Quote of the day
The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.
Albert Hofmann
Born: January 11, 1906
Died: April 29, 2008 (aged 102)
Bio: Albert Hofmann was a Swiss scientist known best for being the first person to synthesize, ingest, and learn of the psychedelic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide.
Known for:
- LSD, my problem child (1979)
- Plants of the Gods (1979)
- Hofmann's Elixir: LSD and the New Eleusis (2008)
- The Physics of Synchrotron Radiation (2004)