Heinz Lehmann

German-born Canadian psychiatrist · Canada · On the map · Doctors · Lived 1911 to 1999 · aged 87

Heinz Edgar Lehmann was a German-born Canadian psychiatrist best known for his use of chlorpromazine for the treatment of schizophrenia in 1950s and "truly the father of modern psychopharmacology."

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1999Died7 April 19991998Canadian Medical Hall of FameAward1994Thomas William Salmon MedalAward1957Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research AwardAward1911Born17 July 1911

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