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Albert Hofmann
Albert Hofmann was a Swiss chemist known for being the first to synthesize, ingest, and learn of the psychedelic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). Hofmann's team also isolated, named and synthesized the principal psychedelic mushroom compounds psilocybin and psilocin. Hofmann discovered the structure of chitin in 1929. He authored more than 100 scientific articles and numerous books, in…
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culture · Swiss chemist (1906–2008) · chemist · non-fiction writer · author · also Albert Hofmann, Dr. Albert Hofmann, Hofmann
Born 11 January 1906 · Died 29 April 2008 · Q122338
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 2 entries
Badische Zeitung: Albert Hofmann
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spektrum.de: Albert Hofmann: LSD im Selbstversuch
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2024· 1 entry
Forbes: The Bicycle Day Dream Bike: A Carbon Fiber Hommage To Albert Hofmann
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2021· 1 entry
KPFA: Albert Hofmann in America Part 1
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2013· 1 entry
The archive was sent to the Institute of Medical History in Bern, Switzerland, where it is being organized
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2011· 1 entry
These represent the first study of the therapeutic effects of LSD on humans in 35 years; other studies had examined the drug's effects on consciousness and body
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2009· 1 entry
Gizmodo: LSD Creator Albert Hofmann to Steve Jobs: “How Was LSD Useful to You?”
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2008· 6 entries
The Herald-Times: Albert Hofmann, father of drug LSD, dies in Switzerland
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Died 2008-04-29.
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“I know LSD; I don't need to take it anymore. Maybe when I die, like Aldous Huxley.”
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Wrote to Steve Jobs, asking him to support this research; it is not known whether Jobs responded
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“Outside is pure energy and colorless substance. All of the rest happens through the mechanism of our senses. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.”
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“It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature. … In the big cities, there are people who have never seen living nature, all things are products of humans … The bigger the town, the less they see and understand nature.”
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2002· 1 entry
To be digitized, but that process was never completed
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1971· 3 entries
Awarded Scheele Award (1971).
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The Swedish Pharmaceutical Association granted him the Scheele Award, which commemorates the skills and achievements of the Swedish Pomerania chemist and pharmacist Carl Wilhelm Scheele
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Hofmann was allowed to take his papers and research home
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1970· 1 entry
Jünger published a book of his experiences taking several types of drugs, Approaches: Drugs and Intoxication (German: Annäherungen
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1969· 1 entry
Together with Gustav Guanella, his brother-in-law
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1963· 1 entry
Hofmann attended the annual convention of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences (WAAS) in Stockholm
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1962· 1 entry
Hofmann and his wife Anita Hofmann traveled to Mexico at the invitation of the ethnomycologist R
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1929· 1 entry
Hofmann became an employee of the pharmaceutical and chemical department of Sandoz Laboratories as a coworker of Arthur Stoll, founder and director of the pharmaceutical department
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1906· 1 entry
Born 1906-01-11.
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