BIOLOGIST

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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Boyd Orr has received more than 136,957 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). John Boyd Orr is the 172nd most popular biologist (up from 198th in 2019), the 969th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,288th in 2019) and the 24th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, John Boyd Orr ranks 172 out of 1,097. Before him are Renato Dulbecco, Georges J. F. Köhler, Pierre André Latreille, Erik Acharius, César Milstein, and Paul Greengard. After him are Bernard Germain de Lacépède, Ana Aslan, Wilhelm Johannsen, George Wald, Giuseppe Acerbi, and Jakob von Uexküll.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, John Boyd Orr ranks 42. Before him are Lionel Logue, Mack Sennett, Akiba Rubinstein, Sarah Knauss, María de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias, and Otto Meissner. After him are Adam Czerniaków, Ugo Cavallero, Alfred Einstein, Martiros Saryan, Charles Huntziger, and Elizabeth of the Trinity. Among people deceased in 1971, John Boyd Orr ranks 37. Before him are Marcel Dupré, Pier Angeli, Violet Jessop, Max Steiner, Johannes Frießner, and Bernardo Houssay. After him are Heinz Lammerding, Diane Arbus, Raoul Hausmann, W. O. Bentley, Georgy Dobrovolsky, and Helene Weigel.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Boyd Orr ranks 969 out of 8,785. Before him are Joseph Chamberlain (1836), Natasha Richardson (1963), Thomas Chatterton (1752), Thomas Lawrence (1769), Ida Noddack (1896), and Alma Reville (1899). After him are James Jeans (1877), Matthew Lewis (1775), Victoria Beckham (1974), P. G. Wodehouse (1881), PJ Harvey (1969), and Keith Moon (1946).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, John Boyd Orr ranks 24. Before him are John Gurdon (1933), Charles Scott Sherrington (1952), John Ray (1627), William Carey (1761), William Bateson (1861), and Martin Evans (1941). After him are Anna Atkins (1799), George Robert Gray (1808), Ian Wilmut (1944), Henry Walter Bates (1825), George Shaw (1751), and Charles Bell (1774).

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