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Chennai: Scientist and father of Green Revolution in India, Dr. M.S. Swaminathan died on Thursday morning at the age of 98. Dr. Swaminathan's nephew Rajiv said, he breathed his last at 11.15 am on Thursday. His health was not well for the last 15 days. Dr. Swaminathan, an agricultural scientist, brought a social revolution in the 1960s through his policies to save India from famine-like conditions. He was awarded the first World Food Prize in 1987 after which he established the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation in Chennai.