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'''Stephen Szára''' is a Hungarian-born chemist and psychiatrist known for the first demonstration that [[DMT|N,N-dimethyltryptamine]] is psychoactive in humans. Refused a supply of [[LSD]] by the Sandoz laboratories, he synthesized DMT himself and, in Budapest in 1956, established its activity by intramuscular administration to a series of volunteers.<ref name="szara1956">Szára S. Dimethyltryptamin: its metabolism in man; the relation to its psychotic effect to the serotonin metabolism. Experientia. 1956;12(11):441-442. PMID 13384414.</ref> After leaving Hungary he continued tryptamine and psychedelic research in the United States.

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