# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pierre-deniker
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:24:22.561Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pierre-deniker"
name: "Pierre Deniker"
slug: "pierre-deniker"
description: "Pierre Deniker was involved, jointly with Jean Delay and J. M. Harl, in the introduction of chlorpromazine (Thorazine), the first antipsychotic used in the treatment of schizophrenia, in the 1950s. Thorazine had been used in surgical procedures peri-operatively as an anti-nausea medication in France. Patients were noted to be less anxious and calmer. This observation eventually led Deniker to try chlorpromazine with patients who had schizophrenia, where he observed notable improvement in symptoms."
tagline: "French psychiatrist (1917-1998)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pideniker.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1917-02-16"
deathDate: "1998-08-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.89
  momentum:             4.549100631988333
  historical:           7.875882666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%9F%D1%8C%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Деникер, Пьер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%AF%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B1"
    title: "بيير دنيكر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B8%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Пиер Деникер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Deniker"
    title: "Pierre Deniker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Deniker"
    title: "Pierre Deniker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Deniker"
    title: "Pierre Deniker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Deniker"
    title: "Pierre Deniker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Deniker"
    title: "Pierre Deniker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Deniker"
    title: "Pierre Deniker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3384710"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump