Nobel Prize recipient Norman Borlaug, right, is assisted Oct. 16, 2007, by Larry Stevenson as Borlaug arrives at his boyhood home near Cresco. Borlaug died in 2009. Facebook ...

Norman Ernest Borlaug was born March 25, 1914, on a farm near Cresco, Iowa, in a portion of the state called “little Norway” because so many of its residents were immigrants from that country.

Sept. 13: Crop scientist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug, an enduring icon for the war on hunger who had helped steer India away from recurrent famines towards self-sufficiency in food, ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link. ... (R-Ky.), left, unveil a statue of Dr. Norman E. Borlaug at Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol in Washington on March 25, 2014.

My recent article celebrating the birthday of my friend and mentor, the late Norman Borlaug, received so much attention, from both those who knew and revered him and from others who hadn't heard of ...

Norman Borlaug, the man whose work saved more human lives than anyone else in history, died at age 95 this past Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009. Borlaug was the father of the Green Revolution, ...

Back in the mid-20th century, "green" and "hybrid" referred to agriculture, not automobiles, and an American agronomist named Norman Borlaug was at the forefront of the field. News of the 95-year ...

Norman Borlaug, who died on September 12 aged 95, won the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for his achievement in promoting the use of more productive cereal strains in order to feed the world’s vast ...

In 1944, when Norman Borlaug arrived in Mexico, the nation was in the grip of crop failure. Cereals like wheat are dietary staples. But in Mexico, an airborne fungus was causing an epidemic of ...

DALLAS — Agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug, the father of the “green revolution” who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in combating world hunger and saving hundreds of mi… ...

Agronomist Norman Borlaug looks at selected wheat stocks at the Rockefeller Agricultural Institute in Atizapan, Mexico, Oct. 21, 1970. Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS ...