Associated Press - September 18, 2009 1:54 PM ET
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack are to eulogize Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug at his memorial next month.
Texas A&M University spokeswoman Kathleen Phillips says Gates and Vilsack will be joined by longtime Borlaug friend M.S. Swaminathan (swah-mee-NAY'-thuhn), a member of India's Parliament.
The ceremony is scheduled for 11 a.m. Oct. 6 at Rudder Auditorium on the Texas A&M University campus in College Station.
Borlaug died Saturday at his Dallas home of complications of cancer.
Borlaug was on the Texas A&M University faculty when Gates served as the school's president. Vilsack is a former governor of Borlaug's native Iowa.
Known as the father of the "green revolution," Borlaug won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in combating world hunger.
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