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.
Albert Hofmann, 102, Invented LSD. Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who invented LSD, the first synthesized psychedelic drug, died at home yesterday in Basel, Switzerland. He was 102. Dr. Albert Hofmann, the discoverer of the drug Lysergic Acid Diethlyamide, or LSD, in 1976. He was nearly as famous for having taken the world's first acid trip.