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John Boyd Orr

(Boyd-Orr, John Boyd Orr, Baron, 1880-1971)

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). (From Wikipedia)

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Gilks, John Langton

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Filed under: Boyd-Orr, John Boyd Orr, Baron, 1880-1971

A New Idea Each Morning: How Food and Agriculture Came Together in One International Organisation (c2013), by Wendy Way (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

Books by John Boyd Orr:

Boyd-Orr, John Boyd Orr, Baron, 1880-1971: Studies of Nutrition: The Physique and Health of Two African Tribes (London: HMSO, 1931), also by John Langton Gilks (page images at HathiTrust)

Additional books by John Boyd Orr in the extended shelves:

Boyd-Orr, John Boyd Orr, Baron, 1880-1971: The energy expenditure of the infantry recruit in training. (H.M. Stationery Off. [printed by Harrison and Sons], 1919), also by Edward Provan Cathcart (page images at HathiTrust)
Boyd-Orr, John Boyd Orr, Baron, 1880-1971: Essentials of veterinary physiology (W. Wood, 1920), also by Diarmid Noël Paton (page images at HathiTrust)
Boyd-Orr, John Boyd Orr, Baron, 1880-1971: Iodine in nutrition : a review of existing information (H. M. Stationery Off., 1929), also by Isabella Leitch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Boyd-Orr, John Boyd Orr, Baron, 1880-1971: Iodine supply and the incidence of endemic goitre (H. M. Stationery off., 1931) (page images at HathiTrust)
Boyd-Orr, John Boyd Orr, Baron, 1880-1971: Minerals in pastures and their relation to animal nutrition (H. K. Lewis & co. ltd., 1929), also by Helen Scherbatoff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Boyd-Orr, John Boyd Orr, Baron, 1880-1971: Minerals in pastures and their relation to animal nutrition (Lewis, 1929) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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