Norman Ernest Borlaug. 25 March 1914 — 12 September 2009
@article{Phillips2013NormanEB,
title={Norman Ernest Borlaug. 25 March 1914 — 12 September 2009},
author={Ronald L. Phillips},
journal={Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society},
year={2013},
pages={59 - 72}
}Norman Ernest Borlaug has commonly been called the father of the ‘Green Revolution’ because of his tireless efforts, beginning in the early 1940s, to make Mexico self-sufficient in wheat production, and his subsequent saving of millions of people in India, Pakistan and elsewhere from starvation through high-yielding wheat varieties. By 1963, Mexico was an exporter of wheat, and wheat yields in Pakistan and India nearly doubled between 1965 and 1970. Similarly, ‘miracle rices’ developed at the…
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