China's "Father of Hybrid Rice", Yuan Longping, is awarded Wolf Prize in Agriculture in Jerusalem, on Sunday, May 9, 2004.

China's "Father of Hybrid Rice", Yuan Longping, is awarded Wolf Prize in Agriculture in Jerusalem, on Sunday, May 9, 2004. Yuan Longping, 74, director of the China National Hybrid Rice Research and Development Center, is "one of the scientific giants in the history of modern agricultural research and has made a dramatic impact on worldwide food production. Under his leadership, and after a decade of cooperative research efforts, among hundreds of rice scientists from numerous research institutes and universities, rice yields were generally enhanced by 20 percent, and China rice production, by 50 percent.