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Rudolf E. Kálmán

Rudolf E. Kálmán (1930–2016) was a Budapest-born engineer and mathematician who invented the Kalman filter, used in Apollo navigation and GPS, and founded modern control theory.

Rudolf E. Klein

Rudolf E. Klein, born 1930, is a British social policy scholar and emeritus professor at the University of Bath, best known for The Politics of the NHS.

Rudolf Eckstein

Rudolf Eckstein (Rudi Eckstein), 1915-1993, German rower; Olympic gold in coxless fours at Berlin 1936 with Rom, Karl, and Menne; also European champion 1934, 1935, 1938.

Rudolf Emmerich

Rudolf Emmerich (1852–1914) was a German bacteriologist and professor of hygiene at Munich who, with Oscar Löw, prepared pyocyanase in 1899, the first antibiotic used in hospitals.

Rudolf Eucken

Rudolf Christoph Eucken was a German idealist philosopher, professor at Jena from 1874, who won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Literature for his idealistic philosophy of life.

Rudolf Ewald Stier

Rudolf Ewald Stier (1800–1862) was a German Protestant theologian and pastor known for his devotional commentary on the words of Jesus, Die Reden des Herrn Jesu.

Rudolf Fickeisen

Rudolf Fickeisen (1885-1944), German rower of Ludwigshafener Ruderverein, won gold in the coxed fours at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics with brother Otto; German champion 1906 and 1907.

Rudolf Fueter (Karl Rudolf Fueter, 1880–1950) was a Swiss mathematician who studied under David Hilbert, spent most of his career at the University of Zürich, and founded quaternionic function theory.

Sep 20, 2026

Rudolf Grosschedl

Rudolf Grosschedl, born 1952 in Salzburg, is an Austrian molecular biologist known for work on immunoglobulin gene regulation and the transcription factors EBF1 and LEF1.

Rudolf Haag

Rudolf Haag (1922–2016) was a German mathematical physicist who founded algebraic quantum field theory, proved Haag's 1955 theorem on the interaction picture, and with Kastler developed the Haag–Kastler framework.

Rudolf Hans Bartsch

Rudolf Hans Bartsch (1873–1952) was an Austrian novelist and former military officer, one of the most commercially successful popular novelists of pre-war and interwar Austria, best known for the Schubert novel Schwammerl (1912).

Rudolf Harbig Stadion

Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion, also known as Dynamo-Stadion, is SG Dynamo Dresden's football stadium in Dresden, Germany. Rebuilt 2007–2009 for about €43 million, it holds 32,249, succeeded the 1923 Ilgen-Kampfbahn, and hosted the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup.

Rudolf Hess

Rudolf Hess (Rudolf Heß, 1894–1987), Hitler's Deputy Führer from 1933, flew solo to Scotland in May 1941 seeking peace, was sentenced to life at Nuremberg, and died by suicide in Spandau Prison in 1987.

Rudolf Höber

Rudolf Höber (1873–1953) was a German physiologist, professor at Kiel until his 1933 expulsion under the Nazi civil-service law, who first demonstrated the insulating membrane of living cells.

Rudolf Höss

Rudolf Höss (Rudolf Höß), SS-Obersturmbannführer and first commandant of Auschwitz (May 1940–November 1943), organized the murder of over one million Jews; captured 1946, testified at Nuremberg, executed in Poland 1947.

Sep 27, 2026

Rudolf Huliak

Rudolf Huliak (born 1975) is a Slovak politician, Minister of Tourism and Sport since 2025 and chairman of the Rural Party, previously mayor of Očová.

Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor

Rudolf II Habsburg (1552–1612), Holy Roman Emperor 1576–1612 and king of Hungary and Bohemia, moved his court to Prague in 1583, patronizing Brahe, Kepler, Arcimboldo, and alchemists, before losing power to his brother Matthias.

Rudolf Ismayr

Rudolf Ismayr (1908-1998), German middleweight weightlifter; Olympic gold 1932 Los Angeles (345.0 kg, Olympic record), silver 1936 Berlin, recited the 1936 Olympic Oath, 11 world records, later a pacifist and DFU official.

Rudolf IV of Austria

Rudolf IV of Austria, also known as the Founder, was a Duke who forged the Privilegium maius to secure the Habsburg archducal title. He also founded the University of Vienna.

Rudolf J. Schweyen

Rudolf J. Schweyen (1941 to 2009) was an Austrian-based molecular biologist who studied yeast mitochondrial genes, first RNA splicing and later magnesium transport, and helped found the University of Vienna's Institute of Microbiology and Genetics.

Sep 20, 2026

Rudolf Jaenisch

Rudolf Jaenisch (רודולף ייניש), born 1942, is a German-born American geneticist at MIT's Whitehead Institute who created the first transgenic mice and pioneered stem cell research.

Rudolf Jung

Rudolf Jung (1882–1945), Bohemian German engineer and DNSAP ideologue, co-drafted the 1913 Iglau Program, wrote Der nationale Sozialismus (1919) before Hitler's party existed, led the Czechoslovak DNSAP 1926–33, and died in Pankrác prison in 1945.

Rudolf K. Allemann

Rudolf K. Allemann is a chemical biologist and Distinguished Research Professor at Cardiff University since 2005, known for work on terpene synthase chemistry and protein motions in enzyme catalysis.

Rudolf K. Thauer

Rudolf K. Thauer, born 1939 in Frankfurt, is a German biochemist whose work on energy metabolism in strict anaerobes, especially methanogenic archaea, shaped anaerobic microbiology.

Rudolf Karpati

Rudolf Kárpáti (Kárpáti Rudolf, born Klein, 1920–1999), Hungarian sabre fencer with six Olympic golds (team 1948–1960, individual 1956 and 1960) and seven world titles, the last great classical Hungarian sabre champion.

Rudolf Kassner

Rudolf Kassner (1873–1959) was an Austrian cultural philosopher, essayist, and translator who developed physiognomics as a theory of culture and was a close friend of Rilke.

Rudolf Kazarinov

Rudolf Kazarinov (Rudolf Fyodorovich Kazarinov, Рудольф Фёдорович Казаринов), born 1933, is a Soviet and American physicist who co-formulated the double-heterostructure laser concept with Zhores Alferov in 1963 and later worked at Bell Laboratories.

Rudolf Knietsch

Rudolf Knietsch (1854–1906) was a German chemist at BASF who made the contact process for sulfuric acid work industrially and in 1888 developed the industrial liquefaction of chlorine.

Rudolf Kompfner

Rudolf Kompfner (1909–1977) was an Austrian-born physicist and engineer who invented the traveling-wave tube and the backward-wave oscillator, and led early communication-satellite work at Bell Laboratories.