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Richard Wilbur
Richard Wilbur (1921–2017) was an American poet and translator who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry twice, served as the second US Poet Laureate, and was the celebrated English translator of Molière.
Richard Wilker Korsmeyer
Richard Wilker Korsmeyer is an American pharmaceutical scientist and drug-delivery researcher who spent about 31 years at Pfizer and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Richard Williams (animator)
Richard Edmund Williams (1933–2019) was a Canadian–British animator, animation director of Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), creator of the long-gestating The Thief and the Cobbler, and author of the standard animation textbook The Animator's Survival Kit.
Richard Williams (tennis coach)
Richard Williams, American father-coach from Shreveport and Compton who self-taught tennis and coached daughters Venus and Serena Williams to 30 Grand Slam singles titles, WTA No. 1 rankings, and Olympic gold; first ATA Hall of Fame inductee.
Richard Williamson (bishop)
Richard Williamson (1940–2025) was an English traditionalist Catholic bishop, one of four consecrated without Vatican approval by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1988 and expelled from the SSPX in 2012.
Richard Willstätter
Richard Martin Willstätter was a German chemist who won the 1915 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research on plant pigments, especially chlorophyll, showing it is a mixture of two components.
Richard Wilson (Scottish actor)
Richard Wilson (born Iain Carmichael Wilson, 9 July 1936, Greenock) is a Scottish actor, theatre director and broadcaster, OBE, best known as Victor Meldrew in One Foot in the Grave (1990-2000) and Gaius in Merlin.
Richard Winters
Richard "Dick" Winters (1918–2011) was a U.S. Army major who led Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne, at Brecourt Manor on D-Day, Market-Garden, and Bastogne, later made famous by Band of Brothers.
Richard Witter
Richard Witter, known as Richard L. Witter, is an American veterinarian and poultry-disease researcher who developed the first Marek's disease vaccine used in the United States.
Richard Wolfenden
Richard Wolfenden (1935–2025) was an American enzymologist and biochemist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill known for measuring enzyme transition-state binding and uncatalyzed reaction rates.
Richard Woo
Richard Woo is a radio-science researcher and senior research scientist emeritus at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, known for revealing kilometer-scale filamentary structure in the Sun's corona.
Richard Wright (author)
Richard Nathaniel Wright (1908–1960), American author of Native Son, Black Boy, and Uncle Tom's Children; Mississippi-born, Communist Party milieu, Paris exile, Spingarn Medal 1941.
Richard Wright (footballer)
Richard Ian Wright (born 1977, Ipswich) is an English former goalkeeper, Ipswich, Arsenal, Everton, and Manchester City player with one England cap, now Manchester City first-team goalkeeping coach under Pep Guardiola.
Richard Wright (musician)
Richard (Rick) Wright, 1943-2008, English keyboardist and founding member of Pink Floyd; wrote "Us and Them" and "The Great Gig in the Sky", was dismissed during The Wall, and returned for The Division Bell.
Richard Wurmbrand
Richard Wurmbrand (1909–2001), born Nicolai Ionescu, was a Romanian Lutheran pastor who spent 14 years in Communist prisons, testified before the US Senate in 1966, and co-founded The Voice of the Martyrs.
Richard Y. Wang
Richard Y. Wang, MIT Sloan-trained information systems researcher and TDQM creator, co-authored the Wang-Strong data quality dimensions framework and led the MIT CDOIQ Symposium and U.S. Army data quality efforts.
Richard Yates (novelist)
Richard Yates (1926–1992), American realist novelist and short story writer from Yonkers, New York, author of Revolutionary Road (1961), a National Book Award finalist; also The Easter Parade, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness; a writers' writer with modest sales.
Richard Zeckhauser
Richard Zeckhauser is an American economist, the Frank P. Ramsey Professor at Harvard Kennedy School since 1972, known for decision theory and pioneering policy analysis.
Richard Zsigmondy
Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (1865–1929) was an Austrian-born chemist who won the 1925 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on colloid solutions, and co-invented the ultramicroscope.
Richardia brasiliensis
Richardia brasiliensis (tropical Mexican clover, Brazil pusley), a prostrate Rubiaceae herb native from Ecuador to northern Argentina, naturalized as a weed of turf, soybean, and corn across Florida, Australia, Asia, and Africa.
RichardJ. Hickey
Richard J. Hickey was an American statistician and environmental-health researcher at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, who studied air pollution, smoking, and carbon monoxide in chronic disease.
Richardo Forrer
Richardo Forrer is a trading executive who is Chief Operating Officer, listed by his firm as Head of Business, of Belvedere Trading LLC, a proprietary trading and market-making firm in Chicago.
Richards Bay
Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: deep-water port on the Mhlatuze Lagoon, opened 1 April 1976 for coal export, home to the Richards Bay Coal Terminal and South Africa's largest port by tonnage.
Richards Bay Minerals
Richards Bay Minerals is a South African mining company established in 1976 at Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal, producing zircon, rutile, ilmenite, and titania slag from coastal dunes.
Richards equation
Richards equation is the nonlinear partial differential equation describing water movement in unsaturated porous media, formulated by Lorenzo A. Richards in his 1931 paper in Physics.
Richards-Rundle syndrome
Richards-Rundle syndrome, also called ketoaciduria-intellectual disability-ataxia-deafness syndrome, is an extremely rare autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disorder with ataxia, hearing loss, hypogonadism, and ketoaciduria, described in only one family.
Richardson (lunar crater)
Richardson is a large lunar impact crater on the Moon's far side behind the eastern limb, named after British physicist and Nobel laureate Sir Owen Willans Richardson.
Richardson (Martian crater)
Richardson crater, a 95.90-km IAU-named impact crater at 72.4°S, 180°E on Mars, holds a dark dune field where seasonal CO2, water ice, and dust interactions and dark dune spots are studied.
Richardson extrapolation
Richardson extrapolation is a numerical analysis technique that combines approximations at different step sizes to cancel the leading error term, named after Lewis Fry Richardson.
Richardson family murders
Richardson family murders: April 2006 killings of Marc, Debra, and Jacob Richardson in Medicine Hat, Alberta, by 12-year-old Jasmine Richardson and 23-year-old Jeremy Steinke; her sentence was capped at ten years under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.