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Ronald N. Zuckermann
Ronald N. Zuckermann is a bioorganic and biomimetic polymer chemist, a Researcher Emeritus at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Molecular Foundry, known for inventing peptoids and building them into two-dimensional nanosheets.
Ronald Ngala
Ronald Ngala (Ronald Gideon Ngala, 1922–1972) was a Kenyan politician and educator who led the Kenya African Democratic Union, secured a regionalist constitution at independence in 1963, and died in a road accident in 1972.
Ronald Owen Hamburger
Ronald Owen Hamburger is an American structural and seismic engineer, Senior Principal at Simpson Gumpertz & Heger in San Francisco, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2015.
Ronald Oxburgh, Baron Oxburgh
Ronald Oxburgh, Baron Oxburgh, born 1934, is a British geologist known for plate tectonics who served as Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence.
Ronald P. DeMatteo
Ronald P. DeMatteo is an American surgical oncologist who chairs surgery at the University of Pennsylvania and led the ACOSOG Z9001 imatinib trial for GIST.
Ronald P. Mason
Ronald P. Mason is an American physical chemist who spent his career at NIEHS in North Carolina, detecting free radicals in biological systems and inventing immuno-spin trapping.
Ronald P. Nordgren
Ronald P. Nordgren is an American mechanical engineer at Rice University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989 for offshore engineering and petroleum technology.
Ronald Paul DeMatteo
Ronald Paul DeMatteo is an American surgical oncologist, chair of surgery at the University of Pennsylvania, known for leading the national adjuvant imatinib trials that changed GIST care.
Ronald Perelman
Ronald Perelman, also known as Ron Perelman, is an American financier whose junk-bond buyouts, including the 1985 Revlon takeover, made him an emblem of the 1980s leveraged buyout era.
Ronald Pickup
Ronald Pickup (1940-2021), English stage and screen actor, RADA-trained National Theatre player under Olivier, known for Richard II, Waiting for Godot, Verdi, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The Crown, Darkest Hour, and voicing Aslan.
Ronald Polcawich
Ronald G. Polcawich is an American materials scientist who develops piezoelectric MEMS at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory in Maryland, receiving the 2012 Presidential Early Career Award.
Ronald R. Hoy
Ronald R. Hoy is an American biologist and emeritus Cornell University professor known for discovering the praying mantis's single midline ear and for research on insect hearing.
Ronald Rael
Ronald Rael is an American architect, author, and design technologist at UC Berkeley, known for the Teeter-Totter Wall at the US–Mexico border and 3D-printed earthen architecture.
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004), 40th U.S. president (1981-1989) and 33rd governor of California, actor and Screen Actors Guild president; led Reaganomics tax cuts, the INF Treaty, and Iran-Contra; ranked 9th-11th by historians.
Ronald Reagan and AIDS
Ronald Reagan and AIDS covers the Reagan administration's 1981–1989 response to HIV/AIDS: four years of public silence until September 1985, the 1987 amfAR speech and Watkins Commission, contested funding levels, and the HOPE Act of 1988.
Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center (RRB/ITC), Washington DC's largest structure at 3.1 million sq ft on Pennsylvania Avenue; GSA-owned, TCMA-operated federal building and official World Trade Center, opened May 5, 1998.
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, California, is a NARA-run presidential library dedicated November 4, 1991, the ninth in the system, first under the 1978 Presidential Records Act, with about 43.8 million pages of records and an Air Force One Pavilion.
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, the UCLA Health adult teaching hospital in Westwood, Los Angeles; founded 1955, renamed 2008; Level 1 trauma center, seismic-resistant I.M. Pei building, 520 beds at opening, Resnick psychiatric hospital relocating 2026.
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, formerly Washington National Airport, is an airport in Arlington, Virginia, serving Washington, D.C., opened in 1941 and renamed for President Reagan in 1998.
Ronald Ross
Sir Ronald Ross (1857-1932), British physician and Indian Medical Service officer, proved in 1897-1898 that mosquitoes transmit malaria, won the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and founded mathematical epidemiology of mosquito-borne disease.
Ronald Russell (Maine politician)
Ronald Russell is an American politician and the Republican nominee for U.S. House in Maine's 1st District in 2026, and a retired Army Green Beret.
Ronald S. Duman
Ronald S. Duman (1954–2020) was an American neuroscientist who spent over three decades at Yale School of Medicine studying stress, depression, and antidepressant action, proposing the neurotrophic hypothesis of depression.
Ronald S. Oremland
Ronald S. Oremland (1946–2021) was an American geomicrobiologist who spent 42 years at the U.S. Geological Survey, known for establishing microbial metabolism of arsenic, selenium, and methane.
Ronald S. Sullivan Jr.
Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. is an American lawyer and Harvard Law School professor known for conviction-integrity reform and for acquitting Aaron Hernandez in a double murder case.
Ronald Sanderson
Ronald Harcourt Sanderson (1876-1918), English rower and Royal Artillery lieutenant-colonel; won 1908 Olympic gold in the men's eights for Leander Club and rowed in Cambridge's winning 1899 and 1900 Boat Races.
Ronald Sederoff
Ronald Sederoff, born in 1939, is an American molecular geneticist who pioneered the molecular genetics of forest trees at North Carolina State University, winning the Marcus Wallenberg Prize in 2017.
Ronald Shear
Ronald Shear co-launched the hedge fund Millennium Management in New York with Israel "Izzy" Englander in 1989, with $35 million in seed capital, and left within its first year.
Ronald Smelt
Ronald Smelt, known as Roy Smelt, was an Anglo-American aeronautical engineer who was chief scientist of Lockheed and worked with Frank Whittle on the first jet flight.
Ronald Solomon
Ronald Solomon (born 1948) is an American mathematician and Ohio State professor emeritus, co-author of the revised classification of the finite simple groups and its historian.
Ronald Speirs
Ronald C. Speirs (1920-2007), US Army officer of the 506th PIR, 101st Airborne; Dog Company platoon leader who took command of Easy Company at Foy on January 13, 1945, ran through German lines to contact I Company and back; later Korea, Spandau Prison governor, Laos.