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Robert A. Rosenheck

Robert A. Rosenheck is an American psychiatrist and Yale School of Medicine professor emeritus who spent 22 years directing the VA Northeast Program Evaluation Center, evaluating mental health programs for veterans.

Robert A. Seder

Robert A. Seder, also published as Robert Seder, is an American physician-scientist who leads the Cellular Immunology Section of the NIH Vaccine Research Center, known for malaria antibody and vaccine work.

Robert A. Star

Robert A. Star is an American nephrologist and physician-scientist who directs the Division of Kidney, Urologic, and Hematologic Diseases at NIDDK and led the 2008 ATN trial.

Robert A. Steinberg

Robert A. Steinberg is a molecular biologist who used somatic-cell genetics of cultured S49 mouse lymphoma cells to determine how cAMP-dependent protein kinase is structured, regulated, and expressed.

Robert A. Weinberg

Robert A. Weinberg is an American cancer biologist at MIT and the Whitehead Institute who discovered the first human oncogene, Ras, and wrote "The Hallmarks of Cancer" (2000).

Robert A. White

Robert A. White, also published as Robert A. H. White, is a Cambridge developmental geneticist known for work on the bithorax complex and Hox gene regulation in Drosophila.

Robert A. Wood

Robert A. Wood is an American pediatric allergist at Johns Hopkins known for the OUtMATCH trial, which led to the 2024 approval of omalizumab for multiple food allergies.

Robert Adelstein

Robert S. Adelstein (1934–2024) was an American physician-scientist who spent about sixty years at NIH, established phosphorylation as the regulator of smooth muscle and nonmuscle myosin, and defined the three nonmuscle myosin II genes.

Robert Almer Harper

Robert Almer Harper (1862–1946) was an American botanist and cytologist who worked out the details of reproduction in the fungus ascospore, teaching at Columbia University.

Robert Aubrey Hinde

Robert Aubrey Hinde (1923–2016) was a British ethologist and zoologist at Cambridge whose quantitative rhesus monkey mother–infant separation studies became experimental foundations for attachment theory.

Robert Austrian

Robert Austrian (1916–2007) was an American infectious-diseases physician and epidemiologist at the University of Pennsylvania who developed the pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine, winning the 1978 Lasker Award.

Robert B. Belshe

Robert B. Belshe is an American infectious-diseases physician and vaccinologist, professor emeritus at Saint Louis University, known for pediatric trials of the intranasal influenza vaccine and the Herpevac herpes vaccine trial.

Robert B. Case

Robert B. Case is an American cardiologist at St. Luke's–Roosevelt Hospital Center and Columbia University, known for the 1992 JAMA study on living alone after myocardial infarction.

Robert B. Colvin

Robert B. Colvin is an American transplant immunopathologist, Benjamin Castleman Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and Chief of Pathology, emeritus, at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

Robert B. Couch

Robert B. Couch (1930–2024) was an American physician-scientist and clinical virologist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, known for influenza vaccine and antiviral research.

Robert B. Darnell

Robert B. Darnell is an American physician-scientist at Rockefeller University known for developing CLIP, which maps RNA-protein interactions in living tissue, and for founding the New York Genome Center.

Robert B. Gennis

Robert B. Gennis is an American biochemist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for his work on membrane-bound respiratory enzymes and proton pumping.

Robert B. Goldberg

Robert B. Goldberg (1944–2025) was an American plant molecular biologist at UCLA known for studies of gene regulation during plant embryogenesis and seed development, and for the barnase–barstar system used in hybrid canola production.

Robert B. Innis

Robert B. Innis, born 1952, is an American physician-scientist who has led the Molecular Imaging Branch at NIMH since 2001, developing PET radioligands for brain imaging.

Robert B. Jackson

Robert B. Jackson is an American ecosystem ecologist and biogeochemist at Stanford University who chairs the Global Carbon Project and won the 2025 Blue Planet Prize.

Robert B. Jenkins

Robert B. Jenkins is an American medical geneticist and pathologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for molecular classification of brain tumors, especially gliomas.

Robert B. Nadelman

Robert B. Nadelman (R. B. Nadelman) was an infectious-diseases physician and professor of medicine at New York Medical College for 31 years, known for Lyme disease research.

Robert B. Nussenblatt

Robert B. Nussenblatt (1948–2016) was an American ophthalmologist who spent his career at the National Eye Institute, first used cyclosporine to treat uveitis, and founded its Laboratory of Immunology.

Robert B. Wallace

Robert B. Wallace is an American physician and epidemiologist at the University of Iowa known for research on aging, elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2001.

Robert B. Zajonc

Robert B. Zajonc (1923–2008) was a Polish-born American social psychologist, best known for the mere exposure effect, who spent most of his career at the University of Michigan.

Robert Bárány

Robert Bárány (1876–1936) was an Austrian otologist who won the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on the inner ear's organ of balance.

Robert Batey

Robert T. Batey, known as R.T. Batey, is an American structural biologist and professor of biochemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder who studies riboswitches and RNA.

Robert Bayley Osgood

Robert Bayley Osgood (1873–1956) was an American orthopedic surgeon in Boston who in 1903 first described the adolescent knee disorder Osgood–Schlatter disease, and served as chief of orthopedics at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Robert Beaglehole

Robert Beaglehole is a New Zealand public health physician and emeritus professor at the University of Auckland, known for tobacco harm reduction advocacy and WHO chronic disease leadership.

Robert Benezra

Robert Benezra, also published as R. Benezra, is a molecular and cancer biologist who discovered the Id proteins and co-discovered hsMAD2, the first human mitotic checkpoint gene.