Thorolf Vogt

Thorolf Vogt (7 June 1888 – 8 December 1958) was a Norwegian geologist, professor and Arctic explorer.

He was the son of Johan Herman Lie Vogt (1858–1932) and Martha Johanne Abigael Kinck.

His elder brother Fredrik Vogt (1892–1970) was director general of the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Agency, His younger twin brothers were Johan Vogt (1900–91), a social economist and professor at the University of Oslo and Jørgen Vogt (1900–72) newspaper editor and member of the Norwegian Parliament.

In 1909 he got a job as an assistant at the Norwegian Geological Survey where from 1914 to 1929 he held the position of state geologist.

He was appointed professor of mineralogy and geology at the Norwegian Institute of Technology from 1929.