Erich Vogt, professor of physics emeritus at the University of British Columbia (UBC), died Feb. 19, 2014. He was 84.
Born in Canada, Vogt graduated from the University of Manitoba in 1951 and earned a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton in 1955. From 1956 to 1965, he was on the staff of the Chalk River Nuclear Laboratory and was closely involved with the creation of the Canada Deuterium Uranium reactor. He started teaching at UBC in 1965 and gave his last lecture in 2009.
Vogt was a founder and a prime mover of TRIUMF, Canada’s national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics. For this role, in 1974 he was made an officer of the Order of Canada. From 1975 to 1981, he was a vice president at UBC, and from 1981 until his retirement in 1994, he was the director of TRIUMF.
Vogt received many awards and honorary degrees. He served on science-advisory panels at Berkeley, Los Alamos, MIT, Rice, Stanford, Princeton, and universities in Germany and Switzerland. From 1968 to 2004, he was co-editor of Advances in Nuclear Physics.
He was predeceased in 2006 by his wife, Barbara. He is survived by their five children and 16 grandchildren.
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