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Robert L. Berger
Robert Laszlo Berger (1930–2016) was a Hungarian-born American cardiothoracic surgeon and Holocaust survivor who led Boston hospitals and showed in 1990 that the Nazi Dachau hypothermia experiments were scientifically worthless.
Robert L. Brent
Robert L. Brent (1927–2021) was an American pediatrician and teratologist at Thomas Jefferson Medical College known for showing radiation's effects on embryos follow a dose threshold.
Robert L. Brock
Robert L. Brock was an American hotelier and restaurant executive who founded ShowBiz Pizza Place in 1980 and acquired bankrupt rival Pizza Time Theatre in the 1985 merger.
Robert L. Byer
Robert L. Byer is an American applied physicist at Stanford University known for laser science and nonlinear optics, including the diode-pumped YAG laser that forms LIGO's main beams.
Robert L. Carneiro
Robert L. Carneiro (1927–2020) was an American cultural anthropologist at the American Museum of Natural History, known for his circumscription theory of the origin of the state.
Robert L. Coble
Robert L. Coble (1928–1992) was an American physical ceramist and MIT professor known for the creep model named after him, Coble creep, and for the transparent ceramic Lucalox.
Robert L. Coffman
Robert L. Coffman is an American immunologist who established the Th1/Th2 model of helper T cell differentiation and developed CpG oligonucleotide vaccine adjuvants at Dynavax Technologies.
Robert L. Coleman
Robert L. Coleman is an American gynecologic oncologist at Texas Oncology in The Woodlands, Texas, formerly of MD Anderson, known for leading the ovarian cancer trials ARIEL3 and VELIA.
Robert L. Cook
Robert L. Cook, known professionally as Rob Cook, is a computer graphics researcher who developed stochastic sampling, wrote the Reyes rendering architecture, and was primary author of Pixar's RenderMan.
Robert L. Ferrer
Robert L. Ferrer is an American family physician at UT Health San Antonio, elected to the National Academy of Medicine for measuring opportunities for healthy behaviors.
Robert L. Ferris
Robert L. Ferris is an American head and neck surgical oncologist who directs UNC Lineberger Cancer Center and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2025.
Robert L. Fischer
Robert L. Fischer is an American plant biologist and Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, known for showing that the DEMETER DNA glycosylase establishes gene imprinting in the plant endosperm.
Robert L. Fleischer
Robert L. Fleischer was an American physicist and geoscientist who turned etching nuclear particle tracks in solids into the fission-track method of dating rocks, meteorites, and archaeological materials.
Robert L. Folk
Robert L. Folk (1925–2018) was an American sedimentary petrologist at the University of Texas at Austin who formulated the first carbonate-rock classification and a still-used sandstone classification.
Robert L. Forward
Robert L. Forward (Robert Lull Forward) was an American gravitational physicist and inventor who spent 31 years at Hughes Aircraft and wrote 11 hard science fiction novels.
Robert L. Frye
Robert L. Frye (1932–2026) was an American cardiologist at Mayo Clinic who chaired the BARI trial and served as president of the American College of Cardiology.
Robert L. Goldenberg
Robert L. Goldenberg is an American maternal-fetal medicine physician-scientist, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Columbia University, known for research on stillbirth and preterm birth.
Robert L. Hill (biochemist)
Robert L. Hill (1928–2012) was an American biochemist at Duke University School of Medicine who led research on hemoglobin variants and glycosyltransferases, the enzymes that build complex sugars on proteins.
Robert L. Hinkle
Robert Lewis Hinkle is an American jurist, a senior United States district judge for the Northern District of Florida appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1996.
Robert L. Howard
Robert L. Howard (1939-2009) was a US Army Special Forces colonel, Medal of Honor recipient, and the Vietnam War's most decorated soldier, nominated three times for the Medal of Honor and wounded 14 times across five tours.
Robert L. Johnson
Robert L. Johnson (born 1946, Hickory, Mississippi) founded Black Entertainment Television (BET), the first Black-owned cable network, took it public in 1991, sold it to Viacom for about $3 billion in 2001, became America's first Black billionaire, and later built The RLJ Companies.
Robert L. Last
Robert L. Last is an American plant molecular biologist and University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University, known for connecting plant genes with the biochemical pathways they control.
Robert L. Letsinger
Robert L. Letsinger (1921–2014) was an American chemist at Northwestern University who pioneered the chemical synthesis of DNA and later used DNA to assemble gold nanoparticles into diagnostic probes.
Robert L. Macdonald
Robert L. Macdonald is an American neurologist and neuroscientist known for research on GABA_A receptor channels and genetic epilepsy, who chaired Vanderbilt's neurology department from 2001 to 2017.
Robert L. Margolis
Robert L. Margolis is an American cell biologist who studies microtubule dynamics and centromere biology, known for discovering microtubule treadmilling and for work identifying CENP-A as the centromere-specific histone.
Robert L. Martuza M.D.
Robert L. Martuza is a neurosurgeon and neuroscientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known as a founder of oncolytic herpes virotherapy for brain tumors.
Robert L. Metcalf
Robert L. Metcalf (1916–1998) was an American entomologist and environmental toxicologist at the University of Illinois who documented insecticide resistance and made biodegradability a pesticide requirement.
Robert L. Miller, Jr.
Robert L. Miller, Jr., also known as Robert Lowell Miller, Jr., is an American jurist appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1985 to the Northern District of Indiana.
Robert L. Modlin
Robert L. Modlin is a physician-scientist and Distinguished Professor of dermatology at UCLA, known for building a human immunology of mycobacterial disease using leprosy as a model.
Robert L. Nussbaum
Robert L. Nussbaum is an American physician-scientist in human genetics who identified the Lowe syndrome gene OCRL1 and alpha-synuclein, the first hereditary Parkinson disease gene.