Burns Environmental » Norman Borlaug http://burnsenvironmental.com/information For Environment, For Infrastructure Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:35:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Nobel Prize Winning Plant Scientist Dies at 95 http://burnsenvironmental.com/information/2009/09/nobel-prize-winning-plant-scientist-dies-at-95/ http://burnsenvironmental.com/information/2009/09/nobel-prize-winning-plant-scientist-dies-at-95/#comments Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:11:43 +0000 james http://burnsenvironmental.com/information/?p=449 We were saddened to learn of the death of one of the true heroes of our century, a man credited with saving more lives than anyone in human history, Norman Borlaug, whose work in plant science developed a strain of wheat which helped double the worlds food production between 1960 and 1990.

The Nobel Peace Prize winner, and Texas A&M proffesor will be sorely missed.

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