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The Hamilton Morris Podcast is a series focused on the chemistry, history, and cultural impact of psychoactive substances
…and this could have impacted the commercialization of LSD. I mean, it was not someone who was working with Hoffman. It was Arthur Stoll who was the head. But there was another... No, it was Arthur Stoll. Arthur Stoll. Arthur Stoll. Arthur Stoll. was the…
…someone who was working with Hoffman. It was Arthur Stoll who was the head. But there was another... No, it was Arthur Stoll. Arthur Stoll. Arthur Stoll. Arthur Stoll. was the prodigy of Richard Wilstetter, who was the Jewish-German main chemist of the…
…was working with Hoffman. It was Arthur Stoll who was the head. But there was another... No, it was Arthur Stoll. Arthur Stoll. Arthur Stoll. Arthur Stoll. was the prodigy of Richard Wilstetter, who was the Jewish-German main chemist of the early 20th…
…with Hoffman. It was Arthur Stoll who was the head. But there was another... No, it was Arthur Stoll. Arthur Stoll. Arthur Stoll. Arthur Stoll. was the prodigy of Richard Wilstetter, who was the Jewish-German main chemist of the early 20th century. He…
…It was Arthur Stoll who was the head. But there was another... No, it was Arthur Stoll. Arthur Stoll. Arthur Stoll. Arthur Stoll. was the prodigy of Richard Wilstetter, who was the Jewish-German main chemist of the early 20th century. He received the Nobel…
…like working on chlorophyll. So he was, Wilstetter was, he's like a forefather of biochemistry. So his best student was Arthur Stoll. And in 1970, the Sandow Color Company, they just made colors, Sandow and Basel. They wanted to reinvest, especially after…
…color was good business after the First World War. So Sandoz invested money in a pharmaceutical branch and they selected Arthur Stoll, the prodigy of Richard Wildstätter, to kind of lead the pharmaceutical branch of Sandoz. And then Arthur Stoll had the…
…and they selected Arthur Stoll, the prodigy of Richard Wildstätter, to kind of lead the pharmaceutical branch of Sandoz. And then Arthur Stoll had the idea to... examine the so-called ergot and the ergot was a very potent plant well not plant actually…
…all himself. And he employed Albert Hoffman, became his chief chemist. And then, But Hoffman basically continued this ergot research. First, Stoll didn't really want him to do that because he was like, he thought ergot belongs to him, but Hoffman really had…
…belongs to him, but Hoffman really had some ideas that he could do some amazing things with ergot. And then kind of Stoll allowed him to, and then Hoffman quickly created an ergot based medicine. think it's I think I think and they're basically used…
…you know it's a it's I think it's a medicine the one that Hoffman then developed immediately cancel out the one that Stoll had invented because Hoffman's was much better and I think the Hoffman the no the Hoffman was hydrogen. I call it hydrogen.…
…Novartis archives and also in other archives in Zurich, for example, at ETH University, that there was a close connection between Stoll, who was this boss, this boss of Hoffmann and the founder of the pharmaceutical branch of Sanders, Stoll, Arthur Stoll.…
…connection between Stoll, who was this boss, this boss of Hoffmann and the founder of the pharmaceutical branch of Sanders, Stoll, Arthur Stoll. He was closely collaborating with Richard Kuhn, who also had been a prodigy of Willstetter. And Richard Kuhn…
…between Stoll, who was this boss, this boss of Hoffmann and the founder of the pharmaceutical branch of Sanders, Stoll, Arthur Stoll. He was closely collaborating with Richard Kuhn, who also had been a prodigy of Willstetter. And Richard Kuhn was not…
…biochemist within the Nazi system and produced invented sarin, which is the deadliest nerve poison. for Hitler's war machine and Stoll and Kuhn were exchanging information very freely in both directions they had visited each other's labs countless times also…
…so they were really like Kuhn knew everything about the ergot research that Sandoz did and they would exchange the information. Obviously Stoll would have told Kuhn also about LSD because LSD was such a big thing when they were discussing things. What is…
…they used it in Dachau to test new interrogation methods, etc. So it's not unplausible that Richard Kuhn, when he heard from Stoll about LSD and that he became interested in and I found one letter where Kuhn actually acknowledges receiving half a gram of…
…what had happened before, like the early history of LSD. And that is, you know, I think is the history of Arthur Stoll, is his connection with Richard Kuhn, is the Americans invading, invading slash liberating Germany and taking the files and taking the…
…taking the files and taking the knowledge and developing their own truth drug program. And then putting pressure on Sandoz and Arthur Stoll not to proceed with the legalization with putting it onto the market because Sundance always wanted to put it on the…