Erich Vogt Biography
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This is a temporary wiki for assembling a complete (?) history of Erich's adventures, accomplishments and accolades. NOTE: please don't "add comments". This is not a blog. If you see errors, just correct them; if you see omissions, just add what's needed. Don't try to ask anyone's permission. Just do it! (Of course, it might be nice if you log in first, so we'll know who changed what.)
Thank you - Jess
Early Work
Erich did his Ph.D. under Wigner, at Princeton, on R-Matrix multi-channel nuclear reaction theory. He was a member of Chalk River Atomic Energy (AECL) theory Division (where he continued with nuclear reaction theory among other topics, including nucleus Coulomb Excitation calculations [collaboration with D. Beder, 1961,1962)] at which time he also began a collaborative production of offspring, eventually totalling 5 before relinquishing the challenge of populating Earth to the next generation.
Snapshot from TRIUMF in 1994:
Dr. Vogt was born in Steinbach, Manitoba on November 12, 1929 and be received his academic degrees at the University of Manitoba (B.Sc. Honours 1951, M.Sc. 1952, D.Sc. Honoris Causa 1982), at Princeton University (Ph.D. 1955); Queen's University (D.Sc., Honoris Causa l984); the University of Regina (LLD, Honoris Causa 1986) and Carleton University (D.Sc., Honoris Causa 1988). From 1956-1965, Dr. Vogt was on the staff of the Chalk River Nuclear Laboratory as a theoretical physicist where he published a large number of papers in the field of nuclear reactions. Since 1965, Dr. Vogt has been a professor at the University of British Columbia and has been one of the prime movers behind the TRIUMF project (Canada's National Meson Sciences Research Facility)* which is located on the campus of the University of British Columbia. Between September 1974 and April l980, Dr. Vogt was Chairman of the TRIUMF Board of Management and since 1981 bas been the Director of TRIUMF. From 1975 until 1981, Dr. Vogt was Vice-President, Faculty and Student Affairs at the University of British Columbia.
Dr. Vogt was also President of the Canadian Association of Physicists (1970-7l). In June 1988 this association awarded Dr. Vogt the 1988 CAP Medal for Achievement in Physics. He received the Centennial Medal of Canada in l967 and was elected to fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada in 1970. In 1976 Dr. Vogt was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada and in 1977 was awarded the Queen Elizabeth Jubilee Medal. In 1978, Dr. Vogt was appointed as the first Chairman of the Science Council of British Columbia, a position which he held until 1980. In May 1991 a physics laboratory at Tel Aviv University (Israel) was named in Dr. Vogt's honour, the "Erich Vogt Laboratory for Data Analysis".
Dr. Vogt has served as a member of the Physics Advisory Committee, Los Alamos National Meson Physics Facility (LAMPF), 1976-79; as a member of the U.S. Government's Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (NSAC), 1982-85; as Chairman of the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee of the Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC), 1984-87; as Chairman of the Advisory Committee for the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility (IUCF), 1983-87; as a Chairman of the Accelerator Science Advisory Committee for the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL), l984-87; as a member of the University of Chicago Review Committee for the Physics Division for Argonne National Laboratory, 1986-89; as Chairman of the Princeton University Physics Department Advisory Council, l985-92; as Chairman of the Visiting Committee of the Laboratory for Nuclear Sciences of M.I.T. 1987-94; as a member of the Commission of Nuclear Physics for the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) 1990-93 and Vice-Chairman of this Commission 1993-96; as Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the COSY accelerator at the Kernforschungsanlage, Julich, Germany 1989-95; and as a member of the Advisory Committee for Nuclear Physics of the same laboratory; and as a member of the Visiting Committee for the Department of Physics and the Department of Space Physics & Astronomy at Rice University. He is also co-editor, along with Professor John Negele of M.I.T., of the prestigious international series "Advances in Nuclear Physics published by Plenum Publishing Co. in New York (first volume in 1968 continuing through the 20th volume in 1993).
Dr. Vogt lives in Vancouver, B.C. with his wife Barbara** and two daughters and three sons, all of them graduates of the University of British Columbia.
February, 1994
*Now [2008] known as Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics.
**Barbara passed away in 2006 and is missed by everyone who knew her.
Timeline
Jess Brewer grabbed the following from Ed Auld's History of PHAS document. Mike Craddock corrected it. Now it's your turn!
1965: TRIUMF Study Group formed. Erich Vogt joins UBC as Professor of Physics and takes over chairmanship of the Study Group. The TRIUMF Project report written.
1966: TRIUMF Proposal and Cost Estimate issued, co-edited by Erich Vogt.
1968: TRIUMF receives federal approval. John Warren is appointed Director and Erich Vogt Associate Director (1968-71).
1974: First full energy beam at TRIUMF.
1974-80: Erich Vogt serves as Chairman of the TRIUMF Board of Management.
1975-81: Vice-President for Faculty and Student Affairs, UBC.
1976: Erich Vogt appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada.
1981-94: Erich Vogt serves as Director of TRIUMF.
1996-99: Chairman of the IUPAP Commission on Nuclear Physics.
2006: Erich Vogt receives Order of British Columbia.
