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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 127,926 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). John Boyd Orr is the 199th most popular biologist (up from 212th in 2019), the 1,292nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,325th in 2019) and the 31st most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, John Boyd Orr ranks 199 out of 841. Before him are Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Erik Pontoppidan, Michel Adanson, Howard Martin Temin, Carl Gustav Carus, and Pierre André Latreille. After him are Jeffrey C. Hall, Charles M. Rice, Henrietta Lacks, Waldemar Haffkine, Hugo Gunckel Lüer, and Jérôme Lejeune.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, John Boyd Orr ranks 58. Before him are Margherita Sarfatti, Charles Huntziger, Leonard Woolley, Marie-Louise Meilleur, Adrian Carton de Wiart, and Otto Meissner. After him are Mitsumasa Yonai, Grock, Prince Georg of Bavaria, Tod Browning, Robert Stolz, and Abram Ioffe. Among people deceased in 1971, John Boyd Orr ranks 50. Before him are Gene Vincent, Jo Siffert, Pedro Rodríguez, Georgy Dobrovolsky, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Margaret Bourke-White. After him are Ub Iwerks, Vladislav Volkov, Duane Allman, Helene Weigel, Van Heflin, and Dean Acheson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Boyd Orr ranks 1,292 out of 7,765. Before him are Kate Beckinsale (1973), Colin Wilson (1931), William George Horner (1786), Charles Algernon Parsons (1854), Pattie Boyd (1944), and Mark Phillips (1948). After him are Williamina Fleming (1857), David Ogilvy (1911), Barbara Cartland (1901), Tom Hiddleston (1981), Alexander of Hales (1175), and Michael Redgrave (1908).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, John Boyd Orr ranks 31. Before him are Anna Atkins (1799), Michael Houghton (1949), J. B. S. Haldane (1892), Joseph Banks (1743), Charles Bell (1774), and Henry Walter Bates (1825). After him are Thomas Browne (1605), John Lindley (1799), Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817), George Shaw (1751), Rupert Sheldrake (1942), and James Edward Smith (1759).

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