The Washington Post: Yuan Longping, whose hybrid rice helped feed the world, dies at 90
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Yuan Longping
Yuan Longping was a Chinese agronomist and inventor. He was a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering known for developing the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s, part of the Green Revolution in agriculture. For his contributions, Yuan is known as the "Father of Hybrid Rice". Yuan was bestowed the Medal of the Republic, the highest honorary medal of the People's Republic of China, in Se…
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science · Chinese agronomist (1930–2021) · inventor · botanist · agronomist · biologist · also Yuan Longping, Longping Yuan, Longping
Born 13 August 1929 · Died 22 May 2021 · Q3141326
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2021· 5 entries
Business Insider: Yuan Longping, one of China's greatest heroes, is dead at 90. Here's how he saved millions of people during the country's deadly famine crisis in the 1960s.
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Phys.org: China's Yuan Longping dies; rice research helped feed world
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Died 2021-05-22.
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Yuan Longping collapsed at his hybrid rice research base in Sanya
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2019· 1 entry
Won Medal of the Republic (2019).
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2018· 2 entries
Yahoo: BRIEF-Yuan Longping High-Tech Agriculture's Unit To Bring In Strategic Investors
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Awarded Pioneer of Reform (2018).
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2017· 1 entry
Became a laureate of the Asian Scientist 100 by the Asian Scientist
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded Confucius Peace Prize (2012).
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2004· 2 entries
Awarded World Food Prize (2004).
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Awarded Wolf Prize in Agriculture (2004).
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded Ramon Magsaysay Award (2001).
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2000· 2 entries
Awarded State Preeminent Science and Technology Award (2000).
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The Wolf Prize in Agriculture and the World Food Prize in 2004
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (1995).
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1991· 1 entry
Statistics show that 20 percent of the world's rice output came from 10 percent of the world's rice fields that grow hybrid rice
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1979· 1 entry
His technique for hybrid rice was introduced into the United States, making it the first case of intellectual property rights transfer in the history of the People's Republic of China
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1970· 1 entry
Beside a railway line in Hainan, he and his team found a particularly important wild variety
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1966· 1 entry
Yuan himself was named as a counter-revolutionary and there were plans to imprison him
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1962· 1 entry
Yuan visited Bao to discuss Mendelian genetics, and Bao gave him access to up-to-date foreign scientific literature
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1961· 1 entry
Spotted a seed-head of wild hybrid rice
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1959· 1 entry
China experienced the Great Chinese Famine
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1953· 1 entry
Studied at Southwest University of Science and Technology (1949–1953).
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1929· 1 entry
Born 1929-08-13.
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1906· 1 entry
Geneticist George Harrison Shull experimented with hybrid maize
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