Name

   Dr. Norman Borlaug

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List Number

   907

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Obverse

   Borlaug working in field

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Reverse

   Globe surrounded by Wheat 

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Designer

   Don Everhart & Phebe Hemphill

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Metal/Size Varieties

   Bronze/3"

Norman Borlaug, the only agriculturalist to win the Nobel Peace Prize, was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 2006. The doctor of plant pathology and genetics developed semi-dwarf, high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties that when introduced to Mexico, India, and Pakistan, helped to increase the food stores in these countries dramatically. Called the "Father of the Green Revolution," some estimates credit Borlaug with saving a billion people from starvation with his wheat strains and production techniques.