Boyd Orr: campaigner of vision

John Boyd Orr has been described as 'one of the most influential campaigners for a more healthy diet'. A nutritional physicist, born in Ayrshire in 1880, he was awarded the Military Cross at the Somme in 1916, was knighted in 1935 and won the Nobel peace prize in 1949.

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