Norman E. Borlaug ,Nobel prize winner in 1970 for hiscontributions to world peace through increasing food supply. Photograph by Dennis Brack photographers note: I got a call at 2 in the afternoon. Can you photograph Nobel prize winner Norman E. Borlaug in your studio at six tonight. Our story is about Borlang’s development of a high-yield, disease-resistant  strain of wheat  so we’d like him holding a robust armful of wheat. Now where am I going to find an armful of wheat in January in Washington, DC. Many calls but a flower shop had some. What a nice man! Borlaug at about 90 was trav


Norman E. Borlaug ,Nobel prize winner in 1970 for hiscontributions to world peace through increasing food supply. Photograph by Dennis Brack photographers note: I got a call at 2 in the afternoon. Can you photograph Nobel prize winner Norman E. Borlaug in your studio at six tonight. Our story is about Borlang’s development of a high-yield, disease-resistant  strain of wheat  so we’d like him holding a robust armful of wheat. Now where am I going to find an armful of wheat in January in Washington, DC. Many calls but a flower shop had some. What a nice man! Borlaug at about 90 was traveling alone could not have been cooperative. We both had a great time, I learned about a lot, and the wheat found a home at the studio


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Photo credit: © Dennis Brack / Alamy / Afripics
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