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

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.

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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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, who was born on a farm in Iowa 110 years ago this week, is reckoned to have saved more lives than any man in human history — certainly hundreds of millions, perhaps even a billion.

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 ...

CRESCO -- Legislation to designate the rural Cresco birthplace and childhood home of Iowa native Dr. Norman Borlaug as a National Historic Site has been introduced by U.S. Sen. Chuck ...

In honor of Borlaug’s 110th birth anniversary today, in recognition of the 10th anniversary since the unveiling of his statue in the U.S. Capitol and in celebration of International Women’s ...