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Albert Hofmann

1906 - 2008

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Albert Hofmann (11 January 1906 – 29 April 2008) was a Swiss chemist known for being the first to synthesize, ingest, and learn of the psychedelic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). Hofmann's team also isolated, named and synthesized the principal psychedelic mushroom compounds psilocybin and psilocin. He authored more than 100 scientific articles and numerous books, including LSD: Mein Sorgenkind (LSD: My Problem Child). In 2007, he shared first place with Tim Berners-Lee on a list of the 100 greatest living geniuses published by The Daily Telegraph newspaper. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Albert Hofmann is the 78th most popular chemist (down from 25th in 2019), the 31st most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 21st in 2019) and the most popular Swiss Chemist.

Albert Hofmann is most famous for discovering the psychedelic drug LSD.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Albert Hofmann ranks 78 out of 602. Before him are William Giauque, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Karl Ziegler, Hermann Staudinger, Tu Youyou, and Paul Sabatier. After him are Hans von Euler-Chelpin, Jan Baptist van Helmont, Frederick Sanger, Carl Bosch, Robert S. Mulliken, and Friedrich Bergius.

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Among people born in 1906, Albert Hofmann ranks 24. Before him are Estée Lauder, Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, Billy Wilder, Henri Charrière, Vladimir Prelog, and Ernst Ruska. After him are Victor Vasarely, Roberto Rossellini, Hans Bethe, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Sayyid Qutb, and Giuseppe Farina. Among people deceased in 2008, Albert Hofmann ranks 14. Before him are Charlton Heston, Arthur C. Clarke, Samuel P. Huntington, Willis Lamb, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, and Hua Guofeng. After him are Irena Sendler, Richard Widmark, Miriam Makeba, Mahmoud Darwish, Vishwanath Pratap Singh, and Sydney Pollack.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Albert Hofmann ranks 31 out of 1,015. Before him are Alberto Giacometti (1901), Heinrich Rohrer (1933), Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921), Conrad Gessner (1516), Bruno Ganz (1941), and Arnold Böcklin (1827). After him are Jacob Burckhardt (1818), Emil Theodor Kocher (1841), Joan Gamper (1877), Carlo Maderno (1556), Felix Bloch (1905), and Franz Mesmer (1734).

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Among CHEMISTS In Switzerland

Among chemists born in Switzerland, Albert Hofmann ranks 1. After him are Paul Hermann Müller (1899), Richard R. Ernst (1933), Kurt Wüthrich (1938), Emil Abderhalden (1877), Jacques Dubochet (1942), Germain Henri Hess (1802), Nicolas Théodore de Saussure (1767), Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac (1817), Victor Goldschmidt (1888), Jacques-Louis Soret (1827), and Albert Eschenmoser (1925).

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