"The Green Revolution, Peace, and Humanity"
Lecture
By: Norman E. Borlaug
Date: December 11, 1970
Source: Borlaug, Norman E. "The Green Revolution, Peace, and Humanity." Nobel lecture, December 11, 1970. Published in Les Prix Nobel. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1970. Reproduced in the Nobel e-Museum. Available online at http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/1970/borlaug-lecture.ht... ; website homepage: http://www.nobel.se (accessed September 27, 2002).
About the Author: Norman Ernest Borlaug (1914–) was born in Cresco, Iowa, and received a Ph.D. in plant pathology from the University of Minnesota in 1942. In 1944, he became a geneticist and plant pathologist at the Cooperative Wheat Research and Production Program in Mexico. There, he bred disease-resistant, high-yielding grains,...
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