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Robert B. Jenkins
Robert B. Jenkins is an American medical geneticist and pathologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for molecular classification of brain tumors, especially gliomas.
Robert B. King
Robert B. King, also known as Robert Bruce King, is an American federal judge on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals since 1998, appointed by President Clinton.
Robert B. Laughlin
Robert B. Laughlin is an American condensed matter physicist at Stanford who won the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics for his 1983 theory of the fractional quantum Hall effect.
Robert B. Leighton
Robert B. Leighton (1919–1997) was an American physicist and astronomer at Caltech who discovered the Sun's five-minute oscillation, led Mariner Mars imaging, and wrote the final draft of The Feynman Lectures on Physics.
Robert B. Maloney
Robert B. Maloney, born 1933, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the Northern District of Texas, appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1985.
Robert B. Mann
Bob Mann, full name Robert Bruce Mann, is a Canadian theoretical physicist at the University of Waterloo known as a leading developer of black hole chemistry.
Robert B. Meyer
Robert B. Meyer (1943–2023) was an American condensed-matter physicist who predicted and verified ferroelectricity in chiral liquid crystals in 1975, a discovery underlying fast ferroelectric displays.
Robert B. Nadelman
Robert B. Nadelman (R. B. Nadelman) was an infectious-diseases physician and professor of medicine at New York Medical College for 31 years, known for Lyme disease research.
Robert B. Nussenblatt
Robert B. Nussenblatt (1948–2016) was an American ophthalmologist who spent his career at the National Eye Institute, first used cyclosporine to treat uveitis, and founded its Laboratory of Immunology.
Robert B. Ormsby, Jr.
Robert B. Ormsby, Jr. was an American aerospace executive who led the Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Group, chaired the NASA Aeronautics Advisory Committee, and died in 2013.
Robert B. Palmer
Robert B. Palmer is an American particle and accelerator physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, known for the Omega-minus confirmation and the Palmer method of stochastic cooling.
Robert B. Parker
Robert B. Parker (1932–2010), American crime novelist, created Boston PI Spenser in The Godwulf Manuscript (1973), wrote the Jesse Stone, Sunny Randall, and Virgil Cole western series, won the 1976 Edgar and 2002 MWA Grand Master Award, and completed Chandler's Poodle Springs.
Robert B. Richards
Robert B. Richards, also known as Robert Benjamin Richards, was an American nuclear engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1970 for designing early commercial nuclear plants.
Robert B. Ross
Robert B. Ross is an American computer scientist at Argonne National Laboratory known for parallel file systems and I/O research, and a 2004 PECASE award winner.
Robert B. Salter
Robert Bruce Salter (1924–2010) was a Canadian pediatric orthopedic surgeon at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children known for the Salter–Harris fracture classification and the innominate osteotomy.
Robert B. Sherman
Robert B. Sherman (1925-2012), American songwriter of the Sherman Brothers with Richard Sherman; wrote Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, It's a Small World; two Oscars, Purple Heart veteran.
Robert B. Wallace
Robert B. Wallace is an American physician and epidemiologist at the University of Iowa known for research on aging, elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2001.
Robert B. Weide
Robert B. Weide, American documentary filmmaker and TV director, Whyaduck Productions founder; principal director of Curb Your Enthusiasm, whose end-credit card became a meme, and maker of documentaries on the Marx Brothers, W. C. Fields, Lenny Bruce, Woody Allen, and Kurt Vonnegut.
Robert B. Wilson
Robert B. Wilson is an American economist and Stanford professor who shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences with Paul Milgrom for auction theory and new auction formats.
Robert B. Woodward
Robert Burns Woodward (1917–1979) was an American organic chemist at Harvard who won the unshared 1965 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for syntheses including quinine, cortisone, and vitamin B12.
Robert B. Zajonc
Robert B. Zajonc (1923–2008) was a Polish-born American social psychologist, best known for the mere exposure effect, who spent most of his career at the University of Michigan.
Robert Bacher
Robert Bacher was an American nuclear physicist who led the experimental physics division at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project, then served as a charter Atomic Energy Commission commissioner.
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857–1941), British Army officer and founder of the Scout Movement; defended Mafeking for 217 days, ran the 1907 Brownsea Island camp, and wrote Scouting for Boys (1908).
Robert Baer
Robert Baer (born 1952), former CIA Directorate of Operations case officer 1976-1997, Middle East field officer, author of See No Evil, basis for Syriana, and of the disputed The Fourth Man.
Robert Baillie
Robert Baillie (1599 or 1602 – August 1662) was a Scottish Presbyterian minister, professor of divinity, and Principal of the University of Glasgow, a commissioner at the Westminster Assembly.
Robert Bakewell (agriculturalist)
Robert Bakewell (1725–1795), English livestock improver of Dishley Grange, Leicestershire; pioneer of selective in-and-in breeding, ram-letting, and the Dishley Society; bred the New Leicester sheep and Dishley Longhorn cattle.
Robert Bales
Robert Bales, former U.S. Army staff sergeant (also known for the Kandahar or Panjwai massacre), murdered 16 Afghan civilians in Kandahar on March 11, 2012, pleaded guilty in 2013, and is serving life without parole at Fort Leavenworth.
Robert Ballard
Robert Duane Ballard, known as Bob Ballard, is an American oceanographer and deep-sea explorer who located the Titanic in 1985 and discovered hydrothermal vents in 1977.
Robert Banks (chemist)
Robert L. Banks (1921–1989) was an American chemist at Phillips Petroleum in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, who with J. Paul Hogan discovered crystalline polypropylene in 1951 and later olefin metathesis.
Robert Bárány
Robert Bárány (1876–1936) was an Austrian otologist who won the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on the inner ear's organ of balance.