Nobel Peace Prize 1949

Lord (John) Boyd Orr of Brechin

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The Nobel Peace Prize 1949 was awarded to John Boyd Orr, Baron Boyd-Orr of Brechin Mearn "for his lifelong effort to conquer hunger and want, thereby helping to remove a major cause of military conflict and war"

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