Marcel Vogel
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| Born | April 14, 1917 San Francisco, California |
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| Died | 1991 San Jose, California |
| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Field | Chemistry Physics |
| Institution | Vogel Luminescence IBM |
| Known for | Luminescence Liquid crystal system Magnetics |
| Religion | New Age |
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 an earned 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 decade 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. In 1957, Vogel Luminescence was sold to Ultra Violet Products and Vogel joined IBM as a full time research scientist.
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, magnetics and liquid crystal systems.
He also designed the vogel crystal which allegedly focuses "universal life force" by concentrating it to a higher level. Vogel crystals are cut to the exact angle of 51 degrees 51 minutes and 51 seconds or the exact angle of the Great Pyramid of Giza. The crystal is designed after the geometry of the Tree of Life symbol. Its design is said to have came to him in a dream.
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.
[edit] References
- The Secret Life of Plants, by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, Harper Paperbacks, ISBN 0-06-091587-0
- Spaceships of the Pleiades: The Billy Meier Story, by Kal K. Korff, Prometheus Books, ISBN 0-87975-959-3
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