Rochus Eugen (Robbie) Vogt (born December 21, 1929 in Neckarelz, Germany) is a German-American physicist, famous as the director and principal investigator of the

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project from 1987 to 1994.

Biography

Vogt studied from 1950 to 1952 at the

University of Karlsruhe The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; german: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie) is a public research university in Karlsruhe, Germany. The institute is a national research center of the Helmholtz Association. KIT was created in 2009 w ...

and from 1952 to 1953 at

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. In 1953 he came to the United States. At the University of Chicago he graduated in physics with a master's degree in 1957 and a Ph.D. in 1961. His doctoral dissertation ''Primary cosmic-ray and solar protons'' was supervised by Peter Meyer. At

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, Vogt was an assistant professor from 1962 to 1965, an associate professor from 1965 to 1970, a full professor from 1970 to 1982, and R. Stanton Avery Distinguished Service from 1982 to 2002, when he retired as professor emeritus. He was chair of Caltech's Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy from 1978 to 1983. He was the acting director of the

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in 1980–1981. He was a mentor to Michael Turner,

Neil Gehrels Cornelis A. "Neil" Gehrels (October 3, 1952 – February 6, 2017) was an American astrophysicist specializing in the field of gamma-ray astronomy. He was Chief of the Astroparticle Physics Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GS ...

, and

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. Gehrels was one of Vogt's doctoral students. In 1992 he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Vogt married in 1958 and is the father of two daughters.

Selected publications

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Books

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Vogt, Rochus Eugen 1929 births Living people German astrophysicists German emigrants to the United States 20th-century American physicists 21st-century American physicists University of Chicago alumni California Institute of Technology faculty Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science