John Boyd Orr
Scottish nutritionist, Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (1880-1971)
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Scottish nutritionist and FAO founder who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1949 for linking hunger to global instability. Boyd-Orr turned food science into diplomacy before most people knew those could be the same thing.
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John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr,, 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 the first Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
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