Author: Alexander T. Shulgin
Alternate names: Sasha Shulgin; Alexander Shulgin
Born: 17 June 1925
Died: 2 June 2014
Bio: Alexander Theodore Shulgin was an American medicinal chemist, biochemist, organic chemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author. He is credited with introducing MDMA to psychologists in the late 1970s for psychopharmaceutical use and for the discovery, synthesis and personal bioassay of over 230 psychoactive compounds for their psychedelic and entactogenic potential.