20 Scientists Who Have Helped Shape Our World (pdf document) from the National Science Resources Center
Norman Borlaug, Plant Scientist—“Father of the Green Revolution”
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The results of Dr. Borlaug’s work are encouraging: India, for example, harvests six times more wheat today than it did only 40 years ago. This increase in wheat production in poor countries has been called the “Green Revolution.” It has been written about Dr. Borlaug that he has saved more lives than anyone else who ever lived.
For his scientific achievements, Dr. Borlaug was awarded the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize. Today, at age 90, Dr. Borlaug remains active in science as a distinguished professor of international agriculture at Texas A&M University
Others include:
Tim Berners-Lee, Computer Scientist—Inventor of the World Wide Web
George Washington Carver, Inventor/Chemist (1861−1943)—Saving Agriculture in the South
Ayanna Howard, Engineer—Robotics Pioneer, and
Stephen Hawking, Physicist—Beyond Black Holes
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He continued working on the theory of the origin of the universe, and in doing so found ways to link relativity (gravity) with quantum mechanics (the inner workings of atoms). This contributed enormously to what physicists call Grand Unified Theory, a way of explaining, in one equation, all physical matter in the universe.
August 31st, 2007 at 6:57 pm
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