Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who is considered the father of LSD, has died at the age of 102-years old.
Hofmann made the discovery of LSD back in the early 1940s.
In 1938, Hofmann was working on a fungus that killed grain, ergot. He isolated lysergic acid diethylamide. Five years later, he spilt some on his hand, thus creating LSD.
He observed the effect of LSD, as he went on a “trip” of sorts.
The company he worked for, Sandoz, quickly took LSD and went commercial with it, making it very popuar in the 1960s.
It was banned though in 1966, putting the drug in the class of other illegal drugs.