Marguerite Vogt Collection, 1925 - 2001

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Marguerite Vogt Collection, 1925 - 2001

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Collection of Marguerite Vogt, prominent molecular biologist and virologist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. She is noted for her research in the development of a polio vaccine and studies linked to the genetic nature of cancer. Her collection contains professional correspondence with such notable scientists as David Baltimore, Karl Habel, Georg Melchers, and Howard Martin Temin, in addition to personal correspondence with friends. Also included are scrapbooks containing photographs of the Vogt family, friends, and colleagues from 1925 to 1937, while Marguerite Vogt still resided in Germany. Additionally, the collection contains audiorecordings from interviews done in 1996-1997 with Marguerite Vogt, Martin Haas, and Marthe Vogt by Igor Klatzo for the book authored by Klatzo, CECILE AND OSKAR VOGT: THE FOUNDERS OF NEUROSCIENCE. The files also include a partial typescript for Klatzo's manuscript.

3.80 linear feet; (6 archives boxes, 1 card file box, and 5 oversize folders)

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University of California, San Diego. Geisel Library. Mandeville Special Collections Library.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6654054

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Vogt family

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Temin, Howard Martin

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Baltimore, David, 1938-

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Born in New York City, New York on 7 March 1938. Education: B.A., Chemistry, Swarthmore College (1960) ; Ph.D., Rockefeller University (1964). Employment: 1964-1965 Albert Einstein College of Medicine ; 1965-1968 The Salk Institute for Biological Studies ; 1982-1990 Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research ; 1990-1994 The Rockefeller University ; 1973-1983, 1994-1997 American Cancer Society ; 1963-1964, 1968-1990, 1994-1997 Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; 1997- California Institute of...

Melchers, Georg

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Salk Institute for Biological Studies

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Habel, Karl, 1908-

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Vogt, Marguerite

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Born in Berlin, Germany, in 1913, Vogt received her medical degree from the University of Berlin in 1936 and worked at a private brain research facility in Germany until 1950. She immigrated to the United States to work with Max Delbruck at the California Institute of Technology, then joined Renato Dulbecco, also at Cal Tech, to develop a method to culture the polio virus. In 1962, she and Dulbecco accepted positions at the newly formed Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Californ...