Norman Borlaug, the Man Who Saved the World from Starvation

And created the Frankenwheat we all now eat

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In 1950, Norman Borlaug was solicited by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Mexican government to research and develop a more productive variety of wheat. Borlaug was a brilliant American agronomist, and his contribution was supposed to save millions of people from starvation.