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Richard A. Deyo

Richard A. Deyo is an American physician and health services researcher known for research on low back pain and the overuse of spine surgery and imaging.

Richard A. Feely

Richard A. Feely is an American chemical oceanographer who spent 51 years at NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle, studying ocean carbon uptake and acidification.

Richard A. Finkelstein

Richard A. Finkelstein (Richard Alan Finkelstein, 1930–2023) was an American microbiologist who purified cholera toxin, choleragen, in 1969, enabling modern enterotoxin research and cholera vaccine candidates.

Richard A. Friesner

Richard A. Friesner is a computational chemist and the William P. Schweitzer Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University who co-founded Schrödinger, Inc. in 1990 and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2016.

Richard A. Garibaldi

Richard A. Garibaldi (1942–2009) was an American physician-epidemiologist whose New England Journal of Medicine studies defined catheter-associated urinary-tract infections and nursing-home infections, and who led the University of Connecticut Department of Medicine.

Richard A. Gottscho

Richard A. Gottscho is an American plasma physical chemist who spent 15 years at Bell Laboratories and retired in 2025 as chief technology officer of Lam Research.

Richard A. Griffin

Richard Allen Griffin, born in 1952 in Traverse City, Michigan, is a United States circuit judge of the Sixth Circuit, appointed by George W. Bush in 2005.

Richard A. Holt

Richard A. Holt is a physicist recorded as co-author of the 1969 paper proposing an experiment to test local hidden variable theories, with Clauser, Horne, and Shimony.

Richard A. Jones

Richard A. Jones, born 1950 in Seattle, is a senior United States district judge for the Western District of Washington, appointed by George W. Bush in 2007.

Richard A. Kaslow

Richard A. Kaslow is an American epidemiologist whose research established how HLA genes shape HIV-1 progression, and a Professor Emeritus at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Richard A. Keller

Richard A. Keller was an American analytical chemist and Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellow who pioneered single-molecule detection in solution and applied it to DNA sequencing in the Human Genome Project.

Richard A. Koup

Richard A. Koup is an American virologist and immunologist who studies HIV-specific T-cell immunity and serves as Deputy Director of NIAID's Vaccine Research Center in Bethesda, Maryland.

Richard A. Lang

Richard A. Lang is an Australian-born molecular biologist who studies eye development and light sensing, and directs the Visual Systems Group at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

Richard A. Lange

Richard A. Lange is an American cardiologist and president of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso since 2014, formerly chief of cardiology at Johns Hopkins.

Richard A. Larson

Richard A. Larson is an American physician-scientist at the University of Chicago whose leukemia clinical trials include the long-term follow-up of imatinib for chronic myeloid leukemia.

Richard A. Lazzara

Richard A. Lazzara, born 1945 in Tampa, Florida, is a senior United States district judge of the Middle District of Florida, appointed by President Clinton in 1997.

Richard A. Lerner

Richard A. Lerner (1938–2021) was an American chemist and immunologist who led Scripps Research for two decades and created antibody technologies behind drugs like Humira.

Richard A. Mathies

Richard A. Mathies, born in Seattle in 1946, is an American chemist and emeritus UC Berkeley professor known for femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy and capillary array electrophoresis DNA sequencing.

Richard A. Muller

Richard A. Muller, born 1944, is an American physicist at UC Berkeley known for the Nemesis extinction hypothesis, accelerator mass spectrometry, and the Berkeley Earth temperature record.

Richard A. Paez

Richard A. Paez, born 1947 in Salt Lake City, is a senior judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, appointed by President Clinton.

Richard A. Roth

Richard A. Roth is an emeritus member of Stanford's Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, known for showing in 1983 that the insulin receptor is itself a protein kinase.

Richard A. Rudick

Richard A. Rudick is an American neurologist specializing in multiple sclerosis, known for pivotal trials of AVONEX and TYSABRI and for directing the Cleveland Clinic's Mellen Center.

Richard A. Schell

Richard A. Schell (born 1950) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Texas since 1988, appointed by President Ronald Reagan and chief judge from 1994 to 2001.

Richard A. Spritz

Richard A. Spritz is an American medical geneticist, emeritus professor at the University of Colorado, who identified the tyrosinase gene in albinism and mapped vitiligo genetics.

Richard A. Steinhardt

Richard A. Steinhardt (1939–2014) was an American cell biologist at UC Berkeley who showed that a rise in intracellular calcium activates the egg at fertilization.

Richard A. Tapia

Richard A. Tapia (1939–2026) was an American mathematician at Rice University known for numerical optimization and as the first U.S.-born Hispanic member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Richard A. Vaia

Richard A. Vaia is an American materials scientist at the Air Force Research Laboratory, a pioneer of polymer nanocomposites elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020.

Richard A. Van Etten

Richard A. Van Etten is an American hematologist-oncologist who directs the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at UC Irvine and developed the first mouse model of chronic myeloid leukemia.

Richard A. Webb

Richard A. Webb was an American physicist known for the 1985 first observation of h/e Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in normal-metal rings, the 1997 decoherence saturation claim, and the Buckley Prize.

Richard A. Young

Richard A. Young is an American molecular biologist, a Member of the Whitehead Institute and Professor of Biology at MIT, known for super-enhancers and genome regulatory mapping.