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John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, CH DSO MC FRS FRSE (23 September 1880 – 25 June 1971), styled Sir John Boyd Orr from 1935 to 1949, was a Scottish teacher, medical doctor, biologist, nutritional physiologist, politician, businessman and farmer who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his scientific research into nutrition and his work as ...
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John Boyd Orr, Baron Boyd-Orr of Brechin Mearns (born Sept. 23, 1880, Kilmaurs, Ayrshire, Scot.—died June 25, 1971, Edzell, Angus) was a Scottish scientist and authority on nutrition, winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1949.
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The Scottish physician and biologist John Boyd Orr emerged in the inter-war years as one of Britain's leading experts on nutrition. He maintained that many Britons were malnourished because their incomes were too low.
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The Nobel Peace Prize 1949 was awarded to John Boyd Orr, Baron Boyd-Orr of Brechin Mearn "for his lifelong effort to conquer hunger and want, thereby helping to remove a major cause of military conflict and war"
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The Scottish physician and biologist John Boyd Orr emerged in the inter-war years as one of Britain's leading experts on nutrition. He maintained that many Britons were malnourished because their incomes were too low.
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John Boyd Orr, a Scottish physician and biologist, distinguished himself in the inter-war years as one of the UK’s leading experts on nutrition. Boyd Orr took part in League of Nations efforts to develop an international nutrition policy.
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John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, CH, DSO, MC, FRS, FRSE (23 September 1880 – 25 June 1971) was a Scottish teacher, medical doctor, biologist, nutritional physiologist, politician, businessman and farmer who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his scientific research into nutrition and his work as the first Director-General of the United ...
Lord John Boyd Orr of Brechin - New World Encyclopedia
Sir John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr (September 23, 1880 – June 25, 1971) was a Scottish doctor, biologist and politician who received the Nobel Peace Prize for his scientific research into nutrition and his work with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
John Boyd Orr - Future Museum
After the war, John Boyd Orr went to Aberdeen, where he set about developing the Rowett Institute as a world-renowned research centre in the field of animal nutrition. He later became Director of the Imperial Bureau of Animal Nutrition.
John Boyd Orr, Baron Boyd Orr of Brechin Mearns, 1880-1971
‘A remarkable man of great ability’, he had not only deep religious convictions as an earnest, practising member of a sect of the Free Church of Scotland and in many of his views a Fundamentalist, but was also widely read in political, sociological and metaphysical, in addition to religious issues.