Ruth Crosby Noble | |
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 Noble circa 1918 | |
| Born | Ruth Crosby  1896/1897 Hartford |
| Died | March 1988 (aged 91) Allendale |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | Herpetologist, writer |
| Spouse(s) | G.K. Noble |
Ruth Crosby Noble (1896/1897 – March 1988) was an American author and herpetologist. Working for the American Museum of Natural History, she and her husband Gladwyn Kingsley Noble discovered a new species of frog, the Eleutherodactylus ruthae, named for her. Noble later authored The Nature of the Beast, a book on animal behavior.