Albert Hofmann, 102; Swiss chemist discovered LSD

His accidental experience of ‘an extremely stimulated imagination’ caused by the drug led to a lifetime of experiments and initiated the psychedelic generation.

By Thomas H. Maugh II
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

4:39 PM PDT, April 29, 2008

Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered LSD and thereby gave the psychedelic generation the pharmaceutical vehicle to turn on, tune in and drop out, has died. He was 102...[Open in new window]
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Well there you go. They were right; that stuff'll kill ya. Another life cut short...