Marguerite Vogt Collection
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
Copyright 2009, 2021
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
spcoll@ucsd.edu
Descriptive Summary
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
Title: Marguerite Vogt Collection
Creator:
Vogt, Marguerite
Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0688
Physical Description:
6 Linear feet
(10 archives boxes, 1 card file box, 6 oversize folders)
Physical Description:
.001 GB
of digital files
Date (inclusive): 1891-2008
Abstract: Collection of Marguerite Vogt, prominent molecular biologist and virologist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
Languages:
English
, German
.
Access
Original sound recordings are restricted. Listening copies may be available for researchers.
Acquisition Information
Acquired 2007 and 2021.
Preferred Citation
Marguerite Vogt Collection, MSS 688. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Publication Rights
Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.
Biography
Marguerite Maria Vogt was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1913, the second of two daughters to Oskar Vogt and Cécile Vogt-Mugnier.
Her parents were neurologists at the Kaiser Wilhelm/Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Berlin. Her father, Oskar,
also a neuroanatomist, was summoned to Moscow to examine Lenin's brain in 1925. Both daughters were directed by their parents
into science at an early age. In the early 1930s, Marguerite's older sister, Marthe, was a neuropharmacologist, with a MD
from University of Berlin and an additional doctorate in chemistry. In the 1930s with the rise of the Third Reich, Marthe
eventually relocated to Britain to work at the National Institute for Medical Research.
At age 14, Vogt wrote her first scientific paper on drosophilia, fruit fly mutations in embryo development. She went on to
receive her MD from the University of Berlin at the age of 23 and continued research with Boris Ephrussi in Paris. By 1937,
her parents were forced to leave Berlin by the Nazis, although with the help of the industrialist Krupps family, the elder
Vogts established a small private research facility for brain research in the Black Forest near Neustadt, where Marguerite
stayed until 1950.
In 1950, she was offered a position at the California Institute of Technology to work with Max Delbrück, continuing her work
on the structure and function of the ring gland and early homoeotic mutants. Delbrück later suggested she join Renato Dulbecco,
then a young faculty member developing a culture method for the polio virus. Together they were able to successfully grow
the poliovirus in vitro and plague purify it, an essential step for vaccine production. Vogt subsequently published the paper,
"Virus-Cell Interaction with a Tumor-Producing Virus" (1960).
In 1962, she and Dulbecco were recruited to the newly founded Salk Institute for Biological Studies, continuing her research
on tumor-causing viruses. She was appointed as a research professor at the Salk Institute in 1973, an independent faculty
level position. For the next thirty years, she continued to study viruses, leukemia, and the process of aging in cancer cells,
largely aided by her colleague Martin Haas, a biologist and former student.
Vogt's research collaboration with Dulbecco on how DNA tumor viruses replicate and transfer a virus's genetic material, supported
the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine along with David Baltimore and Howard M. Temin. Although Vogt never received broad
recognition for her research, her published papers are widely cited by prominent reseachers in the bioscience field.
Vogt continued her daily research on cell immortalization at the Salk Institute well into her eighties, steadily funded by
the National Institutes of Health. She published her last paper in 1998. In 2004, she was named Remarkable Woman of California,
as part of an exhibition at the California State History Museum in Sacramento.
Marguerite Vogt died in July, 2007, in La Jolla, California.
References cited:
"Marguerite Vogt", Wikipedia.
"Scientist at Work -- Marguerite Vogt; A Lifetime Later, Still in Love with the Lab", NEW YORK TIMES, April 10, 2001.
"Marguerite Vogt, 94, Dies; Biologist and Researcher on Polio Virus", NEW YORK TIMES, July 18, 2007.
Forsburg, S.L., "Remembering Marguerite Vogt", 2007.
http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~forsburg/vogt.html
Scope and Content of Collection
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.
The 2021 additions include correspondence, biographical research materials on the Vogt family in Germany, and photographs.
Arranged in five series: 1) CORRESPONDENCE, 2) PHOTOGRAPHS, 3) MISCELLEANOUS MATERIALS, 4) SOUND RECORDINGS, 5) 2021 ADDITIONS.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Cancer cell -- Growth -- Research
Virologists -- United States -- Biography
Poliomyelitis -- Research
Molecular biologists -- United States -- Biography
Vogt family -- Archives
Temin, Howard M. -- Correspondence
Melchers, Georg -- Correspondence
Vogt, Marguerite -- Archives
Habel, Karl -- Correspondence
Baltimore, David -- Correspondence
Salk Institute for Biological Studies -- Archival resources
CORRESPONDENCE
Scope and Content of Series
Series 1) CORRESPONDENCE: Personal and professional correspondence to and from Marguerite Vogt with members of the scientific
community and friends. Notable correspondents include David Baltimore and Howard Temin, Nobel Prize winners in 1975. It is
arranged alphabetically.
Box 1, Folder 1
Alexander, Lore
1955 - 2001
Box 1, Folder 2
American Association for Cancer Research
1961 - 1991
General note
Includes manuscript typescript for journal CANCER RESEARCH.
Box 1, Folder 5
Amrein, Kurt and Monika
1995 - 1996
Box 1, Folder 6
Anderson, Steve M
1982 - 1986
Box 1, Folder 9
Automobile Club of Southern California
1972
Box 1, Folder 10
Bacheler, Lee
1972 - 1981
Box 1, Folder 12
Baltimore, David
1990 - 1997
Box 1, Folder 14
Bargmann, Souja
1980 - 1987
Box 1, Folder 18
Bayreuther, Klaus
1984 - 1990
Box 1, Folder 22
Bell, Christopher
1992 - 1993
Box 1, Folder 23
Ben-Ishai, Zui
1973 - 1995
Box 1, Folder 24
Benjamin, Tom
1970 - 2000
Box 1, Folder 25
Bennett, Dorothy
1989 - 2000
Box 1, Folder 26
Benzer, Seymour
1993 - 1999
Box 1, Folder 28
Bernardini, Armando
1989 - 1995
Box 1, Folder 29
Bernards, René
1989 - 1990
Box 1, Folder 32
Bishop, Michael
1984 - 1985
Box 1, Folder 33
Blangy, Daniel
1972 - 1993
Box 1, Folder 34
Boeyé, Albert
1959 - 1961
Box 1, Folder 35
Bogenberger, Jakob
1982 - 1988
Box 1, Folder 36
Boice, LuBelle
1973 - 1974
Box 1, Folder 37
Bonifas, Valentin
1955 - 1958
Box 1, Folder 38
Bosselman, Robert
1979 - 1981
Box 1, Folder 39
Bourgaux, Pierre and Danielle
1988 - 1996
Box 1, Folder 42
British Museum - Department of Oriental Antiquities
1985
General note
Includes correspondence with Ding Gui-Feng.
Box 1, Folder 43
Brooks, Robert
1979 - 1996
Box 1, Folder 44
Buchanan, Jack
1966 - 1998
Box 2, Folder 2
California Institute of Technology
1978 - 1998
Box 2, Folder 3
Carl Zeiss, Incorporated
1957 - 1960
Box 2, Folder 6
Chikaraishi, Dona
1986 - 1989
Box 2, Folder 13
Crawford, Lionel
1967 - 1972
Box 2, Folder 16
Curtis, David
1983 - 1984
Box 2, Folder 17
Cuzin, Francois
1974 - 2000
Box 2, Folder 19
Datta, Prasanta
1971 - 2001
Box 2, Folder 23
Deschamps, Jacqueline
1986 - 2001
Box 2, Folder 24
Dieckmann, Marianne
1968 - 1969
Box 2, Folder 26
Doehmer, Johannes
1982 - 1996
Box 2, Folder 32
DuBridge, L.A. (President of California Institute of Technology)
1955 - 1962
Box 2, Folder 34
Eckner, Robert
1979 - 2001
Box 2, Folder 35
Eggers, Hans-Joachim
1957
Box 2, Folder 37
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CANCER
1973
Box 3, Folder 11
Freifelder, David
1975 - 1977
Box 3, Folder 14
Friedrich-Freksa, Hans
1955 - 1973
Box 3, Folder 18
Gaitzsch, Christa
1990 - 1998
Box 3, Folder 20
Garbatski, Edith
1989 - 2000
Box 3, Folder 21
Garcia, Gonzalo
1984 - 1998
Box 3, Folder 22
Gaudray, Patrick
1986 - 2000
Box 3, Folder 27
Gilden, Raymond
1968 - 1971
Box 3, Folder 30
Gluecksohn-Waelsch, Salome
1979 - 1992
Box 3, Folder 34
Goodheart, Clyde
1962 - 1967
Box 3, Folder 35
Graham, Robert
1986 - 1999
Box 3, Folder 38
Granoff, Allan
1955 - 1997
Box 3, Folder 39
Green, Howard
1960 - 1995
Box 3, Folder 40
Greenberger, Joel
1978 - 1992
Box 3, Folder 44
Hamilton, Marit and Richard
1985 - 1995
Box 3, Folder 45
Hankins, David
1980 - 1981
Box 3, Folder 46
Harans-Ghera, Nechama
1978
Box 4, Folder 3
Hatanaka, Masakazu
1967 - 2001
Box 4, Folder 7
Hermann, Gerda
1996 - 2001
Box 4, Folder 8
Hershberg, Robert
1989 - 1993
Box 4, Folder 9
Hirst, George
1955 - 1963
Box 4, Folder 10
Hochstim, Christian
1994 - 2002
Box 4, Folder 12
Hollaender, Alexander
1957 - 1958
Box 4, Folder 18
Ignatova, Tatyana
1991 - 2002
Box 4, Folder 21
Jacquemin-Sablon, Helene
1988 - 2001
Box 4, Folder 22
Jaenisch, Rudolf
1977 - 1989
Box 4, Folder 24
Jiménez de Asúa, Luis
1983 - 1997
Box 4, Folder 25
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
1957
Box 4, Folder 31
Kimura, Genki
1973 - 1981
Box 4, Folder 35
Klein, George
1979 - 1980
Box 4, Folder 37
Kukekov, Valery
1995 - 1996
Box 4, Folder 47
Marquardt, H.
1957 - 1959
Box 4, Folder 49
McClintock, Barbara
1968 - 1981
Box 4, Folder 50
McKenzie, Ian
1982 - 1983
Box 4, Folder 51
M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute
1963
Box 4, Folder 52
Melchers, Fritz
1993 - 1997
Box 4, Folder 53
Melchers, Georg
1958 - 1989
Box 5, Folder 1
Melnick, Joseph
1953 - 1955
Box 5, Folder 9
National Foundation - Division of Scholarships and Fellowships, New York
1959 - 1961
Box 5, Folder 10
Naude, Andy du T.
1966 - 2000
Box 5, Folder 13
Nobel Karolinska Institutet
1995 - 1997
Box 5, Folder 14
Norton, Thomas
1955 - 1956
Box 5, Folder 15
Norton, Thomas
1958 - 1962
Box 5, Folder 17
Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Biology Division
1957 - 1958
Box 5, Folder 20
Ostertag, Wolfram
1981 - 1989
Box 5, Folder 25
Parke, Davis, and Company
1957
Box 5, Folder 27
Pasadena Foundation for Medical Research
1966
Box 5, Folder 34
Pohjanpelto, Pirkko
1957 - 1958
Box 5, Folder 35
Pontecorvo, G.
1956 - 1960
Box 5, Folder 36
Prince, Alfred
1959 - 1961
Box 5, Folder 37
Quersin-Thiry, Lise
1958 - 1959
Box 5, Folder 40
Rappaport, Catherine
1958
Box 5, Folder 41
Reichard, Peter
1974 - 1975
Box 5, Folder 48
Rudland, Philip
1974 - 2001
Box 5, Folder 49
Sabin, Albert
1954 - 1968
Box 5, Folder 52
Sambrook, Joe
1971 - 1993
Box 6, Folder 2
Sarma, Padman
1986 - 1995
Box 6, Folder 3
Sassone-Corsi, Paolo
1988
Box 6, Folder 6
Scharrer, Berta
1956 - 1991
Box 6, Folder 7
Scheinin, Rose
1967 - 1970
Box 6, Folder 9
Schlesinger, Walter
1956 - 1975
Box 6, Folder 11
Schmutzler, Barbara Ann
1997
Box 6, Folder 12
Schoppmeyer, Konrad
1999 - 2000
Box 6, Folder 13
Siminovitch, Louis
1958 - 1960
Box 6, Folder 17
Smorodintsev, Anatol
1964 - 1985
Box 6, Folder 21
Stoker, Michael
1959 - 1962
Box 6, Folder 23
Strohl, William
1988 - 1998
Box 6, Folder 25
Subak-Sharpe, John
1977 - 1996
Box 6, Folder 29
Temin, Howard
1961 - 2000
Box 6, Folder 30
Todaro, George
1973 - 1976
Box 6, Folder 32
Tytell, Alfred
1956 - 1957
Box 6, Folder 33
Van Griensven, Leo
1976 - 2001
PHOTOGRAPHS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 2) PHOTOGRAPHS: Bound scrapbooks, along with a few other folders containing loose photographs of family, friends, and
colleagues, 1925-1943. The folders are arranged alphabetically.
Box 6, Folder 39
Doras and Frau Forker? family
1937 - 1943
Box 6, Folder 40
Norfolk, England and Scolt Head Island visit, June
1938
Box 6, Folder 41
Photographs of Marguerite Vogt
General note
Includes black-and-white negatives.
Box 6, Folder 42
Photographs of Oskar Vogt (Marguerite Vogt's father)
1936
Box 6, Folder 43
Photographs of Vogt family and friends
1934 - 1938
Box 6, Folder 44
Schlossland ("Castleland)", England and Lake District, Summer
1935
General note
Includes photographic postcards and trip notes.
Box 6, Folder 45
Silvaplana, Switzerland, March
1934
Box 6, Folder 46
Vogesen fahrt mit Verney (Vogesen trip with Verney family), August
1938
Box 6, Folder 47, Oversize FB48001
Scrapbook of Vogt family photographs
1925 - 1926
General note
Includes photographs of adolescent Marguerite Vogt.
Box 6, Folder 48, Oversize FB48002
Scrapbook of Vogt family photographs
1927 - 1929
General note
Includes two albums.
Box 6, Folder 49, Oversize FB48003
Scrapbook of Vogt family photographs
1932 - 1935
General note
Includes photographs of Marguerite Vogt's visit to England.
Box 6, Folder 50, Oversize FB48004
Scrapbook of Vogt family photographs
1932 - 1935
General note
Includes laboratory photographs from the Kaiser Wilhelm Institut für Hirnborschung.
Box 6, Folder 51, Oversize FB48005
Scrapbook of Vogt family photographs
1936 - 1937
Box 6, Folder 52
Miscellaneous photographs
Box 6, Folder 53
Klatzo, Igor. CECILE AND OSKAR VOGT: THE FOUNDERS OF NEUROSCIENCE
1999
General note
Partial typescript work-in-progress. Includes chapter: "Reaching the Top: K-W Brain Research". Hard copies printed from 3.5"
floppy discs.
Box 6, Folder 54
"Lied zum Sylvester"Jaufen-Pass (Song for Sylvester) - Typescript
1934 - 1935
Box 6, Folder 55
Postcards sent to Marguerite Vogt while traveling
1933 - 1939
SOUND RECORDINGS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 4) SOUND RECORDINGS: Interviews conducted by Igor Klatzo with Marguerite Vogt, Martin Haas, and Marthe Vogt between
1996-1997, recorded on audiocassette. The tapes are arranged chronologically.
Box 7, Folder 1
Interview with Marguerite Vogt by Igor Klatzo, December, 22
1996
General note
Part 1. 90 minute audiocassette tape.
Box 7, Folder 2
Interview with Marguerite Vogt by Igor Klatzo, December, 23
1996
General note
Part 2. 90 minute audiocassette tape.
Box 7, Folder 3
Interview with Marguerite Vogt by Igor Klatzo, December, 24
1996
General note
Part 3. Includes Martin Haas. 90 minute audiocassette tape.
Box 7, Folder 4
Interview with Marguerite Vogt by Igor Klatzo, December, 27
1996
General note
Part 4. Includes Martin Haas. 90 minute audiocassette tape.
Box 7, Folder 5
Interview with Marguerite Vogt by Igor Klatzo, December, 30
1996
General note
Part 5. Includes Martin Haas. 90 minute audiocassette tape.
Box 7, Folder 6
Interview with Marguerite Vogt by Igor Klatzo, January, 3
1997
General note
Part 6. Includes Martin Haas. 90 minute audiocassette tape.
Box 7, Folder 7
Interview with Marguerite Vogt by Igor Klatzo, January, 7
1997
General note
Part 7. Includes Martin Haas. 90 minute audiocassette tape.
Box 7, Folder 8
Interview with Marguerite Vogt by Igor Klatzo
General note
Includes Marthe Vogt. Part 1. 60 minute microcassette tape.
Box 7, Folder 9
Interview with Marguerite Vogt by Igor Klatzo
General note
Includes Marthe Vogt. Part 2. 60 minute microcassette tape.
Box 8, Folder 3
Klatzo, Igor
2000-2003
General note
Includes correspondence from Klatzo to Martin Haas, copies of photographs and letters to Marguerite.
Box 8, Folder 4
Paul, Diane - Museum of Comparative Zoology
1990
General note
Includes articles on Lenin's brain.
Box 8, Folder 5
Vogt, Cecile
1950-1952
General note
Includes correspondence and photographs, and letters to Frau Nussbaum.
Box 8, Folder 6
Miscellaneous correspondence
1891-1950
Box 8, Folder 7
Moscow Institute for Brain Research
1925-1991
General note
Includes articles on Oskar and Cecile Vogt's research.
Box 8, Folder 8
Nazi documents (in German) - Copies from the Berlin Document Center
1933-1936
General note
Mentioning Oskar Vogt's research.
Box 8, Folder 9
Appointment documents from California Institute of Technology (CIT)
1949-1953
General note
Includes birth certificate and copy of doctoral degree certificate.
Box 8, Folder 10
Doctoral degree, visitor's visa to the United States, and acceptance letter to California Institute of Technology (CIT)
1949-1950
Box 8, Folder 12
Notarized deeds of company shares
1964
Box 8, Folder 13
Obituaries for Oskar and Cecile Vogt, with letters of condolence
1959-1960
Box 8, Folder 14
Preliminary Program (document in German)
1970
Box 8, Folder 15
Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science, Laureation Address and photographs
1974
Box 8, Folder 16
Vogt and Petersen family tree
1979
General note
Includes letter from Dorit Denecke.
Box 8, Folder 17
"Married to Science" - Profile of Marguerite Vogt in Salk Institute's Signals magazine
2000
Box 8, Folder 18
Geneticists in Berlin-Buch, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
2008
Cécile and Oskar Vogt: The Visionaries of Modern Neuroscience, by Igor Klatzo, with the editorial assistance of Gabriele Zu Rhein (Word digital manuscript, in 7 parts)
General note
Digital files retrieved from floppy disks; files originally saved in 2001.
Box 9, Folder 1
Marguerite Vogt with sister Marthe
1913-1916
Box 9, Folder 2
Oskar and Cecile Vogt portraits with daughters Marguerite and Marthe
1914-1916
Box 9, Folder 3
Marguerite Vogt and mother
1914 and undated
Box 9, Folder 4
Miscellaneous photographs
1934-1952
Box 9, Folder 6
Oskar Vogt and family, in Neustadt
1937-1959
Box 9, Folder 7
Marguerite Vogt portraits
1946-1955
Box 9, Folder 8
Marguerite Vogt and others
1946-1960
Box 9, Folder 10
Marguerite Vogt with friends and family
ca. 1950-1963
Box 9, Folder 12
Photograph album from Neustadt
1955
Box 9, Folder 13
Vogt family, with photographs with Renato Dulbecco
1957 April
Box 9, Folder 14
Oskar, Cecile and Marguerite Vogt portraits
undated
Box 9, Folder 15
Vogt family - Miscellaneous
undated
Box 10, Folder 1
Marguerite Vogt's birthday party
ca. 1990s
Box 10, Folder 2
Marguerite Vogt
1992-1993
Box 10, Folder 3
Marguerite Vogt in Israel
1995
Box 10, Folder 4
Marguerite Vogt's New Year's party
1996 December
Box 10, Folder 5
Marguerite Vogt with friends
1998-1999
Oversize FB-140, Folder 10
Oversize portrait of Oskar Vogt
undated