Boyd Orr
Boyd Orr
The Nobel Peace Prize 1949
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Name: Lord (John) Boyd Orr of Brechin
Birth: 23 September 1880, Kilmaurs, Scotland
Death: 25 June 1971, Edzell, Scotland
Residence: United Kingdom
Role: Alimentary Politician, Physician, President, National Peace Council and World Union of Peace Organizations, Prominent organizer and Director, General Food and Agricultural Organization
Portion of Cash: 1/1
Role: Alimentary Politician, Physician, President, National Peace Council and World Union of Peace Organizations, Prominent organizer and Director, General Food and Agricultural Organization
Nobel Prize Cash and Philanthropy
John Boyd Orr’s medal is held in the University of Glasgow’s Hunterian Museum. The university has building after the Nobelist.
Orr donated his Nobel Prize money to the National Peace Council, the World Movement for World Federal Government, and many similar organizations.