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Norman Ernest Borlaug (/ ˈ b ɔːr l ɔː ɡ /; 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.
In 1937, Norman Ernest Borlaug receive his B.S. degree in forestry and Ph.D in plant pathology and genetics at the University of Minnesota in 1942. He became a researcher at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center in Mexico where he recommended improved methods of cultivation and developed semi-dwarf, high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties, making the make the country self ...
After Borlaug's agricultural station was established, in 1941, a team of U.S. scientists, Richard Bradfield (Cornell University), Paul C. Mangelsdorf (Harvard University), and Elvin Charles Stakman (under whom Borlaug had studied at the University of Minnesota [31]) surveyed Mexican agriculture to recommend policies and practices.
On Saturday, Nobel Prize winning agronomist Norman Borlaug died. He was 95. Known as "the father of the Green Revolution," Borlaug was one of America's three five living Nobel peace prize winners.
In the latest Texas history column, Ken Bridges recalls Dr. Norman Borlaug, whose important work led to his receiving the Nobel Peace Prize Bridges: Borlaug's impact still resonates today Skip to ...
[66] [c] Wallace recommended hiring a young Iowa agronomist, Norman Borlaug, to run the agricultural station, which ultimately led to vast increases in crop yields of corn and wheat in Mexico and around the world, in what was later called the Green Revolution, which is credited with saving two billion people from starvation and earned Borlaug ...
Norman F. Ramsey: Washington, D.C., U.S. "for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks" 1988 Leon M. Lederman: New York City, U.S. "for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino" 1988
The Foundation has expanded into a number of associated events including the Norman E. Borlaug International Symposium, also known as the World Food Prize Symposium or the Borlaug Dialogue. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] A Youth Institute was established in 1994 to motivate youngsters in agriculture, food, population and connected sciences. [ 107 ]