Axel Voigt was born in Varde a city of Denmark Western Center on May 25, 1908.

 He graduated in mathematics in Lyngby and took a Masters in Chemistry in 1932 at the University of Copenhagen where he was working as an assistant from the previous year.

 From 1933 he taught Chemistry in Aarhus and during the First World War made the Resistance spending time in a German prison camp.

 Man of multifarious interests is delighted classical music, bridge, sports and policy. His life has been told in the novel "A century exceptional".

 He disappeared on February 4, 1997.