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Peace (130) |
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AAAS Philip Hauge Abelson Prize (3) |
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Borlaug CAST Communication Award (1) |
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Congressional Gold Medal (8) |
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| complete name: |
Norman Ernest Borlaug |
| nobel prize: |
peace |
| award year: |
1970 |
| prize share: |
Prize share: 1/1 |
| rational: |
The Nobel Peace Prize 1970 was awarded to Norman E. Borlaug." |
| biography: |
Biography |
| laureate facts: |
Facts |
| laureate lecture: |
Lecture |
| given name: |
Norman |
| family name: |
Borlaug |
| occupation: |
agriculturer |
| occupation: |
biologist |
| occupation: |
university teacher |
| field of work: |
agronomy |
| work location: |
University of Iowa, 101 Jessup Hall, Iowa City, IA, 52242-1316, United States of America |
| description: |
Norman Ernest Borlaug was an American biologist, humanitarian and Nobel laureate who has been called "the father of the Green Revolution", "agriculture's greatest spokesperson" and "The Man Who Saved A Billion Lives". He is one of seven people to have won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal and was also awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian honor. Borlaug received his B.Sc. Biology in 1937 and 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. During the mid-20th century, Borlaug led the introduction of these high-yielding varieties combined with modern agricultural production techniques to Mexico, Pakistan, and India. As a result, Mexico became a net exporter of wheat by 1963. Between 1965 and 1970, wheat yields nearly doubled in Pakistan and India, greatly improving the food security in those nations. These collective increases in yield have been labeled the Green Revolution, and Borlaug is often credited with saving over a billion people worldwide from starvation. According to Jan Douglas, executive assistant to the president of the World Food Prize Foundation, the source of this number is Gregg Easterbrook's 1997 article "Forgotten Benefactor of Humanity", the article states that the "form of agriculture that Borlaug preaches may have prevented a billion deaths." He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 in recognition of his contributions to world peace through increasing food supply. Later in his life, he helped apply these methods of increasing food production in Asia and Africa. |
| image copyright: |
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. |
| image citation: |
The Nobel Peace Prize 1970. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1970/summary/> |
| date birth: |
1914 |
| date death: |
2009 |
| usual name: |
Norman Borlaug |
