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David R. Goddard

David R. Goddard (1908–1985) was an American plant physiologist who proved plant and animal respiration share the cytochrome system, and provost of the University of Pennsylvania.

David R. Greaves

David R. Greaves is a British immunologist at the University of Oxford, known for co-identifying locus control regions in 1989 and for research on macrophages in inflammation and atherosclerosis.

David R. Hansen

David Rasmussen Hansen, born 1938 in Exira, Iowa, is an American jurist and senior judge of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, elevated in 1991.

David R. Heebner

David R. Heebner (1927–2003) was an American defense systems engineer who made the towed sonar array practical, served in the Pentagon, and helped build SAIC.

David R. K. Adler

David R. K. Adler is an American political economist, born in Los Angeles, co-founder and Co-General Coordinator of Progressive International, former DiEM25 policy director and Bernie Sanders foreign policy adviser, and Guardian columnist.

David R. Kearns

David R. Kearns is a physical chemist and emeritus professor at the University of California, San Diego, known for applying NMR spectroscopy to tRNA and DNA.

David R. Liu

David R. Liu is a Harvard and Broad Institute professor who pioneered base editing and prime editing, gene-editing methods that alter DNA without cutting both strands.

David R. Matthews

David R. Matthews, born in 1947, is a British physician-scientist at Oxford, Emeritus Professor of Diabetes Medicine, founding chairman of OCDEM, and co-chair of the CANVAS trial.

David R. Mayhew

David R. Mayhew is an American political scientist at Yale University, a Sterling Professor Emeritus, known for Congress: The Electoral Connection (1974) and Divided We Govern (1991).

David R. McClay

David R. McClay is an American developmental biologist and Arthur S. Pearse Professor Emeritus at Duke University, known for his 1999 finding that nuclear β-catenin specifies sea urchin cell fates.

David R. Montgomery

David R. Montgomery is an American geomorphologist and MacArthur Fellow, a University of Washington professor since 1991 known for research on bedrock river incision, soil erosion, and civilizations.

David R. Nygren

David R. Nygren is an American experimental particle physicist who invented the time projection chamber in 1974, spent most of his career at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and won the Panofsky Prize.

David R. Owens

David R. Owens is a British diabetes researcher, clinical lead for diabetes-related retinopathy at Swansea University Medical School, and author of the 2001 Lancet review "Insulins today and beyond".

David R. Phillips

David R. Phillips is an American platelet biologist who defined the membrane defect in Glanzmann thrombasthenia, framed GPIIb-IIIa as the responsive integrin, and co-founded COR Therapeutics and Portola Pharmaceuticals.

David R. Rubinow

David R. Rubinow is an American psychiatrist, chair emeritus of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, best known for the differential sensitivity model of reproductive mood disorders.

David R. Shelly

David R. Shelly is an American seismologist at the USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center in Golden, Colorado, known for studies of tectonic tremor and earthquake swarms.

David R. Sibley

David R. Sibley is an American molecular neuropharmacologist who led the Molecular Neuropharmacology Section at NINDS in Bethesda, Maryland, known for establishing how phosphorylation regulates G protein-coupled receptor signaling.

David R. Smith

David R. Smith is a physicist and professor at Duke University who demonstrated the first negative-index metamaterial in 2000 and the first practical electromagnetic invisibility cloak in 2006.

David R. Spigel

David R. Spigel is an American medical oncologist and lung-cancer researcher in Nashville, Tennessee, president and chief medical officer of Sarah Cannon Research Institute since 2026.

David R. Stras

David R. Stras, born David Ryan Stras in 1974, is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the Eighth Circuit since 2018.

David R. Veblen

David R. Veblen is an American mineralogist and crystallographer, professor at Johns Hopkins University, who discovered the minerals chesterite and jimthompsonite and won the Mineralogical Society of America Award in 1983.

David R. Williams (scientist)

David R. Williams is an American vision scientist at the University of Rochester whose team demonstrated the first adaptive optics system for the eye, improving vision beyond spectacles.

David R. Williams (social epidemiologist)

David R. Williams is an Aruban-born American social epidemiologist, the Norman Professor of Public Health at Harvard, known for the Everyday Discrimination Scale and research on racism and health.

David R. Williams (social scientist)

David R. Williams is a St Lucian-born American social scientist at Harvard who studies social influences on health, especially racism and discrimination, and created the Everyday Discrimination Scale.

David R. Wolfe

David R. Wolfe is the 21st Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force, advising the Air Force Secretary on standards and readiness for over 665,000 Total Force Airmen.

David R. Wolstenholme

David R. Wolstenholme, also known as D R Wolstenholme, was a British-born molecular biologist at the University of Utah known for his work on mitochondrial DNA structure and evolution.

David R. Yarkony

David R. Yarkony (David Yarkony) was an American theoretical chemist at Johns Hopkins University whose work on conical intersections changed how chemists understand radiationless decay.

David Rabe

David Rabe (born 1940, Dubuque, Iowa) is an American playwright and screenwriter, Vietnam veteran, author of the Vietnam trilogy Pavlo Hummel, Sticks and Bones, Streamers, and Hurlyburly.

David Rainey

David "Puck" Rainey (born 1968) is an American reality TV personality from The Real World: San Francisco (1994), a bicycle messenger evicted mid-season after conflicts with Pedro Zamora, later on Battle of the Sexes and the Puck Cooks cooking show.

David Ramsey

David Ramsey (born 1971, Detroit) is an American actor, director, and martial artist known for John Diggle on Arrow, Anton Briggs on Dexter, and Mayor Poole on Blue Bloods.