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Robert E. Lucas Jr.
Robert E. Lucas Jr., also known as Robert Lucas, was an American economist at the University of Chicago who transformed macroeconomics through rational expectations, winning the 1995 Nobel Prize.
Robert E. M. Hedges
Robert E. M. Hedges is an Emeritus Professor of Archaeological Science at Oxford, known for accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon dating and the 1988 dating of the Shroud of Turin.
Robert E. MacLaren
Robert E. MacLaren is a British ophthalmologist, Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Oxford and surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital, known for pioneering retinal gene therapy for inherited blindness.
Robert E. McIntosh
Robert E. McIntosh (1940–1998) was an American electrical engineer and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, known for microwave remote sensing and airborne cloud radar.
Robert E. Murray
Robert E. Murray, known as Bob Murray, was an American coal executive who founded Murray Energy Corporation in 1988 and was a prominent opponent of mine safety and environmental regulation.
Robert E. Newnham
Robert E. Newnham (1929–2009) was an American materials scientist and crystallographer at Penn State who invented the composite piezoelectric transducer in the late 1970s, transforming medical ultrasound and sonar.
Robert E. Olson
Robert E. Olson (born 1919) was an American biochemist and physician whose research centered on nutrition, especially how vitamin K regulates blood clotting protein synthesis.
Robert E. Patricelli
Robert E. Patricelli is an American health care executive and former federal official who founded Value Health, sold to Columbia HCA in 1997 for $1.4 billion.
Robert E. Payne
Robert E. Payne, born 1941 in Kentucky, is a senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, appointed by President George H.W. Bush in 1992.
Robert E. Ricklefs
Robert E. Ricklefs (1943–2026) was an American evolutionary ecologist and ornithologist, Curators' Distinguished Professor at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, known for avian life histories and diversity.
Robert E. Schafrik Sr
Robert E. Schafrik Sr., fully Robert Edward Schafrik Sr. (1946–2018), was an American metallurgical engineer who led materials and process engineering at GE Aviation and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013.
Robert E. Spiller
Robert E. Spiller, known as Robin Spiller, is a British gastroenterologist, Professor at the University of Nottingham since 1988, and editor of Gut from 2003 to 2009.
Robert E. Tarjan
Robert E. Tarjan is an American computer scientist and Princeton professor who won the 1986 Turing Award for fundamental work on graph algorithms and data structures, including splay trees and Fibonacci heaps.
Robert E. Thach
Robert E. Thach is an American molecular biologist at Washington University in St. Louis known for work on translation initiation and translational control of gene expression.
Robert E. W. Hancock
Robert E. W. Hancock, known as Bob Hancock, is a Canadian microbiologist at the University of British Columbia known for research on antimicrobial peptides and antibiotic resistance.
Robert E. Weibel
Robert E. Weibel was an American pediatrician whose clinical trials of live attenuated viral vaccines supplied evidence behind the MMR vaccine, licensed in 1971, and the varicella vaccine, licensed in 1995.
Robert E. Wier
Robert E. Wier, also known as Robert Earl Wier, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Kentucky since 2018.
Robert E. Wilson
Robert E. Wilson was an American chemical engineer who chaired Standard Oil of Indiana from 1945 to 1958 and later served on the Atomic Energy Commission.
Robert Earl
Robert Earl, born 1951 in Hendon, London, is a British-born restaurateur who co-founded Planet Hollywood in 1991, led it through 1990s boom and 1999 bankruptcy, and rebuilt it around the Las Vegas resort.
Robert Earl Jones
Robert Earl Jones (1904 or 1910 to 2006), American stage and screen actor, father of James Earl Jones; Langston Hughes Harlem Suitcase Theatre actor, Broadway debut The Hasty Heart 1945, Luther Coleman in The Sting (1973).
Robert Earl Keen
Robert Earl Keen (born 1956, Houston) is a Texas singer-songwriter, Americana pioneer, and Texas Country founder, known for "The Road Goes on Forever," 21 records, a 2022 farewell tour, and a 2026 comeback.
Robert Earnshaw
Robert Earnshaw, born 1981 in Mufulira, Zambia, is a Welsh former forward and Cardiff City great, the only player with hat-tricks in the Premier League, all four EFL divisions, FA Cup, League Cup, and for Wales.
Robert Edward Gross
Robert Edward Gross (1905–1988) was an American surgeon at Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard who performed the first successful patent ductus arteriosus operation in 1938.
Robert Edwards (physiologist)
Robert G. Edwards (1925–2013) was a British physiologist at Cambridge who developed human in vitro fertilization, achieving the first IVF birth in 1978 and winning the 2010 Nobel Prize.
Robert Eggers
Robert Eggers (born 1983) is an American director, screenwriter and production designer of period folk-horror films: The Witch (2015), The Lighthouse (2019), The Northman (2022), Nosferatu (2024), and the upcoming Werwulf (2026), all researched, archaic-language features.
Robert Eisner
Robert Eisner (1922–1998) was an American macroeconomist at Northwestern University, known for his work on business investment, his inflation-adjusted deficit analysis, and as American Economic Association president in 1988.
Robert Elderfield
Robert Cooley Elderfield (1904–1979) was an American organic chemist known for cardiac glycosides, antimalarial research, and anticancer agents; he taught at Columbia and the University of Michigan.
Robert Elliot (surgeon)
Robert Henry Elliot (1864–1936) was a British ophthalmic surgeon and Indian Medical Service colonel who introduced sclero-corneal trephining for glaucoma while superintendent of the Government Ophthalmic Hospital, Madras.
Robert Emden
Robert Emden (1862–1940) was a Swiss physicist and astrophysicist whose 1907 book Gaskugeln founded the theory of self-gravitating gas spheres, and whose name survives in the Lane–Emden equation.
Robert Emerson (plant physiologist)
Robert Emerson (1903–1959) was an American plant physiologist at the University of Illinois known for the red drop, the enhancement effect, and the photosynthetic unit.