Alexander Shulgin, Psychedelia Researcher, Dies at 88 The New York Times

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Ann Shulgin, who alongside her husband, Alexander Shulgin, developed and experimented with hundreds of psychedelic drugs that he concocted in his California laboratory, then showed readers.

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Tue 3 Jun 2014 11.55 EDT. It's quite a trip to visit maverick pharmacologist Dr Alexander Shulgin and his collaborator and wife, Ann, at their rustic home in California. It is a warm secluded.

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Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin, the chemist and pharmacologist known for creating hundreds of psychoactive drugs and popularising MDMA, has died at his home aged 88. Shulgin, known as the Godfather of Ecstasy, died from liver cancer, having already been suffering a spate of ill health down the years, including a stroke and the early stages of dementia.

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news. Dr. Alexander Shulgin, the influential and beloved psychedelic pioneer, has passed away at the age of 88. He died of liver cancer on Monday, 2 June, surrounded by family and friends at his home in California. Shulgin had suffered declining health in the past few years, including a stroke and the onset of dementia beginning in 2010.

Alexander Shulgin in his lab Psychedelic Frontier

Alexander Theodore " Sasha " Shulgin (June 17, 1925 - June 2, 2014) was an American medicinal chemist, biochemist, organic chemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author.

'Godfather of ecstasy' Alexander Shulgin dies at 88 The Verge

Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin, I learned later, was a top-rank researcher for Dow Chemical in 1960 when he ingested a psychedelic compound—mescaline—for the first time. Shulgin found the experience.

Chemist Alexander Shulgin, popularizer of the drug Ecstasy, dies at 88 The Washington Post

Alexander (Sasha) Shulgin, the brilliant miscreant chemist who discovered scores of psychedelic drugs — including MDMA (or "Ecstasy," which he called a "low-calorie martini" — was dubbed one of the century's most important scientists by Timothy Leary. Working from a lab behind his Lafayette home on "the Farm," he and his wife Ann, with occasional…

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Alexander Shulgin, the researcher who transformed MDMA from an obscure chemical to a party drug known as Ecstasy, has died at his home in Northern California. He was 88, and the cause was liver.

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'Godfather of ecstasy' Sasha Shulgin who introduced MDMA dies at 88 — RT USA News

Alexander Theodore Shulgin, who was known as Sasha to friends, was born in Berkeley, Calif., on June 17, 1925. His parents were teachers, and he was a precocious student, entering Harvard at 16.

Alexander Shulgin, 'Godfather of Ecstasy', Dies At 88

When chemist Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin died Monday night at the age of 88, his legacy was quickly summed up in three words: "Godfather of Ecstasy.". It's the easiest characterization of the chemist because his '70s-era synthesis of the Ecstasy (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine or MDMA) is the most well known of his work.

Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin A Retrospective Truffle Report

Alexander T. Shulgin (June 17, 1925-June 2, 2014), known to friends and admirers as "Sasha", was a biochemist and pharmacologist best known for his synthesis, creation, and personal bioassay of hundreds of novel psychoactive compounds. Sasha was born in Berkeley, California. He first began his study of organic chemistry at Harvard University.

Goodbye Sasha Legendary Chemist Alexander Shulgin Dies at 88

Standing in Shulgin's lab just days before his death I am struck by a dim sense that Alexander Shulgin, Sasha to his friends and family, might be the last of his kind. At 88 years of age Sasha Shulgin was the last holdout of the American gentlemen scientists, self-employed innovators in the mold of Albert Einstein or Nikola Tesla..

Altrove lentamente L’esperienza psichedelica di Alexander Shulgin

Dr. Alexander "Sasha" Theodore Shulgin or "Shura" was an American chemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author. Over the span of 50 years, he created more new psychedelic drugs than any other known person to date - nearly 250 by his own accounts. [1]

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Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin, a chemist and psychopharmacologist who introduced the world to the drug MDMA — later called Ecstasy — while creating hundreds of other psychedelic drugs that ultimately.

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Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin, the pioneering pharmacologist who introduced MDMA to psychologists in the 1970s, has died aged 88 after a battle with liver cancer.