Dec 24, 2009

Salem on History | Bourlag Receives the Nobel Prize for Work on World Hunger

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Series: Great Events from History II: Human Rights Series
Categories: Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Science, Medicine, Health, Agriculture
Subcategories: Peace Movement, Pacifism, Pacifists, Plants, Botany, Horticulture, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, Disaster Relief
Curriculum: American History 1951-present, Latin American History
Geographical Location: Norway, Scandinavia
Date: 1970

Article abstract: Norman Borlaug received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for developing a disease-resistant strain of dwarf wheat that helped to relieve worldwide famine.

Summary of Event

In 1944, under the auspices of the Rockefeller Foundation, thirty-year-old Norman Borlaug, two years out of a doctoral program in plant pathology at the University of Minnesota, joined a team of agricultural researchers led by J. George Harrar that had been working in Mexico for a year. The group’s assignments were to help Mexico improve its agriculture, which for...

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Salem on History | Bourlag Receives the Nobel Prize for Work on World Hunger

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