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

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

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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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Alexander Shulgin wasn't the first man to synthesize MDMA. But in 1976, his experiments at his longtime home in Berkeley, California led to an epiphany: Not only did he find a novel way to synthesize it, he loved how it made him feel. "I am afraid to turn around and face the mountains, for fear they will overpower me.

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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 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.

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

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

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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]

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

In April 1960, a Dow Chemicals biochemist named Alexander Shulgin consumed 400mg of a compound called mescaline, and had his first psychedelic experience. He saw "hundreds of nuances of color" that he had never seen before. "The world amazed me," Shulgin later wrote. "I saw it as I had when I was a child.

Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin, psychedelic pioneer, RIP / Boing Boing

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..

Pesquisador que popularizou o ecstasy morre aos 88 anos Revista Galileu Ciência

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.

Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin A Retrospective Truffle Report

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.

Goodbye Sasha Legendary Chemist Alexander Shulgin Dies at 88

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.

Sasha Shulgin Godfather Of Ecstasy Dead Business Insider

Mike Power @mrmichaelpower Tue 3 Jun 2014 08.58 EDT Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin, who has died aged 88, was a pioneering and fearless scientist, but his chosen discipline - the design and synthesis.

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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.

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

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.