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Robert MacArthur
Robert Helmer MacArthur (1930–1972) was a Canadian-born American ecologist at Princeton University who, with E. O. Wilson, founded island biogeography theory and is remembered as a founder of evolutionary ecology.
Robert Macfarlane
Robert Macfarlane, or R. G. Macfarlane (1907 to 1987), was a British haematologist at Oxford who turned blood clotting into an experimental science and transformed hemophilia treatment.
Robert Marcus Gunn
Robert Marcus Gunn (1850–1909) was a Scottish ophthalmologist who spent his career at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London and gave his name to the Marcus Gunn pupil and jaw-winking syndrome.
Robert May, Baron May of Oxford
Robert May, Baron May of Oxford (1936–2020) was an Australian-born physicist who founded theoretical ecology, best known for the May–Wigner stability theorem, and served as UK Chief Scientific Adviser.
Robert McCarrison
Robert McCarrison (1878–1960) was an Irish-born doctor in the Indian Medical Service whose Himalayan goitre research and Coonoor nutrition laboratory, later India's National Institute of Nutrition, made him a central figure in nutrition science.
Robert McClung
Robert McClung, known as R. Paul McClung, is a CDC researcher in HIV outbreak detection and response who coauthored the first 2022 US mpox report.
Robert McMillan (hematologist)
Robert McMillan was an American hematologist at Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, California, whose work traced chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura to antibodies made by the spleen.
Robert Ménard
Robert Ménard is a French physician-scientist and parasitologist who heads the Biology and Genetics of the Malaria Laboratory at the Institut Pasteur, known for filming malaria parasites in real time.
Robert Metzenberg
Robert Metzenberg (1930–2007) was an American geneticist who spent his career at the University of Wisconsin studying Neurospora crassa and discovered meiotic silencing by unpaired DNA.
Robert Michael Forde
Robert Michael Forde (1861–1948) was a British colonial medical officer and Colonial Surgeon in The Gambia who in 1901 made the first definitive observation of trypanosomes in a human patient.
Robert Muir (Scottish pathologist)
Sir Robert Muir (1864–1959) was a Scottish physician and pathologist, Professor of Pathology at the University of Glasgow from 1899 to 1936, known for pioneering work on immunity reactions and the antibody-complement mechanism.
Robert N. Eisenman
Robert N. Eisenman is an American molecular biologist and professor at Fred Hutch Cancer Center in Seattle since 1976, known for establishing the Myc–Max–Mad transcription factor network.
Robert N. Foley
Robert N. Foley is a nephrologist and clinical epidemiologist in Minneapolis, known for the 2011 New England Journal of Medicine study showing dialysis deaths cluster after the two-day treatment break.
Robert N. Hoover
Robert N. Hoover is an American cancer epidemiologist who spent 48 years at the National Cancer Institute, leading the DES Follow-up Study of prenatal drug exposure.
Robert N. Weinreb
Robert N. Weinreb is an American ophthalmologist and glaucoma specialist who is Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology and Director of the Shiley Eye Institute at UC San Diego.
Robert Noble (Canadian physician)
Robert Noble (1910–1990) was a Canadian physician who, with chemist Charles Beer, discovered the anticancer drug vinblastine in the Madagascar periwinkle, a plant originally studied as a folk diabetes remedy.
Robert O. Bonow
Robert O. Bonow is an American cardiologist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, a past president of the American Heart Association and founding editor of JAMA Cardiology.
Robert Otto Burciaga Valdez
Robert Otto Valdez is an American health services researcher who served as Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality from 2022 to 2025.
Robert P. Erickson
Robert P. Erickson is an American physician-scientist in human and molecular genetics, Holsclaw Family Professor Emeritus of Human Genetics at the University of Arizona College of Medicine.
Robert P. Fuchs
Robert P. Fuchs is a French molecular biologist known for work on how cells replicate damaged DNA, first at CNRS in Strasbourg and later at the cancer research center in Marseille.
Robert P. Giugliano
Robert P. Giugliano is an American cardiologist, Senior Investigator with the TIMI Study Group at Brigham and Women's Hospital, who led the ENGAGE AF-TIMI 48 edoxaban trial.
Robert P. Hanson
Robert P. Hanson was an American veterinary virologist and epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for work on Newcastle disease virus, La Crosse virus epidemiology, and scrapie research.
Robert P. Hasserjian
Robert P. Hasserjian, also published as Robert Hasserjian, is a hematopathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School who studies the diagnosis and classification of myeloid neoplasms.
Robert P. Hebbel
Robert P. Hebbel is an American hematologist at the University of Minnesota known for showing that abnormal adhesion of sickle red cells to endothelium drives sickle cell disease.
Robert P. Kelch
Robert P. Kelch is an American pediatric endocrinologist known for research on growth and pubertal hormones, who led medical schools at Iowa and Michigan before retiring in 2009.
Robert P. Kimberly
Robert P. Kimberly is an American rheumatologist, immunologist, and human geneticist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, known for Fc gamma receptor polymorphisms as autoimmune risk factors.
Robert P. Perrillo
Robert P. Perrillo is an American hepatologist and gastroenterologist at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, known for hepatitis B treatment trials since the 1980s.
Robert P. Perry
Robert P. Perry (1931–2013) was an American molecular biologist at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1977.
Robert Palese Perry
Robert Palese Perry (1931–2013) was an American molecular biologist at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, known for defining the cellular sites of RNA synthesis and naming the CHD-1 protein.
Robert Peter Gale
Robert Peter Gale is an American physician-scientist in hematology at Imperial College London, known for leukemia and bone marrow transplant research and for treating Chernobyl radiation victims in 1986.