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Born March 25, 1914 • Iowa
Died September 12, 2009 (aged 95) • Dallas • Texas
Awards And Honors Presidential Medal of Freedom (1977) • Nobel Prize (1970)
Subjects Of Study plant • triticale • pathology • agriculture
Role In green revolution

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