He is the son of Eric E. and Susan (née Smith) Vogt and the grandson of Evon Z. Vogt.
Vogt | A. E. van Vogt | vogt | Stephanie Vogt | Funker Vogt | Stephen Vogt | Oskar Vogt | Roy Vogt | Paul Vogt | Lars Vogt | Henry Vogt | Hans Vogt (engineer) | Evon Z. Vogt |
After he had been awarded his bachelor of science degree (in 1941), Vogt began his career in 1942, when he joined United States Public Health Service, appointed to World War II studies.
Vogt received his undergraduate education in biology at the University of Würzburg and in 1959 was awarded his Ph.D. at the University of Tübingen for work done at the Max Planck Institute for Virology in Tübingen.
He is credited, along with R. Paul Butler, for discovering Gliese 581 g, the first potentially habitable planet outside of our own solar system.