Talk:Norman Borlaug

message: Norman Borglaug received an honorary degree from Dakota Wesleyan University, Mitchell, South Dakota, in December, 2008. It was awarded in a private ceremony at his home.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.176.121.49 (talk) 15:29, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Honorary Degree Awarded by Dakota Wesleyan University 

message: It is a shame that the graphs have a 500kg/Ha baseline instead of 0. Also  they might be better in Tonnes/HA, decreasing the number of digits. Rich Farmbrough, 12:25, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Except it is neither Ha (which appears on the graph as well as in Farmbrough's usage) nor HA (Farmbrough), and you shouldn't use a slash with spelled out word.  Starting at 0 t/ha rather than 0.5 t/ha would be less misleading; that still hasn't been fixed.  Gene Nygaard (talk) 00:29, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Graphs

message: Given the controversy surrounding the Green Revolution and GMO, there should be a section outlining the criticisms of Borlaug's work and research.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.58.81.248 (talk) 02:42, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticisms? 

message: May I request some help with an edit of mine that was reverted due to my COI because I work for the organization mentioned - IRRI. It relates to the last paragraph in the Expansion to South Asia: the Green Revolution section. The information as presented may give the impression it was only Borlaug involved in developing semi-dwarf rice, which does not accurately reflect the very significant role others played. It is captured a bit better on the Green_Revolution page under history. This non-IRRI source seems to capture it well too I think and another source written by someone around at the time is the IRRI-published book An adventure in applied science - see page 53, for mention of who was responsible. Sophie Clayton (talk) 06:57, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I have reworded the passage slightly, in a way i think is consistent with the cited source, but which also (I think) gives greater emphasis to the collective nature of the endeavor. -- [ UseTheCommandLine ~/talk ]# ▄ 09:15, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: UseTheCommandLine I'm not sure your edit is accurate. It doesn't make sense to credit colleagues at CGIAR with developing the first high-yielding rice because the first high-yielding rice was released in 1966 (as per this book's foreword and this 2013 science paper and this older paper from 1999 to name a couple) which is before CGIAR was formed in 1970. Your source for this edit is not online so I can't see what it says, nor can I verify the involvement of Hunan Rice Research Institute elsewhere (I'll keep looking!), but aside from that would it be possible to to cross reference this paragraph with other online sources? Sophie Clayton (talk) 08:53, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: You're going to have to wait for someone who knows this material to come along. All I did was change the wording (very slightly) of what the article said before you changed it. I don't know enough about the subject to be competent to evaluate your evidence. -- [ UseTheCommandLine ~/talk ]# ▄ 09:00, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggestion to improve accuracy

message: .......Immediately before and immediately after receiving his Bachelor of Science degree in 1937, he worked for the U.S. Forestry Service at stations in Massachusetts and Idaho. Returning to the University of Minnesota to study plant pathology, he received the master's degree in 1939 and the doctorate in 1942.
From 1942 to 1944, he was a microbiologist on the staff of the du Pont de Nemours Foundation where he was in charge of research on industrial and agricultural bactericides, fungicides, and preservatives.......
He achieved a B.Sc in Science not in agronomy
It's declared also in Nobel Prize biography: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1970/borlaug-bio.html  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.5.238.156 (talk) 09:26, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Norman Borlaug was biologist not agronomist, check here 

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message: There seems to be provided no trustworthy source for the number of lives saved being over a billion. ScienceHeroes.com says about 300 millionhttp://www.scienceheroes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=68&Itemid=116. Shouldn't the number be changed to 295 million lives?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.167.170.110 (talk) 14:23, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
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message: According to the article as it stood,  "Through a Depression-era program known as the National Youth Administration, he was able to enroll at the University of Minnesota in 1933." For the moment, I've removed that statement from this article.  According to Wikipedia, the Roosevelt administration established that agency in 1935.
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message: There's a new biography of Borlaug, with the focus on the Mexican wheat-breeding project, in Charles C. Mann's 2018 book The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World. It will fill some holes and cites in our biography, and I'll try to add those before my copy has to go back to the library. Borlaug is the titular "Wizard", and the bio of Borlaug and colleagues is by far the best part of the new book. --Pete Tillman (talk) 22:50, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
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message: Is it true that the higher-yield semi-dwarf wheat varieties Borlaug introduced are lower in nutrients and higher in starch than earlier varieties of wheat? Source 173.88.246.138 (talk) 21:58, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Nutrients