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Robert Plomin
Robert Plomin (born 1948) is an American psychologist and behavioral geneticist at King's College London, known for twin and adoption studies showing genetic influence on intelligence increases with age.
Robert Plonsey
Robert Plonsey (1924–2015) was an American biomedical engineer at Case Western Reserve and Duke who helped found bioelectricity, known for the bidomain model of cardiac tissue and defibrillation theory.
Robert Preißner
Robert Preißner is a scientist at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin working in structure-oriented bioinformatics, known for the ProTox web servers predicting chemical toxicity since 2014.
Robert R. Kay
Robert R. Kay is a British cell biologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, known for identifying the morphogen DIF-1 in Dictyostelium.
Robert R. Linton
Robert R. Linton was an American surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School who led the Society for Vascular Surgery in 1955 and lent his name to three vascular procedures.
Robert R. McCrae
Robert R. McCrae (born 1949) is an American personality psychologist who co-developed the five-factor model and the Revised NEO Personality Inventory at the National Institute on Aging.
Robert R. Reisz
Robert R. Reisz, born 1947, is a Romanian-born Canadian vertebrate paleontologist and Distinguished Professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga, known for research on the origin of amniotes.
Robert R. Sokal
Robert R. Sokal (1926–2012) was an Austrian-born American biostatistician and evolutionary biologist who co-founded numerical taxonomy, the quantitative classification of organisms, and wrote the influential textbook Biometry.
Robert R. Wolfe
Robert R. Wolfe (R. R. Wolfe) is an American muscle-metabolism researcher known for stable isotope tracer methodology and burn catabolism research, now a geriatrics professor and center director at UAMS in Little Rock.
Robert Ridgway
Robert Ridgway (1850–1929) was an American ornithologist who spent more than 50 years at the Smithsonian Institution as its first Curator of Birds, writing the standard references on North American birds.
Robert Roberts (cardiologist)
Robert Roberts is a Canadian-born American cardiologist regarded as a founder of molecular cardiology, known for the MBCK heart-attack diagnostic test and the first genetic locus for familial atrial fibrillation.
Robert Robison
Robert Robison (1883–1941) was a British biochemist at the Lister Institute in London, best known for isolating the Robison ester and studying phosphatase in bone calcification.
Robert Rosenberg (hematologist)
Robert Rosenberg, also known as Robert D. Rosenberg (1937–2020), was an American hematologist and vascular biologist who explained how antithrombin regulates clotting and taught at Harvard and MIT.
Robert Rössle
Robert Rössle (1876–1956) was a German pathologist who held Rudolf Virchow's chair at the Berlin Charité, advanced inflammation theory with serous inflammation and Pathergie, and introduced quantitative measurement into pathology.
Robert S. Coe
Robert S. Coe is a geophysicist and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz, known for paleomagnetism, lava-flow reversal records, and the Coe paleointensity method.
Robert S. Daum
Robert S. Daum was an American pediatric infectious diseases physician-scientist at the University of Chicago whose group identified community-associated MRSA in children and led a 2017 antibiotic trial for skin abscesses.
Robert S. DiPaola
Robert S. DiPaola is an American medical oncologist known for leading prostate cancer trials including CHAARTED, and provost of the University of Kentucky since 2022.
Robert S. Kerbel
Robert S. Kerbel, born 1945, is a Canadian cancer biologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, known for tumor angiogenesis, antiangiogenic therapy, and metronomic chemotherapy.
Robert S. Lawrence
Robert S. Lawrence is an American physician and Johns Hopkins public health professor who founded the Center for a Livable Future and chaired the first U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
Robert S. Lees
Robert S. Lees (1934–2017) was an American cardiologist and clinical researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and MIT, known for pioneering plasmapheresis treatment of familial hypercholesterolemia, the forerunner of LDL apheresis.
Robert S. Molday
Robert S. Molday is a Canadian-based biochemist at the University of British Columbia whose laboratory identified photoreceptor membrane proteins and genes behind inherited retinal degenerative disease.
Robert S. Munford
Robert S. Munford is an American physician-scientist in innate immunity who discovered acyloxyacyl hydrolase, the host enzyme that detoxifies bacterial endotoxin, in 1986 and studies LPS inactivation at NIH.
Robert S. Negrin
Robert S. Negrin is an American hematologist at Stanford University known for regulatory T cell research in bone marrow transplantation and 2026 president of the American Society of Hematology.
Robert S. Sandler
Robert S. Sandler is an American gastroenterologist and epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, known for a 2003 trial showing aspirin prevents colorectal adenomas.
Robert S. Schwab
Robert S. Schwab (1903 or 1904 – 1972) was an American neurologist who founded the first clinical EEG laboratory in the United States, at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Robert S. Sherwin
Robert S. Sherwin (1942–2023) was an American endocrinologist who spent 44 years on the Yale faculty, directed its Diabetes Center, and served as president of the American Diabetes Association.
Robert S. Stern
Robert S. Stern is an American dermatologist and epidemiologist, emeritus professor at Harvard Medical School, known for the PUVA Follow-up Study of psoriasis treatment and skin cancer.
Robert S. Wildin
Robert S. Wildin is a physician-scientist who led the 2001 Nature Genetics study showing that FOXP3 mutations cause IPEX, a fatal X-linked autoimmune disorder of infancy.
Robert S. Zucker
Robert S. Zucker, also known as Robert Zucker, is a cellular neuroscientist at UC Berkeley known for showing that calcium entry, not depolarization, triggers neurotransmitter release.
Robert Salus
Robert Salus (1877–1961) was an Austrian ophthalmologist trained at the German University of Prague who described rubeosis iridis diabetica in 1928 and Salus's sign, a retinal vein deviation in hypertension.