Cécile Vogt

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Cécile Vogt together with her husband Oskar Vogt
Memorial plaque for Oskar and Cécile Vogt at the former Institute for Brain Research in Berlin-Buch. Artist: Axel Schulz (1965)

Cécile Vogt (born March 27, 1875 in Annecy as Cécile Mugnier , † May 4, 1962 in Cambridge ) was a French neurologist and important brain researcher who is considered a pioneer for women in science . She was the wife and long-time employee of the neurologist Oskar Vogt .

From 1893 she studied medicine in Paris . She completed her studies with a doctorate . In 1899 she married the brain researcher Oskar Vogt in Berlin, with whom she had two daughters, Marthe Louise Vogt (1903-2003) and Marguerite Vogt (1913-2007).

From 1902 she worked unpaid at the neurobiological laboratory at the University of Berlin founded by her husband . From 1919 to 1937 she was head of department at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research, which emerged from the Neurobiological Laboratory . In 1932 she became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . After pressure exerted by the National Socialists and Oskar Vogt's retirement, the family moved to Neustadt in the Black Forest , where they set up a private institute for brain research and general biology . After the death of her husband in 1959, Cécile Vogt moved to live with her eldest daughter in Cambridge, where she died in 1962.

Together with her husband, Cécile Vogt is considered to be one of the founders of modern brain research. Her scientific achievements, especially after her death, were not always properly appreciated by the public, which she only perceived as her husband's colleague. Cécile Vogt was nominated 13 times for a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine between 1922 and 1953 . According to the Nobel Foundation, she was also the first woman ever to be nominated for a Nobel Prize in Medicine - she did not receive the award. In 1989, the German Federal Post Office issued a stamp with a portrait of Cécile Vogt.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry of Cécile Vogt at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 18, 2016.
  2. ↑ Nomination database : Cécile Vogt of the Nobel Foundation (nobelprize.org); accessed on October 5, 2015.
  3. ^ Website Briefmarken-Bilder.de , accessed on March 30, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Vogt, Cécile
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Doctor and neurologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Annecy
DATE OF DEATH May 4th 1962
Place of death Cambridge