Obituary: Norman Borlaug, 95, Force Behind ‘Green Revolution’
September 14, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
Norman Borlaug, a plant scientist whose work in increasing agricultural production is credited with saving millions of people worldwide from hunger, died Saturday in Dallas of complications from cancer, The New York Times reports.
The Iowa native, who worked with the Rockefeller Foundation to promote new agricultural techniques, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his success in breeding high-yielding crops to increase food production in Latin America and Asia, setting off what became known as the Green Revolution. The Nobel committee said the choice represented “the hope that providing bread will also give the world peace.”
Dr. Borlaug continued to work into his 90s, serving on the faculty of Texas A&M University since 1984.
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