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Robert H. Dodds, Jr.

Robert H. Dodds, Jr. is an American structural engineer and University of Illinois professor emeritus elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2008 for fracture mechanics.

Robert H. Ebert

Robert H. Ebert, born Robert Higgins Ebert (1914–1996), was an American physician-investigator who served as dean of Harvard Medical School from 1966 to 1977 and led the Milbank Memorial Fund.

Robert H. Eckel

Robert H. Eckel is an American physician-scientist in endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism, emeritus professor at the University of Colorado and a former American Heart Association president.

Robert H. Edwards

Robert H. Edwards is an American neuroscientist and physician at the University of California, San Francisco who identified the proteins that carry neurotransmitters into synaptic vesicles.

Robert H. Goddard

Robert H. Goddard, also known as Robert Hutchings Goddard, was an American physicist who flew the world's first liquid-propellant rocket in 1926 and is called the father of modern rocketry.

Robert H. Hurt

Robert H. Hurt is an American materials and environmental engineer, Professor of Engineering at Brown University, who leads its Laboratory for Environmental and Health Nanoscience.

Robert H. Jackson

Robert H. Jackson was an American Supreme Court justice from 1941 to 1954 who also served as Attorney General and chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials.

Robert H. Lustig

Robert H. Lustig is an American pediatric endocrinologist and emeritus professor of pediatrics at UCSF, best known for arguing that fructose is a metabolic toxin driving chronic disease.

Robert H. Michell

Robert H. Michell is a British biochemist at the University of Birmingham whose 1975 review correctly proposed that receptor-triggered inositol lipid hydrolysis mobilizes calcium in stimulated cells.

Robert H. Miller

Robert H. Miller, also published as Robert Harvey Miller, is a neuroscientist at George Washington University known for work on glial development and myelin repair.

Robert H. Moser

Robert H. Moser, or Robert Harlan Moser (1923–2013), was an American Army internist, a pioneer writer on drug-induced disease, and JAMA's editor-in-chief from 1973 to 1975.

Robert H. Park

Robert H. Park (1902–1994) was an American electrical engineer who created Park's transformation and equations for synchronous machines, held over 60 US patents, and won the IEEE Lamme Medal.

Robert H. Parrott

Robert H. Parrott (circa 1923 – 1999) was an American pediatrician and virology researcher who led Children's Hospital in Washington, D.C., for roughly three decades.

Robert H. Porter

Robert H. Porter, born 1955 in London, Ontario, is a Northwestern University economist who studies collusion, price wars, and auctions, and shared the 2018 BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award for founding empirical industrial organization.

Robert H. Purcell

Robert H. Purcell, born 1935 in Keokuk, Iowa, is an American virologist who spent his career at NIAID studying the hepatitis viruses and developing the first licensed hepatitis A vaccines.

Robert H. Rediker

Robert H. Rediker, born 1924 in Brooklyn, is an American electrical engineer whose MIT Lincoln Laboratory group made the first gallium arsenide p-n junction diode and a working diode laser in 1962.

Robert H. Scanlan

Robert H. Scanlan (1914–2001) was an American engineer, a founder of bridge aerodynamics whose 1971 flutter derivatives with John Tomko remain widely used in suspension bridge design.

Robert H. Silverman

Robert H. Silverman is an American biochemist at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute known for his work on the OAS/RNase L pathway of antiviral innate immunity.

Robert H. Singer

Robert H. Singer is an American cell biologist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine known for developing single-molecule RNA FISH and founding the field of RNA localization.

Robert H. Swanson Jr.

Robert H. Swanson Jr., known as Bob Swanson, is an American semiconductor executive who co-founded Linear Technology in Milpitas, California, in 1981 and led it as CEO.

Robert H. Swendsen

Robert H. Swendsen is an American physicist at Carnegie Mellon University who co-created the 1987 Swendsen–Wang cluster algorithm, which greatly sped up simulations near phase transitions.

Robert H. Symons

Robert H. Symons (1934–2006) was an Australian biochemist at the University of Adelaide whose research on plant viruses and viroids led to discovery of the hammerhead ribozyme.

Robert H. Vonderheide

Robert H. Vonderheide is an American oncologist and cancer immunologist who directs the Abramson Cancer Center at Penn, known for CD40 immunotherapy and pancreatic cancer research.

Robert H. Wagoner

Robert H. Wagoner (1952-2025) was an American materials scientist and engineer at Ohio State, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1995 for contributions to industrial sheet metal forming.

Robert H. Wentorf, Jr.

Robert H. Wentorf, Jr. (1926–1997) was an American chemist at General Electric's research lab who first synthesized cubic boron nitride, Borazon, and helped make the first man-made diamonds.

Robert H. Whaley

Robert H. Whaley (born 1943) is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of Washington, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1995.

Robert H. Wurtz

Robert H. Wurtz (born 1936) is an American visual neuroscientist and NIH distinguished investigator emeritus, known for recording single neurons in awake, behaving monkeys and for discovering a corollary discharge circuit.

Robert H. Yolken

Robert H. Yolken is a virologist at Johns Hopkins University who directs the Stanley Division of Developmental Neurovirology and studies infectious agents in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

Robert Habeck

Robert Habeck (born 1969, Lübeck), German Green politician (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen); Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action 2021–2025, former Schleswig-Holstein minister, 2025 Green chancellor candidate.

Robert Hadden

Robert Hadden, former Columbia University and NewYork-Presbyterian OB-GYN, sexually abused patients from about 1993 to 2012; convicted federally in 2023, sentenced to 20 years, with over $1 billion in civil settlements.