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Richard J. Davidson
Richard J. Davidson, born 1951, is an American neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who studies the brain bases of emotion and, since meeting the Dalai Lama in 1992, meditation.
Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility
Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility (RJD, RJDCF), California state prison for men on Otay Mesa, San Diego, opened July 1987, CDCR-run, Levels I–IV, SNY yards, only state prison in San Diego County.
Richard J. Elston
Richard Joseph Elston (1960–2004) was an American infrared astronomer and University of Florida professor who co-discovered Extremely Red Objects, designed the FLAMINGOS spectrograph, and won a PECASE award.
Richard J. Evans
Sir Richard J. Evans (born 1947) is a British historian of modern Germany, Regius Professor of History at Cambridge, author of the Third Reich trilogy, and principal expert witness in the 2000 Irving v. Penguin libel trial.
Richard J. Fruehan
Richard J. Fruehan was an American process metallurgist, Carnegie Mellon professor, and founder of its Center for Iron and Steelmaking Research, elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Richard J. Goldstein
Richard J. Goldstein (1928–2023) was an American mechanical engineer and heat-transfer researcher at the University of Minnesota, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1985.
Richard J. Grosh
Richard J. Grosh was an American mechanical engineer and heat transfer researcher who served as dean of engineering at Purdue and 13th president of RPI from 1971 to 1976.
Richard J. Haier
Richard J. Haier is an American psychologist at UC Irvine known for the parieto-frontal integration theory (P-FIT) of intelligence and his 1988 PET brain-imaging studies.
Richard J. Havel
Richard J. Havel (1925–2016) was an American physician and lipoprotein researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, who developed the standard method for measuring plasma lipoproteins and directed its Cardiovascular Research Institute.
Richard J. Hodes
Richard J. Hodes is an American immunologist who has directed the National Institute on Aging at NIH since 1993 while leading a National Cancer Institute laboratory studying telomeres and immune aging.
Richard J. Jackson
Richard J. Jackson (1940–2020) was a British molecular biologist at Cambridge who studied how protein synthesis is controlled and was elected a Royal Society Fellow in 2006.
Richard J. Kitz
Richard J. Kitz (1929–2017) was an American anesthesiologist who served 25 years as Anesthetist-in-Chief at Massachusetts General Hospital and helped found the anesthesia patient safety movement.
Richard J. Krauzlis
Richard J. Krauzlis, also published as R. J. Krauzlis, is an American vision neuroscientist who leads the Visual Circuits Section at the National Eye Institute in Bethesda, Maryland.
Richard J. Leon
Richard J. Leon, born in 1949 in South Natick, Massachusetts, is a senior United States district judge for the District of Columbia, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2002.
Richard J. Levine
Richard J. Levine was an American physician-scientist at the NICHD in Bethesda who led the CPEP trial and showed blood proteins predict preeclampsia weeks early.
Richard J. Lipton
Richard J. Lipton is a computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at Georgia Tech, known for the planar separator theorem with Robert Tarjan and the 2014 Knuth Prize.
Richard J. McManus
Richard J. McManus is a British general practitioner and professor of primary care research whose hypertension self-monitoring trials changed national guidelines; he became Dean of Brighton and Sussex Medical School in 2024.
Richard J. Mecredy
Richard J. Mecredy (1861-1924), also spelled McCready, Irish champion cyclist and editor of the Irish Cyclist who invented bicycle polo in 1891; first match at The Scalp, Co. Wicklow, and demonstration sport at the 1908 London Olympics.
Richard J. Norby
Richard J. Norby is an American ecosystem ecologist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory who led a landmark experiment on forest responses to elevated carbon dioxide from 1997 to 2010.
Richard J. O’Reilly
Richard J. O'Reilly is a physician who founded the pediatric bone marrow transplant program at Memorial Sloan Kettering, pioneered unrelated and half-matched donors, and chaired its pediatrics department from 1986 to 2016.
Richard J. Oglesby
Richard James Oglesby (1824-1899), Union major general and three-term Republican governor of Illinois (1865-69, 1873, 1885-89) and U.S. senator 1873-79, first Illinois governor elected three times.
Richard J. Payne
Richard J. Payne is an Australian chemical biologist and Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Sydney, working on peptide synthesis and drug leads.
Richard J. Reed
Richard J. Reed (1922–2008) was an American synoptic meteorologist at the University of Washington, best known for discovering the quasi-biennial oscillation and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1978.
Richard J. Robbins
Richard James Robbins (1933–2019) was an American engineer who led The Robbins Company for 35 years, refined the tunnel boring machine, and held 67 patents.
Richard J. Roberts
Richard J. Roberts is a British biochemist who shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Phillip Sharp for discovering split genes, and is known for restriction enzymes.
Richard J. Santen
Richard J. Santen is an endocrinologist and professor emeritus at the University of Virginia whose estrogen research led to aromatase inhibitors, now standard treatment for breast cancer.
Richard J. Saykally
Richard J. Saykally (R. J. Saykally), born 1947 in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, is an American physical chemist at UC Berkeley known for laser spectroscopy of water clusters and molecular ions.
Richard J. Sherins
Richard J. Sherins (1937–2024) was an American reproductive endocrinologist and andrologist whose NIH studies showed that chemotherapy damages testicular germ cells in an age- and dose-dependent way.
Richard J. Spontak
Richard J. Spontak is an American polymer scientist and Distinguished Professor at North Carolina State University, known for work on nanostructured polymers and polymer membranes for carbon capture.
Richard J. Stegemeier
Richard J. Stegemeier was an American petroleum engineer who spent 45 years at Unocal, rising from its first research engineer in Brea, California to chairman, president, and CEO.