Boyd Orr

The Nobel Peace Prize 1949

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.