Norman Borlaug, perhaps the most important person you’ve never heard of, has died of cancer. He was 95.
Scientist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug, who developed a type of wheat that saved one billion people from starvation, has died.
Borlaug, 95, died on Saturday from complications of cancer at his Dallas home.
Josette Sheeran, executive director of the U.N. World Food Program, said that “Norman E. Borlaug saved more lives than any man in human history”.
Dr Ed Runge, retired head of Texas A&M University’s Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, said that Borlaug “has probably done more and is known by fewer people than anybody that has done that much”.
It really is a sad day. Please read the entire linked article to see the genius that the world lost today.