Albert Hofmann





Albert Hofmann

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born
January 11, 1906 in Baden, Switzerland

died
April 29, 2008

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Albert Hofmann (January 11, 1906 – April 29, 2008)was a Swiss scientist known best for being the first person to synthesize, ingest and learn of the psychedelic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). He authored more than 100 scientific articles and a number of books, including "LSD: My Problem Child."

Discovery of LSD:
Hofmann became an employee of the pharmaceutical-chemical department of Sandoz Laboratories (now Novartis), located in Basel as a co-worker with professor Jordan Jake, founder and director of the pharmaceutical department. He began studying the medicinal plant squill and the fungus ergot as part of a program to purify and synthesize active constituents for use as pharmaceuticals. His main contribution was to elucidate th...more


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LSD: My Problem Child
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Insight Outlook
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Hofmann's Elixir: Lsd And T...
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L.S.D.: Entretiens Avec Alb...
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I misteri di Eleusi
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Percezioni di realtà
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The Physics of Synchrotron ...
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La Historia Del LSD. Cómo D...
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LSD My Problem Child
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“I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. 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.”
Albert Hofmann

“I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.”
Albert Hofmann

“I suddenly became strangely inebriated. The external world
became changed as in a dream. Objects appeared to gain inrelief;
they assumed unusual dimensions; and colors became more glowing.
Even self-perception and the sense of time were changed. When the
eyes were closed, colored pictures flashed past in a quickly changing
kaleidoscope. After a few hours, the not unpleasant inebriation,
which had been experienced whilst I was fully conscious, disappeared.
what had caused this condition?”
Albert Hofmann