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Also known as Dr. Albert Hofmann

Swiss chemist (1906–2008)

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Albert Hofmann was a Swiss chemist (1906–2008) best known for synthesizing LSD, a powerful psychoactive compound that became significant in both scientific research and popular culture. His discovery fundamentally changed the study of consciousness and mental health, though it also sparked considerable social and political controversy that continues to influence discussions about drug policy today.

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  • Physics of Synchrotron Radiation, the. Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics Nuclear Physics and Cosmology, Volume 20
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  • Take Your Pills — Self (archive footage)2018
  • Albert Hofmann - Wahrnehmungen — Self (archive footage)2011
  • LSD: Problem Child and Wonder Drug — Self (archive footage)2009
  • Peyote to LSD: A Psychedelic Odyssey — Self (archive footage)2008
  • Hofmann's Potion: The Pioneers of LSD — Self2002
  • LSD: The Beyond Within — Self1986

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Male
Country
Switzerland
Active from
1906
Active to
2008

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Albert Hofmann (January 11, 1906 – April 29, 2008) was a Swiss scientist best known for having been the first to synthesize, ingest and learn of the psychedelic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). Hofmann authored more than 100 scientific articles and wrote a number of books. more information <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Albert+Hofmann">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Quotes

  • I know LSD; I don't need to take it anymore. Maybe when I die, like Aldous Huxley.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be remedied only by a change in our world view. We shall have to shift from the materialistic, dualistic belief that people and their environment are separate, toward a new consciousness of an all-encompassing reality, which embraces the experiencing ego, a reality in which people feel their oneness with animate nature and all of creation.
  • I was visited by Timothy Leary when he was living in Switzerland many years ago. He was a very intelligent man, and quite charming. I enjoyed our conversations very much. However, he also had a need for too much attention. He enjoyed being provocative, and that shifted the focus from what should have been the essential issue. It is unfortunate, but for many years these drugs became taboo. Hopefully, these same problems from the Sixties will not be repeated.
  • LSD wanted to tell me something. … It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation.

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Albert Hofmann (11 January 1906 – 29 April 2008) 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, including LSD: Mein Sorgenkind (LSD: My Problem Child).

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