Gregg Easterbrook writes in The Wall Street Journal that Norman Borlaug helped develop hybrid crops, "shuttle breeding," high-yield, low-pesticide "dwarf" wheat, and cereals that are insensitive ...

It was 56 acres,” says Tom Spindler, with the Norman Borlaug Heritage Foundation. Spindler is speaking of young Norman Borlaug. Next to the home you will find the school Norm attended as a boy.

Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV + Sunday, Dec. 25 at 10 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On demand now with the PBS Video app. Explore the life of 1970 Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug, who ...

Given that PBS, in its recent documentary, “The Man Who Tried to Feed the World,” found it necessary to disparage Nobel Laureate Dr. Norman Borlaug, we believe it is important for our readers, and the ...

Norman Borlaug’s Green Revolution, an agricultural method born of the high-yield crops he pioneered, was almost universally lauded. You are what you read. Reveal your 2024 reader type with ...

Norman Borlaug, the man who saved more human lives than anyone else in history, has died at age 95. Borlaug was the Father of the Green Revolution, the dramatic improvement in agricultural ...

Norman Borlaug, who has just died at age 95 in Dallas, was an exception among living Nobel Peace Prize beneficiaries: he actually deserved the award, which he received in 1970. This media-shy and ...

Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug, who saved an estimated 1 billion people from starving by revolutionizing agriculture in third-world countries, died Saturday at his Dallas home from complications of ...

"Norman E. Borlaug saved more lives than any man in human history," said Josette Sheeran, executive director of the U.N. World Food Program. "His heart was as big as his brilliant mind, ...

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 was a Midwestern farm boy turned plant scientist. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for developing new varieties of wheat and rice that transformed agriculture from Mexico to India.