Baron Albert von Schrenck-Notzing was born on 18 May 1862 in Oldenburg, Germany, and studied at the University of Munich. He was a forensic psychiatrist and member of the German aristocracy who became interested in psychic research in 1889. He collaborated with Charles Richet, Cesar Lombroso, Oliver Lodge, and many others in investigations for 40 years. While he was reluctant, apparently out of scientific conservatism, to accept mediumship with survival, he was nevertheless fully convinced of the reality of mediumship. He began working with the medium Eusapia Palladino, whose sessions in Rome he attended as early as 1894. He followed her throughout Europe and invited her twice to Munich as his guest. But he did not declare his belief in the reality of her phenomena until 1914 and only published his records from Rome and Munich in Physikalische des Mediumismus in 1920. For many years he studied the materialisation phenomena of Eva C. (Marthe Béraud) in Munich and at the home of Juliette Bisson in Paris. His book, Phenomena of Materialisation, published in Germany in 1914, at the same time as Bisson's work in France, is extensively illustrated with photographs. He also investigated other classic mediums such as Willi Schneider, Rudi Schneider, Stanislawa and Valentine Dencausse. He was one of the greatest researchers of physical effects phenomena in Germany. He obtained hair from the materialised spirit, comparing it microscopically with that of the medium, and found that it could not be from the same person. He also carried out chemical tests on a certain portion of the ectoplasm, which was reduced to ashes. Among its elements, he found sodium chloride (table salt) and calcium phosphate. He managed to film the ectoplasm coming out of the medium's mouth. Baron Albert von Schrenck-Notzing passed away on 12 February 1929, in Munich, Germany.