Life scientists

Richard P. Mattick

Richard P. Mattick is an Australian drug and alcohol researcher and Honorary Professor at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales in Sydney.

Richard P. Novick is an American microbiologist at NYU Grossman School of Medicine known for discovering staphylococcal plasmids, the agr quorum-sensing system controlling virulence, and the SaPIs that spread toxic shock toxin.

Richard P. Woychik

Richard P. Woychik is an American mammalian geneticist who served as Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Toxicology Program from 2020 to 2025.

Richard R. Burgess

Richard R. Burgess is an American molecular biologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for discovering the E. coli sigma factor, the first positive transcription factor, in 1968.

Richard S. Blumberg

Richard S. Blumberg is an American physician-scientist in mucosal immunology at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2018.

Richard S. Lewis

Richard S. Lewis is a Stanford molecular and cellular physiologist known for calcium signaling research and for the 2013 disease-in-a-dish study of familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy using patient-specific stem cells.

Richard S. Mann

Richard S. Mann is a molecular biologist and Higgins Professor at Columbia University who studies how Hox transcription factors recognize DNA shape and control body pattern formation in fruit flies.

Richard S. Tedder

Richard S. Tedder, also known as Richard Tedder, is a British medical virologist and UCL professor whose 2014 hepatitis E study led to universal screening of English blood donations.

Richard Shope

Richard Shope (1901–1966) was an American virologist at the Rockefeller Institute who showed swine influenza needs both a virus and a bacterium, and discovered the first virus proved to cause cancer in a mammal.

Richard Sidman

Richard Leon Sidman (1928–2024) was an American neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School known for timing neuron birth and migration with autoradiography and for the staggerer mutant mouse.

Richard Southwood

Sir Richard Southwood, known as T.R.E. Southwood or Dick Southwood, was a British entomologist and ecologist, Oxford's Professor of Zoology and Vice-Chancellor, who chaired the 1989 Southwood Report on BSE.

Richard T. Lee (cardiologist)

Richard T. Lee is an American cardiologist and stem cell biologist who leads Harvard's cardiovascular stem cell program and is known for research on GDF11 and the aging heart.

Richard Treisman

Sir Richard Treisman is a British molecular biologist, knighted for services to biomedical science, who studies Ras and Rho signaling to the gene transcription factor SRF at the Francis Crick Institute in London.

Richard Turner (marine biologist)

Richard Turner is an American marine biologist specializing in echinoderms who spent 41 years on the Florida Institute of Technology faculty and coauthored the textbook Introduction to Marine Biology.

Richard Voellmy

Richard Voellmy is a molecular biologist trained at ETH Zürich who was a professor at the University of Miami and showed how HSP90 represses heat shock factor HSF1.

Richard W. Aldrich

Richard W. Aldrich is an American neuroscientist and biophysicist who studies how ion channels open and close, known for the ball-and-chain model of potassium channel inactivation.

Richard W. Carthew

Richard W. Carthew is a molecular biologist who studies small RNA gene silencing in fruit flies, is a professor at Northwestern University, and directs a Chicago biology institute founded in 2023.

Richard W. Erbe

Richard W. Erbe (1939–2024) was an American pediatric geneticist known for his 1975 New England Journal of Medicine review of inborn errors of folate metabolism and enzyme replacement trials.

Richard W. Gross

Richard W. Gross is an American biochemist and physician-scientist at Washington University in St. Louis who developed shotgun lipidomics and identified the PNPLA family of lipases.

Richard W. Hanson

Richard W. Hanson (1936–2014) was an American biochemist at Case Western Reserve University who spent nearly 40 years studying PEPCK, the key enzyme of gluconeogenesis.

Richard W. Michelmore

Richard W. Michelmore is an American plant geneticist and Distinguished Professor at UC Davis, known for crop disease-resistance genomics and the gene-mapping method Bulked Segregant Analysis.

Richard W. Roberts

Richard W. Roberts is an American biochemist who invented mRNA display, linking proteins to their encoding RNA so large libraries can be screened for useful molecules.

Richard W. Tsien

Richard W. Tsien is an American neuroscientist, emeritus professor at Stanford and Druckenmiller Professor at NYU, known for discovering and classifying voltage-gated calcium channels, including the N-type channel.

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Richard W. Wrangham

Richard W. Wrangham is a Harvard biological anthropologist known for the cooking hypothesis and self-domestication theory, and for directing the Kibale Chimpanzee Project in Uganda since 1987.

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Richard Wagner (physiologist)

Richard Wagner (1893–1970) was a German physician and physiologist known for work on biological regulation, blood circulation, and muscle physiology, and for methods of continuous blood-pressure recording in humans.

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Richard Westling

Per Richard Westling was a Swedish mycologist and professor of pharmacognosy at the pharmaceutical institute in Stockholm, first describing Penicillium notatum, Fleming's penicillin mold, in his 1911 doctoral thesis.

Richard Wolfenden

Richard Wolfenden (1935–2025) was an American enzymologist and biochemist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill known for measuring enzyme transition-state binding and uncatalyzed reaction rates.

Richie Poulton

Richie Poulton was a New Zealand clinical psychologist at the University of Otago who led the Dunedin Study, a birth-cohort project following over 1,000 people for fifty years.

Rickard Sandberg

Rickard Sandberg is a Swedish genomics researcher and Professor of Molecular Genetics at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, known for developing the single-cell RNA sequencing methods Smart-seq2 and Smart-seq3.