Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered LSD and thereby gave the psychedelic generation the pharmaceutical vehicle to turn on, tune in and drop out, has died. He was 102. Hofmann died ...

Hofmann went on with his ergot research. But for some reason, even as the years passed, he couldn’t stop thinking about the apparently useless LSD-25. Maybe it was the memory of all those oddly ...

“I did not choose LSD,” Hofmann later said. “LSD found and called me.” Born in Baden, Switzerland, Hofmann had an intense experience as a child that guided him into the world of chemistry ...

Albert Hofmann, the pioneering Swiss chemist and advocate of psychedelics who discovered the hallucinogenic properties of LSD, died Tuesday. He was 102. Hofmann reportedly died of a heart attack ...

Albert Hoffman, the chemist who first synthesized LSD, as photographed in 1976 Noldi Köng / RDB / ullstein bild via Getty Images When chemist Albert Hofmann moved to small, straight-laced Basel ...

Albert Hofmann, the famous Swiss scientist best known for discovering the psychedelic drug, LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide), would have turned 115 years old today. Endearingly called “The ...

GENEVA -- Albert Hofmann, the father of the mind-altering drug LSD whose medical discovery inspired -- and arguably corrupted -- millions in the 1960s hippie generation, has died. He was 102.

In many ways, the conference, LSD: Problem Child and Wonder Drug, an International Symposium on the Occasion of the 100th Birthday of Albert Hofmann, was a scientific coming-out party for the drug ...

Hofmann had first synthesized the compound five years earlier while exploring whether ergot-a fungus that grows on rye-could yield new respiratory and circulatory medicines. LSD had been shelved ...

BASEL, Switzerland – Albert Hofmann, the father of the mind-altering drug LSD whose medical discovery grew into a notorious "problem child," died Tuesday. He was 102. Hofmann died of a heart ...