Talk:David E. Nichols

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Old deletion debate: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/David E. Nichols

1. == what more is needed? ==

I'm in a position to possibly expand this article. What more is needed for it? More on what his lab does? More on him?

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[edit] POV?

Among scientists, he is considered to be the world's top expert on the chemistry and pharmacology of psychedelics.

Actually, the generic class of "scientists" contains rather few people who have much of a clue about the pharmacology of psychedelics or even the relative cluefulness of experts in the field. Maybe the statement should be qualified. Is he considered world's top expert among pharmacologists? Chemists? DEA agents? Psychologists? Anyone involved in research related to psychedelics (a notoriously multidisciplinary topic...)? On whose authority do we take it that the topness of his expertise is toppier than that of Sasha Shulgin or Albert Hoffman?

The Swiss chemist who discovered/invented LSD spells his name "Hofmann". Some of Nichols' papers are coauthored by a "A. Hoffman", but that's a completely different fellow, an American who was one of Nichols' graduate students in the mid-1980s. Merenta