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Richard Lynn
Richard Lynn (1930–2023), British psychologist and University of Ulster professor emeritus, compiled the national IQ database with Tatu Vanhanen, led the Pioneer Fund, and saw his race-and-IQ work discredited and targeted for retraction.
Richard Lyons (mathematician)
Richard Lyons is a Rutgers University mathematician in finite group theory, known for the Lyons sporadic group and, since 1982, for coleading the classification proof revision with Gorenstein and Solomon.
Richard M. Amasino
Richard M. Amasino is an American plant biochemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2006, known for studies of vernalization and flowering control.
Richard M. Bergenstal
Richard M. Bergenstal is an American endocrinologist and Medical Director of the International Diabetes Center in Minneapolis, known for standardizing continuous glucose monitoring through the Ambulatory Glucose Profile.
Richard M. Berman
Richard M. Berman, born in 1943, is a senior United States district judge for the Southern District of New York, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1998.
Richard M. Carlson
Richard M. Carlson (1925–2004) was an American helicopter and VTOL aircraft engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1990 for applying composite materials to operational helicopters.
Richard M. Christensen
Richard M. Christensen (1932–2024) was an American mechanics of materials researcher and Stanford professor, a National Academy of Engineering member known for his failure criteria for isotropic and composite materials.
Richard M. Cowling
Richard M. Cowling is a South African plant ecologist and conservation scientist, Distinguished Professor at Nelson Mandela University, known for his work on the Cape Floristic Region.
Richard M. Crooks
Richard M. Crooks is an American electrochemist and Robert A. Welch Chair Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, known for nanoscale catalysts, bipolar electrochemistry, and paper sensors.
Richard M. Friedberg
Richard M. Friedberg is an American theoretical physicist and logician at Columbia University known for solving Post's problem in 1957 and for an early 1958 paper on machine learning.
Richard M. Gergel
Richard Mark Gergel, born 1954 in Columbia, South Carolina, is a United States district judge for the District of South Carolina since 2010, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Richard M. Goody
Richard M. Goody (1921–2023) was a British-American atmospheric physicist who spent his career at Harvard, wrote the influential textbook Atmospheric Radiation, and helped launch Pioneer Venus.
Richard M. Harland
Richard M. Harland is a British-born developmental biologist at UC Berkeley, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014 and the Royal Society in 2019.
Richard M. Hays
Richard M. Hays is a physician and renal physiologist long based at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, known for research on antidiuretic hormone and water movement across epithelia.
Richard M. Karp
Richard M. Karp, born in Boston in 1935, is an American computer scientist at UC Berkeley who won the 1985 Turing Award for contributions to NP-completeness theory.
Richard M. Krause
Richard M. Krause was an American immunologist and microbiologist who directed NIAID from 1975 to 1984, through the early AIDS epidemic, after streptococcal and antibody genetics research at Rockefeller University.
Richard M. Laine
Richard M. Laine is an American materials chemist at the University of Michigan known for converting silica into reactive silicon compounds and for flame spray pyrolysis.
Richard M. Lambert
Richard M. Lambert is a surface chemist and heterogeneous catalysis researcher at the University of Cambridge, known for his 2008 Nature work on gold nanoparticle oxidation catalysts.
Richard M. Locksley
Richard M. Locksley is an American immunologist and Sandler Distinguished Professor at UCSF who studies type 2 immunity and helped discover group 2 innate lymphoid cells in 2010.
Richard M. Noyes
Richard M. Noyes (1919–1997) was an American physical chemist at the University of Oregon who explained oscillating chemical reactions and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1977.
Richard M. Ransohoff
Richard M. Ransohoff is an American neurologist and neuroinflammation researcher who spent 30 years at the Cleveland Clinic and won the 2012 John Dystel Prize for multiple sclerosis research.
Richard M. Ryan
Richard M. Ryan is an American clinical psychologist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Rochester, who co-developed self-determination theory, a macro-theory of human motivation and well-being.
Richard M. Schwartzstein
Richard M. Schwartzstein is an American pulmonologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, known for his 1995 New England Journal of Medicine review of dyspnea.
Richard M. Sharpe
Richard M. Sharpe is a reproductive biologist and professor at the University of Edinburgh, known for the 1993 estrogen hypothesis and the testicular dysgenesis syndrome hypothesis.
Richard M. Sherman
Richard M. Sherman (1928-2024), American composer-lyricist of the Sherman Brothers with brother Robert; wrote Mary Poppins songs, It's a Small World, two Oscars, nine nominations, Disney Legend.
Richard M. Shiffrin
Richard M. Shiffrin, also known as Richard Shiffrin, is an American cognitive psychologist at Indiana University Bloomington, best known for the 1968 Atkinson–Shiffrin memory model and the 1977 controlled and automatic processing papers.
Richard M. Stone
Richard M. Stone is an American hematologist-oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, known for leading the RATIFY trial of midostaurin in acute myeloid leukemia.
Richard M. Weinshilboum
Richard M. Weinshilboum, also known as Richard Weinshilboum, is an American physician-scientist at Mayo Clinic who studies pharmacogenomics and helped put drug-gene testing into clinical practice.
Richard M. White
Richard M. White (1930–2020) was an American applied physicist and electrical engineer at UC Berkeley, known for pioneering work on ultrasonics and surface acoustic waves.
Richard MacNeish
Richard MacNeish (1918–2001) was an American archaeologist whose multidisciplinary excavations in Mexico's Tehuacán Valley and Peru's Ayacucho Valley established when and how agriculture arose in the Americas.