Mr. Yuan in 2004 with Norman Borlaug, the Nobel Peace laureate who made breakthroughs in wheat cultivation. ... Yuan Longping was born on Sept. 7, 1930, in Beijing, or Beiping, ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Yuan Longping, a Chinese scientist who developed higher-yield rice varieties that helped feed people around the world, died Saturday at a hospital in the southern city of ...

Rice researcher Yuan Longping, at center in 2017, in a field of hybrid rice in northern China. ... Norman Borlaug, U.S. scientist who launched Green Revolution, dies at 95. Comments.

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Yuan Longping, a Chinese scientist who developed higher-yield rice varieties that helped feed people around the world, died Saturday at a hospital in the southern city of ...

Worldwide, a fifth of all rice now comes from species created by hybrid rice following Yuan Longping’s breakthrough discoveries, according to the website of the World Food Prize, which he won in ...

Yuan Longping was born on 7 September 1930 in Beiping, ... Norman E. Borlaug (1914–2009) In the summer of 1961, Yuan discovered a stalk of hybrid rice in the wild. In 1964, ...

Norman Borlaug, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his work in global agriculture, presents the World Food Prize to Yuan Longping on Oct 4, 2004, at the Iowa State Capitol Building.

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Yuan Longping, a Chinese scientist who developed higher-yield rice varieties that helped feed people around the world, died Saturday at a hospital in the southern city of ...

Yuan Longping, a Chinese scientist ... which was created by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Norman Borlaug in 1986 to recognize scientists and others who have improved the quality and availability of ...

Yuan Longping, the "Father of Hybrid Rice" who passed away on Saturday at 91, will be long remembered as one of the "most laudable leaders" who helped feed the world, the World Food Prize ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Yuan Longping, a Chinese scientist who developed higher-yield rice varieties that helped feed people around the world, died Saturday at a hospital in the southern city of ...