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Final Trip for LSD Creator

Chemist Albert Hofmann dies at 102

By Peter Fearon,  Newser Staff

Posted Apr 30, 2008 2:40 AM CDT

(Newser) – The Swiss scientist who formulated LSD and unwittingly helped lay the foundation of  '60s drug culture has died of a heart attack at the age of 102. Albert Hofmann, who called LSD his "problem child," discovered its hallucinatory properties while working on heart...   Read full story »

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