birth_place nationality field work_institutions birth_date article_title name
united states american natural history national museum of natural history smithsonian institution 1932 robert p. higgins
 robert p. higgins
robert p. higgins

robert p. higgins -lrb- born 1932 -rrb- is a systematic invertebrate zoologist and ecologist .
he worked as a researcher at the smithsonian institution , where he began in 1968 as an oceanographer .
higgins served as director of the centre for mediterranean marine classification 1969-1971 , program director of limnology and oceanography , 1971-1974 , acting director , international programme on environmental sciences in 1974 , zoologist superior from 1974 to 1978 , and curator , department of invertebrate zoology , national museum of natural history in 1978 .
higgins retired in 1996 .
