LSD: cultural revolution and medical advances
Albert Hofmann has largely faded from public view but his creation has become part of our cultural fabric. David Nichols reports
Albert Hofmann, who discovered LSD (d-lysergic acid diethylamide), is soon to celebrate his 100th birthday with his wife Anita, their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.
Sitting in the quiet back yard of his little home in Switzerland, overlooking the long green hill that swoops down to the Alsace region of France, this gentle and unassuming man is anything but the stereotype of a world famous chemist.