John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr (September 23, 1880 – June 25, 1971) was a Scottish doctor, biologist and politician who received the Nobel Peace Prize for his scientific research into nutrition and his work with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Jump to: navigation, search September 23 is the 266th day of the year (267th in leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1880 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search June 25 is the 176th day of the year (177th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 189 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search Royal motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (Latin: No one provokes me with impunity) (Scots: Wha daur meddle wi me) Scotlands location within the UK Languages with Official Status1 English Gaelic Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow First Minister Jack McConnell Area - Total - % water Ranked 2nd UK... A biologist is a scientist devoted to and producing results in biology through the study of organisms. ... A politician is an individual involved in politics. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Nobel Institute in Oslo, Norway. ... Jump to: navigation, search Nutrition is the study of the relationship between diet and states of health and disease. ... Jump to: navigation, search The United Nations, or UN, is an international organization established in 1945. ... With its headquarters in Rome, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations programs seek to raise levels of nutrition and standard of living; to improve the production, processing, marketing, and distribution of food and agricultural products; to promote rural development; and, by these means, to eliminate hunger. ...

Orr grew up in Kilmaurs, near Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland, a rural community where he studied at the local school, then studying to become a teacher at a teachers' college and Glasgow University, where he studied Arts. Kilmarnock is a burgh in East Ayrshire, Scotland, with a population of about 40,000. ... East Ayrshire (Siorrachd Inbhir Àir an Ear in Gaelic) is one of 32 unitary council regions in Scotland. ... The University of Glasgow is the largest of the three universities in Glasgow, Scotland. ...

After three years of teaching, he returned to the university to study medicine and biology, and after short stints of practice he became a researcher. His first job was as director of a nutrition institute in Aberdeen, which he started from scratch. This article is about the Scottish city. ...

During the First World War he served as a military doctor for both the British Army and Royal Navy, firstly in active duty and later as a researcher into military diets. Jump to: navigation, search World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machineguns, and poison gas. ... Jump to: navigation, search The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the senior service of the British armed services, being the oldest of its three branches. ...

After the war, he spent another decade at the renamed Rowett Research Institute, for which he demonstrated a talent for raising considerable amounts of money allowing the institute to be considerably expanded. Through the 1920's, his own research was devoted mainly to animal nutrition, his focus changed to human nutrition both as a researcher and an active lobbyist and propagandist for improving people's diets.

After the Second World War, Boyd Orr resigned from the Rowett Institute, and took several posts, most notably at the FAO, where his comprehensive plans for improving food production and its equitable distribution failed to get the support of Britain and the US. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...

He then resigned from the FAO and became director of a number of companies and proved a canny investor in the stock market, making a considerable personal fortune, such that when he received the Nobel Prize in 1949 he was able to donate the entire amount to organizations devoted to world peace and a united world government. 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ...

The University of Glasgow has a building named after John Boyd Orr, and the University's Hunterian Museum holds his Nobel medal. The University of Glasgow is the largest of the three universities in Glasgow, Scotland. ... The University of Glasgows Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery is the oldest public museum in Scotland. ...

References

• Nobel Committee information on 1949 Peace Prize