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John Boyd Orr

1880 - 1971

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John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, (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 the first Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). He was the co-founder and the first President (1960–1971) of the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS). In 1945, he was elected President of the National Peace Council and was President of the World Union of Peace Organisations and the World Movement for World Federal Government. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Boyd Orr is the 25th most popular biologist (up from 172nd in 2019), the 263rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 970th in 2019) and the 7th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, John Boyd Orr ranks 25 out of 1,097. Before him are Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Élie Metchnikoff, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Jules Bordet, Edward Tatum, and Yoshinori Ohsumi. After him are Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, Thomas Henry Huxley, John Sulston, Richard Dawkins, Luc Montagnier, and Maria Sibylla Merian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, John Boyd Orr ranks 8. Before him are Helen Keller, Guillaume Apollinaire, Alfred Wegener, Douglas MacArthur, Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, and Fedor von Bock. After him are Robert Musil, Oswald Spengler, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Franz Marc, Gideon Sundback, and André Derain. Among people deceased in 1971, John Boyd Orr ranks 8. Before him are Nikita Khrushchev, Coco Chanel, Lawrence Bragg, Louis Armstrong, Jim Morrison, and Paul Karrer. After him are György Lukács, Wendell Meredith Stanley, Audie Murphy, Giorgos Seferis, Fernandel, and Hermann Hoth.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Boyd Orr ranks 263 out of 8,785. Before him are Cary Grant (1904), Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800), Ozzy Osbourne (1948), Randal Cremer (1828), George Boole (1815), and Leslie Howard (1893). After him are Phil Collins (1951), Elizabeth of York (1466), Mary Mallon (1869), Princess Alice of the United Kingdom (1843), Helen Mirren (1945), and Æthelberht, King of Wessex (836).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, John Boyd Orr ranks 7. Before him are Charles Darwin (1809), Alexander Fleming (1881), Rosalind Franklin (1920), Robert Edwards (1925), Robert Brown (1773), and Alfred Russel Wallace (1823). After him are Thomas Henry Huxley (1825), John Sulston (1942), Francis Crick (1916), John Edward Gray (1800), Christian de Duve (1917), and Richard Henderson (1945).

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