Memorial for Borlaug to be held in Texas today

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Norman Borlaug looks over some sorghum tests in this Oct. 30, 1996 file photo taken in one of Texas A&M's teaching greenhouses, in College Station, Texas.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack are to speak at a memorial for Nobel Peace Prize winning agricultural scientist and University of Minnesota alumnus Norman Borlaug.

The Tuesday ceremony will be held at Texas A&M University's College Station campus.

Borlaug, known as the father of the "green revolution," won the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in combating world hunger and saving hundreds of millions of lives. He's credited with bringing high-yield crop varieties and other agricultural innovations to the developing world.

Borlaug died Sept. 12 at his Dallas home of complications of cancer. He was 95.

Borlaug was on the Texas A&M University faculty when Gates served as the school's president. Vilsack is a former governor of Borlaug's native Iowa.

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