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Andrew Picken Orr FRSE ARIC (1898–1962) was a 20th-century Scottish oceanographer and was an expert on phytoplankton and copepod biology. LifeHe was born in Ayrshire on 6 August 1898. He was educated at Kilmarnock Academy. In the First World War he served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Scots Fusiliers. He served in France and was wounded in action then captured as a prisoner-of-war.[1] After the war he studied Science at Glasgow University graduating MA BSc. In 1923 he became chemist to the Millport Research Station and in 1929 was part of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition with Sheina Marshall in 1929,[2] working with her for around 40 years in total. Orr rose to be Depute Director of the station. In 1948 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir Maurice Yonge, Charles Wynford Parsons, Otto Lowenstein and James Wilfred Cook.[3] He died on 19 September 1962. On his death Sheina Marshall became Depute Director at Millport. Publications
References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/ww1-biography/?id=4117|website=universitystory.gla.ac.uk|title=University of Glasgow :: Story :: Biography of 2nd Lieutenant A P Orr|accessdate=2018-03-18}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Orr, Andrew Picken}}{{Scotland-scientist-stub}}2. ^Biological Oceanography: An Early History 1870–1960, Eric L Mills 3. ^{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783 – 2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0 902 198 84 X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf}} 8 : 1875 births|1961 deaths|People from Ayrshire|People educated at Kilmarnock Academy|Alumni of the University of Glasgow|British oceanographers|Prisoners of war|Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |
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