Simone Courvoisier

Simone Courvoisier was a French experimental pharmacologist who, while the head of pharmacology at Rhône-Poulenc in the 1950s, investigated the use of the antipsychotic medication chlorpromazine.^[1][2] She discovered that the compound promazine had sedating properties despite not being an antihistamine like its precursor promethazine, and then extensively analyzed the properties of its descendant drug chlorpromazine.^[3][4]