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Robert Louis-Dreyfus
Robert Louis-Dreyfus (1946–2009) was a French businessman and turnaround specialist who rescued Adidas in the 1990s and later led the Louis Dreyfus commodity trading house.
Robert Lowell
Robert Lowell (1917–1977), American poet and Pulitzer winner; his 1959 Life Studies launched confessional poetry. Also known for Lord Weary's Castle, Imitations, and Day by Day.
Robert Lowie
Robert Lowie was an American anthropologist, born in Vienna in 1883, a student of Franz Boas known for his Crow Indian ethnography and his 1920 book Primitive Society.
Robert Ludlum
Robert Ludlum (1927–2001), American thriller novelist, author of the Bourne trilogy and creator of Jason Bourne and Covert-One; over 225 million copies in print; 1971 debut The Scarlatti Inheritance.
Robert Luke
Robert G. Luke (R. G. Luke) is a Scottish-born nephrologist who chaired internal medicine at the University of Cincinnati from 1988 to 2004 and studies acid-base and electrolyte metabolism.
Robert Luke Nussbaum
Robert Luke Nussbaum is an American physician-scientist in medical genetics, a UCSF professor and National Academy of Medicine member known for identifying alpha-synuclein in hereditary Parkinson disease.
Robert Lupton
Robert Lupton is a British-born astronomer at Princeton University who directed the Sloan Digital Sky Survey imaging pipeline and later served as Pipeline Scientist for the Rubin Observatory's LSST.
Robert M. Bell
Robert M. Bell is a biochemist at Duke University, known for his groundbreaking work in the 1980s regarding lipid metabolism and the discovery of sphingolipid signaling.
Robert M. Benbow
Robert M. Benbow was a molecular biologist at Johns Hopkins and Iowa State University known for cell-free Xenopus frog egg systems for studying DNA replication and recombination.
Robert M. Berne
Robert M. Berne (1918–2001) was an American cardiovascular physiologist best known for the adenosine hypothesis of coronary blood flow regulation, and chaired physiology at the University of Virginia from 1966 to 1988.
Robert M. Blizzard
Robert M. Blizzard (1924–2018) was an American pediatric endocrinologist who directed the US human growth hormone supply and showed emotional deprivation can mimic hormone deficiency.
ROBERT M. BOYAR
Robert M. Boyar was an American endocrinologist whose 1972 study showed that luteinizing hormone secretion rises during sleep at puberty, giving a biologic index for identifying puberty.
Robert M. Boynton
Robert M. Boynton (1924–2006) was an American color vision scientist who founded Rochester's Center for Visual Science and wrote the standard text Human Color Vision.
Robert M. Carey
Robert M. Carey is an American hypertension researcher and cardiovascular endocrinologist at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, known for his work on the renin-angiotensin system.
Robert M. Chanock
Robert M. Chanock (1924–2010) was an American virologist who discovered respiratory syncytial virus, proved Mycoplasma pneumoniae causes walking pneumonia, and led NIAID's Laboratory of Infectious Diseases from 1967 to 2001.
Robert M. DeConto
Robert M. DeConto is an American climatologist and glaciologist, professor and director at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, known for Antarctic ice-sheet modeling and 2016 and 2021 Nature sea-level projections.
Robert M. Dickson
Robert M. Dickson is a chemist and the Vassar Woolley Professor at Georgia Tech since 1998, known for 1997 single-molecule GFP blinking work and photoactivated fluorescent silver nanoclusters.
Robert M. Donaldson
Robert M. Donaldson, Jr. (1927–2003) was an American gastroenterologist and Yale professor whose research defined how intestinal bacteria cause malabsorption and how the gut absorbs vitamin B12.
Robert M. Dow, Jr.
Robert M. Dow, Jr., also known as Robert Michael Dow, Jr., is an American district judge in Illinois appointed by George W. Bush in 2007.
Robert M. Drake Jr.
Robert M. Drake Jr. (Robert Mortimer Drake, Jr.) was an American mechanical engineer specializing in heat transfer, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1974; he died in 2020.
Robert M. Friedlander
Robert M. Friedlander is an American neurosurgeon, chair of Neurological Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh since 2010, known for caspase research and cerebrovascular surgery.
Robert M. Friedman
Robert M. Friedman (R. M. Friedman) is a virologist known for work on how interferon inhibits virus growth, at the National Institutes of Health and USUHS in Bethesda, Maryland.
Robert M. Garrels
Robert M. Garrels (1916–1988) was an American geochemist who applied chemical thermodynamics to low-temperature geology, known for Eh–pH diagrams, seawater modeling, and books like Solutions, Minerals, and Equilibria.
Robert M. Grant
Robert M. Grant is an American physician-scientist, professor emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, who led the iPrEx trial, the first major demonstration that daily antiretroviral pills prevent HIV infection.
Robert M. Gray
Robert M. Gray is an American information theorist and electrical engineer known for quantization theory, who spent 1969 to 2013 on the Stanford faculty and won the 2008 Shannon Award.
Robert M. Hauser
Robert M. Hauser, born 1942 in Chicago, is an American quantitative sociologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for work on social stratification, statistics, and aging.
Robert M. Hazen
Robert M. Hazen is an American mineralogist and geochemist at the Carnegie Institution for Science, known for the mineral evolution hypothesis and leading the Deep Carbon Observatory.
Robert M. Judd
Robert M. Judd is a cardiac imaging scientist at Duke University, Professor Emeritus of Medicine in Cardiology, known for developing delayed contrast-enhanced MRI that distinguishes living from scarred heart muscle.
Robert M. Kaplan
Robert M. Kaplan is an American health services researcher and psychologist at Stanford's Clinical Excellence Research Center, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2005.
Robert M. Koerner
Robert M. Koerner (1933–2019) was an American geotechnical engineer, a professor at Drexel University, and founder of the Geosynthetic Institute, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998.