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and now is president of The Rockefeller Foundation,
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so there are some Yale ties there with Judy Rodin.
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The person who's considered the pioneer of
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the genetic revolution is a man named Norman Borlaug.
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Borlaug was a chemist with the du Pont Company
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but got brought aboard by the Rockefeller Foundation in 1944
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to spearhead this effort of the green revolution.
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He made an enormous difference in the world.
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He led teams of investigators and scientists to go around the world
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and use new strains of crops, especially wheat,
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look at new growing techniques at biotechnology
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and things that existed at the