Robert Allen Norris

Robert Allen Norris (16 December 1922 – 5 September 2010) was an American ornithologist. After service in the U.S. Navy during World War II, he graduated from the University of Georgia with a Master of Science degree in 1949. He then entered the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned Ph.D. in 1954. In 1958, he became the full-time resident ecologist at the Savannah River Plant in Georgia. In later life he became interested in botany and assembled a herbarium with 10,000 specimens of southern Georgia plants. He donated this to Georgia Southwestern State University, and became its curator.