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Robert K. Selander

Robert K. Selander was an American evolutionary biologist and population geneticist, a University of Texas professor elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1982, known for work on genetic variation in animals and bacterial pathogens.

Robert K. Wayne

Robert K. Wayne (Robert Keith Wayne) was an evolutionary and conservation geneticist at UCLA, best known for genetic studies of dog domestication and endangered carnivores.

Robert Kaptein

Robert Kaptein was a Dutch biomolecular NMR spectroscopist whose 1985 structure of the lac repressor headpiece was among the first proteins determined by NMR; he died in 2021.

Robert Katzman

Robert Katzman (1925–2008) was an American neurologist and Alzheimer's researcher at UCSD, best known for his 1976 editorial redefining senile dementia as a disease, not normal aging.

Robert Keith Cannan

Robert Keith Cannan (1894–1971) was an American biochemist who led New York University's biochemistry department for over twenty years and later served with the National Research Council in Washington.

Robert Kingston

Robert E. Kingston is an American biochemist, Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and chief of molecular biology at Massachusetts General Hospital, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2016.

Robert Kleta

Robert Kleta is a British-based nephrologist and biochemical geneticist, Emeritus Professor of Medicine at University College London, known for identifying genetic causes of rare kidney tubular disorders including EAST syndrome.

Robert Klose

Robert J. Klose is a Canadian professor of genetics at the University of Oxford who studies how epigenetic systems control gene expression, focusing on CpG islands.

Robert Koch

Robert Koch (Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch) was a German physician and bacteriologist, a founder of bacteriology, who established the bacterial causes of tuberculosis, cholera, and anthrax and won the 1905 Nobel Prize.

Róbert Královics

Robert Kralovics (born 1970) is a geneticist who studies myeloproliferative neoplasms; based in Vienna since 2006, he identified the JAK2 mutation in 2005 and CALR mutations in 2013.

Robert L. Baehner

Robert L. Baehner is an American pediatric hematologist who developed the nitroblue tetrazolium test for chronic granulomatous disease and led children's hospitals in Indianapolis and Los Angeles.

Robert L. Baldwin

Robert L. Baldwin, known as Buzz Baldwin, was an American biochemist at Stanford University who showed that proteins fold through short-lived intermediate structures rather than in a single step.

Robert L. Berger

Robert Laszlo Berger (1930–2016) was a Hungarian-born American cardiothoracic surgeon and Holocaust survivor who led Boston hospitals and showed in 1990 that the Nazi Dachau hypothermia experiments were scientifically worthless.

Robert L. Brent

Robert L. Brent (1927–2021) was an American pediatrician and teratologist at Thomas Jefferson Medical College known for showing radiation's effects on embryos follow a dose threshold.

Robert L. Coffman

Robert L. Coffman is an American immunologist who established the Th1/Th2 model of helper T cell differentiation and developed CpG oligonucleotide vaccine adjuvants at Dynavax Technologies.

Robert L. Coleman

Robert L. Coleman is an American gynecologic oncologist at Texas Oncology in The Woodlands, Texas, formerly of MD Anderson, known for leading the ovarian cancer trials ARIEL3 and VELIA.

Robert L. Ferrer

Robert L. Ferrer is an American family physician at UT Health San Antonio, elected to the National Academy of Medicine for measuring opportunities for healthy behaviors.

Robert L. Fischer

Robert L. Fischer is an American plant biologist and Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, known for showing that the DEMETER DNA glycosylase establishes gene imprinting in the plant endosperm.

Robert L. Frye

Robert L. Frye (1932–2026) was an American cardiologist at Mayo Clinic who chaired the BARI trial and served as president of the American College of Cardiology.

Robert L. Hill (biochemist)

Robert L. Hill (1928–2012) was an American biochemist at Duke University School of Medicine who led research on hemoglobin variants and glycosyltransferases, the enzymes that build complex sugars on proteins.

Robert L. Last

Robert L. Last is an American plant molecular biologist and University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University, known for connecting plant genes with the biochemical pathways they control.

Robert L. Letsinger

Robert L. Letsinger (1921–2014) was an American chemist at Northwestern University who pioneered the chemical synthesis of DNA and later used DNA to assemble gold nanoparticles into diagnostic probes.

Robert L. Macdonald

Robert L. Macdonald is an American neurologist and neuroscientist known for research on GABA_A receptor channels and genetic epilepsy, who chaired Vanderbilt's neurology department from 2001 to 2017.

Robert L. Margolis

Robert L. Margolis is an American cell biologist who studies microtubule dynamics and centromere biology, known for discovering microtubule treadmilling and for work identifying CENP-A as the centromere-specific histone.

Robert L. Martuza M.D.

Robert L. Martuza is a neurosurgeon and neuroscientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known as a founder of oncolytic herpes virotherapy for brain tumors.

Robert L. Metcalf

Robert L. Metcalf (1916–1998) was an American entomologist and environmental toxicologist at the University of Illinois who documented insecticide resistance and made biodegradability a pesticide requirement.

Robert L. Modlin

Robert L. Modlin is a physician-scientist and Distinguished Professor of dermatology at UCLA, known for building a human immunology of mycobacterial disease using leprosy as a model.

Robert L. Nussbaum

Robert L. Nussbaum is an American physician-scientist in human genetics who identified the Lowe syndrome gene OCRL1 and alpha-synuclein, the first hereditary Parkinson disease gene.

Robert L. Sheridan

Robert L. Sheridan is an American burn surgeon, chief of staff at Shriners Children's Boston, a Harvard Medical School professor, and a past president of the American Burn Association.

Robert L. Sinsheimer

Robert L. Sinsheimer (1920–2017) was an American biophysicist whose lab showed the virus φX174 has single-stranded, circular DNA, and who convened the 1985 workshop that launched human genome sequencing.