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Robert van de Walle
Robert Van de Walle (born 1954, Ostend) is a Belgian judoka, Olympic gold medalist at -95 kg in Moscow 1980 and bronze medalist in Seoul 1988, and the first judoka to compete at five Olympic Games (1976-1992).
Robert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart
Robert Gilbert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart (1881–1957), British diplomat, Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office 1930–38, Chief Diplomatic Adviser 1938–41, leading anti-appeaser, author of Black Record (1941), origin of Vansittartism.
Robert Vassar
Robert Vassar is a neuroscientist at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine who co-discovered BACE1, the β-secretase enzyme initiating β-amyloid production in Alzheimer's disease, in 1999.
Robert Vaughn
Robert Vaughn (1932–2016), American actor known as Napoleon Solo in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964–68) and Lee in The Magnificent Seven; Oscar-nominated for The Young Philadelphians, Emmy winner, anti-Vietnam War activist, and author of Only Victims.
Robert Venables
Robert Venables (1612/13 – July 1687) was an English Parliamentarian soldier and general of the land forces in Cromwell's Western Design of 1654–1655, which failed to take Hispaniola but captured Jamaica.
Robert Venturi
Robert Venturi (1925–2018) was an American architect and writer whose critique of modernism helped open the way to postmodern architecture, winning the Pritzker Prize in 1991.
Robert Vunderink
Robert Vunderink, born 1961 in Zwolle, Dutch long-distance speed skater; Olympic 10,000 m fourth at Albertville 1992, one-hour world record 39,986.59 m (1988), Dutch 10,000 m champion 1987 and 1989.
Robert W Aldridge
Robert W Aldridge is a British physician-epidemiologist known for research on the health of migrants and socially excluded groups, leading the Virus Watch COVID-19 study and joining IHME in 2023.
Robert W. Adams
Robert W. Adams is an American electrical engineer at Analog Devices known for pioneering commercial delta-sigma audio converters; he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018.
Robert W. Baird & Co.
Robert W. Baird & Co. is a privately held, employee-owned financial services firm headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, founded in 1919, with more than 200 locations and $564 billion in client assets.
Robert W. Balluffi
Robert W. Balluffi (1924–2022) was an American materials scientist and MIT professor whose experiments proved lattice vacancies exist, clarified grain-boundary structure, and co-authored the textbook Kinetics of Materials.
Robert W. Baloh
Robert W. Baloh, also published as R. W. Baloh, is an American neurologist and neuro-otologist at UCLA whose vestibular tests and textbooks became the field standard.
Robert W. Bartlett
Robert W. Bartlett is an American mining and metallurgical engineer known for solution mining and the textbook Solution Mining, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1995.
Robert W. Berliner
Robert W. Berliner (1915–2002) was an American renal physiologist who defined how the kidney handles potassium and later served as dean of the Yale School of Medicine.
Robert W. Bower
Robert W. Bower (1936–2024) was an American electrical engineer who invented the self-aligned gate MOSFET, patented in 1969 at Hughes Research Laboratory, and later taught at UC Davis.
Robert W. Boyd
Robert W. Boyd is an American physicist in nonlinear optics and quantum photonics, a professor at Rochester and Ottawa known for slow and fast light research.
Robert W. Brodersen
Robert W. Brodersen (1945–2024) was an American electrical engineer and UC Berkeley professor who pioneered low-power CMOS design and co-founded the Berkeley Wireless Research Center.
Robert W. Cahn
Robert W. Cahn (1924–2007) was a German-born British metallurgist and materials scientist who proved dislocations exist in crystals, named polygonization, and founded leading journals in the field.
Robert W. Cairns
Robert W. Cairns (1909–1985) was an American industrial chemist who led military rocket propellant research at Hercules Incorporated and served as president of the American Chemical Society in 1968.
Robert W. Carpick
Robert W. Carpick is an American nanotribologist, the John Henry Towne Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, known for atomic-scale studies of friction, adhesion, and wear.
Robert W. Colman
Robert W. Colman is an American hematologist and physician-scientist at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, known for defining the plasma kallikrein-kinin contact activation system.
Robert W. Doms
Robert W. Doms is a virologist and physician-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, known for identifying HIV's entry coreceptors in the mid-1990s.
Robert W. Dutton
Robert W. Dutton is an American electrical engineer and Stanford professor emeritus called the father of TCAD, whose group created the SUPREM and PISCES simulators.
Robert W. Farquhar
Robert W. Farquhar (1932–2015) was an American astrodynamicist who coined "halo orbit," directed the ISEE-3 mission to the Sun–Earth L1 point, and led NEAR Shoemaker to the first landing on an asteroid.
Robert W. Field
Robert W. Field, born in 1944, is an American physical chemist and molecular spectroscopist at MIT, known for spectroscopic perturbations, stimulated emission pumping, and textbooks on diatomic molecules.
Robert W. Finberg
Robert W. Finberg was an American infectious disease physician-scientist who researched viral receptors and innate immunity and chaired medicine at UMass Chan Medical School for two decades.
Robert W. Floyd
Robert W. Floyd (1936–2001) was an American computer scientist at Stanford who designed the Floyd–Warshall algorithm and Floyd–Steinberg dithering, opened the field of program verification, and won the 1978 Turing Award without ever earning a doctorate.
Robert W. Fogel
Robert W. Fogel (1926–2013) was an American economic historian at the University of Chicago who shared the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for applying quantitative methods to economic history.
Robert W. Gettleman
Robert W. Gettleman, born 1943 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, is a senior United States district judge of the Northern District of Illinois, appointed by President Clinton in 1994.
Robert W. Heath
Robert W. Heath Jr. is an electrical engineer working on wireless communication and signal processing, known for MIMO precoding and hybrid beamforming for millimeter wave 5G.