Family and Education
He was born on a 160-acre (0.65 km2) farm in Polk City, Iowa, where his interest in plants and animals was piqued at an early age.
Langham attended Iowa State College and studied agronomy, where he met the head of the Genetics department, Dr. Ernest W. Lindstrom. Lindstrom encouraged him to pursue his interest in genetics, and he continued his studies under Professor Rollins A. Emerson at Cornell University.
Langham received his first Ph.D. in Genetics in from Cornell University in Plant Genetics in 1939, and his second Ph.D. in humanities in 1969 from United States International University in San Diego.
He later taught at Yale University after spending a number of years in Venezuela, and finally settled his family in Fallbrook, California. He had four children with his wife Margery "Maje" Langham - Jeri, Ray, Lisa, and Tina.
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