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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Hesser, Leon F., 1925- Man who fed the world. Dallas, Texas : Durban House Publishing Company, Inc., 2006 (OCoLC)654384177 |
| Named Person: | Norman E Borlaug |
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Leon F Hesser |
| ISBN: | 1930754906 9781930754904 |
| OCLC Number: | 71361262 |
| Description: | xi, 259 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Letter from Dr. Norman Borlaug -- Chapter 1. Growing Up on an Iowa Farm -- Chapter 2. Budding Scientist at the University of Minnesota -- Chapter 3. Rockefeller Foundation Offers Borlaug a Challenge -- Chapter 4. Borlaug Builds a Revolutionary Wheat Breeding Program -- Chapter 5. Rockefeller's Mexico Program Goes International -- Chapter 6. Famine is Averted in India -- Chapter 7. Father of the Green Revolution -- Chapter 8. Margaret Copes with Loneliness -- Chapter 9. Birth of a Global Network of Research and Training -- Chapter 10. Nobel Peace Prize -- Chapter 11. Launching the World Food Prize -- Chapter 12. Borlaug in China -- Chapter 13. Norman Borlaug and Jimmy Carter Join Hands for Africa -- Chapter 14. Feeding 10 Billion People -- Chapter 15. Distinguished Professor -- Chapter 16. Norman Borlaug's Legacy -- Chapter 17. Reflections of a Humble Hero of Hunger -- Appendix A. Norman Ernest Borlaug's Ancestral Heritage -- Appendix B. List of Norman E. Borlaug's Awards. |
| Other Titles: | Norman Borlaug and his battle to end world hunger |
| Responsibility: | by Leon Hesser ; foreword by Jimmy Carter. |
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