Norman Ernest Borlaug was born March 25, 1914, on a farm near Cresco, Iowa, and educated through the eighth grade in a one-room schoolhouse. "I was born out of the soil of Howard County," he said.

Norman Ernest Borlaug was born March 25, 1914, on a farm near Cresco, Iowa, and educated through the eighth grade in a one-room schoolhouse. "I was born out of the soil of Howard County," he said.

Norman Ernest Borlaug was born March 25, 1914, on a farm near Cresco, Iowa, and educated through the eighth grade in a one-room schoolhouse. He left home during the Great Depression to study ...

Norman Borlaug won the 1970 peace prize for launching the green revolution -- which more than doubled world food production from the 1960s to the 1990s -- from his post at a research institute in ...

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.

Norman E. Borlaug, Nobel Peace laureate and champion against world hunger, dies at the age of 95 on Sept. 12, 2009. Watch one of his last interviews with WSJ's Scott Kilman, co-author with Roger ...

Fifty years ago this week, the groundbreaking work of a northeast Iowa farmer was recognized on the global stage as Norman Borlaug was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Barbara Stinson, president 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 millions of lives ...

Norman Ernest Borlaug was born March 25, 1914, on a farm near Cresco, Iowa, and educated through the eighth grade in a one-room schoolhouse. "I was born out of the soil of Howard County," he said.

Agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug, the father of the "green revolution" who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in combating world hunger, has died, a Texas A&M University spokeswoman said.

Norman Ernest Borlaug was born March 25, 1914, on a farm near Cresco, Iowa, and educated through the eighth grade in a one-room schoolhouse. “I was born out of the soil of Howard County,” he said.