All articles starting with R

Richard L. Brutchey

Richard L. Brutchey is an American inorganic and materials chemist, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Southern California, known for low-temperature, solution-phase synthesis of functional nanocrystals.

Richard L. Church

Richard L. Church is an American geographer and location scientist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC Santa Barbara, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.

Richard L. Davidson

Richard L. Davidson is an American molecular geneticist known for classical studies of mutagenesis and carcinogenesis in mammalian cells, especially the effects of bromodeoxyuridine on pigmentation and differentiation.

Richard L. Gallo

Richard L. Gallo is an American dermatologist and physician-scientist, founding chair of dermatology at UC San Diego, known for discovering antimicrobial peptides in mammalian skin.

Richard L. Gourse

Richard L. Gourse is an American bacteriologist and molecular biologist, emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for identifying how Escherichia coli regulates ribosomal RNA synthesis.

Richard L. Guerrant

Richard L. Guerrant is an American infectious diseases physician at the University of Virginia known for showing childhood diarrhea causes lasting malnutrition and cognitive impairment.

Richard L. Huganir

Richard L. Huganir is an American cellular and molecular neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University, known for showing that phosphorylation of glutamate receptors regulates synaptic transmission and underlies learning and memory.

Richard L. Kradin

Richard L. Kradin is an American physician-scientist in pulmonary medicine and pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital, known for research on pulmonary immunity and asbestos-related lung disease.

Richard L. Maas

Richard L. Maas (1954–2025) was a Harvard Medical School professor who led Brigham and Women's Hospital genetics and worked out the Pax6/Eya/Six network governing organ formation.

Richard L. McCreery

Richard L. McCreery, also known as Richard McCreery, is an American electrochemist and emeritus professor at Ohio State known for carbon electrodes, Raman spectroscopy, and molecular electronics.

Richard L. Moss

Richard L. Moss is an American cardiac physiologist who spent his career at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, studying how calcium and mechanical stretch regulate contraction in heart and skeletal muscle.

Richard L. Naeye

Richard L. Naeye was an American perinatal pathologist and founding chair of pathology at Penn State College of Medicine, known for research on sudden infant death syndrome.

Oct 10, 2026

Richard L. Neu

Richard L. Neu was a medical researcher best known as first author of the 1971 Pediatrics paper that first described the lethal multiple-congenital-anomaly disorder now called Neu-Laxova syndrome.

Richard L. Popp

Richard L. Popp is an American cardiologist and Stanford emeritus professor who developed echocardiography into routine cardiac diagnosis, published over 300 papers, and served as president of the American College of Cardiology.

Richard L. Proia

Richard L. Proia is a Senior Investigator and Deputy Chief in NIDDK's Genetics & Biochemistry Branch at NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, known for mouse models of Tay–Sachs and Sandhoff disease and research on sphingosine-1-phosphate signaling.

Richard L. Rubenstein

Richard L. Rubenstein (1924–2021) was an American rabbi and theologian whose 1966 book After Auschwitz argued that the Holocaust made belief in a providential God untenable.

Richard L. Schilsky

Richard L. Schilsky is an American medical oncologist at the University of Chicago who led a 2003 aspirin trial preventing colorectal adenomas and served as ASCO's first Chief Medical Officer.

Richard L. Simmons

Richard L. Simmons is an American transplant surgeon and immunologist, chairman of surgery at the University of Pittsburgh from 1987 to 1998 and winner of the 2004 Medawar Prize.

Richard L. Sites

Richard L. Sites, known as Dick Sites, is an American computer architect who co-designed the DEC Alpha processor and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2008.

Richard L. Tannen

Richard L. Tannen was an American nephrologist and emeritus professor at the University of Pennsylvania, known for research on renal ammoniagenesis and acid-base and potassium homeostasis.

Richard L. Tomasetti

Richard L. Tomasetti is an American structural engineer who co-founded Thornton Tomasetti, chaired it until 2007, and led the engineering of Taipei 101 and the Petronas Towers.

Sep 27, 2026

Richard L. Voorhees

Richard L. Voorhees is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Western District of North Carolina, appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1988.

Richard L. Wahl

Richard L. Wahl is an American nuclear medicine physician and radiologist who led the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology from 2014 to 2023 and created the PERCIST criteria for measuring tumor response on PET scans.

Sep 27, 2026

Richard L. Young

Richard L. Young, born 1953, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Southern District of Indiana since 2023.

Richard L.M. Synge

Richard L.M. Synge, full name Richard Laurence Millington Synge, was a British biochemist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with A.J.P. Martin for inventing partition chromatography.

Richard Lamm

Richard Douglas Lamm (1935-2021), American Democratic politician and three-term governor of Colorado (1975-1987), known for the 1967 abortion law, defeating Denver's 1976 Winter Olympics, and a 1996 Reform Party presidential bid.

Oct 10, 2026

Richard Lavenham Gardner

Richard Lavenham Gardner, born 1943, is a British developmental biologist who pioneered microsurgery on the early mouse embryo, spent his career at Oxford, and was knighted in 2005.

Richard Lavery

Richard Lavery (born 1952) is a French-based physicochemist who works on computer modeling of DNA and is known for the Curves and Curves+ nucleic acid analysis programs.

Richard Lawrence (failed assassin)

Richard Lawrence, English-born unemployed house painter in Washington, D.C., attempted the first assassination of a sitting U.S. president, firing two misfiring pistols at Andrew Jackson on January 30, 1835; found not guilty by reason of insanity.