Marguerite Vogt, age 94, contributed to Nobel pirze winning research on cancer cells and contributed toward discovering the polio vaccine. Her work was never fully recognized, according to other scientists, yet she devoted her entire life to her profession. At 14 her first work was published and in 2001 at the age of 88 she was still spending long days in the laboratory.
"At the Salk Institute, Dr. Vogt was a senior scientist and professor of molecular and cell biology. She became an American citizen in 1958. She never married and left no immediate survivors.
Dr. Vogt continued to conduct research into her 90s, aided by her close friend Dr. Martin Haas, a biologist and former student of hers. She was never known to have complained about her lack of formal recognition.
“I’m happy not to have been bothered,” she recalled in an interview with The New York Times in 2001. “When you get too famous, you stop being able to work.”
Via NY Times
[visual description: A photo of Vogt at the age of 88 at work in her lab wearing a lab coat, smiling.]
No comments:
Post a Comment