Elmer Ray Noble, (16 January 1909 – 8 March 2001)[1] was a professor of zoology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an internationally recognized protozoologist and parasitologist.
He lived with his family in Korea until 1927, when he and his identical twin brother, Glenn Arthur Noble, moved to the United States to attend the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a B.A.
Noble joined the UC Santa Barbara faculty in 1936, where he worked for 38 years before retiring in 1974.
He held administrative offices in the following professional societies: In 1971, Noble and his twin co-authored: PARASITOLOGY.
In 1978, the former Biological Sciences Building at Santa Barbara was renamed Elmer Ray Noble Hall in his honor.