Lsd my problem child
He continued to work at Sandoz until 1971 when he retired as Director of Research for the Department of Natural Products. Albert Hofmann, who died in 2008 aged 102, first synthesized lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in 1938, but the results. During the 60s, Hofmann struck up friendships with personalities such as Aldous Huxley, Gordon Wasson, and Timothy Leary. He succeeded in isolating and synthesising the active compounds in the Psilocybe mexicana mushroom, which he named psilocybin and psilocin. During the first years after its discovery, LSD brought me the same happiness and gratification that any pharmaceutical chemist would feel on learning that a substance he or she produced might possibly develop into a valuable medicament. Although his work produced other important drugs, including methergine, hydergine and dihydroergotamine, it was LSD that shaped his career.Īfter his discovery of LSD's properties, Hofmann spent years researching sacred plants. Driven by intuition, he synthesized it again in 1943, and serendipitously noticed its profound effects on himself. It appears here for the first time in print.Albert Hofmann, who died in 2008 aged 102, first synthesised lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in 1938, but the results of animal tests were so unremarkable that the chemical was abandoned. In 2007, Albert Hofmann asked Amanda Feilding if she could publish his Problem Child, and shortly before his death he approved a new and updated translation of his autobiography (first published by McGraw Hill in 1979).
He subsequently served as a member of the Nobel Prize Committee, and was nominated by Time magazine as one of the most He continued to work at Sandoz until 1971 when he retired as Director of Research for the Department of Natural Products. Hofmann's trek across Mexico to discover sacred plants related. He traces LSD's path from a promising psychiatric research medicine to a recreational drug sparking hysteria and prohibition. During the 60s, Hofmann struck up friendships with personalities such asĪldous Huxley, Gordon Wasson, and Timothy Leary. This is the story of LSD told by a concerned yet hopeful father, organic chemist Albert Hofmann, Ph.D. New York: McGraw-Hill (1980) Public speaking 'Transcript of a Special Videotaped Message From Albert Hofmann to the Participants at the April 16 & 17, 1993 Symposiums on the 50th Anniversary of his Discovery of LSD. He succeeded in isolating and synthesizing the active compounds in the Psilocybe mexicana mushroom, which he named psilocybin and psilocin. Although his work produced other important drugs, including methergine, hydergine and dihydroergotamine, it was LSD that shaped his career.Īfter his discovery of LSD’s properties, Hofmann spent years researching sacred plants. This is the story of LSD told by a concerned yet hopeful father, organic chemist Albert Hofmann, Ph.D. Driven by intuition, he synthesized it again in 1943, and serendipitously noticed its profound effects on During the first years after its discovery, LSD brought me the same happiness and gratification that any pharmaceutical chemist would feel on learning that a substance he or she produced might possibly develop into a valuable medicament. Albert Hofmann, who died in 2008 aged 102, first synthesized lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in 1938, but the results of animal tests were so unremarkable that the chemical was abandoned. The text of 'My Problem Child' by Albert Hofmann.