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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: Members of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences academic journals, Wac aw Sierpi ski, Kazimierz Kuratowski, Alfred Tarski, Hugo Steinhaus, Jan W glarz, Norman Borlaug, Hilary Koprowski, Oskar R. Lange, George Zarnecki, Frederic Joliot-Curie, Olek Zienkiewick, Jerzy Kury owicz, Jerzy Neyman, Ludwik Fleck, Aleksander Birkenmajer, Aleksander Wolszczan, Leopold Infeld, Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, Henryk Jab o ski, Antoni Zygmund, Zygmunt Wojciechowski, Gerard Labuda, Tadeusz Banachiewicz, Stanis aw Mazur, Kazimierz Micha owski, Karol Borsuk, Wac aw Gajewski, Jerzy Vetulani, Stefan Kieniewicz, Institute for the History of Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Andrzej Schinzel, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Karol My liwiec, Andrzej Kajetan Wroblewski, W adys aw Markiewicz, Museum of the Earth of Polish Academy of Sciences, Jerzy Samp, Siemion Fajtlowicz, Andrzej So tan, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, Edmund Wnuk-Lipi ski, Polish Language Council, Tadeusz Zagajewski, Mammal Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Maria Janion, Stanis aw Zagaja, Acta Ornithologica, Wincenty Oko owicz, Kazimierz Piwarski, Fundamenta Mathematicae, Acta Physica Polonica, Space Research Centre, Sylwester Kaliski, Unipress, Archaeologia Polona, Polish Institute of Physical Chemistry, Acta Arithmetica. Excerpt: Norman Ernest Borlaug (March 25, 1914 - September 12, 2009) was an American agronomist, humanitarian, and Nobel laureate who has been called "the father of the Green Revolution." Borlaug was one of only six people to have won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. He was also a recipient of the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian honor. Borlaug received his Ph.D. in plant pathology and genetics from the University of Minnesota in 1942...
