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Robert D. Abbott
Robert D. Abbott is an American biostatistician and cardiovascular epidemiologist known for large-cohort studies of smoking and stroke, unrecognized heart attack, and walking and mortality.
Robert D. Allen
Robert D. Allen is an American polymer chemist at NREL, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012, known for photoresist polymers used in chip manufacturing.
Robert D. Burgoyne
Robert D. Burgoyne is a neuroscientist and Emeritus Professor of Physiology at the University of Liverpool, known for his work on calcium-regulated exocytosis and neuronal calcium sensor proteins.
Robert D. Burk
Robert D. Burk is an American physician-scientist and epidemiologist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine whose longitudinal studies of human papillomavirus infection have shaped cervical cancer prevention and screening.
Robert D. Caligiuri
Robert D. Caligiuri is an American materials engineer specializing in metal failure analysis, Corporate Vice President at Exponent and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.
Robert D. Drain
Robert D. Drain, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of New York (2002-2022), presided over major chapter 11 cases including Purdue Pharma, Sears, and Windstream, later joining Skadden and M3 Partners.
Robert D. Goldman
Robert D. Goldman, also known as Robert Goldman, is an American cell biologist and Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University known for his work on intermediate filaments and nuclear lamins.
Robert D. Hanson
Robert D. Hanson is an American structural and earthquake engineer, professor emeritus at the University of Michigan, who received EERI's George W. Housner Medal in 2024 for earthquake hazard reduction work.
Robert D. Haswell
Robert D. Haswell, also known as Bob Haswell, is a South African–trained accountant who co-founded Dominus Capital, a New York middle-market private equity firm, in 2008.
Robert D. Hatcher, Jr.
Robert D. Hatcher, Jr. is an American structural geologist at the University of Tennessee known for mapping the southern Appalachians and winning the 2006 Penrose Medal.
Robert D. Hawkins
Robert D. Hawkins is a Columbia University neuroscientist who studies the cellular mechanisms of learning and memory, known for work on nitric oxide in long-term potentiation.
Robert D. Holt
Robert D. Holt is an American theoretical ecologist at the University of Florida known for apparent competition and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.
Robert D. Kiss
Robert D. Kiss is an American chemical engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019, who led cell culture development at Genentech for 24 years.
Robert D. Mare
Robert D. Mare (1951-2021) was a Canadian-born American sociologist and demographer, Distinguished Professor at UCLA, known for the Mare model of school transitions and research on educational assortative mating.
Robert D. Mariani
Robert D. Mariani, also known as Robert David Mariani, is an American jurist who has served as a United States district judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania since 2011.
Robert D. Maurer
Robert D. Maurer (1924–2025) was an American industrial physicist who spent his career at Corning and led the team that in 1970 made the first optical fiber with losses low enough for telecommunications.
Robert D. Nicholls
Robert D. Nicholls, born in 1960, is an Australian-born human geneticist and professor of pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh, known for identifying genomic imprinting in human disease through Prader-Willi syndrome.
Robert D. Putnam
Robert D. Putnam, Harvard political scientist, author of Making Democracy Work (1993) and Bowling Alone (2000), developer of bonding and bridging social capital, Skytte Prize 2006, National Humanities Medal 2013.
Robert D. Richtmyer
Robert D. Richtmyer, also known as Robert Davis Richtmyer, was an American physicist at Los Alamos whose artificial-viscosity method made numerical calculation of shock waves practical.
Robert D. Rupert
Robert D. Rupert, American philosopher at University of Colorado Boulder, leading critic of the extended mind hypothesis; author of 'Challenges to the Hypothesis of Extended Cognition' (2004) and Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind (2009), defending embedded cognition.
Robert D. Sack
Robert David Sack, born 1939, is a senior US circuit judge on the Second Circuit, appointed by Bill Clinton in 1998 and taking senior status in 2009.
Robert D. Safian
Robert D. Safian, also published as Robert Safian, is an American interventional cardiologist in Royal Oak, Michigan, known for a 1988 NEJM study defining balloon aortic valvuloplasty results.
Robert D. Schreiber
Robert D. Schreiber is an American tumor immunologist and Bursky Distinguished Professor at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, known for originating the cancer immunoediting concept.
Robert D. Sparks
Robert Dean Sparks (1932–2014) was an American physician and gastroenterologist who served as a Tulane medical school dean, UNMC chancellor, and president of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
Robert D. Toto
Robert D. Toto is an American nephrologist and the Mary M. Conroy Professor of Kidney Disease at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, known for major chronic kidney disease trials.
Robert D. Truog
Robert D. Truog is a pediatric intensivist, anesthesiologist, and bioethicist who directs Harvard Medical School's Center for Bioethics and studies brain death and end-of-life care.
Robert D. Utiger
Robert D. Utiger (1931–2008) was an American endocrinologist who developed the radioimmunoassay of TSH and later served as deputy editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.
Robert D. Wells
Robert D. Wells is an American biochemist and molecular biologist who established that DNA contains alternative non-B structures and linked them to hereditary triplet-repeat diseases like Friedreich's ataxia.
Robert d'Escourt Atkinson
Robert d'Escourt Atkinson was a British astronomer and physicist who, with Fritz Houtermans, pioneered stellar fusion research and served as Deputy Chief Scientific Officer at Royal Observatory Greenwich.
Robert Dahl
Robert Dahl (1915–2014) was an American political scientist at Yale University, a founder of pluralist theory and of polyarchy, called the dean of American political scientists.