All articles starting with R

Rudiger Helm

Rüdiger Helm (born 1956, Neubrandenburg) is an East German sprint kayaker with 3 Olympic golds and 3 bronzes (1976, 1980), back-to-back K1 1000 m titles, and 10 world championship golds among 19 world medals.

Rudiger Henning

Rüdiger Henning (1943–2024) was a West German rower who won Olympic gold in the men's eight at the 1968 Mexico City Games and carried the flag at the 1972 Munich Opening Ceremony.

Sep 20, 2026

Rüdiger Klein

Rüdiger Klein, born 1958 in Nickenich, Germany, is a neuroscientist who identified the nerve growth factor receptor and led Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology research from 2001.

Rudiger Reiche

Rüdiger Reiche (born 1955, Querfurt) is an East German rower, 1976 Montreal Olympic champion in the quadruple sculls and world champion 1974 (quadruple sculls) and 1982 (single sculls).

Sep 21, 2026

Rüdiger Simon

Rüdiger Simon (born 1962) is a German plant developmental biologist and professor at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, known for work on the CLAVATA–WUSCHEL stem cell signaling loop.

Sep 21, 2026

Rüdiger Wehner

Rüdiger Wehner, born 1940 in Nuremberg, is a German neurobiologist and professor emeritus at Zurich known for making the desert ant Cataglyphis a model organism in animal navigation.

Rudimental

Rudimental: Hackney, East London drum and bass band (Piers Aggett, Kesi Dryden, Amir Amor, DJ Locksmith; now a trio). Known for Feel the Love, Waiting All Night, two UK No. 1 albums (Home, We the Generation), five albums, BRIT Award.

Oct 22, 2026

Rudin

Rudin is the first novel by Ivan Turgenev (1856). It features Dmitri Rudin, an idealist who exemplifies the Russian literary type known as the "superfluous man."

Rudists

Rudists (Hippuritida) are extinct Cretaceous bivalves with a conical attached right valve and lid-like left valve that lived gregariously as sediment-dwellers on Tethyan carbonate platforms, not as true reef-builders, and died out at the end of the Cretaceous.

Ruditapes decussatus

Ruditapes decussatus, grooved carpet-shell clam (palourde croisée d'Europe, almeja fina), a Veneridae bivalve native from the North Sea to Senegal and the Mediterranean; burrowing filter feeder, major European fishery and aquaculture species now declining against the introduced Manila clam.

Ruditapes philippinarum

Ruditapes philippinarum, the Manila clam or Japanese carpet shell (Veneridae), is a top-5 commercially valuable bivalve native to the Indo-Pacific, introduced to North America and Europe, and now the major clam landed in Europe.

Rudnyi Altai

Rudnyi Altai (Рудный Алтай, Ore Altai), southern-southwestern Altai in Russia and East Kazakhstan between Charysh and Irtysh rivers; Hercynian mid-mountain belt with Devonian VMS pyritic polymetallic Pb-Zn-Cu deposits and 18th-century Demidov mining.

Sep 21, 2026

Rudolf A. Raff

Rudolf A. Raff (1941–2019) was an American evolutionary developmental biologist at Indiana University Bloomington and a founder of evo-devo, known for showing that early embryonic development evolves rapidly in sea urchins.

Rudolf Abel

Rudolf Abel, real name William Fisher (born England, 1903), was a Soviet KGB illegal spymaster in the US, convicted in the 1957 Hollow Nickel Case and exchanged for U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers in 1962.

Rudolf Ahlswede

Rudolf Ahlswede (1938–2010) was a German mathematician and professor at the University of Bielefeld, a worldwide leader in information theory for decades who also did central work in extremal combinatorics.

Rudolf Alexander Schröder

Rudolf Alexander Schröder (1878–1962) was a German poet, translator, hymn writer, and interior architect known as the "last humanist," who co-founded Die Insel and translated Homer and Shakespeare.

Rudolf Anderson

Rudolf Anderson Jr. was a US Air Force major and U-2 reconnaissance pilot killed by a Soviet missile over Cuba in 1962, the crisis's only combat fatality.

Sep 19, 2026

Rudolf Barshai

Rudolf Barshai (Рудольф Баршай) was a Soviet violist and conductor who founded the Moscow Chamber Orchestra in 1955, led it until 1977, and later recorded Shostakovich's complete symphonies.

Rudolf Bauer

Rudolf Bauer (Bauer Rudolf, 1879-1932), Hungarian discus thrower, won gold at the 1900 Paris Olympics with 36.04 m and developed the modern rotating discus technique; second Hungarian Olympic champion after Alfréd Hajós.

Rudolf Benesh

Rudolf Benesh (1916–1975) was a British accountant and amateur painter who, with his wife Joan, devised Benesh Movement Notation, now used by over 50 dance organizations.

Oct 22, 2026

Rudolf Bonnet

Rudolf Bonnet was a Dutch painter who settled in Ubud, Bali, in 1929, co-founded the Pita Maha artists' association in 1936, and helped establish the Museum Puri Lukisan.

Rudolf Caracciola

Rudolf Caracciola (1901-1959), German racing driver, three-time European Champion (1935, 1937, 1938) with Mercedes-Benz Silver Arrows; first non-Italian Mille Miglia winner (1931); Regenmeister; 432.69 km/h public-road record.

Rudolf Carnap

Rudolf Carnap was a German-American philosopher (1891–1970), a founder and leading representative of logical positivism and an originator of the philosophy of science as a distinct field.

Rudolf Clausius

Rudolf Clausius (1822–1888) was a German theoretical physicist, one of the founders of thermodynamics, who gave the first correct form of the first law in 1850 and named entropy in 1865.

Rudolf Criegee

Rudolf Criegee (1902–1975) was a German organic chemist, professor and institute director at Karlsruhe, known for the Criegee rearrangement and the Criegee intermediate he proposed in 1949 to explain ozonolysis.

Rudolf Dassler

Rudolf Dassler, known as Rudi, was a German shoe manufacturer who co-founded the Dassler brothers' shoe firm, founded Puma after their 1948 split, and ran it until his death in 1974.

Rudolf Diels

Rudolf Diels (1900-1957), German lawyer and civil servant, first chief of the Gestapo under Hermann Göring; head of Prussian political police during the 1933 Reichstag fire, later Regierungspräsident of Cologne and Hanover.

Rudolf Diesel

Rudolf Diesel, born Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel, was a German engineer who invented the diesel engine, first run in 1897, before vanishing at sea in 1913.