{"id":27096,"date":"2009-09-13T19:12:12","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T19:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/09\/13\/norman-borlaug-has-died\/"},"modified":"2009-09-13T19:12:12","modified_gmt":"2009-09-13T19:12:12","slug":"norman-borlaug-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/13\/norman-borlaug-has-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Norman Borlaug has died"},"content":{"rendered":"

Norman Borlaug, of the University of Minnesota, DuPont and the Rockefeller Foundation has died in Texas at the age of 95. You may well owe your life to Borlaug.
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Prof Borlaug won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for agricultural innovation and the development of high-yield crops.<\/p>\n

The Green Revolution helped world food production more than double between 1960 and 1990 with Asia, Africa and Latin America in particular benefiting.<\/p>\n

The Nobel Institute said he had helped save hundreds of millions of lives.<\/p>\n

Prof Borlaug died late on Saturday evening at his home in Dallas from complications with cancer, said a spokesperson for Texas A&M University, where he had worked. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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