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Ru Chih C. Huang
Ru Chih C. Huang was an American biochemist at Johns Hopkins University known for showing that histones suppress chromosomal RNA synthesis and for developing the anticancer compound Terameprocol.
Ru‐Rong Ji
Ru-Rong Ji is a neuroscientist and pain researcher who directs the Center for Translational Pain Medicine at Duke University and studies neuroimmune mechanisms of chronic pain.
Ruben C. Gur
Ruben C. Gur is a cognitive neuroscientist and clinical psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, known for Science papers from 1980 to 1982 on hemispheric asymmetry and cerebral blood flow.
Ruben Kretzschmar
Ruben Kretzschmar is a Swiss-based environmental chemist, Professor Emeritus of Soil Chemistry at ETH Zurich, known for tracing how arsenic and mercury move and bind in soils and sediments.
Ruben Rellan-Alvarez
Rubén Rellán-Álvarez is a Spanish-born plant biologist at North Carolina State University who studies how roots and mineral nutrition adapt to stress, and a 2025 PECASE recipient.
Rubin M. Tuder
Rubin M. Tuder, a Brazilian-trained physician-scientist, is Hart Family Professor at the University of Colorado Denver, known for the ceramide model of emphysema and pulmonary hypertension research.
Rudi Glockshuber
Rudi Glockshuber, full name Rudolf Glockshuber, is a Swiss biochemist and Professor Emeritus at ETH Zurich known for research on protein folding, disulfide-forming bacterial enzymes, and adhesive pili of uropathogenic E. coli.
Rudi J. Planta
Rudi J. Planta is a molecular biologist at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam who traced yeast ribosomes, from precursor RNA to a complete census of ribosomal protein genes.
Rudi Schmid
Rudi Schmid (1922–2007) was a Swiss-born American hepatologist at UCSF, chief of gastroenterology from 1966 and dean of its medical school from 1983 to 1989.
Rüdiger Klein
Rüdiger Klein, born 1958 in Nickenich, Germany, is a neuroscientist who identified the nerve growth factor receptor and led Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology research from 2001.
Rüdiger Simon
Rüdiger Simon (born 1962) is a German plant developmental biologist and professor at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, known for work on the CLAVATA–WUSCHEL stem cell signaling loop.
Rüdiger Wehner
Rüdiger Wehner, born 1940 in Nuremberg, is a German neurobiologist and professor emeritus at Zurich known for making the desert ant Cataglyphis a model organism in animal navigation.
Rudolf Emmerich
Rudolf Emmerich (1852–1914) was a German bacteriologist and professor of hygiene at Munich who, with Oscar Löw, prepared pyocyanase in 1899, the first antibiotic used in hospitals.
Rudolf Grosschedl
Rudolf Grosschedl, born 1952 in Salzburg, is an Austrian molecular biologist known for work on immunoglobulin gene regulation and the transcription factors EBF1 and LEF1.
Rudolf Höber
Rudolf Höber (1873–1953) was a German physiologist, professor at Kiel until his 1933 expulsion under the Nazi civil-service law, who first demonstrated the insulating membrane of living cells.
Rudolf J. Schweyen
Rudolf J. Schweyen (1941 to 2009) was an Austrian-based molecular biologist who studied yeast mitochondrial genes, first RNA splicing and later magnesium transport, and helped found the University of Vienna's Institute of Microbiology and Genetics.
Rudolf Jaenisch
Rudolf Jaenisch (רודולף ייניש), born 1942, is a German-born American geneticist at MIT's Whitehead Institute who created the first transgenic mice and pioneered stem cell research.
Rudolf K. Allemann
Rudolf K. Allemann is a chemical biologist and Distinguished Research Professor at Cardiff University since 2005, known for work on terpene synthase chemistry and protein motions in enzyme catalysis.
Rudolf K. Thauer
Rudolf K. Thauer, born 1939 in Frankfurt, is a German biochemist whose work on energy metabolism in strict anaerobes, especially methanogenic archaea, shaped anaerobic microbiology.
Rudolf Leuckart
Rudolf Leuckart (1822–1898) was a German zoologist, professor at Leipzig from 1869, known as the father of parasitology for working out the life cycles of tapeworms and the trichina.
Rudolf Magnus
Rudolf Magnus (1873–1927) was a German-born Dutch pharmacologist and physiologist who held the Netherlands' first pharmacology chair, at Utrecht University from 1908, and analyzed postural reflexes in decerebrate animals.
Rudolf Rigler
Rudolf Rigler (1936–2022) was a professor of medical physics at Karolinska Institutet whose fluorescence fluctuation and single-molecule detection work is credited in the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry background.
Rudolf Rott
Rudolf Rott (1926–2003) was a German virologist who held Germany's first university chair of virology, at Gießen, and showed that influenza pathogenicity depends on hemagglutinin cleavage and gene exchange.
Rudolf Spanner
Rudolf Maria Spanner (1895–1960) was a German physician, anatomist, and pathologist who directed the Danzig Anatomical Institute from 1940 to 1945, where soap was experimentally produced from human fat.
Rudolf Valenta
Rudolf Valenta is an Austrian allergist and immunologist, Professor of Allergology at the Medical University of Vienna, known for identifying profilin as a pollen allergen in 1991.
Rudolf Virchow
Rudolf Virchow (Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow, 1821–1902), German pathologist called the father of modern pathology; founder of cellular pathology and omnis cellula e cellula, author of Die Cellularpathologie (1858), founder of Virchow's Archiv, and social-medicine reformer.
Rudolf Weber (Swiss biologist)
Rudolf Heinrich Weber (1922–2015) was a Swiss developmental and molecular biologist at the University of Bern whose group made Xenopus laevis a leading model for estrogen-controlled gene expression.
Rudolf Weigl
Rudolf Weigl (1883–1957), Polish biologist at the University of Lwów, developed the first effective typhus vaccine from infected lice guts, vaccinated ~8 million people in WWII, sabotaged German doses, and was named Righteous Among the Nations.
Rudolf Zechner
Rudolf Zechner is an Austrian biochemist at the University of Graz whose team discovered adipose triglyceride lipase (ATGL), the enzyme that initiates the breakdown of stored fat.
Rudolph Leibel
Rudolph L. Leibel is an American physician-scientist at Columbia University whose work led to the cloning of the leptin gene and quantified how the body defends its weight.