RIP Norman Borlaug — NYTimes.com

Posted on 15 September 2009 by Jason
Norman E. Borlaug, the plant sci­en­tist who did more than any­one else in the 20th cen­tury to teach the world to feed itself and whose work was cred­ited with sav­ing hun­dreds of mil­lions of lives, died Saturday night. He was 95 and lived in Dallas.

via nytimes.com

You’ve prob­a­bly never heard of Mr. Borlaug, or, if you have, you were prob­a­bly intro­duced via Penn Jillette, but ol’ Norman was an amaz­ing man I regret never meeting.

So with Patrick Swayze and Jim Carroll, that’s the tri­fecta, right?

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  • scottmp

    For what it’s worth, I was the first reporter from Iowa to inter­view Dr. Borlaug in Mexico after he won the Nobel Prize and he, nice gen­tle man that he was, never for­got on other occa­sions when we met. I have slides, prints and a movie to prove it.

  • scottmp

    For what it’s worth, I was the first reporter from Iowa to inter­view Dr. Borlaug in Mexico after he won the Nobel Prize and he, nice gen­tle man that he was, never for­got on other occa­sions when we met. I have slides, prints and a movie to prove it.