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TIL that Norman Borlaug, an agricultural scientist, developed high-yield, disease-resistant wheat that helped prevent famine and is credited with saving over 1.2 billion lives. He won the Nobel Prize (en.wikipedia.org)
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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

This reminds me of the first chapter of When We Cease To Understand the World

It goes into the discovery of Prussian Blue, of nerve gas, and eventually of modern fertilizers, all stemming from the broader understanding of the nitrogen fixing process.