkoxy silanes. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2(1), 23-28.
  5. Henry, M. (2021). Thermodynamics of Life. Substantia, 5(1).
  6. Schwartz, L., Henry, M., Alfarouk, K. O., Reshkin, S. J., & Radman, M. (2021). Metabolic shifts as the hallmark of most common diseases: the quest for the underlying unity. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 22(8), 3972.
  7. Schwartz, L., Devin, A., Bouillaud, F., & Henry, M. (2020). Entropy as the driving force of pathogenesis: an attempt of diseases classification based on the laws of physics. Substantia, 4(2).
  8. Henry, M., Summa, M., Patrick, L., & Schwartz, L. (2020). A cohort of cancer patients with no reported cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection: the possible preventive role of Methylene Blue. Substantia, 888-888.
  9. Attal, R., Bakkar, A., Bouillaud, F., Devin, A., Henry, M., Pontié, M., Radman, M. & Schwartz, L. (2024). From electrons to cancer: Redox shift as a driving force of tumorigenesis. Advances in Redox Research, 10, 100087.
  10. Schwartz, L., Schwartz, J., Henry, M., & Bakkar, A. (2024). Metabolic Shift and Hyperosmolarity Underlie Age-Related Macular Degeneration. Life, 14(9), 1189.
  11. Henry, M. (2024). Water and the Origin of Life. Water, 16(19), 2854.