Norman Ernest Borlaug (25 Mac 1914 – 12 September 2009)[3] merupakan seorang pakar agronomi dan kemanusiaan Amerika Syarikat yang membawa inisiatif di seluruh dunia yang menyumbang untuk peningkatan berterusan dalam pengeluaran pertanian dipanggil Revolusi Hijau. Borlaug telah dianugerahkan beberapa penghargaan untuk hasil kerjanya, termasuk Hadiah Keamanan Nobel, Pingat Kebebasan Presiden dan Kongres Pingat Emas.

Norman Borlaug
Borlaug berucap di Persidangan dan Ekspo Methodist Menteri Sains dan Teknologi Pertanian, Jun 2003
Kelahiran
Norman Ernest Borlaug

(1914-03-25)25 Mac 1914
Meninggal dunia12 September 2009(2009-09-12) (umur 95)[1]
Dallas, Texas, Amerika Syarikat
WarganegaraAmerika
KerakyatanA.S.
Pusat pendidikanUniversiti Minnesota (B.S., 1937) (Ph.D, 1942)
Terkenal kerana
Anugerah
Kerjaya saintifik
Bidang
Institusi
  • DuPont
  • Program Penghasilan dan Penyelidikan Gandum Kooperatif (Mexico)
  • Pusat Penambahbaikan Gandum dan Jagung Antarabangsa
  • Universiti Texas A&M
TesisVariation and Variability in Fusarium Lini (1942)

Buku dan ceramah sunting

  • Wheat in the Third World. 1982. Authors: Haldore Hanson, Norman E. Borlaug, and R. Glenn Anderson. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press. ISBN 0-86531-357-1
  • Land use, food, energy and recreation. 1983. Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. ISBN 0-940222-07-8
  • Feeding a human population that increasingly crowds a fragile planet. 1994. Mexico City. ISBN 968-6201-34-3
  • Norman Borlaug on World Hunger. 1997. Edited by Anwar Dil. San Diego/Islamabad/Lahore: Bookservice International. 499 pages. ISBN 0-9640492-3-6
  • The Green Revolution Revisited and the Road Ahead. 2000. Anniversary Nobel Lecture, Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo, Norway. September 8, 2000.
  • "Ending World Hunger. The Promise of Biotechnology and the Threat of Antiscience Zealotry". 2000. Plant Physiology, October 2000, Vol. 124, pp. 487–90. (duplicate)
  • Feeding a World of 10 Billion People: The TVA/IFDC Legacy. International Fertilizer Development Center, 2003. ISBN 0-88090-144-6
  • Prospects for world agriculture in the twenty-first century. 2004. Norman E. Borlaug, Christopher R. Dowswell. Published in: Sustainable agriculture and the international rice-wheat system. ISBN 0-8247-5491-3
  • Foreword to The Frankenfood Myth: How Protest and Politics Threaten the Biotech Revolution. 2004. Henry I. Miller, Gregory Conko. ISBN 0-275-97879-6
  • Borlaug, Norman E. (June 27, 2007). "Sixty-two years of fighting hunger: personal recollections". Euphytica. 157 (3): 287–97. doi:10.1007/s10681-007-9480-9. Dicapai pada 2008-09-05.[pautan mati kekal]

Rujukan sunting

  1. ^ Swaminathan, M. S. (2009). "Obituary: Norman E. Borlaug (1914–2009) Plant scientist who transformed global food production". Nature. 461 (7266): 894–894. Bibcode:2009Natur.461..894S. doi:10.1038/461894a. ISSN 0028-0836.
  2. ^ Phillips, R. L. (2013). "Norman Ernest Borlaug. 25 March 1914 -- 12 September 2009". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 59: 59–72. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2013.0012.
  3. ^ "Nobel Prize winner Norman Borlaug dies at 95". Associated Press. 13 September 2009. Diarkibkan daripada yang asal pada 17 September 2012. Dicapai pada 17 September 2012. Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (bantuan)

Bacaan lanjut sunting

  • Bickel, Lennard (1974). Facing starvation; Norman Borlaug and the fight against hunger. Pleasantville, N.Y.: Reader's Digest Press; distributed by Dutton. ISBN 0-88349-015-3.
  • Hesser, Leon (2006). The Man Who Fed the World: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Norman Borlaug and His Battle to End World Hunger. Durban House. ISBN 1-930754-90-6.
  • Cullather, Nick (2010). The Hungry World: America's Cold War Battle against Poverty in Asia. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-05078-9.
  • Rajaram, S. (2011). "Norman Borlaug: The Man I Worked with and Knew". Annual Review of Phytopathology. 49: 17–30. doi:10.1146/annurev-phyto-072910-095308. PMID 21370972.

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