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Robert J. Hermann
Robert J. Hermann is an American electrical engineer who directed the National Reconnaissance Office from 1979 to 1981 and later held senior posts at United Technologies.
Robert J. Huebner
Robert J. Huebner (1914–1998) was an American virologist at the National Institutes of Health who helped isolate over 400 viruses and proposed the oncogene concept.
Robert J. Jonker
Robert J. Jonker is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of Michigan since 2007, appointed by President George W. Bush.
Robert J. Joynt
Robert J. Joynt (1925–2012) was an American neurologist who founded and chaired the University of Rochester's Department of Neurology and later served as its dean.
Robert J. Keenan
Robert J. Keenan is a structural biologist and professor at the University of Chicago whose laboratory studies how membrane proteins are built and quality-controlled at the endoplasmic reticulum.
Robert J. Lang
Robert J. Lang is an American origami master and former laser physicist who left NASA engineering in 2001 to practice origami full time, with over 800 designs.
Robert J. Lefkowitz
Robert J. Lefkowitz is an American physician-scientist at Duke University who characterized G-protein-coupled receptors and shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for that work.
Robert J. Linhardt
Robert J. Linhardt, also known as Robert Linhardt, was an American chemist and glycobiologist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute known for heparin research, including synthetic heparin and the 2008 contamination crisis.
Robert J. Luck
Robert J. Luck, also known as Robert Joshua Luck, is an American jurist serving as a federal appeals judge on the Eleventh Circuit since 2019, appointed by President Trump.
Robert J. Macfarlane
Robert J. Macfarlane is a materials scientist and nanotechnologist who holds the Paul M. Cook Professorship at MIT, known for DNA-programmed nanoparticle superlattices and nanocomposite tectons.
Robert J. Madix (materials scientist)
Robert J. Madix (1938–2023) was an American surface chemist, professor of chemical engineering at Stanford from 1965 to 2004, and later a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard.
Robert J. McEliece
Robert J. McEliece (1942–2019) was an American information theorist at Caltech and JPL, known for the 1978 McEliece cryptosystem and coding for Voyager, Galileo, and Cassini.
Robert J. Motzer
Robert J. Motzer, also known as R.J. Motzer, is a medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who created the MSKCC kidney cancer prognostic model and led pivotal kidney cancer drug trials.
Robert J. Myerburg
Robert J. Myerburg is an American cardiologist and professor at the University of Miami whose research centers on sudden cardiac death, from risk prediction to prevention.
Robert J. O'Neill
Robert J. O'Neill, born in Butte, Montana, is a retired US Navy SEAL of SEAL Teams 2, 4, and 6 with 400+ combat missions and 52 decorations, known for claiming he fired the shots that killed Osama bin Laden in the 2011 Abbottabad raid, an account disputed by Matt Bissonnette and other SEALs.
Robert J. P. Corriu
Robert J. P. Corriu (1934–2016) was a French chemist at the University of Montpellier who in 1972 independently reported the nickel-catalyzed Grignard cross-coupling now called the Kumada–Corriu reaction, and pioneered hypervalent silicon chemistry.
Robert J. Sampson
Robert J. Sampson (born 1956) is an American sociologist and criminologist at Harvard University, best known for collective efficacy and winner of the 2011 Stockholm Prize in Criminology.
Robert J. Schneider
Robert J. Schneider is an American cancer researcher and Albert B. Sabin Professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine who studies breast cancer translation control.
Robert J. Scholes
Robert J. Scholes, known as Bob Scholes, was a South African systems ecologist and Wits Distinguished Professor known for savanna ecology and leading IPCC and IPBES assessments.
Robert J. Schwartz
Robert J. Schwartz is a molecular biologist and Cullen Distinguished Professor at the University of Houston, known for work on cardiac transcription factors and heart repair.
Robert J. Serafin
Robert J. Serafin is an American electrical engineer and radar meteorologist who directed the National Center for Atmospheric Research from 1989 to 2000 and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1994.
Robert J. Shelby
Robert James Shelby, born in 1970, is a United States district judge in Utah since 2012, appointed by Barack Obama and chief judge from 2018 to 2025.
Robert J. Shiller
Robert J. Shiller, Yale economist and 2013 Nobel laureate (with Fama and Hansen), behavioral finance pioneer, co-creator of the CAPE ratio and the Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, and author of Irrational Exuberance and Narrative Economics.
Robert J. Siegel
Robert J. Siegel is an American cardiologist known for cardiovascular ultrasound and echocardiography at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he has practiced since 1982.
Robert J. Silbey
Robert J. Silbey (1940–2011) was an American theoretical physical chemist at MIT, where he was dean of the School of Science and a National Academy of Sciences member.
Robert J. Van de Graaff
Robert J. Van de Graaff (1901–1967) was an American physicist who invented the Van de Graaff electrostatic generator, a standard accelerator for early nuclear physics.
Robert J. Volpe
Robert J. Volpe, also known as Robert Volpé, was a Canadian endocrinologist and University of Toronto professor, a leading authority on the immunology of Graves' disease and Hashimoto's thyroiditis.
Robert J. Waldinger
Robert J. Waldinger is an American psychiatrist and Zen teacher who directs the Harvard Study of Adult Development, the longest-running study of adult life, since 2003.
Robert J. Wechsler‐Reya
Robert J. Wechsler-Reya, also known as Robert Wechsler-Reya, is a cancer biologist and professor at Columbia University who has led medulloblastoma research at Duke and Sanford Burnham Prebys.
Robert J. Weimer
Robert Jay Weimer (1926–2021) was an American petroleum geologist and Colorado School of Mines professor known for applying stratigraphic principles to oil exploration in the Rocky Mountain Cretaceous basins.