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Vogt, Heinrich

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Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers

Born Gau-Algesheim, (Rheinland-Pfalz), Germany, 5 October 1890

Died Heidelberg, (Germany), 23 January 1968

Heinrich Vogt and collaborators solved problems of the internal structure of stars, origin of spiral arms in galaxies, and the redshift in cosmology.

Vogt was born in a family of farmers headed by Philipp and Margarete Vogt, in a small town near Mainz am Rhein. The Gymnasium in Mainz and the university in Heidelberg prepared him well for the career of a professional astronomer. Soon after beginning university studies (1911) he started routine observations at the Heidelberg-Königstuhl Observatory under supervision of the director Maximilian Wolf , who appointed him as his assistant in the next year. Vogt was attracted more to theory than to observations. After an interruption to his studies due to World War I he graduated in April 1919.

Vogt’s thesis dealt with the interpretation of observed properties of stars, including limb darkening, reflection of light in binaries, and...

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  1. Charles University of Prague Astronomical Institute, V Holesovickach 2, Prague, Czech Republic

    Martin Solc

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  1. Department of Earth Science, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, USA

    Thomas Hockey

  2. University of California, Irvine School of Physical Sciences, Irvine, CA, USA

    Virginia Trimble

  3. Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

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  6. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

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  8. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

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Solc, M. (2014). Vogt, Heinrich. In: Hockey, T., et al. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_1430

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