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NAME: Norman Borlaug
OCCUPATION: Biologist
BIRTH DATE: March 25, 1914
DEATH DATE: September 12, 2009
EDUCATION: University of Minnesota
PLACE OF BIRTH: Cresco, Iowa
PLACE OF DEATH: Dallas, Texas
Full Name: Norman Ernest Borlaug

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Norman Borlaug’s research of genetic mutation in plants helped start the Green Revolution, which resulted increased wheat production in Mexico, Pakistan and India.

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Norman Borlaug was born on March 25, 1914, in Cresco, Iowa. He graduated with a Ph.D. in plant pathology from the University of Minnesota in 1941. He went on to study genetic mutation in plants at the Rockefeller Foundation's Cooperative Mexican Agricultural Program in Mexico. His work helped start the Green Revolution and earned him a Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal.

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