BIOLOGIST

Norman Borlaug

1914 - 2009

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Norman Ernest Borlaug (; March 25, 1914 – September 12, 2009) was an American agronomist who led initiatives worldwide that contributed to the extensive increases in agricultural production termed the Green Revolution. Borlaug was awarded multiple honors for his work, including the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal, one of only seven people to have received all three awards.Borlaug received his B.S. in forestry in 1937 and PhD in plant pathology and genetics from the University of Minnesota in 1942. He took up an agricultural research position with CIMMYT in Mexico, where he developed semi-dwarf, high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Norman Borlaug has received more than 3,309,028 page views. His biography is available in 76 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 72 in 2019). Norman Borlaug is the 156th most popular biologist (down from 119th in 2019), the 1,381st most popular biography from United States (down from 1,234th in 2019) and the 27th most popular American Biologist.

Memorability Metrics

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 76

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Norman Borlaug has had the most page views in the with 348,728 views, followed by Spanish (17,697), and Hindi (16,145). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Russian (16,886.67%), Hungarian (561.80%), and Uzbek (121.28%)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Norman Borlaug ranks 156 out of 1,097. Before him are Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Julius Richard Petri, Adolf Engler, Martin Evans, George Davis Snell, and Leland H. Hartwell. After him are Salvador Luria, Olaus Rudbeck, Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber, Michel Adanson, Charles Bonnet, and Joshua Lederberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Norman Borlaug ranks 49. Before him are Asger Jorn, María Félix, Jean Tatlock, Boris Christoff, Peter Townsend, and Pavle, Serbian Patriarch. After him are Adolfo Bioy Casares, William Westmoreland, Robert Wise, Alan Hodgkin, Renato Dulbecco, and Shapour Bakhtiar. Among people deceased in 2009, Norman Borlaug ranks 43. Before him are Ephraim Katzir, Marek Edelman, Hussein-Ali Montazeri, John Updike, Amin al-Hafiz, and Pavle, Serbian Patriarch. After him are Ertuğrul Osman, Qian Xuesen, Rafael Caldera, Albert Barillé, Patrick McGoohan, and Natasha Richardson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Norman Borlaug ranks 1,381 out of 20,380. Before him are Leland H. Hartwell (1939), E. Howard Hunt (1918), Kelly Lynch (1959), Max Wright (1943), Bob Kane (1915), and Scott Wilson (1942). After him are Jim Lovell (1928), George Strait (1952), John Jacob Astor IV (1864), John Zorn (1953), Annette Bening (1958), and Henry Gantt (1861).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Norman Borlaug ranks 27. Before him are E. O. Wilson (1929), Gerald Edelman (1929), Hamilton O. Smith (1931), J. Michael Bishop (1936), George Davis Snell (1903), and Leland H. Hartwell (1939). After him are Joshua Lederberg (1925), Robert Whittaker (1920), Paul Greengard (1925), George Wald (1906), Stephen Jay Gould (1941), and Jeffrey C. Hall (1945).

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