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Article: John Boyd Orr
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      700+ words ...John Boyd Orr The Scottish medical scientist John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron of Brechin (1880-1971), pioneered the ... on Sept. 23, 1880, to a family of Covenanters, John Boyd Orr overcame the pressures of poverty in his youth by relentless ...

Article: John Boyd Orr Boyd Orr, 1st Baron
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      468 words ...John Boyd Orr Boyd Orr, 1st Baron 1880-1971, British nutritionist and agricultural scientist, b. Scotland, grad. Univ. of Glasgow. He was professor of agriculture at the Univ. of Aberdeen (1942-45), government consultant on nutrition ...

Article: Breast feeding in infancy and social mobility: 60-year follow-up ...
Breastfeeding Review;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... mobility: 60-year follow-up of the Boyd Orr cohort Martin RM, Goodall SH, Gunnell ... This hypothesis was tested using the Boyd Orr cohort in a 60-year follow-up of people ... Original participants (n = 4999) of the Boyd Orr Survey of Diet and Health in Pre-War ...

Article: Nobel Prize winner talks agriculture at N.C. State
University Wire;  April 19, 2005 ;     629 words ... ... people are more likely to experience violent conflict and civil unrest. Borlaug also quoted Nobel Peace Prize Laureate John Boyd Orr, saying "you cannot build peace on empty stomachs." Norman Borlaug has been the recipient of 54 honorary doctorates. He ...

Article: Bleak hopes for peace at centenary of Nobel prize
The Scotsman;  December 11, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... two Scots - Arthur Henderson, the Glasgow-born Labour politician and disarmament campaigner won it in 1934, and Lord John Boyd Orr of Brechin, the nutritionist who became first director of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, won the prize ...

Article: Nobel Prize may be awarded to Chinese
China Daily;  March 29, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Although a Chinese national has never won a Nobel Prize, Nobel committee members suggested ... Chinese students at a forum titled "Nobel Prize and Scientific Discovery" held at Tsinghua ... invited to share their thoughts on the Nobel Prize and its history. During the one-hour ...

Article: 2009 Nobel Prize Announcements are the First Live ...
PR Newswire Europe;  October 5, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... October 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The official Nobel Prize-branded channel on YouTube ( http ... Europe, with a live stream of the 2009 Nobel Prize Announcements available for YouTube ... that have been gathered since the first Nobel Prize was awarded in 1901. TheNobelPrize ...