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Robert J. Lefkowitz
Robert J. Lefkowitz is an American physician-scientist at Duke University who characterized G-protein-coupled receptors and shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for that work.
Robert J. Linhardt
Robert J. Linhardt, also known as Robert Linhardt, was an American chemist and glycobiologist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute known for heparin research, including synthetic heparin and the 2008 contamination crisis.
Robert J. Macfarlane
Robert J. Macfarlane is a materials scientist and nanotechnologist who holds the Paul M. Cook Professorship at MIT, known for DNA-programmed nanoparticle superlattices and nanocomposite tectons.
Robert J. Schwartz
Robert J. Schwartz is a molecular biologist and Cullen Distinguished Professor at the University of Houston, known for work on cardiac transcription factors and heart repair.
Robert J. Wechsler‐Reya
Robert J. Wechsler-Reya, also known as Robert Wechsler-Reya, is a cancer biologist and professor at Columbia University who has led medulloblastoma research at Duke and Sanford Burnham Prebys.
Robert J. White
Robert J. White is a molecular biologist and Chair of Biochemistry at the University of York, known for establishing TBP as a general transcription factor for RNA polymerase III.
Robert Johnston (developmental neurobiologist)
Robert J. Johnston is a developmental neurobiologist and Associate Professor of Biology at Johns Hopkins University, known for identifying the first microRNA involved in nervous system development.
Robert K. Burns
Robert K. Burns (Robert Kyle Burns, 1896–1982) was an American biologist who showed experimentally that hormones can alter sexual development in vertebrates, working mainly at the Carnegie Institution in Baltimore.
Robert K. Ockner
Robert K. Ockner (1936–2022) was an American physician-scientist in hepatology at UCSF, known for discovering the fatty acid-binding proteins, proposing an albumin receptor mechanism, and leading the Liver Center.
Robert K. S. Wong
Robert K. S. Wong is a cellular and molecular neuroscientist and Distinguished Professor at SUNY Downstate, known for showing that a single hippocampal neuron can trigger synchronized population discharge.
Robert K. Selander
Robert K. Selander was an American evolutionary biologist and population geneticist, a University of Texas professor elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1982, known for work on genetic variation in animals and bacterial pathogens.
Robert Kaptein
Robert Kaptein was a Dutch biomolecular NMR spectroscopist whose 1985 structure of the lac repressor headpiece was among the first proteins determined by NMR; he died in 2021.
Robert Keith Cannan
Robert Keith Cannan (1894–1971) was an American biochemist who led New York University's biochemistry department for over twenty years and later served with the National Research Council in Washington.
Robert Kingston
Robert E. Kingston is an American biochemist, Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and chief of molecular biology at Massachusetts General Hospital, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2016.
Robert Klose
Robert J. Klose is a Canadian professor of genetics at the University of Oxford who studies how epigenetic systems control gene expression, focusing on CpG islands.
Robert Koch
Robert Koch (Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch) was a German physician and bacteriologist, a founder of bacteriology, who established the bacterial causes of tuberculosis, cholera, and anthrax and won the 1905 Nobel Prize.
Robert L. Baldwin
Robert L. Baldwin, known as Buzz Baldwin, was an American biochemist at Stanford University who showed that proteins fold through short-lived intermediate structures rather than in a single step.
Robert L. Brent
Robert L. Brent (1927–2021) was an American pediatrician and teratologist at Thomas Jefferson Medical College known for showing radiation's effects on embryos follow a dose threshold.
Robert L. Coffman
Robert L. Coffman is an American immunologist who established the Th1/Th2 model of helper T cell differentiation and developed CpG oligonucleotide vaccine adjuvants at Dynavax Technologies.
Robert L. Fischer
Robert L. Fischer is an American plant biologist and Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, known for showing that the DEMETER DNA glycosylase establishes gene imprinting in the plant endosperm.
Robert L. Hill (biochemist)
Robert L. Hill (1928–2012) was an American biochemist at Duke University School of Medicine who led research on hemoglobin variants and glycosyltransferases, the enzymes that build complex sugars on proteins.
Robert L. Last
Robert L. Last is an American plant molecular biologist and University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University, known for connecting plant genes with the biochemical pathways they control.
Robert L. Letsinger
Robert L. Letsinger (1921–2014) was an American chemist at Northwestern University who pioneered the chemical synthesis of DNA and later used DNA to assemble gold nanoparticles into diagnostic probes.
Robert L. Macdonald
Robert L. Macdonald is an American neurologist and neuroscientist known for research on GABA_A receptor channels and genetic epilepsy, who chaired Vanderbilt's neurology department from 2001 to 2017.
Robert L. Margolis
Robert L. Margolis is an American cell biologist who studies microtubule dynamics and centromere biology, known for discovering microtubule treadmilling and for work identifying CENP-A as the centromere-specific histone.
Robert L. Metcalf
Robert L. Metcalf (1916–1998) was an American entomologist and environmental toxicologist at the University of Illinois who documented insecticide resistance and made biodegradability a pesticide requirement.
Robert L. Nussbaum
Robert L. Nussbaum is an American physician-scientist in human genetics who identified the Lowe syndrome gene OCRL1 and alpha-synuclein, the first hereditary Parkinson disease gene.
Robert L. Sinsheimer
Robert L. Sinsheimer (1920–2017) was an American biophysicist whose lab showed the virus φX174 has single-stranded, circular DNA, and who convened the 1985 workshop that launched human genome sequencing.
Robert Landick
Robert Landick is a molecular biologist and Dr. Laurens Anderson Distinguished Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for defining how transcriptional pausing works in bacteria and humans.
Robert Levenson
Robert Levenson is a molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor at Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, Pennsylvania, known for studies of cell differentiation and receptor signaling.