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Robert E. Forster

Robert E. Forster (1919–2021) was an American respiratory physiologist at the University of Pennsylvania who coauthored the 1957 Roughton–Forster equation separating membrane diffusion from blood reaction rates in lung gas transfer.

Robert E. Gerszten

Robert E. Gerszten is an American physician-scientist in cardiovascular medicine and metabolomics, chief of cardiovascular medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and a Harvard Medical School professor.

Robert E. Hammer

Robert E. Hammer is a molecular geneticist and Professor of Biochemistry at UT Southwestern Medical Center, known for creating the first transgenic livestock and the HLA-B27 transgenic rat model of inflammatory disease.

Robert E. MacLaren

Robert E. MacLaren is a British ophthalmologist, Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Oxford and surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital, known for pioneering retinal gene therapy for inherited blindness.

Robert E. Olson

Robert E. Olson (born 1919) was an American biochemist and physician whose research centered on nutrition, especially how vitamin K regulates blood clotting protein synthesis.

Robert E. Patricelli

Robert E. Patricelli is an American health care executive and former federal official who founded Value Health, sold to Columbia HCA in 1997 for $1.4 billion.

Robert E. Ricklefs

Robert E. Ricklefs (1943–2026) was an American evolutionary ecologist and ornithologist, Curators' Distinguished Professor at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, known for avian life histories and diversity.

Robert E. Spiller

Robert E. Spiller, known as Robin Spiller, is a British gastroenterologist, Professor at the University of Nottingham since 1988, and editor of Gut from 2003 to 2009.

Robert E. Thach

Robert E. Thach is an American molecular biologist at Washington University in St. Louis known for work on translation initiation and translational control of gene expression.

Robert E. W. Hancock

Robert E. W. Hancock, known as Bob Hancock, is a Canadian microbiologist at the University of British Columbia known for research on antimicrobial peptides and antibiotic resistance.

Robert E. Weibel

Robert E. Weibel was an American pediatrician whose clinical trials of live attenuated viral vaccines supplied evidence behind the MMR vaccine, licensed in 1971, and the varicella vaccine, licensed in 1995.

Robert Edward Gross

Robert Edward Gross (1905–1988) was an American surgeon at Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard who performed the first successful patent ductus arteriosus operation in 1938.

Robert Edwards (physiologist)

Robert G. Edwards (1925–2013) was a British physiologist at Cambridge who developed human in vitro fertilization, achieving the first IVF birth in 1978 and winning the 2010 Nobel Prize.

Robert Elliot (surgeon)

Robert Henry Elliot (1864–1936) was a British ophthalmic surgeon and Indian Medical Service colonel who introduced sclero-corneal trephining for glaucoma while superintendent of the Government Ophthalmic Hospital, Madras.

Robert Emerson (plant physiologist)

Robert Emerson (1903–1959) was an American plant physiologist at the University of Illinois known for the red drop, the enhancement effect, and the photosynthetic unit.

Robert F. Bradley

Robert F. Bradley (1919/1920–2003) was an American diabetologist, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School who served ten years as president of the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston.

Robert F. Breiman

Robert F. Breiman is an American infectious-disease epidemiologist and physician, a professor at Emory University who spent 26 years at the CDC and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2017.

Robert F. Chandler

Robert F. Chandler (Robert Flint Chandler Jr.) was an American agronomist who directed the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines from 1959 to 1972.

Robert F. Furchgott

Robert F. Furchgott (1916–2009) was an American pharmacologist who discovered that blood vessel linings release nitric oxide, sharing the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the finding.

Robert F. Garry

Robert F. Garry is an American virologist and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Tulane University, known for Lassa fever and Ebola field research, diagnostics, and co-authoring the 2020 analysis of SARS-CoV-2's origin.

Robert F. Lemanske

Robert F. Lemanske is an American pediatric allergist-immunologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who founded the COAST asthma birth cohort and served as AAAAI president from 2015 to 2016.

Robert F. Margolskee

Robert F. Margolskee is an American molecular biologist known for discovering gustducin, a taste-cell G protein, in 1992, and for showing that gut cells sense nutrients like taste cells.

Robert F. Ozols

Robert F. Ozols is an American medical oncologist specializing in ovarian cancer, known for research on tumor drug resistance and for chemotherapy regimens that became standard first-line treatment.

Robert F. Pass

Robert F. Pass is an American pediatric virologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham known for showing how cytomegalovirus spreads from children to pregnant women.

Robert F. Schwabe

Robert F. Schwabe, also published as Robert Schwabe, is a German-trained hepatologist and Professor of Medicine at Columbia University, directing its Digestive and Liver Disease Research Center.

Robert F. Siliciano

Robert F. Siliciano is an American immunologist and virologist at Johns Hopkins who identified the latent HIV reservoir, the major barrier to curing HIV infection.

Robert Fettiplace

Robert Fettiplace, born in 1946, is a British-born sensory neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who studies inner-ear hair cells and shared the 2018 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience.

Robert Feulgen

Robert Joachim Wilhelm Feulgen (1884–1955) was a German physiological chemist at the University of Giessen who discovered the Feulgen stain, the first DNA-specific staining method, published in 1924.

Robert Fienberg

Robert Fienberg (1906–1998) was an American pathologist, Chief of Pathology at Beverly Hospital in Massachusetts, best known for his studies of Wegener's granulomatosis, which he called pathergic granulomatosis.

ROBERT FINN

Robert D. Finn is a computational biologist at EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute who led the Pfam protein families database and now leads the Microbiome Informatics team, running MGnify.