Norman E. Borlaug
Distinguished Professor of International Agriculture
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Dr. Norman Borlaug was a member of the first international agricultural research and production team – namely the Cooperative Mexican Ministry of Agriculture - Rockefeller Foundation Program – whose success gave rise to the sixteen International Agricultural Research Centers currently operating world-wide. The wheat production technology he and his team developed in Mexico was introduced into Pakistan, India, Turkey, China and several South American countries during the 1960s generating the so-called Green Revolution for which he received the 1970 Nobel Prize for Peace. He is credited with saving more lives than any person who has ever lived. Although a scientist with outstanding contributions, perhaps Dr. Borlaug’s greatest achievement has been his unending struggle to integrate the various streams of agricultural research into viable technologies and to bring agricultural research advances to fruition in farmers’ fields.
email. jborlaug@ag.tamu.edu
phone. +1.979.845.4164
PhD. University of Minnesota, 1942.
