GREEN GOES BRONZE:NORMAN BORLAUG, FATHER OF THE GREEN REVOLUTION, IS IMMORTALIZED IN THE U.S. CAPITOL.

摘要

Norman Borlaug, an Iowa farm boy who became a Ph.D. agronomist in Minnesota and spent his final years working at Texas A&M University, drew posthumous praise when his statue was unveiled at the Capitol on NationalAg Day, March 25. Borlaug, who died in 2009, would have been 100 on that day. Unlike the other marble and bronze monuments in Statuary Hall,this one has its sleeves rolled up. It shows Borlaug hard at work in Mexico, where his development of high-yielding semidwarf wheat varieties helped earn him the inscription on the pedestal, "Father of the Green Revolution.