biography
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Boyd Orr (of Brechin Mearns), John Boyd Orr, Baron
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| (1880–1971)
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| biography:
| Biologist, born in Kilmaurs, East Ayrshire, SW Scotland, UK. He studied at Glasgow University, became director of the Rowett Research Institute and professor of agriculture at Aberdeen (1942–5), and was the first director of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (1945–8). His pessimistic reports on the world food situation got him a reputation as an apostle of gloom, but his great services in improving that situation brought him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1949, in which year he was made a peer. |
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