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Robert M. Krug
Robert M. Krug is a virologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, known for discovering the influenza cap-snatching mechanism and studying the viral NS1 protein.
Robert M. La Follette
Robert M. La Follette (1855-1925), "Fighting Bob," Wisconsin progressive Republican governor 1901-1906 and senator 1906-1925; championed railroad regulation, direct primaries, and the Wisconsin Idea, and ran for president in 1924 winning 16 percent of the vote.
Robert M. Lavker
Robert M. Lavker is a dermatologist and epithelial stem cell researcher, Professor Emeritus at Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine, known for locating corneal and hair follicle stem cells.
Robert M. May
Robert M. May (1936–2020) was an Australian-born theoretical physicist who became a founder of modern theoretical ecology, UK chief scientific adviser, and President of the Royal Society.
Robert M. Miura
Robert M. Miura (1938–2018) was an American applied mathematician whose Miura transformation connected two wave equations, opening the route to soliton theory and the 2006 Steele Prize.
Robert M. Neer
Robert M. Neer, also known as Robert Neer, is an American physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School who founded its Bone Density Center.
Robert M. Nerem
Robert M. Nerem (1937–2020) was an American bioengineer who pioneered the study of how blood-flow forces regulate vessel cells and of tissue engineering at Georgia Tech.
Robert M. Netting
Robert M. Netting, also known as Robert McC. Netting, was an American anthropologist and cultural ecologist who studied smallholder farming in Nigeria and the Swiss Alps.
Robert M. Nowak
Robert M. Nowak is an American organic and polymer chemist in Midland, Michigan, who spent 37 years at Dow Chemical and led the Michigan Molecular Institute from 1994 to 2009.
Robert M. Oliver
Robert M. Oliver, born 1931, is an American operations researcher and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006.
Robert M. Pirsig
Robert M. Pirsig (1928–2017), American author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), best-selling philosophy book with over 5 million copies sold, and Lila (1991), developer of the Metaphysics of Quality.
Robert M. Plenge
Robert M. Plenge is an American rheumatologist and human geneticist who serves as chief research officer at Bristol Myers Squibb and is known for connecting rheumatoid arthritis genetics to drug discovery.
Robert M. Post
Robert M. Post is an American psychiatrist known for applying the kindling hypothesis to mood disorders and for carbamazepine trials in bipolar illness, after 35 years at the NIMH.
Robert M. Pringle
Robert M. Pringle is an ecologist and professor at Princeton University known for studies of African savanna restoration at Mpala, Kenya, and Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique.
Robert M. Schoch
Robert M. Schoch is an American geologist and Boston University faculty member since 1984, known for redating the Great Sphinx of Giza and proposing that solar outbursts ended the last ice age.
Robert M. Sneider
Robert M. Sneider (1929–2005) was an American petroleum reservoir geologist in Houston, Texas, founder of Robert M. Sneider Exploration Inc., elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2000.
Robert M. Solovay
Robert M. Solovay is an American mathematical logician and set theorist, Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1986, known for the 1970 Solovay model and a Monte-Carlo primality test.
Robert M. Strieter
Robert M. Strieter is an American physician-scientist and Professor of Medicine at the University of Virginia, known for showing that the CXC chemokine family divides into promoters and inhibitors of angiogenesis.
Robert M. Townsend
Robert M. Townsend is an American development economist, the Elizabeth & James Killian Professor at MIT, known for costly state verification and the Townsend Thai Project.
Robert M. Wachter
Robert M. Wachter is an American physician and UCSF medicine chair who coined the term "hospitalist" in 1996 and researches patient safety and health AI.
Robert M. Wald
Robert M. Wald is a theoretical physicist at the University of Chicago known for work on general relativity, black hole thermodynamics, and quantum field theory in curved spacetime.
Robert M. Walker
Robert M. Walker (1929–2004) was an American experimental physicist who pioneered fossil nuclear tracks, discovered extremely heavy cosmic rays in meteorites, and led the search for stardust grains.
Robert M. Waymouth
Robert M. Waymouth is an American organic and polymer chemist at Stanford University, the Robert Eckles Swain Professor, known for stereoselective polymerization, metal-free organocatalysis with IBM, and RNA delivery.
Robert M. White
Robert M. White (Robert Mayer White, 1923–2015) was an American meteorologist who led the Weather Bureau, ESSA, and NOAA, becoming NOAA's first administrator in 1970.
Robert Maaser
Robert Maaser (born 1990, Strausberg, Germany) is a German actor and wheel gymnastics champion with 14 world titles, known for Blood & Gold (2023), Ballerina (2025), and The Black Dagger Brotherhood.
Robert MacArthur
Robert Helmer MacArthur (1930–1972) was a Canadian-born American ecologist at Princeton University who, with E. O. Wilson, founded island biogeography theory and is remembered as a founder of evolutionary ecology.
Robert Macfarlane
Robert Macfarlane, or R. G. Macfarlane (1907 to 1987), was a British haematologist at Oxford who turned blood clotting into an experimental science and transformed hemophilia treatment.
Robert MacIntyre
Robert MacIntyre, Scottish left-handed professional golfer from Oban; six wins including 2024 Scottish Open and Canadian Open, 2025 U.S. Open runner-up, undefeated 2023 Ryder Cup rookie, career-high world No. 5.
Robert MacPherson
Robert MacPherson, born 1944, is an American mathematician at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, known for intersection homology theory, created with Mark Goresky in the 1970s.
Robert Maillet
Robert Maillet (born 1969) is a Canadian actor and retired wrestler, known as Kurrgan in the WWF (1997–1999) with The Truth Commission and The Oddities, and as the Uber Immortal in 300, Dredger in Sherlock Holmes, and Lt. Kaidanovsky in Pacific Rim.