Just think, If it wasn't for THIS GUY, we wouldn't have some of the greatest music, art, film... Orson Bean!

Albert Hofmann, Is That Guy, he was the pioneering Swiss chemist who discovered the hallucinogenic properties of LSD!

He died Tuesday at the age of 102.

See? LSD must have robbed him of life, who knows how long he could have lived if he hadn't experimented all the time?

While researching a lysergic acid compound, he inadvertently absorbed a bit through his fingertips. Three days later, he ingested 250 milligrams of LSD, embarking on the first full-fledged acid trip. That day became known among LSD fans as "bicycle day" because Hofmann began experiencing the drug's intense effects on his bicycle trip home from the lab.

He was Green, before Green was cool!

Hofmann remembered his discovery this way:

"In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed, I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors. After some two hours this condition faded away."

He still referred to LSD as "medicine for the soul."

"LSD wanted to tell me something. It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation."

Read the full story, that you just know will soon be a film, at WIRED.