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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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    revolution and commemorating 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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  • German politician and Nazi Gauleiter Albert Hoffmann (horticulturist) (1846–1924), German rosarian Albert Hofmann (1906–2008), Swiss scientist and discoverer...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    were discovered at the Sandoz laboratories in 1943 by Arthur Stoll and Albert Hofmann. Sandoz began clinical trials and marketed the substance, from 1947...
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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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  • 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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  • Keys (Blame Hofmann)" serves as a conceptually synchronized prologue for the song. It depicts a conversation between a patient (Albert Hofmann), a nurse...
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    Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers (1979), co-authored with chemist Albert Hofmann, the discoverer of LSD, is considered his greatest popular work: it...
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    categorized by French botanist Roger Heim. It was from this species that Dr. Albert Hofmann, working with specimens grown in his Sandoz laboratory, first isolated...
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    trip Ecology Ego death Psychedelic Press Therapy History Acid Tests Albert Hofmann Alexander Shulgin Counterculture of the 1960s History of LSD Owsley...
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    It is often loosely translated as "diviner's sage" or "seer's sage". Albert Hofmann, who collected the first plants with Wasson, objected to the new plant...
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    starting material for many pharmaceutical and recreational drugs. In 1938 Albert Hofmann synthesized one of the strongest known hallucinogens, lysergic acid...
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  • psychedelic microdosing and psychedelic therapy. It features interviews with Albert Hofmann, Humphry Osmond, Timothy Leary, James Fadiman, Richard Alpert and Ken...
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  • trip Ecology Ego death Psychedelic Press Therapy History Acid Tests Albert Hofmann Alexander Shulgin Counterculture of the 1960s History of LSD Owsley...
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    (1956) remain definitive statements on the psychedelic experience. Albert Hofmann and his colleagues at Sandoz Laboratories were convinced immediately...
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  • the entheogenic or shamanic rituals of many cultures. Shortly after Albert Hofmann discovered the psychoactive properties of LSD in 1943, Sandoz Laboratories...
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    protective shell. The structure of chitin was determined by Albert Hofmann in 1929. Hofmann hydrolyzed chitin using a crude preparation of the enzyme chitinase...
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    ethnomycological pioneer. Later researchers in the field include Terence McKenna, Albert Hofmann, Ralph Metzner, Carl Ruck, Blaise Daniel Staples, Giorgio Samorini,...
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    interrogated as a part of operation field tests. In 1943, LSD was created by Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland. The early directors...
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    mushroom the Wassons brought back from Mexico as Psilocybe, and in 1958, Albert Hofmann first identified psilocybin and psilocin as the active compounds in...
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    esters of psilocin were patented on January 16, 1963, by Sandoz Ltd via Albert Hofmann & Franz Troxler. Despite this, psilacetin remains a psychedelic compound...
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    to figures within the psychedelic movement, such as Timothy Leary, Albert Hofmann, and the Furthur bus used by Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. Early...
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    psychedelic lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) was discovered by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann in 1943, after unintentionally ingesting an unknown amount, possibly...
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  • Hoffman (redirect from Hofmann)
    American songwriter Alan Hoffman (born 1982), American entrepreneur Albert Hofmann (1906–2008), Swiss chemist and discoverer of LSD Alex Hoffman-Ellis...
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    effects. During a speech on his 100th birthday, the inventor of LSD, Albert Hofmann said of the drug: "It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness...
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