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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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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.


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