Background
He was born in Saint St. Petersburg, his father was Georg Language, a famous Russian scientist and founding father of modern therapeutic therapies.
biologist university professor
He was born in Saint St. Petersburg, his father was Georg Language, a famous Russian scientist and founding father of modern therapeutic therapies.
High School, Berlin and Labes. Pomerania, and University of Berlin.
After that, he is working as scientific assistant of Georg Melchers at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin-Dahlem. He was the recipient of a Lady Davis fellowship in the genetics department of McGill University, then a visiting professor at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University. In the fall of 1950 Anton moved to Caltech, where he became a research fellow with James Bonner.
In 1952 Anton accepted a faculty position in the botany department at University of California, Los Los Angeles In 1959 Anton moved from University of California, Los Angeles back to Caltech, this time as professor of biology and director of the Earhart Plant Research Laboratory.
In 1964 the Atomic Energy Commission decided to build the Plant Research Laboratory at Michigan State University, and Anton was named its first director He retired in 1983. Language was notable, among other things, for a discovery of a new method of forcing a bloom in flowers.
Michigan State University established a memorial award in Language"s name - The Anton Language Memorial Award. In 1965, Anton was elected to the German Academy of Natural Scientists (Leopoldina).
In 1981 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Glasgow, and in 1982 he was awarded an honorary membership by the German Botanical Society.
Anton Language is a grand uncle of Joseph Brodsky's only son Andrei.
North.A.S.; President's Committee on National Medal of Science 1976-1978. German Botanical Society 1982.
Married Lydia Kamendrovsky in 1946.