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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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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large profits he had made during the war, Rowett was introduced to John Boyd Orr. Boyd Orr, who was returning from service in the war, required additional...
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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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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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(1924–1929), (1931–1937) John Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter (1945–1972) John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr (1945–1946) Rhodes Boyson (1974–1997) Brendan...
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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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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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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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(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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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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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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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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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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Blair 1748–1828 astronomer inventor of the aplanatic lens John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr 1880–1971 nutritionist Nobel Peace Prize winner David Brewster...
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atom Henry Abraham Boorse, Lloyd Motz Basic Books, inc., 1966 "John Boyd Orr, Baron Boyd-Orr of Brechin Mearns | Nobel Laureate, Scottish Scientist & Baron...
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University of Glasgow (redirect from Boyd Orr Building)
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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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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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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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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" 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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Universities Independent Ernest Graham-Little London University Independent John Boyd Orr Combined Scottish Universities Independent Eleanor Rathbone Combined...
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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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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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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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Boyd Orr (born November 29, 1945) is an American politician. He has served as a Republican member for the 115th district in the Kansas House of Representatives...
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returned in his Scottish University electorate, along with Sir John Graham Kerr and Sir John Boyd Orr. On 29 June 1945, Churchill had initialled a minute from...
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