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Robert Glaeser

Robert Glaeser is an American biophysicist and structural biologist at UC Berkeley, known for developing cryogenic electron microscopy, which freezes proteins to image their structures at high resolution.

Robert H. Abeles

Robert H. Abeles, born Robert Heinz Abeles, was an Austrian-born American biochemist at Brandeis University who showed that vitamin B12 reactions proceed by radical chemistry.

Robert H. Allen

Robert H. Allen was an American hematologist at the University of Colorado whose research on vitamin B12 and folate metabolism produced the standard diagnostic test for B12 deficiency.

Robert H. Baloh

Robert H. Baloh is an American neurologist known for research on genetic and immune mechanisms of ALS and frontotemporal dementia, now global head of neuroscience at Novartis.

Robert H. Belmaker

Robert H. Belmaker (born 1947) is an Israeli psychiatrist and mood-disorders researcher who held Israel's first named Chair of Psychiatry at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Robert H. Brook

Robert H. Brook is an American physician and health services researcher at UCLA and RAND who pioneered methods for measuring the quality and appropriateness of medical care.

Robert H. Brown Jr.

Robert H. Brown Jr. is an American neurologist and neuroscientist at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, known for discovering the first ALS gene, SOD1, in 1993.

Robert H. Burris

Robert H. Burris (1914–2010) was an American biochemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who became a preeminent authority on biological nitrogen fixation and developed its standard research methods.

Robert H. Eckel

Robert H. Eckel is an American physician-scientist in endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism, emeritus professor at the University of Colorado and a former American Heart Association president.

Robert H. Edwards

Robert H. Edwards is an American neuroscientist and physician at the University of California, San Francisco who identified the proteins that carry neurotransmitters into synaptic vesicles.

Robert H. Lustig

Robert H. Lustig is an American pediatric endocrinologist and emeritus professor of pediatrics at UCSF, best known for arguing that fructose is a metabolic toxin driving chronic disease.

Robert H. Michell

Robert H. Michell is a British biochemist at the University of Birmingham whose 1975 review correctly proposed that receptor-triggered inositol lipid hydrolysis mobilizes calcium in stimulated cells.

Robert H. Miller

Robert H. Miller, also published as Robert Harvey Miller, is a neuroscientist at George Washington University known for work on glial development and myelin repair.

Robert H. Parrott

Robert H. Parrott (circa 1923 – 1999) was an American pediatrician and virology researcher who led Children's Hospital in Washington, D.C., for roughly three decades.

Robert H. Purcell

Robert H. Purcell, born 1935 in Keokuk, Iowa, is an American virologist who spent his career at NIAID studying the hepatitis viruses and developing the first licensed hepatitis A vaccines.

Robert H. Silverman

Robert H. Silverman is an American biochemist at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute known for his work on the OAS/RNase L pathway of antiviral innate immunity.

Robert H. Singer

Robert H. Singer is an American cell biologist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine known for developing single-molecule RNA FISH and founding the field of RNA localization.

Robert H. Symons

Robert H. Symons (1934–2006) was an Australian biochemist at the University of Adelaide whose research on plant viruses and viroids led to discovery of the hammerhead ribozyme.

Robert H. Vonderheide

Robert H. Vonderheide is an American oncologist and cancer immunologist who directs the Abramson Cancer Center at Penn, known for CD40 immunotherapy and pancreatic cancer research.

Robert H. Wurtz

Robert H. Wurtz (born 1936) is an American visual neuroscientist and NIH distinguished investigator emeritus, known for recording single neurons in awake, behaving monkeys and for discovering a corollary discharge circuit.

Robert H. Yolken

Robert H. Yolken is a virologist at Johns Hopkins University who directs the Stanley Division of Developmental Neurovirology and studies infectious agents in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

Robert Haselkorn

Robert Haselkorn (1934–2025) was an American molecular biologist who spent his career at the University of Chicago, known for work on RNA synthesis and nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria.

Robert Howard (psychiatrist)

Robert Howard, also published as Robert J. Howard, is an old-age psychiatrist, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at University College London since 2015, previously at King's College London.

Robert Huber

Robert Huber, born 1937 in Munich, is a German biochemist who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining the structure of a photosynthetic reaction center.

Robert I. Haddad

Robert I. Haddad, also published as Robert Haddad, is a medical oncologist specializing in head and neck cancer who leads Dana-Farber's head and neck oncology division.

Robert I. Handin

Robert I. Handin, also known as Robert Handin, is an American hematologist at Harvard Medical School known for work on platelet biology and transfusion medicine.

Robert I. Lechler

Robert I. Lechler, also published as Robert Lechler, is a British transplant immunologist known for co-discovering indirect allorecognition and pioneering limiting dilution analysis of alloreactivity.

Robert I. Lehrer

Robert I. Lehrer is an immunologist at the UCLA School of Medicine who showed how neutrophils kill microbes and named the defensin antibiotic peptides in 1985.

Robert I. Levy

Robert I. Levy (1937–2000) was an American preventive cardiologist and lipid researcher who directed the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and co-created the standard classification of inherited cholesterol disorders.

Robert I. Richards

Robert I. Richards (Robert Ian Richards) is an Australian geneticist at the University of Adelaide known for isolating the fragile X DNA mutation and coining the term dynamic mutation.