Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |
Year: | 1947 |
Number: | 78 - 0 |
Nominee: |
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Name: | Lord (John) Boyd Orr of Brechin |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1880 |
Year, Death: | 1971 |
Profession: | head |
University: | Food and Agricultural Organization |
City: | Washington, DC |
State: | DC |
Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1949 | |
Motivation: | Work on nutritional physiology, and the importance of the application of these findings to human health and nutrition (see comment). |
Nominator: |
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Name: | A G Huggett |
Gender: | M |
Profession: | prof physiology |
University: | University of London |
City: | London |
Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
Comments: | Among the publications mentioned: 1. "The national food supply and its influence on public health", Chadwick Lecture, 1934; 2. "The economics of diet", Presidential Address to British Association, 1935; 3. "Food, Health and Income", book, 1936. |
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