Alexander Shulgin
Acting
June 17, 1925
Died June 2, 2014 (88 years old)
Berkeley, California, USA
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Acting Credits
Biography
Alexander Theodore "Sasha" Shulgin (June 17, 1925 – June 2, 2014) was a prolific American medicinal chemist, biochemist, organic chemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author. He is credited with introducing MDMA (ecstasy) 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. In 1991 and 1997, he and his wife Ann Shulgin authored the b...
Known For
Filmography
How to Change Your Mind
2022
as Self - Chemist, Author & Professor (archive footage)
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Better Living Through Chemistry
2021
as Self
The Business of Drugs
2020
as Self - Chemist (archive footage)
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Hamilton's Pharmacopeia
2016
as Self (archive footage)
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Ecstasy
2010
as Self
Dirty Pictures
2010
as Alexander Shulgin
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