Image: Norman Borlaug Bill Meeks  /  AP Norman Borlaug looks
over sorghum tests in 1996 at Texas A&M in College Station,
Texas. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in combating
world hunger. updated 9/13/2009 2:00:59 AM ET
2009-09-13T06:00:59   Borlaug died just before 11 p.m. Saturday
at his home in Dallas from complications of cancer, said school
spokeswoman Kathleen Phillips. Phillips said Borlaug's
granddaughter told her about his death. Borlaug was a
distinguished professor at the university in College Station.
The Nobel committee honored Borlaug in 1970 for his
contributions to high-yield crop varieties and bringing other
agricultural innovations to the developing world. Many experts
credit the green revolution with averting global famine during
the second half of the 20th century and saving perhaps 1 billion
lives.  Thanks to the green revolution, world food production
more than doubled between 1960 and 1990. In Pakistan and India,
two of the nations that benefited most from the new crop varieti