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Borlaug, Norman
Ernest (b. March 25, 1914, Cresco, Iowa, U.S.),
American agricultural scientist, plant pathologist, and winner of the Nobel
Prize for Peace in 1970. He was one of those who laid the groundwork of the
so-called Green Revolution, the agricultural technological advance that promised
to alleviate world hunger.
He studied plant biology and forestry at
the University of Minnesota and earned a Ph.D. in plant pathology there in 1941.
From 1944 to 1960 he served as research scientist at the Rockefeller
Foundation's Cooperative Mexican Agricultural Program in Mexico. At a research
station at Campo Atizapan he developed strains of grain that dramatically
increased crop yields. Wheat production in Mexico multiplied threefold in the
time that he worked with the Mexican government; "dwarf" wheat
imported in the mid-1960s was responsible for a 60 percent increase in harvests
in Pakistan and India. He also created a wheat-rye hybrid known as triticale.
Borlaug
served as director of the Inter-American Food Crop
Program (1960-63) and as director of the International Maize and Wheat
Improvement Center, Mexico City, from 1964 to 1979. In constant demand as a
consultant, Borlaug has served on
numerous committees and advisory panels on agriculture, population control, and
renewable resources.
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