Borlaug honored with medal
Norman Borlaug, a founding member of the Plant Sciences Institute Board and Nobel Peace Prize winner, will receive the 2004 National Medal of Science, the nation's highest scientific honor.
Borlaug, 91, and seven other honorees will receive the awards at a White House ceremony.
Often called "Father of the Green Revolution," Borlaug first went to Mexico in 1944 to help poor farmers. The native Iowan took high-yielding, disease-resistant wheat strains to Asia and Africa, where they doubled yields in places such as Pakistan and India. He also worked with governments and institutions on farm credit and pricing policies. Borlaug conceived the World Food Prize, designed to honor those who have improved the quantity, quality and availability of food throughout the world.
Borlaug is a distinguished professor of international agriculture at Texas A&M University and a senior consultant to Mexico's International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT).
