These same ergot alkaloids were modified by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann when he invented LSD in the late 1930s. Hoffman ...

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 ...

Making a discovery with the potential for innovative applications in pharmaceutical development, a West Virginia University ...

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 ...

“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 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 ...

Yet for decades, the full potential of Hoffman's discovery – lysergic acid diethylamide, more popularly known as "LSD" – was largely lost to medical science. Research on psychedelics stagnated ...

Lively Swiss documentary about the history of a wonder drug. Albert Hofmann was born in Baden in 1906, studied chemistry, discovered LSD by chance in 1943 and died in Burg in 2008. Although the ...

LSD was accidentally discovered by Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz pharmaceutical company in Switzerland in 1938. It was apparently useless, but from 1947 it was marketed as “a cure for everything ...

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. Mr. Hofmann died ...