Rochus Eugen Vogt

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 LIGO project from 1987 to 1994.^[1]

Biography

Vogt studied from 1950 to 1952 at the

Vogt received the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for his work as a principal investigator on the

Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, and served as vice chair of the board of directors of the California Association for Research in Astronomy. From 1987 to 1994 he served as the director and principal investigator of the Caltech-MIT Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory project, becoming a co-recipient of the 2016 Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.^[2]

In 1992 he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.^[7]

Vogt married in 1958 and is the father of two daughters.

Selected publications

Articles

• Israel, Martin H.; Vogt, Rochus E. (1969). "Characteristics of the diurnally varying electron flux near the polar cap". Journal of Geophysical Research. 74 (19): 4714–4720.
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• Vogt, Rochus E.; Siscoe, George L. (1975). "Particles and fields in the outer solar system". Icarus. 24 (3): 333–347.
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• Vogt, R. E.; Cook, W. R.; Cummings, A. C.; Garrard, T. L.; Gehrels, N.; Stone, E. C.; Trainor, J. H.; Schardt, A. W.; Conlon, T.; Lal, N.; McDonald, F. B. (1979). "Voyager 1: Energetic Ions and Electrons in the Jovian Magnetosphere". Science. 204 (4396): 1003–1007.
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• Vogt, R. E.; Cummings, A. C.; Garrard, T. L.; Gehrels, N.; Stone, E. C.; Trainor, J. H.; Schardt, A. W.; Conlon, T. F.; McDonald, F. B. (1979). "Voyager 2: Energetic Ions and Electrons in the Jovian Magnetosphere". Science. 206 (4421): 984–987.
  S2CID 26814583
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• Webber, W. R.; Stone, E. C.; Vogt, R. E. (1979). "Conference paper: The elemental composition of quiet time low energy cosmic rays measured on the Voyager spacecraft". In: Proceedings of the 16th International Cosmic Ray Conference. Vol. 12. University of Tokyo Press. pp. 357–362.
• Mewaldt, R. A.; Spalding, J.; Stone, E.; Vogt, R. (1980). "High-Resolution Measurements of Galactic Cosmic-Ray Neon, Magnesium and Silicon Isotopes". Astrophysical Journal. 235: L95–L99.
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• Vogt, R. E.; Chenette, D. L.; Cummings, A. C.; Garrard, T. L.; Stone, E. C.; Schardt, A. W.; Trainor, J. H.; Lal, N.; McDonald, F. B. (1981). "Energetic Charged Particles in Saturn's Magnetosphere: Voyager 1 Results". Science. 212 (4491): 231–234.
  PMID 17783835
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• Vogt, R. E.; Chenette, D. L.; Cummings, A. C.; Garrard, T. L.; Stone, E. C.; Schardt, A. W.; Trainor, J. H.; Lal, N.; McDonald, F. B. (1982). "Energetic Charged Particles in Saturn's Magnetosphere: Voyager 2 Results". Science. 215 (4532): 577–582.
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• Abramovici, A.; Althouse, W. E.;
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• ISBN 978-0-465-02797-2
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• ISBN 978-0-201-04215-3. (exercises for use with volume 1 of The Feynman Lectures on Physics
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