Robert Cushman Murphy

Robert Cushman Murphy was an American ornithologist and Lamont Curator of birds at the American Museum of Natural History. He went on numerous oceanic expeditions and was an expert on marine birds, and wrote several major books on them. He described a species of petrel which is now known as Murphy's petrel. Mount Murphy in Antarctica and Murphy Wall in South Georgia are named after him.

29 April 1887

Born on the same birth day (29 April): Adolfo Nicolás • Dale Earnhardt • David Cox (artist) • Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa • Irvin Kershner • Joachim Andersen (composer) • Peter Diamond • Robert J. Sawyer • Sara Errani • Vladimir Propp • Zuzana Hejdová

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