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Robert L. Pigford
Robert L. Pigford (1917–1988) was an American chemical engineer who built the University of Delaware's chemical engineering department into one of the leading departments in the United States.
Robert L. Pitman
Robert L. Pitman (born 1962, Fort Worth) is a U.S. district judge for the Western District of Texas, appointed by Obama in 2014; former U.S. attorney and magistrate judge known for blocking Texas SB 8.
Robert L. Sackheim
Robert L. Sackheim was an American space propulsion engineer who spent 35 years at TRW before serving as chief engineer for space propulsion at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.
Robert L. Sheridan
Robert L. Sheridan is an American burn surgeon, chief of staff at Shriners Children's Boston, a Harvard Medical School professor, and a past president of the American Burn Association.
Robert L. Sinsheimer
Robert L. Sinsheimer (1920–2017) was an American biophysicist whose lab showed the virus φX174 has single-stranded, circular DNA, and who convened the 1985 workshop that launched human genome sequencing.
Robert L. Smith
Robert L. Smith was an American civil engineer and water-resources pioneer at the University of Kansas, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1975.
Robert L. Steigerwald
Robert L. Steigerwald is an American power electronics engineer who spent 37 years at General Electric Global Research and won the 1993 IEEE Newell Power Electronics Award.
Robert L. Taylor
Robert L. Taylor is an American civil engineer at UC Berkeley known for the finite element method; he co-authored its standard three-volume reference book with O.C. Zienkiewicz.
Robert L. Whetten
Robert L. Whetten is a chemical physicist and professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio, known for early-1990s fullerene chemistry and ligand-protected gold and silver nanoclusters.
Robert L. Wiegel
Robert Louis Wiegel (1922–2016) was an American coastal engineer and professor of civil engineering at UC Berkeley who helped establish coastal engineering as a recognized discipline.
Robert L. Wilkins
Robert Leon Wilkins (born 1963) is an American jurist serving as a US circuit judge on the DC Circuit since 2014, appointed by Obama, after serving as a district judge.
Robert L. Willett
Robert L. Willett is an American experimental condensed-matter physicist and Bell Labs Fellow who co-measured the fractional quantum Hall energy gap cited in the 1998 Nobel Prize background.
Robert L. Z. Hoye
Robert L. Z. Hoye is a New Zealand-born materials chemist and professor at the University of Oxford known for bismuth oxyiodide solar cells, X-ray detectors, and indoor photovoltaics.
Robert Lacher
Robert Lacher is a German venture capital investor who co-founded Visionaries Club in 2019 with Sebastian Pollok, a B2B software investor known for backing Miro, Personio, and Pigment.
Robert Ladislav Parker
Robert Ladislav Parker is a geophysicist and emeritus professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, known for his 1973 Fourier-transform method for calculating potential anomalies.
Robert Lamm
Robert William Lamm (born 1944, Brooklyn) is a founding keyboardist, singer, and songwriter of Chicago, writer of "25 or 6 to 4" and "Saturday in the Park," also a solo artist with ten albums including Skinny Boy and Like a Brother.
Robert Landewé
Robert Landewé (Robert B M Landewé, born 1964) is a Dutch rheumatologist and clinical epidemiologist who chairs rheumatology at Zuyderland in Heerlen and co-authored the 2022 ASAS-EULAR axial spondyloarthritis guidelines.
Robert Landick
Robert Landick is a molecular biologist and Dr. Laurens Anderson Distinguished Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for defining how transcriptional pausing works in bacteria and humans.
Robert Lang
Robert Lang, Czech ice hockey center born 1970 in Teplice, HC Litvínov product, 1990 LA Kings draft pick; 987 NHL games, 703 points; Olympic gold Nagano 1998, bronzes 1992 and 2006; world champion 1996.
Robert Langdon
Robert Langdon: fictional Harvard professor of symbology created by Dan Brown, hero of six novels from Angels & Demons (2000) to The Secret of Secrets (2025), played by Tom Hanks in three films.
Róbert Langer
Robert S. Langer Jr. (born 1948 in Albany, New York) is an American chemical engineer at MIT who built the foundations of controlled drug release and tissue engineering and co-founded Moderna.
Robert Langlands
Robert Langlands (born 1936) is a Canadian mathematician at the Institute for Advanced Study, founder of the Langlands program and winner of the 2018 Abel Prize.
Robert Langton Douglas
Robert Langton Douglas (1864–1951) was a British art historian, critic, and dealer specializing in Sienese painting, and director of the National Gallery of Ireland from 1916 to 1923.
Robert Lansing (actor)
Robert Lansing (born Robert Howell Brown, 1928–1994) was an American stage, film, and television actor, remembered for Brig. Gen. Frank Savage in 12 O'Clock High, Steve Carella in 87th Precinct, and Control in The Equalizer.
Robert LaSardo
Robert LaSardo (born 1963, Brooklyn) is an American character actor known for Escobar Gallardo on Nip/Tuck, roles in Death Race, The Mule, and The Human Centipede III, and extensive full-body tattoos that define his tough-guy screen type.
Robert Latimer
Robert Latimer, Saskatchewan farmer convicted twice of second-degree murder for the 1993 carbon monoxide killing of his 12-year-old disabled daughter Tracy; Supreme Court of Canada 2001 upheld mandatory life sentence, necessity defence rejected.
Robert Laurens Kelly
Robert Laurens Kelly (born 1957) is an American archaeologist and professor emeritus at the University of Wyoming, known for hunter-gatherer research and the book The Foraging Spectrum.
Robert Lawson Vaught
Robert Lawson Vaught (1926–2002) was an American mathematician at UC Berkeley and a pioneer of model theory, a student of Alfred Tarski known for Vaught's conjecture.
Robert Lay
Robert 'Bob' Lay (1944-2022), Australian sprinter from NSW; Tokyo 1964 Olympian, 1962 Perth Commonwealth Games competitor, Australian 100 yards record holder at 9.2h, and member of the 39.9s world-best 4x110 yards relay team of 1964.
Robert Lazarsfeld
Robert Lazarsfeld is an algebraic geometer and Stony Brook professor known for work on positivity of line bundles and for the two-volume treatise Positivity in Algebraic Geometry.