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Gold Medal Ceremony, Washington, DC,
July 2007
Ambassador
Tom Melady Ambassador Kenneth Quinn
(President, World Food Prize) Dr. Edwin Price
(Dir. Norman Borlaug Institute for International Ag.) Dr. Ed Runge (Professor of Soil & Crop Sciences, Texas A&M) Leon Hesser (Author, The Man Who Fed The
World)
World Food Prize, Des Moines, Iowa,
October 2007
Mrs. Pat
Runge Dr. Chen Zhangliang
(former President, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, now Vice-Governor, Guangxi Province, China) Hugh Grant (Chairman, President,
CEO, Monsanto Company, St. Louis, MO) Dr. Theodore Crosbie (VP, Global Plant Breeding, Monsanto, Ankeny, IA) Dr. Mike McWhorter (Training Coordinator, Borlaug
Institute, Texas A&M) Bill Reed
(Nephew of Norman Borlaug, Science Teacher, Newton IA) Kailash Ruhee (Ambassador, Republic of Mauritius, Wash, DC) Her Excellency Hawa Ndilowe
(Ambassador, Republic of Malawi, Wash, DC) Dr. Gurdev Khush (1996 W.F. Prize Laureate, Professor, Plant Sciences, UC Davis, CA) Dr. Amadou Lamine (Ambassador of Senegal, Wash
DC) Charles O.
Halladay, Jr. (Chairman, CEO, Du Pont, Wilmington, DE) Dr. M.S. Swaminathan (1987 W.F. Prize Laureate, Member of Parliament, India) Dr. Philip E. Nelson (2007
W.F. Prize Laureate, Professor, Purdue University, Lafayette, IN) Monty P. Jones (2004 W.F. Prize Laureate, Exec. Director, FARA, Accra, Ghana) Dr. Daniel Karanja (Senior
Fellow, Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa, Wash. DC) Jeffrey Cox (President, NAFTA Seeds, Syngenta Global Corn & Seeds, Inc.
Golden Valley, MN) Dr. Ronald
Phillips (Professor, Genomics, U of Minn, St. Paul, MN) Dr. Per Pinstrup-Andersen (2001 W.F. Prize Laureate, Prof., Food, Nutrition,
Public Policy, Cornell, NY) Ambassador
Kenneth Quinn (President, W.F. Prize, Des Moines, IA, second interview) Cindy Snell (Agriculture Teacher, Des Moines Sch. Dist.
Ames, IA) Lisa Fleming,
Director, W.F. Prize Youth & Education Programs, Des Moines, IA)
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Ithaca,
New York, June 2008
Friends
and fellow Rockefeller scientists with Norman Borlaug during his years in Mexico: Ralph Richardson
(and his wife Amy and daughters Kim and Connie) Takumi Izuno Robert Romig John McKelvey John Pino Charles Mann Guy Baird Ralph Cummings Royse P. Murphy
(Borlaug's program secretary for the Rockefeller Foundation,) Mitzi Schad Dr. Ronnie Coffman
Atlanta,
Georgia, Des Moines, Iowa, and New York, New York
Additional special interviews
at Atlanta, Des Moines, and New York: President Jimmy Carter Cary Fowler (Executive Director of the Global Crop Diversity
Trust) Senator Bob Dole (2008 World Food Prize Laureate) Senator George McGovern (2008 World Food
Prize Laureate) Jeffrey Sachs (Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University)
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College Station, Texas,
October, 2007
Stephanie
Curs (Asst. Dir. Foreign Operations, Borlaug Institute, Texas A&M) Professor Murray Milford (Soil & Crop Sciences, Texas A&M) Dr. Mark Hussey (Director, Agricultural Experiment
Station, Texas A&M) Dr. Bhimu Patel
(Dir. Vegetable & Fruit Improvement Cntr. Texas A&M) Kerbia Katile (Student and mentee of Dr Borlaug, Texas A&M) Angela Records (Student and mentee of Dr. Borlaug, Texas A&M) Dr. James P. Starr (Professor, Plant Pathology,
Texas A&M) Dr. Harry Cralle (Professor,
Soil & Crop Sciences, Co-Teacher with Dr. Borlaug) Sam Goff (PhD Candidate, mentee of Dr. Borlaug, Texas A&M) Dr. Wayne Smith (Professor, Soil & Crop Sciences, Texas A&M) Dr. Marty Dickman (Dir. Inst. For Plant Genomics & Biotech, Texas A&M) Dr. Lloyd Rooney (Professor, Soil & Crop
Sciences, Texas A&M ) Shahriar Kibriya
(Graduate Fellow, mentee of Dr. Borlaug, Texas A&M) Glenda Kurten (Secretary to Dr. Borlaug, Texas A&M) Edward G. Smith (Director, Vice Chancellor, Tex. Coop. Extension, Texas A&M)
Dallas, Texas, October,
2007
Dr. Norman
Borlaug, at home in Dallas Bill Borlaug
(Son of Norman Borlaug, Dallas, TX) Tiffany Borlaug Rubi (Daughter of Bill Borlaug, Dallas, TX) Jeanie Borlaug Laube (Norman Borlaug's daughter, Dallas, TX)
Ciudad Obregon, Sonora,
Mexico, April 2008
Alyandro
Elias Dalles Lacy (Farmer, CPA, and Friend of Dr. Borlaug) Rodolfo Elias Calles (Farmer and Friend of Dr. Borlaug) Geiman Pables (Farmer and Friend of Dr. Borlaug) Dr. Gregorio
Martinez-Valdes (Former CIMMYT Director and Friend of Dr. Borlaug) Arnoldo Amaya Celis (Farmer, Friend of Dr. Borlaug) Miguel Borja Celio (Farmer and Friend of Dr.
Borlaug) Dr. Ronnie
Coffman (Int. Professor of Plant Breeding, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY) Dr. Sanjay Rajaram (Former Director, CIMMYT)
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Toluca
and El Batan, Texcoco, Mexico, August, 2008
A re-enactment
of the day Margaret Borlaug drives out to the experimental fields near Toluca to tell Norm he has won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Participants include Therese Bogdan-Duveiller as Margaret Borlaug and Erick Stephen Listman Sánchez as Norman Borlaug. Interviews at this location: Dr. Hans-Joachim Braun (current director
of the CIMMYT Global Wheat Program) CIMMYT program superintendents Ramon Gil Montoya and Fernando Delgado Ramos. Special thanks to our location manager, Miguel Sáinez.
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