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20. Waiter, There’s a Physicist in My Soup! (Part 2)

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The World Food Prize, a Nobel Prize for Food Science

Philip E. Nelson: At the time, there were a lot of diseases that today most people have never even heard of. He says food scientist in Wisconsin figured out how to get vitamin D into milk. In 1970, Norman Borlaug won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on crop yields.

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