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- Updated: September 26, 2009 - 12:00 AM
Nobel laureate's work "made him a hero around the world."
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A memorial service for the late Nobel Peace Prize winner and agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug will be held next month at the University of Minnesota.
Borlaug, who was known as the father of the "green revolution," developed a type of wheat that helped feed the world and fostered a movement that is credited with saving up to 1 billion people from starvation. He was awarded the Nobel prize in 1970.
Borlaug, a native of Cresco, Iowa, was a member of the university's wrestling team and received his bachelor of science degree in forestry from the University of Minnesota in 1937. He returned to Minnesota for his master's (1939) and doctorate (1942) degrees in plant pathology.
In a prepared statement, university President Robert Bruininks called Borlaug "one of the university's most distinguished alumni -- a scientist, educator, humanitarian, and Nobel laureate whose work made him a hero around the world."
The event, which is free and open to the public, will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 8, in Memorial Hall of McNamara Alumni Center.
Borlaug, who died Sept. 12 at 95, originally was scheduled to be one of six grand marshals for the university's homecoming parade on Oct. 10.
The Oct. 8 event will be two days after a similar memorial scheduled at Texas A&M University, where he also was a faculty member.
BOB VON STERNBERG
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