John Boyd Orr
- Prize
- Nobel Peace Prize — 1949for his lifelong effort to conquer hunger and want, thereby helping to remove a major cause of military conflict and war
- Citizenship
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United Kingdom - Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 9/23/1880
- place of birth
- Kilmaurs
- date of death
- 6/25/1971
- place of death
- Brechin
- Lived
- 90 years
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- position held
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- member of the House of Lords
- end time: 6/25/1971
- start time: 3/9/1949
- Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization
- end time: April 1948
- start time: October 1945
- president
- start time: 1960
- member of the 38th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- start time: 7/5/1945
- end time: 10/16/1946
- member of the 37th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- end time: 6/15/1945
- start time: 4/13/1945
- member of the House of Lords
- occupation
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- director general
- end time: 1948
- start time: 1945
- physician
- politician
- biologist
- university teacher
- director general
- member of
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- Royal Society of London
- start time: 5/5/1932
- Royal Society of London
- field of work
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- human nutrition
- physiology
- biology
- medicine
- dietetics
- employer
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- United Nations
- University of Aberdeen
- educated at
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- University of Glasgow
- Kilmarnock Academy
- work location
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- London