Last Wednesday, ACSH’s Dr. Elizabeth Whelan and Dr. Gilbert Ross traveled to Dallas, Texas, to celebrate the 95th birthday of Dr. Norman Borlaug. “We were thrilled and honored to be counted among the 200 friends and relatives who gathered to celebrate Dr. Borlaug’s birthday and his many accomplishments, which include saving countless lives as the father of the Green Revolution and winning the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize,” Dr. Ross says. ACSH has been proud to count Dr. Borlaug among our trustees since ACSH's founding in 1978.

Dr. Borlaug’s Green Revolution used food technology to dramatically increase the world’s production of wheat in the mid-20th century. Most recently, he has been crusading to stop the spread of the devastating wheat disease stem rust. Dr. Whelan says, “His theme is still ‘fight, fight, fight’ in favor of using food technology to alleviate food shortages and malnutrition around the world.”