All articles starting with R

Richard B. Cattell

Richard B. Cattell (1900–1964) was an American surgeon, director of the Lahey Clinic in Boston, known for thyroid, pancreatic, and biliary surgery and the Cattell maneuver.

Richard B. Devereux

Richard B. Devereux is an American cardiologist and Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College whose echocardiography research transformed assessment of hypertensive heart disease.

Richard B. Freeman

Richard B. Freeman is an American labor economist, Herbert Ascherman Professor of Economics at Harvard, known for research on unions and the science and engineering workforce.

Richard B. Gaynor

Richard B. Gaynor is an American virologist who studied how HIV and HTLV-I hijack cell transcription, later leading oncology drug development at Eli Lilly and BioNTech US.

Richard B. Hallick is an American molecular biologist at the University of Arizona known for chloroplast genetics work on Euglena gracilis, including the first intron found in a chloroplast protein gene.

Sep 27, 2026

Richard B. Jackson

Richard B. Jackson, also known as Richard Brooke Jackson, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the District of Colorado since 2021.

Richard B. Johnston

Richard B. Johnston is an American pediatric allergist and immunologist known for complement and phagocyte research, a 1973 sickle-cell study, and leadership at National Jewish Health in Denver.

Sep 20, 2026

Richard B. Kaner

Richard B. Kaner is an American materials chemist and Distinguished Professor at UCLA known for rapid solid-state synthesis, conducting polymers, graphene supercapacitors, and founding four technology companies.

Richard B. Lehoucq

Richard B. Lehoucq is an American computational mathematician at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, known for the ARPACK and Anasazi eigenvalue libraries and a 2024 SIAM Fellowship.

Sep 20, 2026

Richard B. Lipton

Richard B. Lipton is an American neurologist and neuroepidemiologist who studies migraine and cognitive aging, directs the Montefiore Headache Center, and has published more than 800 articles.

Richard B. Setlow

Richard B. Setlow (1921–2015) was an American biophysicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory who discovered nucleotide excision repair in 1964, founding the modern study of DNA repair.

Richard B. Silverman

Richard B. Silverman, born 1946 in Philadelphia, is an American medicinal chemist at Northwestern University who invented pregabalin (Lyrica), described by IUPAC as one of the most successful university-originated drugs, and designs mechanism-based enzyme inactivators.

Richard B. Spencer

Richard B. Spencer, born Richard Bertrand Spencer, is an American white nationalist credited with coining "alt-right" in 2008 and who led the National Policy Institute through 2016 and 2017.

Richard B. Stothers

Richard B. Stothers (1938–2011) was an American astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, known for stellar pulsation and a 1984 mass-extinction cycle hypothesis.

Richard B. Turner

Richard Baldwin Turner (1916–1971) was an American organic chemist and professor of chemistry at Rice University from 1951 to 1971, known for total synthesis and tracer studies of steroid rearrangements.

Sep 20, 2026

Richard B. Vallee

Richard B. Vallee is an American cell biologist and Professor Emeritus at Columbia University whose laboratory identified cytoplasmic dynein as the motor protein for retrograde axonal transport.

Richard Bach

Richard Bach (born 1936, Oak Park, Illinois) is an American author and former USAF pilot, author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970, 44 million copies) and Illusions (1977).

Richard Bachman

Richard Bachman is the pseudonym under which Stephen King published seven novels from 1977 to 2007, including Rage, The Long Walk, and Thinner, until bookseller Steve Brown exposed him via Library of Congress copyrights in 1985.

Richard Bacon (broadcaster)

Richard Bacon (born 1975, Mansfield) is an English broadcaster and format creator, sacked as Blue Peter's 24th presenter in 1998, later of The Big Breakfast, BBC Radio 5 Live, Nat Geo's Explorer, and Yes Yes Media.

Richard Baer

Richard Baer is a molecular biologist and cancer geneticist at Columbia University known for work on chromosomal translocations in lymphoma and for identifying BARD1, a protein that partners with BRCA1.

Richard Baldwin

Richard Baldwin is an American economist, professor of international economics at IMD Business School in Lausanne, known for his "second unbundling" framework explaining modern globalization.

Richard Bancroft

Richard Bancroft was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1604 to 1610 and Bishop of London before that, and played a major role in preparing the King James Version of the Bible.

Richard Barbieri

Richard Barbieri (born 1957, London) is the British synthesist of Japan and Porcupine Tree, a Jansen/Barbieri and Rain Tree Crow collaborator, and a solo ambient artist on Kscope.

Richard Barrer

Richard Barrer (1910–1996) was a New Zealand-born chemist who spent his career in Britain, called the founding father of zeolite chemistry and a dominant figure in membrane science.

Richard Bartholdt

Richard Bartholdt was a German-born American newspaper editor and Republican politician who represented St. Louis in the US House from 1893 to 1915, championing international arbitration.

Richard Basehart

Richard Basehart (John Richard Basehart, 1914–1984) was an American actor, star of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea as Admiral Nelson, the Fool in Fellini's La strada, and Wilton Knight in Knight Rider.

Richard Battin

Richard Battin (1925–2014) was an American aerospace engineer at MIT and Draper Laboratory who led the design of the Apollo guidance and navigation systems, enabling the 1969 lunar landing.

Richard Baxter

Richard Baxter (1615–1691) was an English Puritan theologian and vicar of Kidderminster whose 'mere Christianity' made him leader of moderate dissent and one of the century's most prolific authors.

Richard Beasley (serial killer)

Richard James Beasley, the Ohio "Craigslist Killer," lured unemployed men with a fake $300-a-week farmhand job ad in 2011 and, with teen accomplice Brogan Rafferty, killed three men and wounded one; he received three death sentences in 2013.