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Norman Ernest Borlaug (/ ˈbɔːrlɔːɡ /; March 25, 1914 – September 12, 2009) [2] was an American agronomist who led initiatives worldwide that contributed to the extensive increases in agricultural production termed the Green Revolution. Borlaug was awarded multiple honors for his work, including the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential ...
1970 Nobel Peace Prize. "for having given a well-founded hope – the green revolution." The 1970 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the American agronomist Norman Borlaug (1914–2009) "for having given a well-founded hope - the green revolution." [1][2] He is the thirteenth American recipient of the Peace Prize.
Margaret Heffernan Borland (April 3, 1824 – July 5, 1873) was a pioneering frontier woman who ran her own ranch, as well as handled her own herds. She made a name for herself as a cattle baron and was famous for the drive of Texas Longhorn cattle that she took up the Chisholm Trail from Texas to Wichita, Kansas, with her three surviving children and her granddaughter. [1]
1963— C. B. van Niel. 1964— Theodosius Dobzhansky, Marshall Warren Nirenberg. 1965— Francis Peyton Rous, George Gaylord Simpson, Donald Van Slyke. 1966— Edward F. Knipling, Fritz Albert Lipmann, William Cumming Rose, Sewall Wright. 1967— Kenneth Stewart Cole, Harry Harlow, Michael Heidelberger, Alfred Sturtevant.
Elsa Murano. Elsa Alina Murano (born Elsa Alina Casales; August 14, 1959) is a Cuban-born American executive who has been the Director of the Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture & Development at the Texas A&M University ’s Agriculture & Life Sciences program since 2012. [1] Prior to that, she served as the 23rd President of ...
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow. Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (July 19, 1921 – May 30, 2011) was an American medical physicist, and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (together with Roger Guillemin and Andrew Schally) for development of the radioimmunoassay technique. She was the second woman (after Gerty Cori), and the first ...
Blithe Spirit. (1945 film) Blithe Spirit is a 1945 British supernatural black comedy film directed by David Lean. The screenplay by Lean, cinematographer Ronald Neame and associate producer Anthony Havelock-Allan, is based on Noël Coward 's 1941 play of the same name, the title of which is derived from the line "Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!
Norman Borlaug. Ernest O. Lawrence (M.A. Physics 1923), 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics [1] Walter Brattain (PhD Physics 1929), 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics [2] Melvin Calvin (PhD Chemistry 1935), 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry [3] Norman Borlaug (B.S. Forestry 1937, M.S. 1939 Plant Pathology, PhD 1942 Plant Pathology), 1970 Nobel Peace Prize [4]