Humphrey Osmond, who coined the word psychedelic in 1956 in correspondence with his friend Aldous Huxley.
- The two men were looking for a word to describe this new class of drugs, and they were doing so in rhyme. Huxley wrote:
To make this trivial world sublime,
Take half a Gramme of phanerothyme.
To which Osmond responded:
To fathom hell or soar angelic
Just take a pinch of psychedelic.
