Biography of Ernst Leo
Lev Ernst was born from the Senkovo station at the Senkovo station in the Vyaznikovsky district in a family of hereditary railway workers. His great -grandfather, the young German driver Leo Ernst, came to our lands to live and work with the construction of the Moscow -Nigerodsky Railway in the 19th century. Yes, and remained here forever, married Russian, Russell. The parents of the future academician of Ernst were also railway workers, and from the leadership.
Father Konstantin Nikolaevich worked as the head of the Krestnikovo station, then - Kovrov station, head of the railway department in Vladimir, Shahun, Kirov. Mother Zoya Ivanovna Verennikova was the head of the communications department of the Gorky Railway. From school to school with his father, the family often changed their place of residence. Lev Ernst in the year went to first grade in Mr., and until grade 5 studied in Kovrov.
Then until the 8th - in Vladimir, and graduated from a school in the city of Shahunya Gorky region. The fascination with biology came to him in the proletarian village of Senkovo station by local residents called the village of Khrenovka. There, Lev spent his grandparents with his grandparents all the holidays. Grandmother Alexander Mikhailovna held a cow, sheep, piglet, and her grandson in her young years could easily control with cattle.
There, probably, the choice of his life path was determined - biology. Twelve -year -old Leo Ernst and several of his friends decided to go to the front, but they could not leave further to Petushkov. The failed "fighter" was returned to parents. After graduation, Lev first entered the Gorky Industrial Institute at the Faculty of Empire, but realized that this was not his vocation.
In the year, he became a student at the Kirov Agricultural Institute, who graduated with honors from the year. Then there was graduate school in Moscow, in the All -Union Research Institute of Livestock VIZH, work as a junior researcher of this institute, teaching at a native university.
For the whole future life. And he went from a junior researcher to the director. The youngest academician in the year Lev Ernst became a doctor of agricultural sciences. In the year he is already her vice president! But administrative work was for Leo Konstantinovich a duty, and the main thing was the occupation of his favorite science. At the origins of genetic engineering in the year, the DNA structure was opened abroad and its role was determined in the transfer of hereditary information.
An explosion of genetic studies followed. In our country, for many years, genetics was declared a pseudoscience, “a corrupt girl of imperialism,” as her academician Lysenko called. The lag from world genetics began to overcome only in the middle of the x. In the early xs, genetic engineering arose, that is, the construction of new genes that does not exist in nature. This has become a real revolution in biology.
And at the origins of the Soviet school of genetic engineering stood Lev Ernst. He led research on genetics and breeding of dairy cattle, the creation of non -waste technology, and the use of non -traditional feed. Nevertheless, biotechnology, genetic engineering, became the leading direction of his scientific activity. Lev Konstantinovich saw his task in helping the peasant to feed the people.
Feed with your products, not imported. Ernst believed that the opinion of the danger of transgenic organisms is exaggerated, evolution and was built on violations of the genome, on mutations. The legacy and recognition of Leo Ernst belong to more scientific works, including 35 books, as well as more than 60 copyright certificates and patents for inventions. He prepared 60 candidates and 25 doctors of science.
Ernst was a member of 4 foreign academies, an honorary professor at the University of Dzhansia in China. Who is more famous: the name of the Channel Channel Channel Channel Channel Konstantin Ernst, the son of academician Leo Ernst, is well known. The famous scientist joked that they used to say about Kostya: - This is the son of Academician Ernst. And then they began to talk about the academician himself: - this is the father of Konstantin Ernst.
Although a significant part of Lev Konstantinovich’s life was held in the capital and he had to travel around Russia a lot, he considered himself Vladimir. Academician Ernst often visited their native places, always rejoiced at every meeting with fellow countrymen. And for the rest of his life he kept the "Volodymyr" reprimand. Lev Konstantinovich died in the year.
He was 83, and he worked until the last day.