Marguerite Vogt

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Marguerite Vogt was a German-born American cancer biologist and virologist best known for her research on polio and cancer.

InformationDetail
BirthdayFebruary 13, 1913
Died onJuly 6, 2007
NationalityAmerican
FamousScientists, Biologists, Virologists
Birth PlaceBerlin
Born CountryGermany
GenderFemale
FatherOskar Vogt
MotherCécile Vogt-Mugnier
Sun SignAquarius
Born inBerlin
Famous asBiologist & Virologist
Died at Age94

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Who is Marguerite Vogt?

Marguerite Vogt was a German-born American cancer biologist and virologist best known for her research on polio and cancer at the ‘Salk Institute for Biological Studies’. She collaborated with Nobel Prize-winning scientist Renato Dulbecco to analyse the way polio virus develops plagues in cell cultures, a discovery that eventually aided in the development of a polio vaccine. The duo examined how some viruses take control of the cells infected by them. They displayed that polyomavirus, the small DNA viruses that are characteristically extensive, tucks in their own DNA into that of the host cell. These analyses of the duo changed the descriptive form of virology to a more determinable one. Vogt and Dulbecco also showed the way a virus can change a cell to a cancerous one. Their investigations on cancer led to some of the first inklings of the genetic characteristic of the disease. She began her research on polio virus at the ‘California Institute of Technology’ (Caltech). Thereafter she joined the ‘Salk Institute for Biological Studies’ where she worked for decades and remained the oldest working scientist of the institute who had spent more years at a Salk bench than any other scientist. Over a career span of almost an incredible eight decades, Vogt, a dedicated scientist who worked for around ten hours a day for generally six days a week, trained and aided legion of scientists, graduate pupils and postdoctoral fellows of whom four researchers went on to win the ‘Nobel Prize’. However she remained one of the most unsung female scientists who won no professional award or distinction for her scientific contributions.

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Childhood & Early Life

She was born on February 13, 1913, in Germany to Oskar Vogt and Cécile Vogt-Mugnier as their youngest daughter among two children.

Both her parents were notable neuroscientists, who were best known for their intensive cytoarchetectonic research on the brain, served at the Kaiser Wilhelm/Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Berlin. In 1925 her father was summoned to Moscow among other neurologists to study the brain of Lenin.

She was raised in an intensified and stimulating scientific environment. Her own allegiance towards science developed when she was fourteen years of age when she began to study fruit flies. At fourteen she penned down her first paper on Drosophila, a fruit fly.

In 1937 she earned an M.D. degree from the ‘University of Berlin’.

Her father remained a director of the Kaiser Wilhelm/Max Planck Institute till the time her parents were dismissed from the institute by the Nazis in 1937 due to political issues following which the family left Berlin.

Her parents established a research centre of their own in the mountainous region of Black Forest in southwest Germany with the aid of the wealthy industrialist family of the Krupps and lived there till the end of the ‘Second World War’. There she carried forward her research on Drosophila development. She studied two primary problems in its development – the early homeotic mutants like the proboscopedia, which completely change one part of body into another, and the structure and function of the ring gland. More than thirty papers were published by her on the two researches.

However these papers remained inaccessible partly due to the war and also due to their publication in German language. Many of these were rediscovered later. Professor Davy Jones of the ‘University of Kentucky’ is working on translating these papers.

Her older sister, Marthe went on to become a neuropharmacologist by profession and served as a professor at the ‘University of Cambridge’. Marthe also became a fellow of the ‘Royal Society’.

Career

In 1950 she immigrated to the US carrying only her Bechstein piano. There she joined the ‘California Institute of Technology’ (Caltech) to work along with German-American biophysicist Max Delbrück. She worked with Delbrück on the E coli K12 F+ x F-crosses.

It was Delbrück who introduced her to the junior faculty member Renato Dulbecco, when the latter was working in the biology division attempting to develop a culture procedure for the virus of polio. This saw the beginning of long collaborative scientific research work between the two.

Vogt and Dulbecco worked on the procedures to culture poliovirus, the causative agent of the infectious disease called poliomyelitis or simply polio. The duo was the first to succeed in developing the virus in vitro (colloquially called test tube experiments) that is conducting the study by isolating it from its normal biological surroundings. They also purified the virus so as to identify and investigate pure viral cultures, which was a significant step in the development of vaccine to fight the disease.

Thereafter they began to study the causative viruses of cancer starting with examining the polyoma virus, natural hosts of which are primarily mammals and birds. They cultured and successfully investigated its potentiality.

While continuing with her scientific commitments she also actively protested against the ‘Vietnam War’.

Following Dulbecco’s induction in 1963 at the newly established ‘Salk Institute for Biological Studies’, an independent and non-profit scientific research institute situated in La Jolla, San Diego, Vogt joined the institute in the former’s group as a research fellow. There they carried on with their research on viruses causing tumour.

Many newcomers who joined the lab of Dulbecco learned the procedures of tissue culture and transformation protocols from her.

In 1973 Vogt was inducted as research professor in the institute which led her to endeavour into the study of origin of cancer. This independent faculty level position provided her with her own laboratory and staff members. She investigated cellular immortalization in cancer cells and also examined the part telomeres plays in this procedure.

In 1990 she was designated a Professor of Molecular & Cell Biology.

In 1998 she published her last scientific paper.

During the later sage of her life she became frail and following a pneumonic attack sometime around 2000 which made her even more weak, she was assisted by her friends and colleagues so that she could meet up her several commitments including visiting the institute.

In 2004 following the renovation of the department she worked in, Vogt was provided with a large new office overlooking the courtyard of the institute.

Personal Life & Legacy

Vogt was a generous lady who personally and financially heled many students.

A highly spirited and energetic woman, she would drive to the institute regularly in her convertible sports car. She loved to spend time playing piano, swimming in the ocean, running along the beach and exercising actively.

Vogt, who learned about social democratic values and political engagements from her parents, led a socially active life. She hosted get-togethers and parties with friends and associates along with their families in her La Jolla house during holidays.

A gifted pianist, she used to hold music salons at her house on Sundays that would include her friends joining her for a music session with lunch.

She never married nor had children.

Due to her failing health condition she had to be shifted to a La Jolla nursing home sometime around 2006.

On July 6, 2007, at the age of 94 years she died in La Jolla.

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Marguerite Vogt biography timelines

  • // 13th Feb 1913
    She was born on February 13, 1913, in Germany to Oskar Vogt and Cécile Vogt-Mugnier as their youngest daughter among two children.
  • // 1925
    Both her parents were notable neuroscientists, who were best known for their intensive cytoarchetectonic research on the brain, served at the Kaiser Wilhelm/Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Berlin. In 1925 her father was summoned to Moscow among other neurologists to study the brain of Lenin.
  • // 1937
    In 1937 she earned an M.D. degree from the ‘University of Berlin’.
  • // 1937
    Her father remained a director of the Kaiser Wilhelm/Max Planck Institute till the time her parents were dismissed from the institute by the Nazis in 1937 due to political issues following which the family left Berlin.
  • // 1950
    In 1950 she immigrated to the US carrying only her Bechstein piano. There she joined the ‘California Institute of Technology’ (Caltech) to work along with German-American biophysicist Max Delbrück. She worked with Delbrück on the E coli K12 F+ x F-crosses.
  • // 1963
    Following Dulbecco’s induction in 1963 at the newly established ‘Salk Institute for Biological Studies’, an independent and non-profit scientific research institute situated in La Jolla, San Diego, Vogt joined the institute in the former’s group as a research fellow. There they carried on with their research on viruses causing tumour.
  • // 1973
    In 1973 Vogt was inducted as research professor in the institute which led her to endeavour into the study of origin of cancer. This independent faculty level position provided her with her own laboratory and staff members. She investigated cellular immortalization in cancer cells and also examined the part telomeres plays in this procedure.
  • // 1990
    In 1990 she was designated a Professor of Molecular & Cell Biology.
  • // 1998
    In 1998 she published her last scientific paper.
  • // 2000
    During the later sage of her life she became frail and following a pneumonic attack sometime around 2000 which made her even more weak, she was assisted by her friends and colleagues so that she could meet up her several commitments including visiting the institute.
  • // 2004
    In 2004 following the renovation of the department she worked in, Vogt was provided with a large new office overlooking the courtyard of the institute.
  • // 2006
    Due to her failing health condition she had to be shifted to a La Jolla nursing home sometime around 2006.
  • // 6th Jul 2007
    On July 6, 2007, at the age of 94 years she died in La Jolla.

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