Education
He is sometimes referred to as Doctor Vogel, although this title was based on an honorary degree, not a Doctor of Philosophy
He is sometimes referred to as Doctor Vogel, although this title was based on an honorary degree, not a Doctor of Philosophy
Later in his career, he became interested in various theories of quartz crystals and other occult and esoteric fields of study. The Vogel Crystal type cut was created by him. lieutenant is claimed that Vogel started his research into luminescence while he was still in his teens.
This research eventually led him to publish his thesis, Luminescence in Liquids and Solids and Their Practical Application, in collaboration with University of Chicago"s Doctor Peter Pringsheim in 1943.
Two years after the publication, Vogel incorporated his own company, Vogel Luminescence, in San Francisco. In 1957, Vogel Luminescence was sold to Ultra Violet Products and Vogel joined International Business Machines Corporation as a full-time research scientist
He retired from International Business Machines Corporation in 1984. He received 32 patents for his inventions up through his tenure at International Business Machines Corporation. Among these was the magnetic coating for the 24" hard disk drive systems still in use.
His areas of expertise, besides luminescence, were phosphor technology, magnetics and liquid crystal systems
At Vogel"s February 14, 1991 funeral, International Business Machines Corporation researcher and Sacramento, California physician Bernard McGinity, Doctor of Medicine said of him, "He made his mark because of the brilliance of his mind, his prolific ideas, and his seemingly limitless creativity."
Vogel Cut
Vogel crystals are said to be cut to the extremely precise angle of 51 degrees 51 minutes and 51 seconds, which is also claimed as the precise angle of the sides of the Great Pyramid of Giza. The crystal is further designed along the geometry of the Tree of Life symbol. Its design is said to have come to him in a dream.
Billy Meier unidentified flying object metal sample
According to the book Light Years by Gary Kinder, Vogel examined a metal sample which was allegedly given to Billy Meier by extraterrestrials and marveled at its unusual properties (Vogel stated it contained the element thulium).
An investigator with the Independent Investigations Group claims to have found that the element detected by Vogel was in fact aluminum and not thulium. Kinder however states in his book that the metal sample had disappeared after Vogel"s analysis and was never found again.
The preliminary microscopic analysis of the samples, narrated by Marcel Vogel, can be found in the film Beamship - The Metal
Communication between plants
Vogel claimed to be able to duplicate the "Backster effect" using plants as transducers for bio-energetic fields from the human mind, showing that they respond to human thought. He claimed his findings had the same effect irrespective of distance and suggested that "inverse square law does not apply to thought" (See also: Inverse square law).
Vogel was a proponent of research into plant consciousness.
He spurred fellow researcher Randall Fontes into furthering this work. Vogel was featured in the first episode of In Search Of.. hosted by Leonard Nimoy, called "Other Voices". He gave his theories regarding the possibility of communication between plants.