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Richard Zsigmondy
Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (1865–1929) was an Austrian-born chemist who won the 1925 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on colloid solutions, and co-invented the ultramicroscope.
Richmond Sarpong
Richmond Sarpong, born in Ghana in 1974, is an American synthetic organic chemist at UC Berkeley known for total synthesis and single-atom skeletal editing of molecules.
Rick L. Danheiser
Rick L. Danheiser is an American organic chemist at MIT, known for the Danheiser Annulation and Benzannulation, who has led Organic Syntheses since 2004 and chaired the MIT Faculty.
Rigoberto C. Advíncula
Rigoberto C. Advíncula is a Filipino-American polymer and nanomaterials scientist, UT-ORNL Governor's Chair at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee since 2020.
Rik R. Tykwinski
Rik R. Tykwinski is a Canadian physical organic chemist and professor at the University of Alberta known for synthesizing polyynes and cumulenes as model compounds for carbyne.
Rint Sijbesma
Rint P. Sijbesma is a Dutch supramolecular polymer chemist, full professor at Eindhoven University of Technology, known for self-assembling polymers built on quadruple hydrogen bonding since his 1997 Science paper.
Roald Hoffmann
Roald Hoffmann, born Roald Safran, is a Polish-born American theoretical chemist at Cornell University, known for the Woodward–Hoffmann rules and half of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Rob Ameloot
Rob Ameloot (born 1985) is a materials chemist and professor at KU Leuven, known for chemical vapor deposition of metal–organic framework thin films for microelectronics.
Robert A. Alberty
Robert A. Alberty (1921–2014) was an American physical chemist at MIT, dean of its School of Science from 1967 to 1982, known for enzyme kinetics and biochemical thermodynamics.
Robert A. de Groot
Robert Aart (Rob) de Groot (1949–2026) was a Dutch solid-state chemist at Nijmegen who introduced the half-metal concept in a 1983 paper on NiMnSb, credited by the 2007 Nobel Prize background.
Robert B. Corey
Robert B. Corey (1897–1971) was an American chemist at Caltech who co-authored the 1951 papers proposing the alpha-helix and pleated beta-sheet, and designed the first space-filling molecular models.
Robert B. Woodward
Robert Burns Woodward (1917–1979) was an American organic chemist at Harvard who won the unshared 1965 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for syntheses including quinine, cortisone, and vitamin B12.
Robert Banks (chemist)
Robert L. Banks (1921–1989) was an American chemist at Phillips Petroleum in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, who with J. Paul Hogan discovered crystalline polypropylene in 1951 and later olefin metathesis.
Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen (1811–1899) was a German chemist who, with Gustav Kirchhoff, founded spectrum analysis, discovered caesium and rubidium, and gave his name to the Bunsen burner.
Robert C. Haddon
Robert C. Haddon (1943–2016) was a solid-state chemist who grew up in Tasmania, known for the prediction and discovery of superconductivity in alkali-metal-doped C60 and for his account of fullerene chemistry.
Robert D. Allen
Robert D. Allen is an American polymer chemist at NREL, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012, known for photoresist polymers used in chip manufacturing.
Robert E. Connick
Robert E. Connick was an American inorganic chemist at UC Berkeley who studied plutonium chemistry on the Manhattan Project and pioneered NMR methods for fast ion reactions in solution.
Robert Elderfield
Robert Cooley Elderfield (1904–1979) was an American organic chemist known for cardiac glycosides, antimalarial research, and anticancer agents; he taught at Columbia and the University of Michigan.
Robert Empie Rogers
Robert Empie Rogers (1813–1884) was an American chemist and physician who taught at Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Jefferson Medical College and helped incorporate the National Academy of Sciences.
Robert F. Curl Jr.
Robert F. Curl Jr. (1933–2022) was an American physical chemist who spent his career at Rice University and shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering fullerenes.
Robert F. Landel
Robert F. Landel (1925–2024) was an American physical chemist who co-developed the Williams–Landel–Ferry equation, a foundation of polymer time–temperature superposition, while working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Robert G. Bergman
Robert G. Bergman (born 1942) is an American chemist at UC Berkeley known for the Bergman cyclization and the first alkane C–H activation by soluble metal complexes.
Robert G. Parr
Robert G. Parr (1921–2017) was an American theoretical chemist who helped found quantum chemistry, known for the Pariser–Parr–Pople method, the Lee–Yang–Parr functional, and his 1989 density-functional theory textbook.
Robert Gilliard
Robert J. Gilliard is an inorganic chemist who joined MIT in 2023 as the Novartis Associate Professor of Chemistry, working on luminescent boron compounds and small-molecule activation.
Robert H. Crabtree
Robert H. Crabtree is a British-born organometallic chemist, C.P. Whitehead Professor Emeritus at Yale University, known for Crabtree's catalyst, dihydrogen bonding, and iridium water-splitting catalysts.
Robert J. Hamers
Robert J. Hamers is an American surface and materials chemist who spent nearly 35 years at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for diamond biosensors, sustainable nanotechnology, and co-founding Silatronix.
Robert J. Madix (materials scientist)
Robert J. Madix (1938–2023) was an American surface chemist, professor of chemical engineering at Stanford from 1965 to 2004, and later a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard.
Robert J. P. Corriu
Robert J. P. Corriu (1934–2016) was a French chemist at the University of Montpellier who in 1972 independently reported the nickel-catalyzed Grignard cross-coupling now called the Kumada–Corriu reaction, and pioneered hypervalent silicon chemistry.
Robert J. Silbey
Robert J. Silbey (1940–2011) was an American theoretical physical chemist at MIT, where he was dean of the School of Science and a National Academy of Sciences member.
Robert K. Grasselli
Robert K. Grasselli was an American industrial chemist in heterogeneous catalysis who invented the one-step acrylonitrile process at Sohio and formulated the seven pillars of oxidation catalysis.