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Russell Henry Chittenden

Russell Henry Chittenden (1856–1943) was an American physiological chemist at Yale, professor there from 1882 to 1922, best known for low-protein diet experiments that challenged European protein standards.

Russell J. Barrnett

Russell J. Barrnett (1920–1989) was an American cell biologist and cytochemist who spent 1959 to 1989 at Yale School of Medicine, pioneering enzyme localization at the electron microscope level.

Russell L. Gruen

Russell L. Gruen is an Australian trauma surgeon and health services researcher, known for the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery, who became HKUST's first Clinical Professor in 2025.

Russell Lande

Russell Scott Lande, born in Mississippi in 1951, is an American evolutionary geneticist who founded evolutionary quantitative genetics and formulated the first quantitative models of sexual selection.

Russell N. Van Gelder

Russell N. Van Gelder is an American ophthalmologist and physician-scientist who has chaired the University of Washington's ophthalmology department since 2008, known for uveitis research and the KIO-301 vision-restoration trial.

Russell Poldrack

Russell Poldrack, born 1967, is an American cognitive neuroscientist and Stanford psychology professor who uses brain imaging to study how the brain gives rise to the mind.

Russell Ross

Russell Ross (1929–1999) was an American pathologist at the University of Washington who proposed in 1973 the response-to-injury hypothesis of atherosclerosis, recasting the disease as a response to arterial injury.

Russell S. Schwartz

Russell S. Schwartz is an American computational biologist, a Carnegie Mellon professor and ISCB Fellow who joined DARPA's Biological Technologies Office as a program manager in 2026.

Russell Viner

Russell Viner is an Australian-born British pediatrician and Professor of Adolescent Health at UCL, who led the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health from 2018 to 2021.

Rustam Al‐Shahi Salman

Rustam Al-Shahi Salman is a British neurologist and Professor of clinical neurology at the University of Edinburgh, known for the RESTART trial on hemorrhagic stroke.

Ruth Arnon

Ruth Arnon, born 1933 in Tel Aviv, is an Israeli immunologist at the Weizmann Institute who co-developed Copaxone for multiple sclerosis and won the Wolf and Israel Prizes.

Ruth Bonita

Ruth Bonita is a New Zealand epidemiologist at the University of Auckland known for stroke research and for leading noncommunicable disease surveillance at the World Health Organization.

Ruth Chiquet‐Ehrismann

Ruth Chiquet-Ehrismann (1954–2015) was a Swiss biochemist and cell biologist who discovered tenascin-C and led a research group at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel.

Ruth E. Benesch

Ruth E. Benesch, also known as Ruth Benesch, was an American biochemist at Columbia University who, with her husband and co-author, showed in 1967 that DPG regulates hemoglobin's oxygen release.

Ruth E. Langley

Ruth E. Langley, also published as Ruth Langley, is a medical oncologist and Professor of Oncology and Clinical Trials at UCL in London, known for the PATCH, STAMPEDE, QUARTZ, and FOCUS trials.

Ruth E. Ley

Ruth E. Ley, also published as Ruth Ley, is an American microbial ecologist who directs the Department of Microbiome Science at the Max Planck Institute for Biology in Tübingen.

Ruth Faden

Ruth Faden is an American bioethicist who founded and directed the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics from 1995 to 2016, and chaired the 1994 national advisory committee on human radiation experiments.

Ruth Geyer Shaw

Ruth Geyer Shaw is an American evolutionary geneticist and University of Minnesota professor who studies adaptation in wild prairie plants, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.

Ruth Gilbert (clinical epidemiologist)

Ruth Gilbert is a British clinical epidemiologist and professor at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health who studies children's health using linked administrative data.

Ruth Hubbard

Ruth Hubbard, born Ruth Hoffmann, was an Austrian-born American biochemist at Harvard who established the photochemistry of vision and in 1974 became Harvard biology's first tenured woman.

Ruth J. F. Loos

Ruth J. F. Loos is a Belgian human geneticist who studies the genetics of obesity, and is a professor at the University of Copenhagen and Mount Sinai in New York.

Ruth J. Muschel

Ruth J. Muschel, also known as Ruth Muschel, is a cancer researcher known for a 2000 study showing lung metastasis begins inside blood vessels, and an Emeritus Professor at Oxford.

Ruth L. Berkelman

Ruth L. Berkelman is an American infectious-disease epidemiologist and Rollins Professor Emerita at Emory University who spent two decades at the CDC, retiring as Assistant Surgeon General in 2000.

Ruth Lehmann

Ruth Lehmann is a German-born developmental biologist known for defining how germ cells form in fruit flies, and president and director of the Whitehead Institute since 2020.

Ruth Lubic

Ruth Watson Lubic, born 1927, is an American nurse-midwife who built the freestanding birth-center movement, opening the first licensed birth center in New York in 1975.

Ruth M. Ruprecht

Ruth M. Ruprecht is a virologist who directs the AIDS Research Program at Texas Biomed, known for pioneering AZT and primate-model studies of mother-to-child HIV transmission.

Ruth Nussinov

Ruth Nussinov is an Israeli computational structural biologist, professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University, known for the Nussinov algorithm for RNA folding and the conformational selection model of allostery.

Ruth Patrick

Ruth Patrick was an American ecologist who showed that the diatoms in a stream reveal its pollution, founding the Academy of Natural Sciences' limnology department in 1947.

Ruth S. DeFries

Ruth S. DeFries is an environmental geographer at Columbia University who uses satellite imagery to study tropical land-use change, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.

Ruth S. Nussenzweig

Ruth S. Nussenzweig, born Ruth Sonntag, was an Austrian-born Brazilian-American immunologist at NYU whose 1967 finding that irradiated sporozoites protect mice against malaria opened the field of malaria vaccine research.