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1 day ago · Norman Borlaug, father of the Green Revolution of the 1970s, is credited with saving over a billion people worldwide from starvation. The Green Revolution was a series of research, development, and technology transfer initiatives, between the 1940s and the late 1970s. It increased agriculture production around the world, especially from the ...
1 day ago · Sanjaya Rajaram – World Food Prize Laureate and the Head of Wheat Programme from 1976 to 2001 at International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT), once referred to as "the greatest present-day wheat scientist in the world" by Norman Borlaug; Elizabeth Tasker – fire ecologist
4 hours ago · Jacques Piccard (28 July 1922 – 1 November 2008) was a Swiss oceanographer and engineer, known for having developed underwater submarines for studying ocean currents.In the Challenger Deep, he and Lieutenant Don Walsh of the United States Navy were the first people to explore the deepest known part of the world's ocean, and the deepest known location on the surface of Earth's crust, the Mariana Trench, located in the western North Pacific Ocean.
4 hours ago · University of Minnesota professor Norman Borlaug contributed to these developments as part of the Green Revolution. Increased mobility in turn enabled more specialized jobs. Minnesota became a center of technology after World War II. Engineering Research Associates was formed in 1946 to develop computers for the United States Navy.
4 hours ago · Mark David Ein (born December 31, 1964) is an American venture capitalist and sports team owner. He owns the Washington City Paper and is a limited partner of the Washington Commanders of the National Football League (NFL). An enthusiast of tennis, Ein briefly played semi-professionally in his 40s, founded the World TeamTennis (WTT) team ...
1 day ago · Norbert Wiener. Norbert Wiener (November 26, 1894 – March 18, 1964) was an American computer scientist, mathematician and philosopher. He became a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ). A child prodigy, Wiener later became an early researcher in stochastic and mathematical noise processes, contributing ...
1 day ago · Elsa A. Murano, Former President of Texas A&M University, Former Vice Chancellor of Agriculture & Life Sciences of Texas A&M University, current Director of the Norman E. Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture of Texas A&M University
