Ergot to LSD | Discovery| Chemical Structure | How It Works | LSD’s Affect on History | History’s Affect on LSD | References
In search of a new migraine medication, Albert Hoffman, a Swiss biochemist, began reacting the lysergic acid group that had been recently discovered in ergot with various reagents. His experimentation led to the discovery of lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD-25 in 1938.
