In 1943, Albert Hofmann discovered LSD. Fractions of a milligram are enough to turn our framework of time and space upside down. The story of a drug - its discovery in the Basel chemistry lab, the first experiments by Albert Hofmann on himself, the 1950s experiments of the psychiatrists, the consciousness researchers, the artists.
9 October 1940, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK
22 October 1920, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
21 September 1955, Sarnen, Kanton Obwalden, Switzerland
May 18, 1936 in Berlin, Germany
27 November 1942, Seattle, Washington, USA
26 July 1943, Dartford, Kent, England, UK
18 June 1942, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
9 January 1913, Yorba Linda, California, USA
July 1, 1931 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
6 February 1911, Tampico, Illinois, USA
