Usage Note: Native American is now fully established in American English as an equivalent of Indian, being acceptable in all contemporary contexts and preferred in many. It is especially appropriate as a term of respect used by outsiders, who may have concerns that Indian could cause offense by its association with longstanding cultural stereotypes.
In Basel, Switzerland, Albert Hoffman, a Swiss chemist working at the Sandoz pharmaceutical research laboratory, accidentally consumes LSD-25, a synthetic drug he had created in 1938 as part of his research into the medicinal value of lysergic acid compounds.
Dr. Albert Hofmann in 1967. Â­A Swiss chemist named Albert Hofmann was employed in a laboratory at Sandoz, a pharmaceutical company, when he first synthesized LSD.Sandoz was working on a research project involving a parasitic fungus called ergot that grows on rye, known as Claviceps purpurea.n 1938, Hofmann derived the 25th in a series of these derivatives. It was lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD-25. He thought that LSD-25 might stimulate breathing and circulation. But tests didn't show anything special, and Sandoz abandoned further study.