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Rudolf Vrba
Rudolf Vrba, born Walter Rosenberg (1924-2006), Slovak Jewish Auschwitz escapee who with Alfred Wetzler fled on 7 April 1944 and co-wrote the Vrba-Wetzler Report, part of the Auschwitz Protocols, whose publication helped halt Hungarian deportations in July 1944.
Rudolf Wanderone
Rudolf Wanderone (Minnesota Fats), American pool hustler and showman, 1913–1996; adopted the name from The Hustler's Jackie Gleason character, lost the 1978 televised Mosconi matches, and entered the BCA Hall of Fame in 1984 for popularizing pool.
Rudolf Weber (Swiss biologist)
Rudolf Heinrich Weber (1922–2015) was a Swiss developmental and molecular biologist at the University of Bern whose group made Xenopus laevis a leading model for estrogen-controlled gene expression.
Rudolf Weigl
Rudolf Weigl (1883–1957), Polish biologist at the University of Lwów, developed the first effective typhus vaccine from infected lice guts, vaccinated ~8 million people in WWII, sabotaged German doses, and was named Righteous Among the Nations.
Rudolf Wiechert
Rudolf Wiechert (1928–2013) was a German industrial organic chemist who led steroid chemistry research at Schering AG in Berlin, co-names the Hajos-Parrish-Eder-Wiechert reaction, and developed steroidal drugs including drospirenone.
Rudolf Zechner
Rudolf Zechner is an Austrian biochemist at the University of Graz whose team discovered adipose triglyceride lipase (ATGL), the enzyme that initiates the breakdown of stored fat.
Rudolf Zentel
Rudolf Zentel is a German polymer chemist at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, known for pioneering work on liquid crystalline polymers and elastomers since the 1980s.
Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria
Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria (1858–1889), only son of Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth, liberal heir apparent, ornithologist, anonymous political writer; died in the Mayerling murder-suicide with Mary Vetsera on 30 January 1889.
Rudolfo Anaya
Rudolfo Anaya, sometimes called the godfather of Chicano literature, was an American novelist from New Mexico whose first novel, Bless Me, Ultima (1972), became a foundational text of Chicano literature.
Rūdolfs Blaumanis
Rūdolfs Blaumanis (1863–1908) was a Latvian prose writer, playwright, and poet known for fine psychological analysis; his novellas and the play Indrāni are in the Latvian Culture Canon.
Rudolph A. Marcus
Rudolph A. Marcus (1923–2026) was a Canadian-born American theoretical chemist at Caltech who won the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Marcus theory of electron transfer.
Rudolph Bonaparte
Rudolph Bonaparte is an American geotechnical engineer, chairman of Geosyntec Consultants in Atlanta, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2007 for landfill waste-containment design.
Rudolph Contreras
Rudolph Contreras is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Columbia since 2012, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Rudolph Franz
Rudolph Franz (1826–1902) was a German physicist and Berlin schoolteacher who, with Gustav Wiedemann, discovered the 1853 Wiedemann–Franz law relating thermal and electrical conductivity in metals.
Rudolph Isley
Rudolph Bernard Isley (April 1, 1939 – October 11, 2023), American singer-songwriter, founding member of the Isley Brothers, sang on "Shout," left in 1989 for the ministry, later sued brother Ronald over the band trademark.
Rudolph John Anderson
Rudolph John Anderson (1879–1961) was a Swedish-born American biochemist, professor of chemistry at Yale, best known for his chemical studies of the lipids of the tubercle bacillus.
Rudolph Leibel
Rudolph L. Leibel is an American physician-scientist at Columbia University whose work led to the cloning of the leptin gene and quantified how the body defends its weight.
Rudolph Lewis
Rudolph 'Okey' Lewis (Rudolph Ludewyk Lewis, 1887–1933), South African road cyclist; won the 1912 Stockholm Olympic 320 km time trial in 10:42:39, the only African Olympic champion in cycling history.
Rudolph M. Navari
Rudolph M. Navari is an American medical oncologist and supportive-care researcher known for the 2016 New England Journal of Medicine trial showing olanzapine improves nausea control in chemotherapy.
Rudolph Minkowski
Rudolph Minkowski (1895–1976) was a German-American observational astronomer who fled Nazi Germany in 1935 to join Mount Wilson and Palomar, where he co-classified supernovae, identified radio sources like Cassiopeia A, and led the Palomar Sky Survey.
Rudolph Pariser
Rudolph Pariser (1923–2021) was an American physical chemist who, at DuPont, co-invented with Robert Parr the semiempirical Pariser–Parr–Pople method, a mainstay of quantum-chemical calculations on conjugated molecules.
Rudolph Peters
Sir Rudolph Albert Peters was a British biochemist who held the Whitley Chair at Oxford from 1923 and led the team that discovered the antidote British Anti-Lewisite.
Rudolph Puggaard
Rudolph Puggaard (1818–1885) was a Copenhagen wholesale merchant, banker, and insurer who in 1873 was one of four financiers, with C.F. Tietgen and Philip W. Heyman, who founded Tuborgs Fabrikker.
Rudolph Schindler (architect)
Rudolph Michael Schindler (1887-1953), Vienna-born American architect of Southern California modernism; trained under Otto Wagner and Adolf Loos, worked for Frank Lloyd Wright, built the 1922 Kings Road Schindler House and about 150 buildings, mostly Los Angeles houses.
Rudolph Schoenheimer
Rudolph Schoenheimer (1898–1941) was a German-born American biochemist who introduced stable-isotope tracers into metabolic research, establishing the dynamic state of body constituents, the foundation of quantitative metabolic studies.
Rudolph Tanzi
Rudolph Tanzi, born 1958, is an American neuroscientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard known for discovering Alzheimer's genes like APP and presenilins and for the Alzheimer's Genome Project.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: fictional reindeer created 1939 by Robert L. May for Montgomery Ward; famous via the 1949 Gene Autry song and 1964 Rankin/Bass stop-motion special.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (TV special)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) is a Rankin/Bass stop-motion Christmas TV special, first aired on NBC December 6, 1964, narrated by Burl Ives, and the longest continuously running U.S. Christmas special.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys is a 2001 direct-to-video CGI sequel to the 1964 Rankin/Bass special, made by GoodTimes Entertainment, directed by William R. Kowalchuk, with the Toy Taker villain voiced by Rick Moranis.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie is a 1998 American animated Christmas musical, GoodTimes Entertainment's first theatrical feature, directed by William R. Kowalchuk Jr. with Kathleen Barr, John Goodman, and Whoopi Goldberg; it earned only about $113,484 of its $10 million budget.