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Robert K. Brayton
Robert K. Brayton (1933–2025) was an American engineer and mathematician, a UC Berkeley professor and pioneer of electronic design automation whose tools shaped digital circuit design.
Robert K. Burns
Robert K. Burns (Robert Kyle Burns, 1896–1982) was an American biologist who showed experimentally that hormones can alter sexual development in vertebrates, working mainly at the Carnegie Institution in Baltimore.
Robert K. Grasselli
Robert K. Grasselli was an American industrial chemist in heterogeneous catalysis who invented the one-step acrylonitrile process at Sohio and formulated the seven pillars of oxidation catalysis.
Robert K. Kaufmann
Robert K. Kaufmann, also known as Robert Kaufmann, is an American energy and environmental economist who is a professor at Boston University and studies climate change and world oil markets.
Robert K. Merton
Robert K. Merton (Meyer R. Schkolnick, 1910–2003), American Columbia sociologist; coined self-fulfilling prophecy, Matthew effect, role model, focus group; theories of the middle range; first sociologist awarded the National Medal of Science.
Robert K. Morgan
Robert K. Morgan (1918–2004) was an American Army Air Forces pilot of the B-17 Memphis Belle who later led the first B-29 bombing raid on Tokyo.
Robert K. Ockner
Robert K. Ockner (1936–2022) was an American physician-scientist in hepatology at UCSF, known for discovering the fatty acid-binding proteins, proposing an albumin receptor mechanism, and leading the Liver Center.
Robert K. Prud'homme
Robert K. Prud'homme is an American chemical engineer and emeritus Princeton professor who co-invented Flash NanoPrecipitation, a process for manufacturing drug nanoparticles including COVID-19 mRNA vaccines.
Robert K. Roney
Robert K. Roney (Robert Kenneth Roney) was an American aerospace engineer who spent 38 years at Hughes Aircraft, leading the Falcon missile, Surveyor lunar landers, and Syncom satellites.
Robert K. S. Wong
Robert K. S. Wong is a cellular and molecular neuroscientist and Distinguished Professor at SUNY Downstate, known for showing that a single hippocampal neuron can trigger synchronized population discharge.
Robert K. Selander
Robert K. Selander was an American evolutionary biologist and population geneticist, a University of Texas professor elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1982, known for work on genetic variation in animals and bacterial pathogens.
Robert K. Wayne
Robert K. Wayne (Robert Keith Wayne) was an evolutionary and conservation geneticist at UCLA, best known for genetic studies of dog domestication and endangered carnivores.
Robert Kagan
Robert Kagan is an American historian and foreign-policy commentator at the Brookings Institution known for writing on U.S. strategy, great-power rivalry, and the fate of the liberal international order.
Robert Kahn (computer scientist)
Robert E. Kahn is an American computer scientist who designed the ARPANET system and co-invented TCP/IP with Vinton Cerf, sharing the 2004 Turing Award and founding CNRI in 1986.
Robert Kaliňák
Robert Kaliňák (born 1971, in Bratislava) is a Slovak SMER politician serving as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, after three terms as Interior Minister.
Robert Kaptein
Robert Kaptein was a Dutch biomolecular NMR spectroscopist whose 1985 structure of the lac repressor headpiece was among the first proteins determined by NMR; he died in 2021.
Robert Karabinchak
Robert Karabinchak is an American Democratic politician in the New Jersey General Assembly representing the 18th district, appointed in May 2016 and re-elected in 2017.
Robert Kardashian
Robert George Kardashian (1944-2003) was an Armenian-American attorney and businessman, O.J. Simpson's friend and Dream Team defense lawyer in the 1995 murder trial, ex-husband of Kris Jenner, and father of Kim, Kourtney, Khloé, and Rob Kardashian.
Robert Kates
Robert Kates (1929–2018) was an American geographer and sustainability scientist who helped found sustainability science, wrote Environment as Hazard, and won the National Medal of Science in 1991.
Robert Katzman
Robert Katzman (1925–2008) was an American neurologist and Alzheimer's researcher at UCSD, best known for his 1976 editorial redefining senile dementia as a disease, not normal aging.
Robert Katzmann
Robert A. Katzmann (1953-2021), American jurist and political scientist, Second Circuit federal judge and chief judge 2013-2020; founder of Justice for All civics program, Immigrant Justice Corps, and author of Judging Statutes.
Robert Katzschmann
Robert Katzschmann is a German mechanical engineer and Assistant Professor of Robotics at ETH Zurich, known for the soft robotic fish SoFi and 2023 vision-controlled jetting for 3D-printed soft robots.
Robert Kazinsky
Robert Kazinsky (born Robert John Appleby, 1983) is an English actor known for Sean Slater in EastEnders, Chuck Hansen in Pacific Rim, Orgrim Doomhammer in Warcraft, and Warlow in True Blood season 6.
Robert Kearns
Robert Kearns was an American engineer and inventor who patented the intermittent windshield wiper and spent decades suing automakers, winning $10.2 million from Ford and $18.7 million from Chrysler.
Robert Keith (actor)
Robert Keith (Rolland Keith Richey, 1896 or 1898-1966), American character actor and Broadway playwright, father of Brian Keith; known for The Wild One, Guys and Dolls, Written on the Wind, and originating Doc in Mister Roberts.
Robert Keith Cannan
Robert Keith Cannan (1894–1971) was an American biochemist who led New York University's biochemistry department for over twenty years and later served with the National Research Council in Washington.
Robert Kelker-Kelly
Robert Kelker-Kelly (1964–2026) was an American soap opera actor, also credited as Robert Kelker Kelly, known for Bo Brady on Days of Our Lives (1992–1995), Sam Fowler on Another World, and Stavros Cassadine on General Hospital; he later became a professional pilot in Missouri.
Robert Kelly (comedian)
Robert Kelly (born 1970), known as Bobby Kelly or Kells Bells, is an American stand-up comedian from Medford, Massachusetts. Known for Louie (Robbie), Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll (Bam Bam), the Kill Box special, and podcasts You Know What Dude? and The Bonfire.
Robert Kenedi
Robert Maximilian Kenedi (1921–1998) was a Hungarian-born bioengineer who led the Strathclyde Bioengineering Unit in Glasgow, pioneering biomechanics and prosthetics research and elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 1976.
Robert Keohane
Robert Keohane (born 1941) is an American political scientist, emeritus professor at Princeton, known for neoliberal institutionalism and books including After Hegemony (1984) and Power and Interdependence (1977).