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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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  • Viscount Boyd of Merton (1904-1983), British Conservative politician. Lord Boyd-Carpenter (1908-1998), British Conservative politician. Lord Boyd-Orr (1880-1971)...
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    tribute to the recently assassinated Mohandas Gandhi in India.) 1949 Lord Boyd-Orr (1880–1971) United Kingdom "for his lifelong effort to conquer hunger...
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    James Franck, Ralph E. Lapp, Richard S. Leghorn, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Lord Boyd Orr, Michael Polanyi, Louis Ridenour, Bertrand Russell, Nikolay Semyonov...
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    major global organizations: Joseph Needham, a cofounder of UNESCO, Lord Boyd Orr, first Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)...
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    control. There were exceptions to this, even as early as the 1940s, Lord Boyd-Orr, the first head of the UN's FAO, had perceived hunger as largely a problem...
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    count". www.sundaypost.com. Sunday Post. Retrieved 13 January 2024. "Lord Boyd Orr - Facts". www.nobelprize.org. Nobel Prize. Retrieved 13 January 2024...
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    Boorse, Lloyd Motz Basic Books, inc., 1966 Encyclopædia Britannica: Lord Boyd Orr Ian Donald's Practical Obstetric Problem, 6/e By Renu Misra Journal...
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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 for...
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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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