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Roy F. Baumeister
Roy F. Baumeister, often cited as Roy Baumeister, is a social psychologist known for research on self-control, self-esteem, and the ego depletion model of willpower.
Roy H. Doi
Roy H. Doi (1933–2017) was an American microbiologist at the University of California, Davis, known for showing how Bacillus subtilis controls spore formation through sigma factors.
Roy J. Britten
Roy J. Britten (1919–2012) was an American molecular biologist at Caltech who discovered repeated DNA sequences in animal genomes using DNA renaturation kinetics, and proposed the Britten–Davidson gene regulation model.
Roy Kishony
Roy Kishony (רוי קישוני) is an Israeli-born biologist at the Technion and Harvard Medical School known for the MEGA-plate experiment filming antibiotic resistance evolving in real time.
Roy Parker (biochemist)
Roy Parker is an American RNA biologist known for identifying the major mRNA decay pathways and discovering P-bodies, and an HHMI investigator at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Royal Alexander Brink
Royal Alexander Brink (1897–1984) was a Canadian-born American plant geneticist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, best known for discovering paramutation in maize and breeding Vernal alfalfa.
Ru Chih C. Huang
Ru Chih C. Huang was an American biochemist at Johns Hopkins University known for showing that histones suppress chromosomal RNA synthesis and for developing the anticancer compound Terameprocol.
Ruben C. Gur
Ruben C. Gur is a cognitive neuroscientist and clinical psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, known for Science papers from 1980 to 1982 on hemispheric asymmetry and cerebral blood flow.
Ruben Rellan-Alvarez
Rubén Rellán-Álvarez is a Spanish-born plant biologist at North Carolina State University who studies how roots and mineral nutrition adapt to stress, and a 2025 PECASE recipient.
Rudi Glockshuber
Rudi Glockshuber, full name Rudolf Glockshuber, is a Swiss biochemist and Professor Emeritus at ETH Zurich known for research on protein folding, disulfide-forming bacterial enzymes, and adhesive pili of uropathogenic E. coli.
Rudi J. Planta
Rudi J. Planta is a molecular biologist at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam who traced yeast ribosomes, from precursor RNA to a complete census of ribosomal protein genes.
Rüdiger Klein
Rüdiger Klein, born 1958 in Nickenich, Germany, is a neuroscientist who identified the nerve growth factor receptor and led Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology research from 2001.
Rüdiger Simon
Rüdiger Simon (born 1962) is a German plant developmental biologist and professor at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, known for work on the CLAVATA–WUSCHEL stem cell signaling loop.
Rüdiger Wehner
Rüdiger Wehner, born 1940 in Nuremberg, is a German neurobiologist and professor emeritus at Zurich known for making the desert ant Cataglyphis a model organism in animal navigation.
Rudolf Grosschedl
Rudolf Grosschedl, born 1952 in Salzburg, is an Austrian molecular biologist known for work on immunoglobulin gene regulation and the transcription factors EBF1 and LEF1.
Rudolf Höber
Rudolf Höber (1873–1953) was a German physiologist, professor at Kiel until his 1933 expulsion under the Nazi civil-service law, who first demonstrated the insulating membrane of living cells.
Rudolf J. Schweyen
Rudolf J. Schweyen (1941 to 2009) was an Austrian-based molecular biologist who studied yeast mitochondrial genes, first RNA splicing and later magnesium transport, and helped found the University of Vienna's Institute of Microbiology and Genetics.
Rudolf Jaenisch
Rudolf Jaenisch (רודולף ייניש), born 1942, is a German-born American geneticist at MIT's Whitehead Institute who created the first transgenic mice and pioneered stem cell research.
Rudolf K. Allemann
Rudolf K. Allemann is a chemical biologist and Distinguished Research Professor at Cardiff University since 2005, known for work on terpene synthase chemistry and protein motions in enzyme catalysis.
Rudolf K. Thauer
Rudolf K. Thauer, born 1939 in Frankfurt, is a German biochemist whose work on energy metabolism in strict anaerobes, especially methanogenic archaea, shaped anaerobic microbiology.
Rudolf Leuckart
Rudolf Leuckart (1822–1898) was a German zoologist, professor at Leipzig from 1869, known as the father of parasitology for working out the life cycles of tapeworms and the trichina.
Rudolf Magnus
Rudolf Magnus (1873–1927) was a German-born Dutch pharmacologist and physiologist who held the Netherlands' first pharmacology chair, at Utrecht University from 1908, and analyzed postural reflexes in decerebrate animals.
Rudolf Weber (Swiss biologist)
Rudolf Heinrich Weber (1922–2015) was a Swiss developmental and molecular biologist at the University of Bern whose group made Xenopus laevis a leading model for estrogen-controlled gene expression.
Rudolf Zechner
Rudolf Zechner is an Austrian biochemist at the University of Graz whose team discovered adipose triglyceride lipase (ATGL), the enzyme that initiates the breakdown of stored fat.
Rudolph Peters
Sir Rudolph Albert Peters was a British biochemist who held the Whitley Chair at Oxford from 1923 and led the team that discovered the antidote British Anti-Lewisite.
Rudolph Schoenheimer
Rudolph Schoenheimer (1898–1941) was a German-born American biochemist who introduced stable-isotope tracers into metabolic research, establishing the dynamic state of body constituents, the foundation of quantitative metabolic studies.
Rueyling Lin (林瑞玲)
Rueyling Lin (林瑞玲) is a molecular biologist and professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, known for her research on C. elegans developmental genetics.
Rugang Zhang
Rugang Zhang is a cancer biologist known for showing that EZH2 inhibition kills ARID1A-mutated ovarian cancer cells; since 2023 he has chaired Experimental Therapeutics at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Ruhong Zhou
Ruhong Zhou (周如鸿) is a Chinese computational biologist and biophysicist, Qiushi Chair Professor and Dean at Zhejiang University, who shared the 2009 National Medal of Technology for the Blue Gene supercomputer.
Rui Benedito
Rui Benedito, born in Lisbon in 1979, is a Portuguese vascular biologist known for work on Notch and VEGF signaling in angiogenesis and genetic mosaic tools.