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Steven Vogel


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Died
  
November 24, 2015, Durham, North Carolina, United States

Books
  
Comparative Biomechanics, Life in Moving Fluids: Th, The Life of a Leaf, Street wear, Life's Devices: The Physi

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Steven Vogel (April 7, 1940 – November 24, 2015) was an American biomechanics researcher, the James B. Duke professor in the Department of Biology at Duke University.

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Life

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Vogel was born in Beacon, New York, and educated there and in Poughkeepsie. He graduated from Tufts University and did his graduate degrees at Harvard University. Vogel joined Duke University as an Assistant Professor in the Zoology department in 1966, and taught there for 40 years, eventually retiring as Professor Emeritus.

Over the course of his professional career, Vogel, along with Stephen Wainwright and R. McNeil Alexander, played a fundamental role in the establishment of the discipline of biomechanics, and was a prolific author of popular works on the intersection of physics and biology. His research projects included studies of ventilation currents in prairie dog burrows, flight in tiny insects, leaf streamlining, how air passes through feathery moth antennae, and the mechanics of jet propulsion in squid and scallops. Vogel died of cancer in Durham on November 24, 2015.

Works

In English:

  • Life in Moving Fluids: The Physical Biology of Flow. Princeton University Press (1981; 2nd ed. 1996).
  • Life's Devices: The Physical World of Animals and Plants. Princeton University Press (1988).
  • Vital Circuits: On Pumps, Pipes, and the Workings of Circulatory Systems. Oxford University Press (1993).
  • Cats' Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People. W.W. Norton (1998).
  • Prime Mover: a Natural History of Muscle. W. W. Norton & Co. (2002).
  • Comparative Biomechanics: Life's Physical World. Princeton University Press (2003).
  • Glimpses of Creatures in Their Mechanical Worlds. Princeton University Press (2009).
  • The Life of a Leaf. University of Chicago Press, ISBN 9780226104775 (2012).
  • Why the Wheel Is Round: Muscles, Technology, and How We Make Things Move. University of Chicago Press, ISBN 9780226381039 (2016).

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