MARCEL VOGEL (1917–1991) was a senior research chemist at the IBM Advanced Systems Development Division Laboratory in Los Gatos, California. He earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry at University of San Francisco in 1940, and co-authored Luminescence of Liquids and Solids (Wiley Interscience, 1943). Until 1957 when he joined IBM, he was president and director of research of Vogel Luminescence Corporation.