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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...
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  • Boyd Orr may refer to: John Boyd Orr (1880–1971), Scottish teacher, doctor, biologist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Boyd Orr (politician) (born 1945)...
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  • John or Johnny Orr may refer to: John Boyd Orr (1880–1971), Scottish doctor, biologist, politician and Nobel peace laureate Sir John Orr (police officer...
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    of the coat of arms of the United Kingdom. The arms of nutritionist John Boyd-Orr use two 'garbs' (wheat sheaves) as supporters; the arms of USS Donald...
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    Frontenac in Quebec City and ended on 1 November 1945. This was led by Sir John Boyd Orr where his work on ending world hunger and creation of FAO resulted in...
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    laureates: Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin, and John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, for his scientific research into nutrition and his work as...
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  • John Boyd may refer to: Sir John Boyd, 1st Baronet (1718–1800), English sugar merchant Sir John Boyd, 2nd Baronet (1750–1815), son of the first baronet...
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    British Army's Glasgow University Officers' Training Corps, he befriended John Boyd Orr. He graduated MB ChB in 1913. In 1913–14 he was houseman (a newly qualified...
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    " Five of the ASFC Nobel nominees were eventually awarded namely to John Boyd-Orr (1949), Dag Hammarskjöld (1961; posthumously), Martin Luther King Jr...
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    (disambiguation) John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish nutritionist and Nobel Peace Prize winner John Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter, British...
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    Nobel Peace Prize twice. Also the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Bardeen twice, as was the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Frederick Sanger and...
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    first director was John Boyd Orr, later to become Lord Boyd Orr, who moved from Glasgow to "the wilds of Aberdeenshire" in 1914. Orr drew up some plans...
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    TV news journalist and presenter of Newsnight Medicine and science John Boyd Orr; biologist, politician and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Alexander Fleming;...
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    contested the by-election. The Rector of the University of Glasgow, Sir John Boyd Orr, stood as an independent. He was a doctor and biologist, and founder...
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  • inventors Henry Faulds and John Logie Baird, chemists William Ramsay, Frederick Soddy and Joseph Black, biologist Sir John Boyd Orr, philosophers Francis Hutcheson...
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    Administrator, after whom the city of Brisbane is named. Born in Largs. John Boyd Orr (1880–1971), Nobel Peace Prize winner, born in Kilmaurs. George Douglas...
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    Hussein, Hassan Khalil. Abu Iyad, Unknown Pages of his Life. p. 64. Cooley, John K. (1973). Green March, Black September. Frank Crass & Co. p. 100. ISBN 978-0-7146-2987-2...
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    Citizen, an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards, 2013. John Jay Medal for Justice John Jay College, 2014. Bust of Wiesel was carved on the Human Rights...
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    League of Nations, working intensively with Frank L. McDougall and John Boyd Orr throughout the decade. In 1937 he presented a plan of "economic appeasement"...
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  • Bertrand Russell, Literature, 1950 Cecil Frank Powell, Physics, 1950 John Boyd Orr, Peace, 1949 T. S. Eliot, born in the United States, Literature, 1948...
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  • infantry unit was commanded initially by Major John Boyd Orr DSO MC (later John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr). The pipe band was instituted in 1924 and became...
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    worked largely on planning for post-war reconstruction, with Meade. When John Boyd Orr and Frank Lidgett McDougall successfully lobbied to put food security...
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  • purchased in 1914 for research and fieldwork. Nutritional physiologist John Boyd Orr, later a president of the National Peace Council and winner of the 1949...
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  • Kerstin Hesselgren, John Steinbeck, William Beveridge, Hu Shih, Albert Camus, Toyohiko Kagawa, Yehudi Menuhin, Jacques Maritain, John Boyd Orr, Thomas Mann,...
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    Rees Wilson (1869–1959) Pioneering work on nutrition and poverty – John Boyd Orr (1880–1971) The ultrasound scanner – Ian Donald (1910–1987) Ferrocene...
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  • Universities Independent Ernest Graham-Little London University Independent John Boyd Orr Combined Scottish Universities Independent Eleanor Rathbone Combined...
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  • launched, garnering approval from notable personalities like Albert Einstein, Boyd-Orr, Radhakrishnan, Albert Camus, Jacques Maritain, and Thomas Mann. This plan...
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  • Tony Hancock, English comedian and actor (b. 1924) 1971 – John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish physician, biologist, and politician, Nobel Prize...
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  • Representation of the People Act 1948. Whitaker's Almanack, 1920 Oliver and Boyd's Edinburgh Almanack, 1927 The Times, 11 June 1929 The Times, 26 November...
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    headed important United Nations agencies: Julian Huxley of UNESCO and John Boyd-Orr of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). At least one conservative...
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