Jean Delay, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jean Delay

French psychiatrist

Date of Birth: 14-Nov-1907

Place of Birth: Bayonne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Date of Death: 29-May-1987

Profession: psychiatrist, psychologist, physician writer, neurologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Jean Delay (14 November 1907, Bayonne – 29 May 1987, Paris) was a French psychiatrist, neurologist, writer, and a member of the Académie française (Chair 17). His assistant Pierre Deniker conducted a test of chlorpromazine on the male mental ward where Delay worked, and the two published their findings (quickly, with what has been called academic gamesmanship) in 1952.
Chlorpromazine turned out to be the first effective drug treatment for mental illness and it had a profound effect on the mentally ill and mental asylums. In 1968–1970, student revolutionaries attacked his offices, and Delay was forced into retirement from medicine.
In later life, he lived as a writer.