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Plant pathologist and agronomist; Nobel Peace Prize, 1970
United States · 1914–2009
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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Study broadly. Don’t specialize too early. Read history. Sooner or later, you’re going to have to specialize, but within the limits that you have to take obligatory courses to get a degree, keep your general education as broad as you can, because you never know what doors are going to open to new opportunities — ten, 15, 20 years down the road — because of changes in science and technology.
Recorded Academy of Achievement recorded interview, American Academy of Achievement, 12 May 2008 source ↗
Oh, my granddad was ahead of his time. He was always in favor of education. My dad and mother were too, but Granddad was very aggressive in that. You know, as he used to say, “You’ve got to fill your head with new ideas so you can use them later to improve your own status and that of the neighborhood.”
Recorded Academy of Achievement recorded interview, American Academy of Achievement, 12 May 2008 source ↗
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