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Richard P. Feynman
Richard P. Feynman (1918–1988) was an American theoretical physicist at Caltech, known for Feynman diagrams and the path integral, who shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Richard P. Van Duyne
Richard P. Van Duyne (1945–2019) was an American analytical chemist at Northwestern University who led surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, invented nanosphere lithography, and developed LSPR biosensing.
Richard Q. Twiss
Richard Quentin Twiss (1920–2005) was a British mathematician who supplied the theory for intensity interferometry, giving his name to the Hanbury Brown–Twiss effect in quantum optics.
Richard Threlkeld Cox
Richard Threlkeld Cox (1898–1991) was an American physicist at Johns Hopkins University, known for Cox's theorem and his 1946 paper deriving probability from consistent plausible reasoning.
Richard Tousey
Richard Tousey (1908–1997) was an American physicist at the Naval Research Laboratory who pioneered the study of the Sun from space, recording the first solar ultraviolet spectrum.
Richard van der Riet Woolley
Sir Richard van der Riet Woolley (1906–1986) was an astronomer who directed Mount Stromlo Observatory in Australia, then served as Astronomer Royal from 1956 to 1971.
Richard Warren Shorthill
Richard Warren Shorthill (1928–2012) was an American physicist and University of Utah professor who mapped the Moon's infrared heat, helped select Apollo landing sites, and co-demonstrated the fiber optic gyroscope.
Richard Woo
Richard Woo is a radio-science researcher and senior research scientist emeritus at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, known for revealing kilometer-scale filamentary structure in the Sun's corona.
Risa Wechsler
Risa Wechsler is an American theoretical cosmologist at Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory known for work on the galaxy–halo connection, dark matter, and dark energy.
Risto M. Nieminen
Risto M. Nieminen, born Risto Matti Nieminen in 1948, is a Finnish computational condensed-matter physicist, emeritus professor at Aalto University, known for his pioneering theories of positrons in solids.
Roald Sagdeev
Roald Sagdeev (Роальд Сагдеев), born 1932, is a Soviet-born plasma physicist known for collisionless shock waves and plasma turbulence, who directed the Soviet Space Research Institute from 1973 to 1988.
Rob Ivison
Rob Ivison, also published as R. J. Ivison, is an astronomer who studies galaxy formation and evolution, and was ESO Director for Science from 2014 to 2023.
Robert A. Millikan
Robert A. Millikan (1868–1953) was an American experimental physicist who measured the electron's charge and verified Einstein's photoelectric equation, winning the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physics and later leading Caltech.
Robert A. West
Robert A. West is an American planetary scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory known for work on Titan, including showing in 2005 that it has no global ocean.
Robert A. Wolkow
Robert A. Wolkow is a Canadian condensed-matter physicist at the University of Alberta who places individual atoms on silicon to build atomic-scale circuits and leads Quantum Silicon Inc.
Robert Adair (physicist)
Robert Adair (1924–2020) was an American experimental particle physicist at Yale who measured rare K meson decays and wrote The Physics of Baseball in 1990.
Robert Andrews Millikan
Robert Andrews Millikan was an American experimental physicist who measured the elementary electric charge with the oil-drop experiment and verified Einstein's photoelectric equation, winning the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Robert B. Hallock
Robert B. Hallock is an American experimental physicist who spent his career at the University of Massachusetts Amherst studying superfluid helium films and atom transport through solid helium-4.
Robert B. Laughlin
Robert B. Laughlin is an American condensed matter physicist at Stanford who won the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics for his 1983 theory of the fractional quantum Hall effect.
Robert B. Leighton
Robert B. Leighton (1919–1997) was an American physicist and astronomer at Caltech who discovered the Sun's five-minute oscillation, led Mariner Mars imaging, and wrote the final draft of The Feynman Lectures on Physics.
Robert B. Mann
Bob Mann, full name Robert Bruce Mann, is a Canadian theoretical physicist at the University of Waterloo known as a leading developer of black hole chemistry.
Robert B. Meyer
Robert B. Meyer (1943–2023) was an American condensed-matter physicist who predicted and verified ferroelectricity in chiral liquid crystals in 1975, a discovery underlying fast ferroelectric displays.
Robert B. Palmer
Robert B. Palmer is an American particle and accelerator physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, known for the Omega-minus confirmation and the Palmer method of stochastic cooling.
Robert Bacher
Robert Bacher was an American nuclear physicist who led the experimental physics division at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project, then served as a charter Atomic Energy Commission commissioner.
Robert Behringer
Robert P. Behringer (1948–2018) was an American experimental physicist and James B. Duke Professor at Duke University whose photoelastic studies of granular materials helped establish granular physics as a field.
Robert Boyd (British space physicist)
Sir Robert Lewis Fullarton Boyd (1922–2004) was a British space physicist, called the father of UK space science, who founded UCL's Mullard Space Science Laboratory in 1966.
Robert Brian Palmer
Robert Brian Palmer is a particle and accelerator physicist who spent 60 years at Brookhaven National Laboratory, known for the Omega-minus experiment, the Palmer method, and muon collider work.
Robert Brode
Robert Brode (1900–1986) was an American experimental physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for work on slow electrons, cosmic rays, and atomic bomb fusing.
Robert Brout
Robert Brout (1928–2011) was an American-born theoretical physicist who spent his career in Belgium and, with François Englert, first published the mechanism by which elementary particles acquire mass.
Robert C. Dynes
Robert C. Dynes (1942–2025) was a Canadian-born American condensed matter physicist known for work on superconductors, who served as UC San Diego chancellor and University of California president.