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Norman Borlaug - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Norman Ernest Borlaug (born March 25, 1914) is an American agricultural scientist, humanitarian, Nobel laureate, and the father of the Green Revolution. Borlaug received his Ph.D. in plant pathology and genetics from the University of Minnesota in 1942. He took up an agricultural research position in Mexico, where he developed semi-dwarf high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties. ..." |
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35 Heroes of Freedom: Celebrating the people who have made the world groovier and groovier since 1968, Reason, Dec 2003
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"The 'father of the Green Revolution' is one Nobel Peace Prize winner (1970) who fully deserved the honor. ... he remains an outspoken critic of environmentalists who attack the biotechnology that will help wipe out world hunger ... and of kleptocrats who fill their own stomachs while their citizens starve." |
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