John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr,, styled Sir John Boyd Orr from 1935 to 1949, was a British 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). The Nobel Peace Prize 1949, announced October 12, 1949. Lord Boyd Orr, “for his lifelong effort to conquer hunger and want, thereby helping to remove a major cause of military conflict and war”. Lord Boyd Orr: born 1880, Kilmaurs, Scotland. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).