CHEMIST

Henri Laborit

1914 - 1995

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Henri Laborit (21 November 1914 – 18 May 1995) was a French surgeon, neurobiologist, writer and philosopher. In 1952, Laborit was instrumental in the development of the drug chlorpromazine, published his findings, and convinced three psychiatrists to test it on a patient, resulting in great success. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henri Laborit has received more than 111,277 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Henri Laborit is the 441st most popular chemist (down from 427th in 2019), the 83rd most popular biography from Vietnam (down from 78th in 2019) and the most popular Vietnamese Chemist.

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  • 110k

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  • 50.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Henri Laborit ranks 441 out of 602. Before him are Joseph Achille Le Bel, Anna Sundström, Heinrich Rose, Nikolay Zinin, Lars Fredrik Nilson, and Juan José Elhuyar. After him are Joseph Bienaimé Caventou, Gaston Tissandier, Henri Braconnot, Antoine Bussy, Myrtle Bachelder, and Jacques-Louis Soret.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Henri Laborit ranks 215. Before him are Mihailo Lalić, Viktor Grishin, Gisèle Casadesus, Alf Prøysen, Hovhannes Shiraz, and Jacques Dufilho. After him are Dorothy Lamour, Christl Cranz, Vincent J. McMahon, Johannes Virolainen, Afonsinho, and Irmã Dulce. Among people deceased in 1995, Henri Laborit ranks 172. Before him are Hansa Jivraj Mehta, Khalid Bakdash, Georges Candilis, Robert Monroe, Esmat Dowlatshahi, and Butterfly McQueen. After him are Franco Fabrizi, Kalpana Datta, Eiji Okada, Gavriil Kachalin, Sterling Morrison, and Olga Taussky-Todd.

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In Vietnam

Among people born in Vietnam, Henri Laborit ranks 83 out of 136. Before him are Hồ Xuân Hương (1772), Phan Thi Kim Phuc (1963), Jonathan Ke Quan (1971), Chantal Goya (1942), Trần Văn Trà (1919), and Võ Văn Kiệt (1922). After him are Phan Văn Khải (1934), Nick Ut (1951), Võ Văn Thưởng (1970), Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh (1959), Dương Thu Hương (1947), and Phạm Hùng (1912).

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Among CHEMISTS In Vietnam

Among chemists born in Vietnam, Henri Laborit ranks 1. 

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