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by Ed the Jetpacking Headbanger on September 13th, 2009
Thank you for asking this question.
I'm not surprised, but I'm saddened that someone whose work which has benefitted so many was ignored.
by ChrisDC on September 13th, 2009
Norman Borlaug. And most people think the number of lives he saved is in the neighborhood of 1 billion.
by iwnit on September 13th, 2009
1) Norman Borlaug. Thank you very much for pointing at this. I am very sorry to admit that I had never heard of him before, as far as I am aware.
2) "Norman Ernest Borlaug (March 25, 1914 – September 12, 2009) was an American agronomist, humanitarian, and Nobel laureate, and has been called the father of the Green Revolution. Borlaug was one of only five 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. Borlaug's discoveries have been estimated to have saved over 245 million lives worldwide."
Source and further information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug
3) "Few people have quietly changed the world for the better more than plant pathologist and University of Minnesota graduate Norman Borlaug. He's spent most of the past 60 years in the farmlands of Africa, Asia and Mexico fighting world hunger -- and saving, by some estimates, up to 1 billion lives in the process.
Borlaug is best known as the father of the "Green Revolution," which describes a dramatic increase in food production that helped avert widespread famine in Asia beginning in the 1960s."
Source and further information:
http://www1.umn.edu/umnnews/UMN_home/know/The_father_of_the_22Green_Revolution22.html
by evandad on September 12th, 2009
Norman Borlaug. A Horticulturist.
by Slothy on September 13th, 2009
Excellent question. I had no idea until I read the answers. That is pathetic that a man that influential and important received so little coverage, especially in comparison to other recent deaths. The world has a strange agenda.
by Suomynona on September 12th, 2009
I don't care for people who save lives. I like it when people die.
by anonymous on September 12th, 2009
idk, but my guess is billy gram?
by -Rohit- on September 12th, 2009
Amon Leopold Göth
by randomness - is now a Maestro on September 12th, 2009
No, I don't. Who?
by doc blott on November 5th, 2009
Yes I do..it was me..ps I am not dedd.
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