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Albert Hofmann, father of drug LSD, dies in Switzerland (AP)

This Nov. 1998 file photo shows Albert Hofmann, discoverer of the mind-altering drug LSD and former head of the research department of Swiss chemical company Sandoz in Solothurn, Switzerland. Hofmann died this morning, April 29, 2008 at his home in Basel of a heart attack. (AP Photo/Keystone/Walter Bieri)AP - Albert Hofmann, the father of the mind-altering drug LSD whose medical discovery inspired — and arguably corrupted — millions in the 1960s hippie generation, has died. He was 102.

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