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Richard B. Setlow
Richard B. Setlow (1921–2015) was an American biophysicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory who discovered nucleotide excision repair in 1964, founding the modern study of DNA repair.
Richard B. Vallee
Richard B. Vallee is an American cell biologist and Professor Emeritus at Columbia University whose laboratory identified cytoplasmic dynein as the motor protein for retrograde axonal transport.
Richard Baer
Richard Baer is a molecular biologist and cancer geneticist at Columbia University known for work on chromosomal translocations in lymphoma and for identifying BARD1, a protein that partners with BRCA1.
Richard Benton
Richard Benton, born in 1977, is a British neuroscientist and professor at the University of Lausanne known for discovering ionotropic receptors, a family of insect smell receptors.
Richard Bonneau
Richard Bonneau is a computational biologist and Professor of Biology and Computer Science at NYU's Courant Institute who leads machine learning for drug discovery at Genentech, where he co-founded Prescient Design.
Richard Brimacombe
Richard Brimacombe is a molecular biologist known for experimentally determining the structure of ribosomal RNA in the E. coli ribosome, working for most of his career at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin.
Richard Brooke Roberts
Richard Brooke Roberts (1910–1980) was an American biophysicist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington who co-discovered delayed neutrons in 1939 and helped prove protein synthesis occurs on ribosomes in E. coli.
Richard Bucala
Richard Bucala is an American immunologist and rheumatologist who is Chief of Rheumatology at Yale School of Medicine, known for cloning macrophage migration inhibitory factor and discovering the fibrocyte.
Richard C. Starr
Richard Cawthorn Starr (1924–1998) was an American phycologist who founded and directed the UTEX Culture Collection of Algae and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976.
Richard C. Strohman
Richard C. Strohman (1927–2009) was an American molecular biologist and professor emeritus at UC Berkeley, known for pioneering muscle development research and for essays criticizing genetic determinism.
Richard Cerione
Richard A. Cerione is an American biochemist and cancer biologist at Cornell University known for work on the Rho GTPase Cdc42 and protein modifications in cancer cells.
Richard D. Alexander
Richard D. Alexander (1929–2018) was an American evolutionary biologist and entomologist at the University of Michigan who studied cricket communication and the evolution of social behavior and morality.
Richard D. Berlin
Richard D. Berlin was an American physician and cell biologist known for showing that the cell surface stops endocytosis during mitosis, and led UConn Health's cell biology department from 1973 to 2006.
Richard D. Klausner
Richard D. Klausner is an American cell biologist and physician who directed the National Cancer Institute from 1995 to 2001 and is a founder of Altos Labs.
Richard D. Kolodner
Richard D. Kolodner is an American molecular biologist at UC San Diego known for identifying the human mismatch repair genes MSH2 and MLH1, whose inherited defects cause Lynch syndrome.
Richard D. Palmiter
Richard D. Palmiter (born 1942) is an American biochemist and neuroscientist at the University of Washington, known for the 1982 transgenic "super mouse" and dopamine-deficient mice studies.
Richard D. Vierstra
Richard D. Vierstra is an American plant biologist at Washington University in St. Louis, known for his research on plant protein degradation and phytochrome light perception.
Richard D. Wood
Richard D. Wood is an American molecular biologist at MD Anderson Cancer Center known for rebuilding nucleotide excision repair, the process that removes UV damage from DNA.
Richard Darwin Keynes
Richard Darwin Keynes (1919–2010) was a British physiologist who showed with Alan Hodgkin in 1955 that potassium ions move through nerve membranes in single file.
Richard Dixon (plant biochemist)
Richard A. Dixon is a plant biochemist, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2007 and the Royal Society in 2018, known for lignin biosynthesis and metabolic engineering.
Richard Durbin (geneticist)
Richard Durbin, born 1960, is a British computational genomics researcher, Al Kindi Professor of Genetics at Cambridge, who jointly led the 1000 Genomes Project and developed bwa.
Richard E. Dickerson
Richard E. Dickerson (1931–2025) was an American X-ray crystallographer who computed the myoglobin Fourier map in Kendrew's laboratory and solved the first single-crystal structure of B-DNA at Caltech in 1980.
Richard E. Green
Richard E. Green is a professor of biomolecular engineering at UC Santa Cruz who led sequencing the Neanderthal genome and founded the genomics company Dovetail Genomics.
Richard E. Nisbett
Richard E. Nisbett is an American social psychologist at the University of Michigan known for research on cultural differences in reasoning and on teaching statistical reasoning.
Richard E. Pagano
Richard E. Pagano is a cell biologist known for using fluorescent lipid analogs to trace lipid movement in living cells, at the Carnegie Institution and later Mayo Clinic.
Richard Evans Schultes
Richard Evans Schultes (1915–2001) was an American ethnobotanist at Harvard, considered the father of modern ethnobotany for over a decade of fieldwork in the Colombian Amazon.
Richard F. Thompson
Richard F. Thompson (1930–2014) was an American behavioral neuroscientist at the University of Southern California who showed the cerebellum is essential for classical conditioning and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1977.
Richard Firtel
Richard A. Firtel is an American cell and developmental biologist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC San Diego, known for using the social amoeba Dictyostelium to study how cells sense direction and move.
Richard Fishel
Richard Fishel is an American cancer biologist and professor at Ohio State University known for identifying the hMSH2 mismatch repair gene behind hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer, now called Lynch syndrome.
Richard FitzHugh
Richard FitzHugh (1922–2007) was an American biophysicist at the National Institutes of Health who created the FitzHugh–Nagumo model, a two-variable simplification of the Hodgkin–Huxley nerve equations widely used in computational neuroscience.