Sir Norman Charles Wright FRSE CB FRIC (19 February 1900 – 16 July 1970) was a British chemist and agriculturalist, and most his work was as a nutrition scientist.
He was educated at the Choir School attached to Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, his classmates including William Walton.
[3] In 1930, Wright was appointed first permanent Director of the recently created Hannah Dairy Research Institute in Ayr in south-west Scotland, following two years on a temporary contract there.
In 1936 he made an important study trip to India with Sir John Russell, advising on the Indian dairy industry.
From this important role in 1959 he moved to be Deputy Director General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, advising on an international level to multiple countries around the world.