LIFE MAGAZINE May 13 1957 PSYCHEDELIC MAGIC MUSHROOM Bert Lahr Bagged Boarded

Description: LIFE MAGAZINE May 13 1957 PSYCHEDELIC MAGIC MUSHROOM Article Bert Lahr. This copy was owned by Dr Werner Bergman, famous scientist at Yale University, born in Bielefeld, Germany, Apr. 30, 1904, son of Wilhelm and Carolina (Upmann) Bergmann. He received his preliminary education at schools in Bielefeld, attended the University of Tubingen, Germany, from 1924 to 1926, and was graduated Ph.D. in 1928 at the University of Gottingen, Germany. He was a Rockefeller fellow at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1930-31 and at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, in 1931. He joined the faculty of Yale University in that year as Sterling research fellow in chemistry and in 1934 became a Textile Foundation fellow at that institution. Named an assistant professor in 1939, he advanced to associate professor in 1943 and full professor of chemistry at Yale in 1947, and he served in the latter post until the time of his death. An expert on marine invertebrates, he was scientific consultant for Yale's Bingham Oceanographic Laboratory, New Haven, Conn., from 1946 to the close of his life. He served on the executive and appointments committees at Yale and for many years was director of graduate studies in the chemistry department. He introduced several new courses at Yale, including one on naturally occurring organic pigments, their isolation, structure, and synthesis; and another on steroids, the class of organic compounds covering sex hormones, vitamin D-active substances, and a great array of other physiologically important compounds. He did notable work in the study of the chemical composition of sponges and other marine organisms and contributed both to marine biochemistry and biogeochemistry. One of his lasting contributions was his demonstration that the presence of certain members of the chemical family of sterols served to classify sponges in a more rational way than the conventional classification schemes used by invertebrate zoologists. He received most notice for his discovery that organic materials encased in rocks of coral reefs occurred in large enough quantities to suggest a source of petroleum deposits that would possibly contribute to the petroleum supply in the distant future. He also did research on pyrimidines; natural pigments; relations between structure and color of organic compounds; and silk. He was the author of over 100 scientific research papers, including "The Chemistry of Unsaturated Steroids l.

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