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Robert W. Holley
Robert W. Holley (1922–1993) was an American biochemist who determined the first complete nucleotide sequence of a nucleic acid and shared the 1968 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Robert W. Lucky
Robert W. Lucky (1936–2022) was an American electrical engineer who spent three decades at Bell Labs, invented the automatic adaptive equalizer that enabled high-speed modems, and won the 1987 Marconi Prize.
Robert W. MacCormack
Robert W. MacCormack is Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Emeritus, at Stanford University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1992 for work on numerical solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations.
Robert W. Mahley
Robert W. Mahley is an American physician-scientist who discovered apolipoprotein E, defined its three isoforms, founded the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, and studied apoE4's role in Alzheimer's disease.
Robert W. Malone
Robert W. Malone, American physician and biotechnologist; Salk Institute graduate student behind 1989 PNAS and 1990 Science mRNA-delivery papers; later a prominent COVID-19 vaccine critic whose inventor claims fact-checkers and peers reject.
Robert W. McCarley
Robert W. McCarley, also known as R.W. McCarley, was an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School and VA Boston who studied REM sleep and schizophrenia.
Robert W. Miller
Robert W. Miller (1921–2006) was an American pediatrician and cancer epidemiologist who spent over 35 years at the National Cancer Institute and studied atomic-bomb radiation effects on children in Hiroshima.
Robert W. Neumar
Robert W. Neumar is an American physician-scientist in emergency medicine and resuscitation science, a professor at the University of Michigan elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2015.
Robert W. Noyes
Robert W. Noyes is an astronomer and Research Professor of Astronomy, Emeritus at Harvard University, known for co-discovering the Sun's five-minute oscillations, a founding observation of helioseismology.
Robert W. Parry
Robert W. Parry (1917–2006) was an American inorganic chemist and pre-eminent boron chemist who taught at Michigan and Utah, led the American Chemical Society in 1982, and won its Priestley Medal in 1993.
Robert W. Rummel
Robert W. Rummel (1915–2009) was an American aeronautical engineer who spent 35 years at Trans World Airlines, advised Howard Hughes, and served on the 1986 Challenger commission.
Robert W. Schrier
Robert W. Schrier was an American nephrologist who led renal medicine at the University of Colorado and explained sodium and water retention in heart failure, cirrhosis, and pregnancy.
Robert W. Schroeder III
Robert W. Schroeder III, born 1966, is a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Texas, appointed by President Barack Obama and confirmed in December 2014.
Robert W. Snow
Robert W. Snow is a malaria epidemiologist who is Professor at the University of Oxford and Principal Scientist at the KEMRI/Wellcome Trust program in Nairobi, Kenya.
Robert W. Tkach
Robert W. Tkach is an American physicist at Nokia Bell Labs known for optical fiber communications research, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2009.
Robert W. Vishny
Robert W. Vishny is an American finance economist at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, known for research on corporate governance and law and finance.
Robert W. Wilkins
Robert W. Wilkins was an American physician-scientist in cardiovascular medicine who showed rauwolfia, reserpine, and chlorothiazide could lower high blood pressure, and whose step-care treatment strategy won the 1958 Lasker Award.
Robert W. Wood
Robert W. Wood was an American experimental physicist, professor at Johns Hopkins from 1901 to 1938, known for ultraviolet photography, resonance radiation, blazed diffraction gratings, and his 1904 debunking of N-rays.
Robert W. Yeh
Robert W. Yeh is an interventional cardiologist who directs the Smith Center for Outcomes Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and created the DAPT score.
Robert Wadlow
Robert Wadlow (1918–1940), the Alton Giant, tallest verified human ever at 2.72 m (8 ft 11.1 in); pituitary gigantism from untreated growth-hormone excess; died at 22 from an infected brace blister.
Robert Wagner
Robert Wagner (born 1930, Detroit) is an American actor of 1950s Fox films and TV hits It Takes a Thief, Switch, and Hart to Hart, later Number Two in Austin Powers and Anthony DiNozzo Sr. on NCIS; widower of Natalie Wood, husband of Jill St. John.
Robert Walker (actor, born 1918)
Robert Hudson Walker (1918–1951), American MGM actor and first husband of Jennifer Jones; best known as Bruno Antony in Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1951); died at 32 from alcohol-sedative interaction.
Robert Walker (actor, born 1940)
Robert Walker Jr. (April 15, 1940 – December 5, 2019) was an American actor, son of Robert Walker and Jennifer Jones; known for The Ceremony, Ensign Pulver, Easy Rider, and Star Trek's 'Charlie X'.
Robert Wall
Robert Alan "Bob" Wall (1939–2022), American martial artist and actor, played O'Hara in Enter the Dragon (1973) and appeared in The Way of the Dragon and Game of Death; ninth-degree Tang Soo Do black belt under Chuck Norris.
Robert Walpole
Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (1676-1745), Whig First Lord of the Treasury 1721-1742, regarded as Britain's first Prime Minister; restored credit after the South Sea Bubble, lived in 10 Downing Street, fell in 1742.
Robert Walser
Robert Walser (1878–1956) was a Swiss writer known for the novels The Tanners, The Assistant, and Jakob von Gunten and for his microscopic pencil manuscripts.
Robert Wangila
Robert Wangila (Robert Napunyi Wangila, nicknamed "Kidd") was a Kenyan welterweight boxer who won the 1988 Seoul Olympic gold medal, the first Black African Olympic boxing champion.
Robert Warren Erickson Jr.
Robert Warren Erickson Jr., known as Robert W. Erickson, is an American power electronics engineer and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Robert Warren Miller
Robert Warren Miller, born in 1933, is an American-born billionaire businessman who co-founded Duty Free Shoppers, the Hong Kong-based travel retailer, and has lived there since 1960.
Robert Watson-Watt
Robert Alexander Watson-Watt was a Scottish radio physicist, born in 1892, who led the development of Britain's Chain Home radar network and is known as the father of radar.