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Norman Borlaug

Plant pathologist and agronomist; Nobel Peace Prize, 1970

United States · 1914–2009

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American agronomist whose semi-dwarf, disease-resistant wheat varieties, developed in Mexico and spread through South Asia, are credited with averting famine for hundreds of millions of people. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for that work.

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Question How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Do you have a favourite failure? Failure & regret read 68 other answers →

So we had to take this special exam and I flunked it. Erv Upton passed it, and I was scared. I figured if I failed it, I wouldn’t have any chance of getting in. So I failed it beautifully. ... And so it was the first year of this general college, which gave an Associate of Arts degree after two years, and that was expected to be a terminal course. It turned out it wasn’t.

Recorded Academy of Achievement recorded interview, American Academy of Achievement, 12 May 2008 source ↗

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