All articles starting with R

Rolf Falk-Larssen

Rolf Falk-Larssen, Norwegian allround speed skater (born 1960, Trondheim), 1983 World Allround Champion at Bislett, the only champion ever decided by the three-of-four-distances rule, later abolished in 1986.

Rolf Hagedorn

Rolf Hagedorn (1919–2003) was a German theoretical physicist at CERN who found a limiting temperature in hadronic collisions, about 150 MeV, and built the statistical bootstrap model behind it.

Rolf Harris

Rolf Harris (1930–2023), Australian-born entertainer, painter, and TV presenter in Britain; wobble board inventor, "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport"; convicted 2014 of 12 counts of indecent assault, jailed, honours stripped, died 2023.

Rolf Huisgen

Rolf Huisgen (1920–2020) was a German organic chemist who defined the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition around 1960, the reaction type underlying modern click chemistry, and led organic chemistry at the University of Munich from 1952 to 1988.

Oct 22, 2026

Rolf Jacobsen

Rolf Jacobsen (1907–1994) was a Norwegian poet and journalist whose debut collection Jord og jern (1933) brought technology into Norwegian poetry as one of its first literary modernists.

Rolf Johnsson

Rolf Vilhelm Oscar Johnsson (1889–1931), Swedish gymnast from Stockholm, member of Stockholms GF; won gold in the men's team Swedish-system gymnastics event at the 1908 London Olympics, where Sweden scored 438 points.

Rolf Kemler

Rolf Kemler, born 1945, is a German molecular biologist, emeritus director at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology in Freiburg, known for discovering E-cadherin and the catenins.

Rolf Knippers

Rolf Knippers (1936–2017) was a German molecular biologist and professor of molecular genetics at the University of Konstanz, known for early work on bacterial DNA replication.

Rolf Landauer

Rolf Landauer (1927–1999) was a German-born American physicist at IBM who established the thermodynamics of information and formulated Landauer's principle on the energy cost of erasing information.

Rolf Lie

Rolf Lie (1889-1959), Norwegian artistic gymnast with Bergens TF; won 1912 Stockholm Olympic gold in the men's team free system event alongside his elder brother Alf Lie.

Rolf Luft

Rolf Luft (1914–2007) was a Swedish endocrinologist at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, known for founding mitochondrial medicine and for decades of work on the pathogenesis and treatment of diabetes mellitus.

Rolf M. Gunnar

Rolf M. Gunnar was an American cardiologist known for research on heart attack, cardiogenic shock, and heart failure, and first author of the 1990 ACC/AHA heart attack guidelines.

Sep 20, 2026

Rolf M. Zinkernagel

Rolf M. Zinkernagel, born 1944, is a Swiss immunologist who worked at the University of Zurich from 1979 to 2008 and shared the 1996 Nobel Prize for discovering MHC restriction.

Oct 20, 2026

Rolf Milser

Rolf Milser (born 1951, Bernburg/Saale), West German weightlifter, 1984 Olympic champion in the first heavyweight class with 385.0 kg, world champion 1978 and 1984, two clean & jerk world records, 115 German records, later BVDG national coach 1985–1997 and hotelier.

Rolf Mülhaupt

Rolf Mülhaupt, born 1954 in Waldshut-Tiengen, Germany, is a German polymer chemist and retired Freiburg professor known for hyperbranched polyglycerols, sustainable plastics, and the 2009 Hermann-Staudinger Prize.

Rolf Müller (designer)

Rolf Müller (1940–2015) was a German graphic designer and Otl Aicher's design deputy for the 1972 Munich Olympics, whose corporate identity became a lasting design reference.

Rolf Nevanlinna

Rolf Nevanlinna (1895–1980) was a Finnish mathematician whose 1925 theory of meromorphic functions made him the central figure of value distribution theory, and the namesake of the IMU's Nevanlinna Prize.

Rolf Nöthiger

Rolf Nöthiger (1934–2019) was a Swiss developmental geneticist at the University of Zurich who ordered the sex-determining genes of the fruit fly Drosophila into a cascade.

Rolf Ohlsson

Rolf Ohlsson is a Swedish molecular biologist and professor of genomic integrity at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, known for research on genomic imprinting, CTCF, and the three-dimensional organization of the genome.

Oct 15, 2026

Rolf oil field

Rolf is a small oil field in the Danish sector of the North Sea, discovered in 1981, producing from a chalk reservoir, and operated by TotalEnergies as a satellite to the Gorm field.

Rolf Peterson

Rolf Peterson (Rolf Ingvar Peterson), Swedish sprint canoeist born 1944 in Halmstad; Olympic K1 1000 m gold at Tokyo 1964, silver at Munich 1972, world K2 500 m champion 1970 and 1971 with Lars Andersson. Not the Canadian skier Rolf Pettersen.

Rolf Schock Prizes

The Rolf Schock Prizes are four international prizes awarded since 1993 in logic and philosophy, mathematics, visual arts, and musical arts, funded by Rolf Schock's bequest.

Rolf Sievert

Rolf Maximilian Sievert (1896–1966) was a Swedish medical physicist who founded modern radiation protection, chaired the ICRP, and gave his name to the SI unit, the sievert.

Rolf Sørensen

Rolf Sørensen (born 1965), Danish road cyclist, pro 1986-2002, nicknamed Il Biondo; won Liège-Bastogne-Liège 1993, Tour of Flanders 1997, Olympic silver 1996, 53 pro wins; admitted 2013 doping.

Rolf Steffenburg

Rolf Steffenburg (1886–1982), Swedish sailor and banker from Gävle; won 1920 Antwerp Olympic gold in the 30 m² skerry cruiser class aboard Kullan with Lundquist and Bengtsson, the class's only starter.

Rolf Sternglanz

Rolf Sternglanz is a molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Stony Brook University whose budding yeast laboratory worked out DNA topoisomerase's cellular role, transcriptional silencing, and tRNA modification.

Rolf Widerøe

Rolf Widerøe, born 1902, was a Norwegian accelerator physicist who built the first operating linear accelerator in 1927 and described the betatron principle in a landmark 1928 paper.

Rolf Zeller

Rolf Zeller, born in Basel in 1957, is a Swiss molecular developmental biologist and University of Basel professor known for work on vertebrate limb development.

Rolfing

Rolfing, or Structural Integration, is a system of bodywork and movement education developed by American biochemist Ida Rolf that works with fascia to reorganize the body in gravity.