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.