Marguarite Vogt

This article was about a 89 year old woman named Marguarite Vogt. She was a daughter of a neuroscientist in prewar Germany and is that is the reason she became a scientist. Not only has Vogt lived and worked longer than most scientists, she started earlier, publishing her first paper in a scientific journal at age 14. Her most celebrated discovery came at Caltech in 1950, when she developed the methods that led to the successful culture of …

…undaunted. "I was never afraid. I was trained as an M.D., and as an M.D. you touch people with many diseases without thinking about it." Two years ago she moved from La Jolla to Del Mar, to an assisted living facility with a main room large enough for Bechstein. Now she?s living a peaceful life, but she is still involved in the science community. And she says ?I've not done anything great?