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Dr. Borlaug's statue in the U.S. Capitol is a great inspiration to scientists, leaders, and the next generation of hunger fighters around the world as we confront what World Food Prize President Amb. Kenneth M. Quinn calls “the single greatest challenge in human history: whether we can sustainably feed the 9 billion people who will be on our planet in the year 2050.”
3 de nov. de 2014 · The centerpiece of the year was the unveiling of a statue of Norman Borlaug in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on March 25—Norm’s birthday. The statue was placed by his home state of Iowa, reflecting his status as the state’s greatest hero and America’s greatest agricultural scientist. A weeklong tribute to Norm was organized by ...
In 1970 Norman E. Borlaug was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for a lifetime of work to feed a hungry world. 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 convince political leaders to bring these advances to fruition.
The emergence in Uganda in 1998 of a devastating new strain of wheat stem rust imperiled food security in East Africa and around the world. Now known as Ug99, the pathogen threatened more than 80% of the world’s wheat believed to be susceptible. Borlaug knew that such a virulent strain put smallholder wheat farmers in Africa at immediate risk.
1 de ene. de 2008 · Dr. Norman Borlaug was presented the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his accomplishments in India and Pakistan and for his role as “Father of the Green Revolution.” It is indicative of the kind of person he is that on October 20, 1970, when the phone call came to advise him of his selection as the Laureate, Borlaug was in a remote farm field in Mexico.
13 de abr. de 2015 · Borlaug Institute for South Asia (BISA) and CIMMYT India staff members gathered together at NASC Complex, New Delhi to pay tribute to the late Dr. Norman E. Borlaug on what would have been his 101st Birth Anniversary on 25 March. HS Gupta, director general, BISA, garlanded Borlaug’s statue, in front of the office block at NASC Complex.
受賞部門： ノーベル平和賞. 受賞理由： 世界の食糧不足の改善に尽くした. ノーマン・ボーローグ （ Norman Ernest Borlaug, 1914年 3月25日 - 2009年 9月12日 ）は、 アメリカ合衆国 の 農業学者 。. アイオワ州 クレスコ出身。. ミネソタ大学 卒業 [1] 。.
