{"name": "Alexander T. Shulgin", "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Alexander Theodore Shulgin was an American medicinal chemist, biochemist, organic chemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author. He is credited with introducing MDMA 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."}, "alternate_names": ["Sasha Shulgin", "Alexander Shulgin"], "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "links": [{"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Shulgin", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}, "title": "Wikipedia (en)"}, {"url": "https://www.transformpress.com/", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}, "title": "Transform Press"}, {"url": "https://www.erowid.org/culture/characters/shulgin_alexander/", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}, "title": "Erowid Character Vault"}, {"url": "http://www.shulginresearch.org/", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}, "title": "Shulgin Research Institute"}], "birth_date": "17 June 1925", "death_date": "2 June 2014", "photos": [8070229], "personal_name": "Alexander T. Shulgin", "source_records": ["amazon:8494403990"], "remote_ids": {"viaf": "92081971", "wikidata": "Q506336", "isni": "0000000066792435", "goodreads": "158496", "imdb": "nm7348073", "lc_naf": "no92006488"}, "key": "/authors/OL599646A", "latest_revision": 9, "revision": 9, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-08-01T00:21:48.466851"}}