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Marcel Joseph Vogel
(1917 - 1991) was a research
scientist working at
San Jose facility of
IBM for 27 years. Sometimes he
is called as Dr. Vogel, however he
had only a
honorary doctoral degree, not
a legitimate
Ph. D. degree.
It is claimed that Vogel
started his research into
luminescence while he was
still in teens. This research
eventually led him to publish his
thesis Luminescence in Liquids
and Solids and Their Practical
Application in collaboration
with
Chicago University's Dr. Peter
Pringsheim in 1943.
Two years after the
publication, Vogel incorporated
his own company, called Vogel
Luminescence, in
San Francisco. For the next 15
years the firm developed a variety
of new products:
fluorescent
crayons, tags for
insecticides, a
black light inspection kit to
determine the secret trackways of
rodents in cellars from their
urine, and the
psychedelic colors popular in
"new
age" posters.
He received numerous
patents for his inventions.
Among these was the magnetic
coating for the 24”
hard disc drive systems still
in use. His areas of expertise,
besides luminescence, were
phosphor technology,
liquid crystal systems and
magnetics.
It has been claimed that Vogel
examined a metal triangle which
was allegedly given to
Billy Meier by
extraterrestrials and marvelled at
its unusual properties, however it
is worthwhile to note that Vogel
was a chemist rather than a
metallurgist, and, according
to the researcher Kal K. Korff,
Vogel's analysis that the metal
contained
thulium turned out to be
incorrect.
References
- The Secret Life of Plants,
by Peter Tompkins and
Christopher Bird, Harper
Paperbacks,
ISBN 0060915870
- Spaceships of the
Pleiades: The Billy Meier Story,
by Kal K. Korff, Prometheus
Books,
ISBN 0879759593
