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Robert Le Rossignol
Robert Le Rossignol was a British engineer who, as Fritz Haber's private assistant at Karlsruhe, built the high-pressure apparatus that first synthesized ammonia from its elements in 1909.
Robert M. Dickson
Robert M. Dickson is a chemist and the Vassar Woolley Professor at Georgia Tech since 1998, known for 1997 single-molecule GFP blinking work and photoactivated fluorescent silver nanoclusters.
Robert M. Nowak
Robert M. Nowak is an American organic and polymer chemist in Midland, Michigan, who spent 37 years at Dow Chemical and led the Michigan Molecular Institute from 1994 to 2009.
Robert M. Walker
Robert M. Walker (1929–2004) was an American experimental physicist who pioneered fossil nuclear tracks, discovered extremely heavy cosmic rays in meteorites, and led the search for stardust grains.
Robert M. Waymouth
Robert M. Waymouth is an American organic and polymer chemist at Stanford University, the Robert Eckles Swain Professor, known for stereoselective polymerization, metal-free organocatalysis with IBM, and RNA delivery.
Robert Milton Silverstein
Robert Milton Silverstein (1916–2007) was an American chemist and chemical ecologist known for the textbook Spectrometric Identification of Organic Compounds and bark beetle pheromone research.
Robert Mokaya
Robert Mokaya is a Kenyan-born materials chemist working on porous carbons for clean energy storage, a Royal Society Fellow, and the 95th President of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Robert N. Clayton
Robert N. Clayton (1930–2017) was a Canadian-born American cosmochemist and University of Chicago professor whose 1973 discovery of non-mass-dependent oxygen isotopes in meteorites transformed meteorite classification.
Robert Phipps
Robert J. Phipps is Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, working in organic synthesis and transition-metal catalysis; he won the RSC Harrison Meldola Memorial Prize in 2019.
Robert R. Knowles
Robert R. Knowles is an American organic chemist and Henry W. Putnam Professor at Princeton University, known for proton-coupled electron transfer catalysis and anti-Markovnikov hydroamination.
Robert R. Williams
Robert R. Williams was an American chemist, a National Academy of Sciences member, best known for isolating vitamin B1 (thiamine), determining its structure, and synthesizing it.
Robert S. Mulliken
Robert S. Mulliken was an American physical chemist at the University of Chicago who developed the molecular orbital method and won the 1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Robert Schlögl
Robert Schlögl (born 1954) is a German chemist known for heterogeneous catalysis and chemical energy conversion who directed the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin from 1994 to 2023.
Robert T. Kennedy
Robert T. Kennedy is an analytical chemist who holds the Hobart H. Willard Distinguished Professorship at the University of Michigan, developing microfluidics and capillary electrophoresis for bioanalysis.
Robert Tycko
Robert Tycko, also published as R. Tycko, is an American biophysical chemist at the NIH's NIDDK who uses solid-state NMR to determine the structures of amyloid fibrils in Alzheimer's disease.
Robert W. Field
Robert W. Field, born in 1944, is an American physical chemist and molecular spectroscopist at MIT, known for spectroscopic perturbations, stimulated emission pumping, and textbooks on diatomic molecules.
Robert W. Parry
Robert W. Parry (1917–2006) was an American inorganic chemist and pre-eminent boron chemist who taught at Michigan and Utah, led the American Chemical Society in 1982, and won its Priestley Medal in 1993.
Robert Williams (chemist)
Robert Joseph Paton Williams, known as Bob Williams, was an English chemist at Oxford for over 60 years who helped establish bioinorganic chemistry and first described how proton gradients drive ATP formation.
Roberta Sessoli
Roberta Sessoli, born in 1963, is an Italian chemist and full professor at the University of Florence, a pioneer of single-molecule magnets and molecular spintronics.
Roberto Car
Roberto Car is an Italian computational physicist and chemist, a professor at Princeton University who co-invented Car–Parrinello molecular dynamics, a standard simulation method, in 1985.
Robin Hill (plant biochemist)
Robin Hill (1899–1991) was a British plant biochemist who spent his career in Cambridge, discovered the Hill reaction showing that isolated chloroplasts produce oxygen, and proposed the Z-scheme of photosynthesis with F. L. Bendall in 1960.
Rodney J. Bartlett
Rodney J. Bartlett (born 1944) is an American theoretical and quantum chemist who pioneered coupled-cluster methods for molecules and has been a professor at the University of Florida since 1988.
Roeland J. M. Nolte
Roeland J. M. Nolte (1944–2024) was a Dutch supramolecular and organic chemist, professor at Radboud University Nijmegen, and a pioneer of biomimetic nanotechnology known for molecular clips.
Roger A. De Souza
Roger A. De Souza is a physical chemist and professor at RWTH Aachen University since 2017, known for research on ion transport, defect chemistry, and oxygen diffusion in oxides.
Roger Adams
Roger Adams (1889–1971) was an American organic chemist who spent his career at the University of Illinois, known for Adams' catalyst and pioneering cannabinoid chemistry.
Roger J. Williams
Roger J. Williams (1893–1988) was an American biochemist at the University of Texas at Austin whose laboratory discovered several B vitamins, including pantothenic acid and folic acid.
Roger Parsons
Roger Parsons (1926–2017) was a British electrochemist and professor of chemistry who worked on electrode kinetics and electrocatalysis, edited the Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry for nearly forty years, and won the Davy Medal in 2003.
Roi Baer
Roi Baer is an Israeli theoretical chemist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who develops quantum-based computational methods for molecules and materials, best known for optimally tuned density functionals.
Roland Wester
Roland Wester, born 1971, is an Austrian-based experimental physicist and professor at the University of Innsbruck known for imaging nucleophilic substitution and quantum tunnelling in ion–molecule reactions.
Rolf Huisgen
Rolf Huisgen (1920–2020) was a German organic chemist who defined the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition around 1960, the reaction type underlying modern click chemistry, and led organic chemistry at the University of Munich from 1952 to 1988.