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Essay on Albert Hofmann
Dr. Albert Hofmann was born on the 11th of January, in the year of 1906. He is also remembered as the most prominent Swiss scientist of his times and is referred by many as the “father” of the LSD. Hofmann was born in Baden, located in Switzerland. Dr Albert Hofmann basically studied the discipline of chemistry from the University of Zürich. His primary interest was in the study of the chemistry of plants and animals. He later also carried out some important research concerning the chemical structure of the common animal substance called the chitin. He also received his doctorate on this research. Dr Albert Hofmann joined the pharmaceutical-chemical department of Sandoz Laboratories, which is the present day Novartis, and is situated in Basel, where he studied the medicinal plant, squill and the fungus ergot; which was part of a program that he participated in order to purify and synthesize the active constituents which were to be used as pharmaceuticals.
Dr Albert Hofmann’s research in lysergic acid, which is the central shared component of ergot alkaloids, ultimately resulted in the synthesis of LSD-25 in the year 1938. It was then five years afterward, when Hofmann repeated the synthesis of this almost forgotten substance that Dr. Hofmann accidentally found out the psychedelic effects of LSD. He accidentally absorbed some of it through his fingertips on 16th of April, in the year of 1943. After three days, that is on the 19th of April, which is also called the Bicycle Day, because after taking in the LSD Dr Albert Hofmann rode his bicycle home that day while he was still under the influence of LSD. Dr Hofmann intentionally consumed 250 µg of LSD, and then he experienced even more intense effects than he did before when he accidentally absorbed LSD. Later.....
