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Anton Lang
Anton Lang
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in chairing a committee of the National Academy of Sciences that was appointee! to assess, often on dangerous field!
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Russian. Geneticist Elisabeth Schiemann, one of the first women scientists to penetrate the German academic establishment, was Anton's thesis Divisor.
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biennial strains of Hyoscyamus niger (black henbane, later at Caltech referrer! to as Russian spinach)
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Although gibberellin was the first chemical to consistently elicit flower formation in vegetative plants, Anton was quick to point out that it was not the elusive florigen. Based on results of earlier grafting experiments, he reasoned that florigen appears to be the same in short- ant!
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director of the Earhart Plant Research Laboratory, caller! colloquially the "phytotron." This complex of cTimate-controllec!
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Anton built an institution that still carries his imprimatur. The esprit cle corps of the Plant Research Laboratory is largely a direct result of the philosophy that guiclec!
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writing reviews. To many plant physiologists, he was best known for his work as managing editor of Plan ta, an international journal that attainer!
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Anton's sense of duty was tested to the limits when he was asker! to chair the National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Effects of Herbicides in South Vietnam.
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information at a time when the war was in full progress. Accorclingly, the National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Effects of Herbicides in South Vietnam incluclecI, besicles nine U.S.
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an honorary membership by the German Botanical Society. He was elected president of the Society for Developmental Biology in 1968 and of the American Society of Plant Physiologists in ~ 970.
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In conclusion, we want to recognize Anton in the worcis of a member of the committee that selectee! him for the Charles Barnes Life Membership Award: "I have a personal affection for Anton Lang because of his selfless contributions to all of us in plant physiology.
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Auslosung der Blutenbildung bei Langtagpflanzen in Kurztagbedingungen durch Aufpfropfung von Kurztagpflanzen.
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The growth physics and water relations of redlight-induced germination in lettuce seeds.
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Annul Rev. Plant Physiol.
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