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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...
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    psychedelic revolution and the first psychedelic trip on LSD by Dr. Albert Hofmann in 1943, in tandem with his famous bicycle ride home from Sandoz Labs...
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    applications. Hofmann received several significant awards in the field of chemistry, including the Royal Medal (1854), the Copley Medal (1875) and the Albert Medal...
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    (LSD) was first synthesized on November 16, 1938, by the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann in the Sandoz laboratories in Basel, Switzerland. It was not until five...
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  • Gauleiter Albert Hoffmann (horticulturist) (1846–1924), German rosarian Albert Hofmann (1906–2008), Swiss scientist and discoverer of LSD-25 Albert Hofman...
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    In 1958, the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann isolated psilocybin and psilocin from the mushroom Psilocybe mexicana. Hofmann's employer Sandoz marketed and...
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    being more stimulating than compounds such as psilocybin. Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann first synthesized LSD in 1938 from lysergic acid, a chemical derived...
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  • The Substance: Albert Hofmann's LSD is a 2011 documentary film directed by Martin Witz. The film documents the coincidental discovery of the drug LSD by...
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  • headaches and was introduced under the trade name Gynergen in 1921. In 1938 Albert Hofmann produced the synthetic substance lysergic acid diethylamide, better...
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    ingredient, psilocybin, was isolated in the laboratory by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann in 1958. Wasson wrote a book about his experience of the ritual in a...
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