Photo: #Norman Borlaug looks over some sorghum tests in this Oct. 30, 1996 file photo taken in one of Texas A&M's teaching greenhouses, in College Station, Texas.
Photo: #President George Bush, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid present the Congressional Gold Medal to Norman Borlaug (second from left) during a ceremony Tuesday. Borlaug, a 1970 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, was awarded the medal for his work on developing a strand of disease-resistant wheat, in turn increasing food supply throughout the world.
Photo: #Norman E. Borlaug, who was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal Tuesday, is shown here receiving another honor, the National Medal of Science Laureate, from President Bush in 2006. Borlaug, who won the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize, founded the World Food Prize to honor those who help feed the world.
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Norman Borlaug looks over some sorghum tests in this Oct. 30, 1996 file photo taken in one of Texas A&M's teaching greenhouses, in College Station, Texas. (File / AP Photo)
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Memorial for Borlaug to be held in Texas today

October 6, 2009

College Station, Texas (AP) — Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack are to speak at a memorial for Nobel Peace Prize winning agricultural scientist and University of Minnesota alumnus Norman Borlaug.

The Tuesday ceremony will be held at Texas A&M University's College Station campus.

Borlaug, known as the father of the "green revolution," won the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in combating world hunger and saving hundreds of millions of lives. He's credited with bringing high-yield crop varieties and other agricultural innovations to the developing world.

Borlaug died Sept. 12 at his Dallas home of complications of cancer. He was 95.

Borlaug was on the Texas A&M University faculty when Gates served as the school's president. Vilsack is a former governor of Borlaug's native Iowa.

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