Alexander Theodore "Sasha" Shulgin (June 17, 1925 – June 2, 2014) [1] was an American biochemist, broad researcher of synthetic psychoactive compounds, and author of works regarding these, who independently explored the organic chemistry and pharmacology of such agents—in his mid-life and later, many through preparation in his home ...

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]

Laura Ann Shulgin (née Gotlieb; March 22, 1931 – July 9, 2022) [2] was an American author and the wife of chemist Alexander Shulgin, with whom she wrote PiHKAL and TiHKAL. [3]

Jun 3, 2014 · 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...

A related initiative is the Alexander Shulgin Archiving Project (or The Shulgin Archive), which is a co-project with Erowid that began by 2007. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] An earlier group preceding the ASRI was "Team Shulgin", which was formed by 2010 and comprised Alexander and Ann Shulgin, Ann Shulgin's daughter Wendy Tucker (the editor of PiHKAL and TiHKAL ...

We are a psychedelics discovery, development, and educational organization dedicated to continuing and extending the work of Dr. Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin. Our main goals are to discover new substances that produce psychedelic experiences in healthy human beings and to develop compounds and delivery systems for therapeutic uses.

Alexander Shulgin (1925-2014) is known as “the godfather of psychedelics.” Over the course of his life, he created, synthesized, and tested (on himself) hundreds of novel psychoactive compounds. Shulgin studied chemistry on a Harvard scholarship when he was only 16 but left school in 1943 to join the Navy.

Jun 24, 2023 · Alexander Shulgin was the most prolific psychedelic chemist in history — which has earned him the title “the godfather of psychedelics”. His work has been described as “by far the most far-reaching” in the cultural climate of interest in hallucinogenic compounds.

Aug 2, 2012 · Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin, Ph.D., was a pharmacologist and chemist known for his creation of new psychoactive chemicals. After serving in the Navy, he earned his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from U.C. Berkeley in 1954.

Alexander Theodore "Sasha" Shulgin (June 17, 1925 – June 2, 2014) was an American medicinal chemist, biochemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and writer. He introduced MDMA (an ingredient of "ecstasy") to psychologists in the late 1970s for psychopharmaceutical use.