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Robert Levis
Robert W. Levis is a molecular biologist at the Carnegie Institution for Science who showed that unstable Drosophila mutations come from FB elements and that retrotransposons rebuild chromosome ends.
Robert Liddington
Robert Liddington is a structural biologist known for crystal structures of integrins, vinculin, and the anthrax toxin, and a professor at Sanford Burnham Prebys in San Diego.
Robert Lim
Robert Kho-Seng Lim (林可胜), 1897 to 1969, was a Singapore-born physiologist who headed physiology at Peking Union Medical College and served as China's Surgeon General.
Robert Luke Nussbaum
Robert Luke Nussbaum is an American physician-scientist in medical genetics, a UCSF professor and National Academy of Medicine member known for identifying alpha-synuclein in hereditary Parkinson disease.
Robert M. Bell
Robert M. Bell is a biochemist at Duke University, known for his groundbreaking work in the 1980s regarding lipid metabolism and the discovery of sphingolipid signaling.
Robert M. Benbow
Robert M. Benbow was a molecular biologist at Johns Hopkins and Iowa State University known for cell-free Xenopus frog egg systems for studying DNA replication and recombination.
Robert M. Friedman
Robert M. Friedman (R. M. Friedman) is a virologist known for work on how interferon inhibits virus growth, at the National Institutes of Health and USUHS in Bethesda, Maryland.
Robert M. Krug
Robert M. Krug is a virologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, known for discovering the influenza cap-snatching mechanism and studying the viral NS1 protein.
Robert Metzenberg
Robert Metzenberg (1930–2007) was an American geneticist who spent his career at the University of Wisconsin studying Neurospora crassa and discovered meiotic silencing by unpaired DNA.
Robert N. Eisenman
Robert N. Eisenman is an American molecular biologist and professor at Fred Hutch Cancer Center in Seattle since 1976, known for establishing the Myc–Max–Mad transcription factor network.
Robert P. Erickson
Robert P. Erickson is an American physician-scientist in human and molecular genetics, Holsclaw Family Professor Emeritus of Human Genetics at the University of Arizona College of Medicine.
Robert P. Fuchs
Robert P. Fuchs is a French molecular biologist known for work on how cells replicate damaged DNA, first at CNRS in Strasbourg and later at the cancer research center in Marseille.
Robert P. Hanson
Robert P. Hanson was an American veterinary virologist and epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for work on Newcastle disease virus, La Crosse virus epidemiology, and scrapie research.
Robert P. Perry
Robert P. Perry (1931–2013) was an American molecular biologist at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1977.
Robert Palese Perry
Robert Palese Perry (1931–2013) was an American molecular biologist at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, known for defining the cellular sites of RNA synthesis and naming the CHD-1 protein.
Robert Plomin
Robert Plomin (born 1948) is an American psychologist and behavioral geneticist at King's College London, known for twin and adoption studies showing genetic influence on intelligence increases with age.
Robert R. Kay
Robert R. Kay is a British cell biologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, known for identifying the morphogen DIF-1 in Dictyostelium.
Robert R. McCrae
Robert R. McCrae (born 1949) is an American personality psychologist who co-developed the five-factor model and the Revised NEO Personality Inventory at the National Institute on Aging.
Robert R. Sokal
Robert R. Sokal (1926–2012) was an Austrian-born American biostatistician and evolutionary biologist who co-founded numerical taxonomy, the quantitative classification of organisms, and wrote the influential textbook Biometry.
Robert Ridgway
Robert Ridgway (1850–1929) was an American ornithologist who spent more than 50 years at the Smithsonian Institution as its first Curator of Birds, writing the standard references on North American birds.
Robert Robison
Robert Robison (1883–1941) was a British biochemist at the Lister Institute in London, best known for isolating the Robison ester and studying phosphatase in bone calcification.
Robert S. Coe
Robert S. Coe is a geophysicist and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz, known for paleomagnetism, lava-flow reversal records, and the Coe paleointensity method.
Robert S. Kerbel
Robert S. Kerbel, born 1945, is a Canadian cancer biologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, known for tumor angiogenesis, antiangiogenic therapy, and metronomic chemotherapy.
Robert S. Molday
Robert S. Molday is a Canadian-based biochemist at the University of British Columbia whose laboratory identified photoreceptor membrane proteins and genes behind inherited retinal degenerative disease.
Robert S. Munford
Robert S. Munford is an American physician-scientist in innate immunity who discovered acyloxyacyl hydrolase, the host enzyme that detoxifies bacterial endotoxin, in 1986 and studies LPS inactivation at NIH.
Robert S. Zucker
Robert S. Zucker, also known as Robert Zucker, is a cellular neuroscientist at UC Berkeley known for showing that calcium entry, not depolarization, triggers neurotransmitter release.
Robert Schimke
Robert Schimke (1932–2014) was an American biochemist and cancer researcher at Stanford University, best known for discovering that mammalian cells gain drug resistance by amplifying genes.
Robert Schlegel
Robert A. Schlegel is a professor emeritus of biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State, known for work on membrane lipids and the clearance of dying cells.
Robert Schleif
Robert F. Schleif is a molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University whose research on the arabinose operon revealed DNA looping in gene regulation.
Robert Schmitz (plant epigeneticist)
Robert J. Schmitz (born 1980) is an American plant epigeneticist and professor of genetics at the University of Georgia, known for DNA methylation studies in Arabidopsis and crop regulatory atlases.