The Substance Albert Hofmanns LSD
In 1943, Albert Hofmann discovered LSD. Fractions of a milligram are enough to turn our framework of time and space upside down. The story of a drug - its discovery in the Basel chemistry lab, the first experiments by Albert Hofmann on himself, the 1950s experiments of the psychiatrists, the consciousness researchers, the artists.
9 January 1913, Yorba Linda, California, USA
May 18, 1936 in Berlin, Germany
21 September 1955, Sarnen, Kanton Obwalden, Switzerland
18 June 1942, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
26 July 1943, Dartford, Kent, England, UK
6 February 1911, Tampico, Illinois, USA
22 October 1920, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
