Toshio Hoshino

Toshio Hoshino (10 December 1899 – 11 February 1979) is a Japanese chemist who specialized in natural product and polymer chemistry.^[1][2] He was a professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.^[1][2] Among other contributions, Hoshino, along with his colleague Kenya Shimodaira, is notable in being the first to synthesize the psychedelic tryptamines bufotenin (5-HO-DMT) and 5-MeO-DMT (mebufotenin) in 1935 and 1936, respectively.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]} However, the hallucinogenic effects of these compounds and of tryptamines generally did not become known until much later in the 1950s and thereafter.^{[6][10][11][12][13]}