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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Norman Borlaug has received more than 3,336,334 page views. His biography is available in 72 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). Norman Borlaug is the 120th most popular biologist (up from 143rd in 2019), the 1,234th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,488th in 2019) and the 18th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Norman Borlaug ranks 120 out of 841. Before him are Giovanni Sartori, Archibald Hill, Oliver Smithies, William Bateson, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, and Ferdinand Cohn. After him are Har Gobind Khorana, Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Rudolf Weigl, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Georg Wilhelm Steller, and Ralph M. Steinman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Norman Borlaug ranks 40. Before him are Etty Hillesum, Gino Bartali, Richard Laurence Millington Synge, Alan Hodgkin, Max Perutz, and Jackie Coogan. After him are Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark, Raymond Davis Jr., William Vickrey, Vjekoslav Luburić, Boris Christoff, and Dylan Thomas. Among people deceased in 2009, Norman Borlaug ranks 34. Before him are Juan Almeida Bosque, Robert F. Furchgott, Corazon Aquino, John Updike, Günther Rall, and João Bernardo Vieira. After him are Raúl Alfonsín, Ephraim Katzir, Ertuğrul Osman, Leszek Kołakowski, Sergey Mikhalkov, and Gaafar Nimeiry.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Norman Borlaug ranks 1,234 out of 18,182. Before him are Barry Seal (1939), Snoop Dogg (1971), Wesley Snipes (1962), Ronnie Coleman (1964), Natalie Clifford Barney (1876), and Merton Miller (1923). After him are Alan J. Pakula (1928), Aaron Burr (1756), Lenny Kravitz (1964), Kim Kardashian (1980), Bill Haley (1925), and Fredric Brown (1906).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Norman Borlaug ranks 18. Before him are Irwin Rose (1926), Alfred Hershey (1908), E. O. Wilson (1929), Thomas Huckle Weller (1915), Sylvia Earle (1935), and George Davis Snell (1903). After him are Edward B. Lewis (1918), Carl Woese (1928), James Bond (1900), Joshua Lederberg (1925), Hamilton O. Smith (1931), and Nettie Stevens (1861).

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