| Authorised form of name | Vogt; Marthe Louise (1903 - 2003); pharmacologist and neurochemist |
| Dates | 1903 - 2003 |
| Nationality | German |
| Place of birth | Berlin, Germany, Europe |
| Date of birth | 8 September 1903 |
| Place of death | La Jolla, California, USA |
| Date of death | 9 September 2003 |
| Occupation | pharmacologist and neurochemist |
| Research field | Neurotransmitters |
| Physiology |
| Endocrinology |
| Pharmacology |
| Neuropharmacology |
| Activity | Education:
Auguste Viktoria-Schule, Berlin-Charlottenburg; Berlin University - medical degree and PhD in Chemistry (1927)
Career:
Joined Paul Trendelenburg in the department of pharmacology, Berlin University (1930); head of chemical division at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institut fur Hirnforschung (1931); left Germany after Hitler came to power, Rockefeller Travelling Fellowship to National Institute for Medical Research, London under Henry Dale (1935); moved to Cambridge to work under E B Verney (1936); research fellowship at Cambridge and fellowship at Girton College, Cambridge; when WW2 broke out was classified as Enemy Alien Category A but was not interned, worked with J H Gaddum at the College of the Pharmaceutical Society in London; moved to Edinburgh (1947) - lecturer and reader in Pharmacology (1951-1952); Head of Pharmacology Unit, Agricultural Research Council's Institute of Animal Physiology, Cambridge; moved from Cambridge to La Jolla, California due to reduced mobility (1990).
Medals/Awards:
British Pharmacological Society gold medal 1983 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 20/03/1952 |
| Age at election | 48 |
| Proposer | Ivan de Burgh Daly |
| James Henderson Burn |
| Wilhelm Feldberg |
| Ernest Basil Verney |
| Frank George Young |
| Henry Hallett Dale |
| Guy Frederic Marrian |
| George Lindor Brown |
| John Henry Gaddum |
| RSActivity | Royal Society roles:
Council: 1969-1971
Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1981 |
| Relationships | Parents: Cécile, née Mugnier and Oskar Vogt, neurologists.
Siblings: Marguerite (b. 1913), geneticist. |
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| OtherInfo | Researched roles of monoamines as brain neurotransmitters.
Demonstrated that it is possible to estimate the amount of cortical hormone in adrenal venous blood, and discovered the effect of adrenaline and of various other factors on the output of this hormone.
Documented the presence of greatly varying concentrations of the catecholamine molecule, noradrenaline, in different regions of the brain.
Contributed to our knowledge of the nervous control of the pituitary gland, of hypertension of renal origin, of the distribution of drugs, and later of choline acetylase, in the central nervous system, of neuromuscular transmission in voluntary muscle, of the release of potassium in a sympathetic ganglion, and of methods of estimating adrenaline in blood.
The ninth woman to become a Fellow of the Royal Society. |
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| Source | Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2005 vol 51 pp 409-423, plate, by Alan W Cuthbert FRS
Alan W Cuthbert ' A brief history of the British Pharmacological Soviety' , BJP [British Pharmacological Sciety] Volume 147 ((S1), January 2006
Charles A Marsden ' Dopamine: the rewarding years' in BJP [British Pharmacological Sciety] Volume 147 ((S1), January 2006, pS138 |
| Code | NA3623 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| GLB/65/104/22 | Marthe Vogt, Agricultural Research Council, Institute of Animal Physiology, Babraham, Cambridge to Brown | 10 June 1967 |
| GLB/65/104/23 | George Lindor Brown to Marthe Vogt, Agricultural Research Council, Institute of Animal Physiology, Babraham, Cambridge | 11 July 1967 |
| GLB/65/47/128 | George Lindor Brown to Marthe Vogt, Agricultural Research Council Institute of Animal Physiology, Cambridge | 26 September 1963 |
| HWT/25/10/2 | Correspondence and papers regarding visit of Royal Society delegation to China | November - December 1973 |
| GLB/65/104/20 | Marthe Vogt, Agricultural Research Council, Institute of Animal Physiology, Babraham, Cambridge to G L Brown | 23 January 1963 |
| HD/25/23 | Photograph of guests at dinner in honour of 90th birthday of Henry Dale | 11 June 1965 |
| GLB/65/104/21 | Marthe Vogt, Agricultural Research Council, Institute of Animal Physiology, Babraham, Cambridge to G L Brown | 28 January 1963 |
| EC/1952/23 | Vogt, Marthe Louise: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/GA/WS/4246 | Vogt, Marthe Louise | nd |
| HD/25/21 | Presentation album for Henry Dale on his retirement from the National Institute for Medical Research | 30 September 1942 |