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Robert Debré
Robert Debré (1882–1978) was a French physician regarded as the father of modern French pediatrics, who chaired the future INSERM and architected the 1958 CHU reform.
Robert DeMars
Robert DeMars (1928–2023) was an American immunologist and human geneticist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose mutant cell lines helped identify the TAP genes that supply peptides to MHC class I molecules.
Robert Desimone
Robert Desimone is a neuroscientist and director of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, known for the biased-competition model of visual attention and work linking attention to gamma-band neural synchrony.
Robert Detrano
Robert C. Detrano is a physician-scientist and former UC Irvine professor of radiological sciences and public health, known for showing coronary calcium scores predict heart attacks across ethnic groups.
Robert Doerr
Robert Doerr was an Austrian-born immunologist and pathologist who proved pappataci fever is caused by a virus transmitted by sandflies, then directed Basel's Hygienic Institute from 1919 to 1943.
Robert Domenjoz
Robert Domenjoz (1908–2000) was a Swiss pharmacologist who led DDT trials at Geigy in Basel, cited in the 1948 Nobel speech, and helped rescue imipramine.
Robert E. Black
Robert E. Black is a physician and epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health whose research on child survival and nutrition in low-income countries earned the Prince Mahidol and Gairdner awards.
Robert E. Campbell
Robert E. Campbell is a biochemist and protein engineer known for the GECO series of fluorescent calcium indicators, including R-GECO1 and NIR-GECO1, and for PhoCl.
Robert E. Coleman
Robert E. Coleman is a British medical oncologist and Emeritus Professor of Medical Oncology at the University of Sheffield, known for research on bone metastases in breast cancer.
Robert E. Davis
Robert E. Davis was an American plant pathologist with the USDA Agricultural Research Service in Beltsville, Maryland, known for discovering spiroplasma and pioneering phytoplasma research.
Robert E. Forster
Robert E. Forster (1919–2021) was an American respiratory physiologist at the University of Pennsylvania who coauthored the 1957 Roughton–Forster equation separating membrane diffusion from blood reaction rates in lung gas transfer.
Robert E. Gerszten
Robert E. Gerszten is an American physician-scientist in cardiovascular medicine and metabolomics, chief of cardiovascular medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and a Harvard Medical School professor.
Robert E. Hammer
Robert E. Hammer is a molecular geneticist and Professor of Biochemistry at UT Southwestern Medical Center, known for creating the first transgenic livestock and the HLA-B27 transgenic rat model of inflammatory disease.
Robert E. MacLaren
Robert E. MacLaren is a British ophthalmologist, Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Oxford and surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital, known for pioneering retinal gene therapy for inherited blindness.
Robert E. Olson
Robert E. Olson (born 1919) was an American biochemist and physician whose research centered on nutrition, especially how vitamin K regulates blood clotting protein synthesis.
Robert E. Ricklefs
Robert E. Ricklefs (1943–2026) was an American evolutionary ecologist and ornithologist, Curators' Distinguished Professor at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, known for avian life histories and diversity.
Robert E. Spiller
Robert E. Spiller, known as Robin Spiller, is a British gastroenterologist, Professor at the University of Nottingham since 1988, and editor of Gut from 2003 to 2009.
Robert E. Thach
Robert E. Thach is an American molecular biologist at Washington University in St. Louis known for work on translation initiation and translational control of gene expression.
Robert E. W. Hancock
Robert E. W. Hancock, known as Bob Hancock, is a Canadian microbiologist at the University of British Columbia known for research on antimicrobial peptides and antibiotic resistance.
Robert E. Weibel
Robert E. Weibel was an American pediatrician whose clinical trials of live attenuated viral vaccines supplied evidence behind the MMR vaccine, licensed in 1971, and the varicella vaccine, licensed in 1995.
Robert Edward Gross
Robert Edward Gross (1905–1988) was an American surgeon at Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard who performed the first successful patent ductus arteriosus operation in 1938.
Robert Edwards (physiologist)
Robert G. Edwards (1925–2013) was a British physiologist at Cambridge who developed human in vitro fertilization, achieving the first IVF birth in 1978 and winning the 2010 Nobel Prize.
Robert Emerson (plant physiologist)
Robert Emerson (1903–1959) was an American plant physiologist at the University of Illinois known for the red drop, the enhancement effect, and the photosynthetic unit.
Robert F. Bradley
Robert F. Bradley (1919/1920–2003) was an American diabetologist, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School who served ten years as president of the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston.
Robert F. Breiman
Robert F. Breiman is an American infectious-disease epidemiologist and physician, a professor at Emory University who spent 26 years at the CDC and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2017.
Robert F. Chandler
Robert F. Chandler (Robert Flint Chandler Jr.) was an American agronomist who directed the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines from 1959 to 1972.
Robert F. Furchgott
Robert F. Furchgott (1916–2009) was an American pharmacologist who discovered that blood vessel linings release nitric oxide, sharing the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the finding.
Robert F. Garry
Robert F. Garry is an American virologist and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Tulane University, known for Lassa fever and Ebola field research, diagnostics, and co-authoring the 2020 analysis of SARS-CoV-2's origin.
Robert F. Lemanske
Robert F. Lemanske is an American pediatric allergist-immunologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who founded the COAST asthma birth cohort and served as AAAAI president from 2015 to 2016.
Robert F. Margolskee
Robert F. Margolskee is an American molecular biologist known for discovering gustducin, a taste-cell G protein, in 1992, and for showing that gut cells sense nutrients like taste cells.