Norman Borlaug

Norman Borlaug

male, 95 years old
Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Congressional Gold Medal recipient, Congressional Gold Medal, Mexican Academy of Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences…Third World Academy of Sciences, Nobel Peace Prize, world peace, food security, WorldFoodPrize
Norman Ernest Borlaug (born March 25 1914) is an American agricultural scientist, humanitarian, Nobel laureate, and has been called the father of...
Pedro Sanchez

Pedro Sanchez

male, 69 years old
North Carolina State University faculty, Cuban-American, Cornell University alumni, Soil scientist, Philip Dobie, Nalan Yuksel…WorldFoodPrize, World Food Prize laureate
Pedro A. Sanchez (b. 1940), is a Cuban-American soil scientist. He is Director of the Program on Tropical Agriculture at Columbia University and...

Monty Jones

male
west africa, Time Magazine, sierra leone, Agronomist, WorldFoodPrize, NERICA
Monty Jones of Sierra Leone is a plant breeder who developed NERICA, the New Rices for Africa, a set of high-productivity rices adapted to West...
Muhammad Yunus

Muhammad Yunus

male, 69 years old
Grameen foundation, microfinance, Banker to the Poor, microcredit, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Economist…Nobel Peace Prize, Sydney Peace Prize, World Business Forum, WorldFoodPrize, World Food Prize laureate
Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipient and founder of Grameen Bank, has shown himself to be a leader who can translate his vision into powerful...
Hans Herren

Hans Herren

male, 62 years old
Swiss, Entomologist, World Food Prize laureate, Cassava, WorldFoodPrize, mealybug
Dr. Hans Rudolf Herren (born 1947 in Switzerland) is an internationally renowned entomologist, agriculturalist, and development expert. In the...
Yuan Longping

Yuan Longping

male, 79 years old
hybrid rice, Chinese Academy of Engineering, State Preeminent Science and Technology Award, WorldFoodPrize, erhu, motorcycling…robust food, Wolf Prize, World Food Prize laureate, UNESCO Science Prize laureate
Yuan Longping is a Chinese agricultural scientist and educator, known for developing the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s. His "hybrid...
Catherine Bertini

Catherine Bertini

female, 59 years old (Cortland, New York, United States)
food distribution, Syracuse University, World Food Prize laureate, Public Servant, secretary general, World Food Programme…World Food Program, WorldFoodPrize, World Food Program employee
Catherine Ann Bertini (b. 1950) is an American public servant. She has become perhaps best known for her work in highlighting the pivotal role of...

Philip E. Nelson

male, 74 years old
institute of food technologist, chlorine dioxide, Carl R. Fellers Award, Purdue University faculty, WorldFoodPrize, Food Scientist…food science
Philip E. Nelson is an American food scientist who is best known for his work in bulk aseptic processing and packaging of food and the use of...
Gurdev Khush

Gurdev Khush

male, 74 years old
agronomy, University of California, Davis alumni, World Food Prize laureate, WorldFoodPrize, rice, green revolution
Dr. Gurdev Singh Khush is an Indian agronomist. Along with his mentor, Dr. Henry Beachell, he received the 1996 World Food Prize for their...
Evangelina Villegas

Evangelina Villegas

female, 85 years old
Mexican, Biochemist, scientist, From Mexico City, World Food Prize laureate, WorldFoodPrize
Evangelina Villegas (born 1924) is a Mexican cereal biochemist whose work with maize led to the development of high-quality protein maize (QPM)....