Department of Soil&Crop Sciences

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Norman E. Borlaug

Distinguished Professor of International Agriculture
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1942

Email: nborlaug@tamu.edu
Voice: 979.845.3342
Office: 217A Heep Center

Dr. Norman Borlaug was a member of the first international agricultural research and production team – namely the Cooperative Mexican Ministry of Agriculture - Rockefeller Foundation Program – whose Former President George W. Bush congratulates Dr. Norman Borlaug during the Congressional Gold Medal Ceremonysuccess gave rise to the sixteen International Agricultural Research Centers currently operating world-wide. The wheat production technology he and his team developed in Mexico was introduced into Pakistan, India, Turkey, China and several South American countries during the 1960s generating the so-called Green Revolution for which he received the 1970 Nobel Prize for Peace. He is credited with saving more lives than any person who has ever lived. Although a scientist with outstanding contributions, perhaps Dr. Borlaug’s greatest achievement has been his unending struggle to integrate the various streams of agricultural research into viable technologies and to bring agricultural research advances to fruition in farmers’ fields.

Pictures of Dr. Borlaug when he won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Dr. Norman Borlaug was voted a Congressional Gold Medal for his lifelong efforts to combat world hunger

Norman Borlaug Heritage Foundation