Speeches & Presentations

 

Judith Rodin, President of the Rockefeller Foundation Tribute to Norman Borlaug

University of Minnesota

 

Among the 20th century’s landmark achievements – a vaccine for yellow fever and map of the human genome, a voyage to the moon and dawn of the computer age – none saved greater numbers of lives than Norm’s.  But while he became an icon, he began, first and foremost, as a scientist.  He recognized that, over time, it’s the method that moves the mountain.

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