List of psychedelic chemists

This is a list of psychedelic chemists, or of chemists who first identified, isolated, and/or synthesized specific psychedelic drugs or otherwise contributed to psychedelic chemistry:^[1]

• Albert Hofmann – discovered LSD, isolated psilocybin from psilocybin-containing mushrooms and ergine from morning glory, developed numerous lysergamides and some psilocybin analogues
• Alexander Shulgin – developed numerous psychedelic phenethylamines and tryptamines^[2][3]
• Arthur Heffter – isolated mescaline from peyote
• Charles D. Nichols – developed certain medically intended psychedelics such as 2C-iBu
• Daniel Trachsel – developed numerous psychedelic phenethylamines^[4][5][6]
• Darrell Lemaire – studied 2C-D as a "smart drug" and developed the TWEETIO psychedelics^{[7][8][9][10]}
• David E. Nichols – developed numerous psychedelic phenethylamines, tryptamines, and lysergamides
• David E. Olson – founder of Delix Therapeutics, developed various psychedelic-related drugs such as tabernanthalog, zalsupindole, and JRT
• David Repke – developed numerous psychedelic tryptamines^[11]
• Gordon Alles – discovered the effects of MDA, the first synthetic psychedelic, and other work
• Hamilton Morris – developed various psychedelics^[12]
• Jason Wallach – developed various psychedelics^[12]
• J. Andrew Jones – developed biosynthetic methods from the production of various tryptamine psychedelics^[13][14][15]
• Lizard Labs (Alexander Stratford) – developed numerous LSD prodrugs such as 1P-LSD and 1V-LSD
• Louis Lewin – attempted to isolate mescaline from peyote
• M. Mueller – described the properties and effects of 2C-EF and 2C-iBu in humans and disclosed them via Alexander Shulgin^[16]
• Matthew J. Baggott – founder of Tactogen, developed novel entactogens and psychedelics
• Otakar Leminger – developed escaline, proscaline, allylescaline, and MEPEA among others^{[2][17][18][19]}
• P. Rausch – developed various psychedelic phenethylamines and disclosed many of them via Daniel Trachsel^[4][5][20]
• Peyton Jacob III – worked with Alexander Shulgin developing psychedelics
• Richard Glennon – developed numerous psychedelic phenethylamines and tryptamines
• Richard Manske – synthesized DMT and identified and synthesized harmine and harmaline^{[21][22][23][24]}
• Robert Oberlender – a student in the lab of David E. Nichols who developed and studied various psychedelics and entactogens
• Stephen Szára – discovered the effects of DMT, developed various psychedelic DMT analogues
• William Leonard Pickard – manufactured LSD and tested other psychedelics like 5-fluoro-AMT, 6-fluoro-AMT, and likely LSZ