Norman Borlaug - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Norman Ernest Borlaug (March 25, 1914 – September 12, 2009) was an American agronomist, humanitarian, and Nobel laureate who has been deemed the father of the Green Revolution. Borlaug was one of only six people to have won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. He was also a recipient of the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian honor. ..."
Articles
Norman Earnest Borlaug - Hero of the Day, by John C. LeGere, The Daily Objectivist, 2000
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."
Related Topics: Reason's 35 Heroes of Freedom, John Ashcroft, Jeff Bezos, Stewart Brand, William S. Burroughs, Curt Flood, Larry Flynt, Milton Friedman, Barry Goldwater, Václav Havel, Friedrich A. Hayek, Robert A. Heinlein, Jane Jacobs, Alfred E. Kahn, Brian Lamb, Rose Wilder Lane, Madonna, Nelson Mandela, Martina Navratilova, Willie Nelson, Richard M. Nixon, Les Paul, Ron Paul, Ayn Rand, Dennis Rodman, Louis Rossetto, Julian L. Simon, Thomas S. Szasz, Margaret Thatcher, Clarence Thomas, Ted Turner, Evan Williams, Philip R. Zimmermann
"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."
Interviews
Billions Served: Norman Borlaug interviewed by Ronald Bailey, by Ronald Bailey, Reason, Apr 2000