All articles starting with R

Robert Malpas

Sir Robert Malpas (1927–2023) was a British engineer and industrialist who rose to ICI's main board, served as a managing director of BP, chaired Cookson Group, and co-chaired Eurotunnel.

Robert Mandan

Robert Mandan (born Robert Frederic Little, 1932-2018) was an American character actor, best known as Chester Tate on the ABC sitcom Soap (1977-1981) and as James Bradford on Three's a Crowd.

Robert Mapplethorpe (1946–1989), American photographer of stylized nudes, flowers, portraits, and S&M imagery; The Perfect Moment censorship controversy, 1988 Whitney retrospective, Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation.

Robert Marcus Gunn

Robert Marcus Gunn (1850–1909) was a Scottish ophthalmologist who spent his career at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London and gave his name to the Marcus Gunn pupil and jaw-winking syndrome.

Robert Mark Kamen

Robert Mark Kamen (born 1947, Bronx) is the American screenwriter who created The Karate Kid, wrote The Fifth Element, the Transporter films, and Taken, and owns Kamen Estate Wines in Sonoma.

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Robert Marland

Robert Davies Marland (born 1964, Mississauga, Ontario) is a Canadian rower, Olympic gold medalist in the men's eight at Barcelona 1992, and two-time world silver medalist (1990, 1991).

Robert Marshak

Robert Eugene Marshak (1916–1992) was an American theoretical physicist known for the V−A theory of weak interactions, wartime work at Los Alamos, and founding the Rochester high-energy physics conferences.

Robert Mathis

Robert Mathis, born 1981, Colts linebacker/defensive end 2003-2016; 123.0 franchise-record sacks, NFL-record 52 forced fumbles, 19.5 sacks and Deacon Jones Award in 2013; Colts Ring of Honor 2021, not in Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Robert Maudsley

Robert Maudsley (born 1953), nicknamed "Hannibal the Cannibal", is an English quadruple killer and Britain's longest-serving prisoner, held in continuous solitary confinement since 1978, mostly in a special glass cell, surpassing Albert Woodfox's 43-year record.

Robert Maxwell

Robert Maxwell (Jan Ludvik Hoch, 1923–1991), Czechoslovak-born British publisher, Labour MP, and founder of Pergamon Press, who built a media empire including the Daily Mirror and Macmillan, then looted about $1.2 billion from his companies and pension funds before dying at sea in 1991.

Robert May, Baron May of Oxford

Robert May, Baron May of Oxford (1936–2020) was an Australian-born physicist who founded theoretical ecology, best known for the May–Wigner stability theorem, and served as UK Chief Scientific Adviser.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899-1977), American educator and fifth president of the University of Chicago (1929-1951), reformed undergraduate education around general education, comprehensive exams, and Great Books with Mortimer Adler, later leading the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Republic.

Robert Mayne Patterson

Robert Mayne Patterson (1832–1911) was an American Presbyterian pastor who led churches in Chester County and Philadelphia, edited the Presbyterian Journal, and wrote books on Presbyterian history.

Robert McCallum Blumenthal

Robert McCallum Blumenthal (1931–2012) was an American mathematician at the University of Washington best known for the Blumenthal zero-one law and the 1968 monograph Markov Processes and Potential Theory with Ronald Getoor.

Robert McCarrison

Robert McCarrison (1878–1960) was an Irish-born doctor in the Indian Medical Service whose Himalayan goitre research and Coonoor nutrition laboratory, later India's National Institute of Nutrition, made him a central figure in nutrition science.

Robert McClung

Robert McClung, known as R. Paul McClung, is a CDC researcher in HIV outbreak detection and response who coauthored the first 2022 US mpox report.

Robert McCorkle Netting

Robert McC. Netting (1934–1995) was an American anthropologist and cultural ecologist who studied smallholder farm families in Nigeria and the Swiss Alps, teaching at the University of Arizona.

Robert McCormick Adams Jr.

Robert McCormick Adams Jr. (1926–2018) was an American archaeologist who mapped Mesopotamian settlement and irrigation by field survey, and later served as the Smithsonian's ninth Secretary.

Robert McMillan (hematologist)

Robert McMillan was an American hematologist at Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, California, whose work traced chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura to antibodies made by the spleen.

Robert McNamara

Robert Strange McNamara (1916–2009), American executive and official: Ford Motor Company president, longest-serving US Secretary of Defense (1961–1968) and Vietnam War strategist, then World Bank president (1968–1981) focused on absolute poverty.

Robert McNamara as Secretary of Defense

Robert McNamara served as the eighth U.S. Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968, directing the American war effort in Vietnam, which he later admitted was a mistake.

Robert Mehrabian

Robert Mehrabian is an Armenian-American materials scientist and executive who led Carnegie Mellon University from 1990 to 1997 and spent over two decades as Teledyne Technologies' chairman and CEO.

Robert Ménard

Robert Ménard is a French physician-scientist and parasitologist who heads the Biology and Genetics of the Malaria Laboratory at the Institut Pasteur, known for filming malaria parasites in real time.

Robert Menzies

Robert Gordon Menzies (1894–1978), Australia's 12th and longest-serving prime minister, in office 1939–41 (United Australia Party) and 1949–66 (Liberal Party founder), totaling 18 years 5 months 10 days.

Robert Mercer

Robert Mercer, known as Bob Mercer, is an American computer scientist and hedge-fund executive who co-built Renaissance Technologies' Medallion fund system and co-led the firm from 2010 to 2018.

Robert Merritt Stein

Robert Merritt Stein (1937–2019) was an American electronics engineer at Raytheon who worked on missile defense systems and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019.

Robert Meservey

Robert Hilton Meservey (1921–2013) was an American condensed-matter physicist at MIT who, with Paul Tedrow, discovered spin-polarized electron tunneling from superconductors in 1970, a foundation of spintronics.

Robert Metcalfe

Robert Metcalfe, also known as Bob Metcalfe, is an American engineer and entrepreneur who invented Ethernet at Xerox PARC in 1973, founded 3Com, and won the 2022 Turing Award.

Robert Metzenberg

Robert Metzenberg (1930–2007) was an American geneticist who spent his career at the University of Wisconsin studying Neurospora crassa and discovered meiotic silencing by unpaired DNA.