Steven Vogel (April 7, 1940 – November 24, 2015) was an American biomechanics researcher, theJames B. Duke professor in the Department of Biology atDuke University.^[1]

Vogel was born inBeacon, New York, and educated there and inPoughkeepsie.^[2] He graduated fromTufts University and was awarded his graduate degrees fromHarvard 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.^[3]

Over the course of his professional career, Vogel, along with Stephen Wainwright andRobert McNeill Alexander, played a fundamental role in the establishment of the discipline ofbiomechanics,^[4] 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, air movement through feathery moth antennae, and the mechanics of jet propulsion in squid and scallops.^[5] Vogel died of cancer inDurham,North Carolina on November 24, 2015.^[3]

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).

• Steven Vogel atLibraryThing
• Interview on Age of Discovery podcast

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