Life scientists

Richard K. Gershon

Richard K. Gershon (1932–1983) was an American immunologist at the Yale School of Medicine who discovered suppressor T cells, thymus-derived lymphocytes that restrain immune responses. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1980.

Richard Kefford

Richard Frederick Kefford is an Australian medical oncologist and clinician-scientist known for melanoma genetics and helping bring targeted melanoma drug therapies into clinical use, including the first-time-in-human dabrafenib trial.

Richard Koch

Richard Koch (1921–2011) was an American pediatric medical geneticist known as "Dr. PKU" who lobbied for mandatory PKU newborn screening and led the Maternal Phenylketonuria Collaborative Study.

Richard Krämer

Richard Krämer, also known as Richard H. Kramer, is a cellular and molecular neuroscientist and professor at UC Berkeley known for inventing photoswitches, light-sensitive molecules that control ion channels.

Richard L Stevens

Richard L Stevens is a Professor of Medicine, Emeritus at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, known for mast cell granule protease storage research.

Richard L. Davidson

Richard L. Davidson is an American molecular geneticist known for classical studies of mutagenesis and carcinogenesis in mammalian cells, especially the effects of bromodeoxyuridine on pigmentation and differentiation.

Richard L. Gourse

Richard L. Gourse is an American bacteriologist and molecular biologist, emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for identifying how Escherichia coli regulates ribosomal RNA synthesis.

Richard L. Huganir

Richard L. Huganir is an American cellular and molecular neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University, known for showing that phosphorylation of glutamate receptors regulates synaptic transmission and underlies learning and memory.

Richard L. Maas

Richard L. Maas (1954–2025) was a Harvard Medical School professor who led Brigham and Women's Hospital genetics and worked out the Pax6/Eya/Six network governing organ formation.

Richard L. Proia

Richard L. Proia is a Senior Investigator and Deputy Chief in NIDDK's Genetics & Biochemistry Branch at NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, known for mouse models of Tay–Sachs and Sandhoff disease and research on sphingosine-1-phosphate signaling.

Richard L. Simmons

Richard L. Simmons is an American transplant surgeon and immunologist, chairman of surgery at the University of Pittsburgh from 1987 to 1998 and winner of the 2004 Medawar Prize.

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Richard Lavenham Gardner

Richard Lavenham Gardner, born 1943, is a British developmental biologist who pioneered microsurgery on the early mouse embryo, spent his career at Oxford, and was knighted in 2005.

Richard Lavery

Richard Lavery (born 1952) is a French-based physicochemist who works on computer modeling of DNA and is known for the Curves and Curves+ nucleic acid analysis programs.

Richard Losick

Richard Losick is a Harvard molecular biologist who spent more than five decades studying Bacillus subtilis, discovering how sigma factors direct spore formation and how biofilms divide labor.

Richard M. Amasino

Richard M. Amasino is an American plant biochemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2006, known for studies of vernalization and flowering control.

Richard M. Harland

Richard M. Harland is a British-born developmental biologist at UC Berkeley, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014 and the Royal Society in 2019.

Richard M. Locksley

Richard M. Locksley is an American immunologist and Sandler Distinguished Professor at UCSF who studies type 2 immunity and helped discover group 2 innate lymphoid cells in 2010.

Richard M. Ryan

Richard M. Ryan is an American clinical psychologist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Rochester, who co-developed self-determination theory, a macro-theory of human motivation and well-being.

Richard M. Shiffrin

Richard M. Shiffrin, also known as Richard Shiffrin, is an American cognitive psychologist at Indiana University Bloomington, best known for the 1968 Atkinson–Shiffrin memory model and the 1977 controlled and automatic processing papers.

Richard Marais

Richard Marais is a British cancer biologist known for his work on the BRAF kinase in melanoma, and was Director of the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute from 2012.

Richard Mooney

Richard Mooney is an American neuroscientist at Duke University who studies how the brain learns vocal behavior, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.

Richard Morris (neuroscientist)

Richard G. M. Morris, born 1948, is a British neuroscientist at the University of Edinburgh, best known for the watermaze and for showing that NMDA receptors are required for learning.

Richard N. Aslin

Richard N. Aslin, born in 1949, is an American developmental psychologist at Yale and Haskins Laboratories whose research showed that infants extract language structure from mere exposure, earning election to the National Academy of Sciences.

Richard N. Perham

Richard N. Perham (1937–2015) was a British structural biochemist who spent his career at Cambridge, pioneering the redesign of enzyme coenzyme specificity and studying multienzyme complexes.

Richard N. Pierson

Richard N. Pierson III is an American cardiac surgeon-scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard whose xenotransplantation research prepared the ground for the first pig-to-human heart transplant.

Richard Neutze

Richard Neutze (1969–2026) was a New Zealand-born biochemist and biophysicist, Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Gothenburg, known for the diffraction-before-destruction principle behind serial femtosecond crystallography.

Richard Owen

Sir Richard Owen (1804–1892), English comparative anatomist and palaeontologist; coined Dinosauria in 1842, defined homology and the vertebrate archetype, founded London's Natural History Museum, and opposed Darwin's natural selection.

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Richard P. Boyce

Richard P. Boyce is a molecular biologist whose 1964 experiment with Paul Howard-Flanders showed that E. coli removes ultraviolet-induced thymine dimers from DNA, establishing nucleotide excision repair.

Richard P. Harvey

Richard P. Harvey is an Australian developmental biologist best known for discovering the transcription factor Nkx2-5, which opened the molecular era of heart development research.