Egil Robert Ørskov, OBE, FRSE (24 March 1934 – 12 April 2021) was a Danish-born Scottish agricultural scientist and development scholar, known particularly for his research on the nutrition of farm animals. Ørskov died in

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, Scotland on 12 April 2021, at the age of 87.

Selected publications

* Ørskov, E.R. and McDonald, I., 1979. The estimation of protein degradability in the rumen from incubation measurements weighted according to rate of passage. ''The Journal of Agricultural Science'', 92(2), pp. 499–503. * Mehrez, A.Z., Ørskov, E.R. and McDonald, I., 1977. Rates of rumen fermentation in relation to ammonia concentration. ''British Journal of Nutrition'', 38(3), pp. 437–443. * Orskov, E.R., 1982. ''Protein nutrition in ruminants''. Academic Press Inc.(London) Ltd.

Alma Mater

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Career

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, Macaulay Land Research Institute and the

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Awards

* OBE 1988 * Royal Society of Edinburgh 1991

References

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