Robert W. Fri

{{Short description|American administrator}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Robert Fri |image = Robert W. Fri 1996.jpg |caption = Fri in 1996 |office = Administrator of the Energy Research and Development Administration |status = Acting |president = Gerald Ford |term_start = January 20, 1977 |term_end = September 30, 1977 |predecessor = Robert Seamans |successor = James Schlesinger (Secretary of Energy) |office1 = Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency |status1 = Acting |president1 = Richard Nixon |term_start1 = April 30, 1973 |term_end1 = September 12, 1973 |predecessor1 = William Ruckelshaus |successor1 = Russell E. Train |office2 = Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency |president2 = Richard Nixon |term_start2 = June 14, 1971 |term_end2 = April 29, 1973 |predecessor2 = Position established |successor2 = John Quarles |birth_date = {{birth date|1935|11|16}} |birth_place = Kansas City, Kansas, U.S. |death_date = {{death date and age|2014|10|10|1935|11|16}} |death_place = Bethesda, Maryland, U.S. |party = Republican |education = Rice University (BA)<br>Harvard University (MBA) }} [[File:Officials celebrating the signing of a curatorial agreement between the Miami Museum of Science and the Smithsonian Institution on June, 10, 1999.jpg|thumb|Fri (standing, furthest left) with other officials at the 1999 signing ceremony of a curatorial agreement between the Miami Museum of Science and the Smithsonian Institution]]

'''Robert W. Fri''' (November 16, 1935 – October 10, 2014) was an American administrator who served as the Deputy Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency from 1971 to 1973.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/robert-w-fri-who-led-smithsonians-museum-of-natural-history-dies-at-78/2014/10/16/49c8c6ec-557c-11e4-809b-8cc0a295c773_story.html |title=Robert W. Fri, who led Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History, dies at 78 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=2014-10-16 |accessdate=2019-03-23}}</ref>

Fri served as director of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History from 1996 to 2001.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Nelson |first1=Peter |title=Remembering Robert W. Fri |url=https://www.resources.org/archives/remembering-robert-w-fri/ |website=Resources for the Future |access-date=April 8, 2026 |date=January 14, 2015}}</ref>

He died of lung cancer on October 10, 2014, in Bethesda, Maryland, at age 78.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/18/us/robert-w-fri-energy-adviser-and-director-at-smithsonian-dies-at-78.html |title=Robert W. Fri, Energy Adviser and Director at Smithsonian, Dies at 78 |work=The New York Times |date=2014-10-17 |accessdate=2019-03-23}}</ref>

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