Robert Paine Scripps

Robert Paine Scripps (1895-1938) was an American poet and philanthropist.

Life
Scripps was the son of E.W. Scripps and the nephew of Eleanor Browning Scripps, founding patrons of the Marine Biological Association of San Diego (now the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego).

Scripps saved the Institute during the Depression, by more than doubling his family's financial support, and by arranging for the State of California to match the family's contribution.

Recognition
He is commemorated by the Robert Paine Scripps Forum for Science, Society and the Environment at the Institute.