Friedrich Vogel

German human geneticist
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IntroGerman human geneticist
PlacesGermany
wasScientist Geneticist Professor Educator
Work fieldAcademia Biology Science
Gender
Male
Birth6 March 1925, Berlin, Margraviate of Brandenburg
Death5 August 2006Heidelberg, Germany (aged 81 years)
Star signPisces
Education
Freie Universität Berlin
Awards
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 
Jacob-Henle-Medaille1994
Hans-Berger-Preis1966
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Biography

Friedrich Otto Vogel (March 6, 1925, Berlin – August 5, 2006, Heidelberg) was a German human geneticist. Together with Arno Motulsky he established in 1964 the journal Human Genetics, of which he remained editor-in-chief for more than 25 years. He was a member of the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. In 1962, Vogel was named professor of human genetics and founding chair of the Institute of Anthropologie and Human Genetics at Heidelberg University. Vogel became the leading German human geneticist and played a significant role in the rehabilitation of this field after the misuse of genetics by the Nazi regime (1932-1945).

Selected works

  • Lehrbuch der allgemeinen Humangenetik. Berlin, Göttingen, Heidelberg 1961, ISBN 978-3-642-87295-2
  • with Walter Fuhrmann: Genetische Familienberatung. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 1968, OCLC 613203061
  • with Arno Motulsky: Human Genetics - Problems and Approaches. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 1979, ISBN 3-540-09459-8
  • with Peter Propping: Ist unser Schicksal mitgeboren?. Berlin 1981 ISBN 3-88680-012-1
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