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R. Stephen Berry
R. Stephen Berry (1931–2020) was an American chemical physicist and University of Chicago professor known for the Berry pseudorotation, cluster science, finite-time thermodynamics, and early energy policy analysis.
R. Thomas Weitz
Ralf Thomas Weitz is a solid-state physicist and full professor at the University of Göttingen since 2020, known for the quantum anomalous Hall effect in bilayer graphene.
R.K. O’Nions
Sir Keith O'Nions is a British isotope geochemist, elected to the Royal Society in 1983 and knighted in 1999, known for work on the Earth's mantle and heat budget.
Rabindra N. Mohapatra
Rabindra N. Mohapatra is a theoretical particle physicist and Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland, a proponent of the seesaw mechanism for neutrino masses.
Rachel A. Segalman
Rachel A. Segalman is an American polymer chemist and chemical engineer, Vice Chancellor for Research at UC Santa Barbara since 2025, known for block copolymer self-assembly and polymer thermoelectrics.
Rachel Pike
Rachel Pike is an atmospheric chemist who earned a PhD at Cambridge in 2010, studied isoprene emissions from biofuel crops, and gave a TED talk.
Rachel Somerville
Rachel Somerville is an astrophysicist working on galaxy formation and cosmology who leads the Galaxy Formation group at the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Astrophysics.
Rachid Yazami
Rachid Yazami is a Moroccan electrochemist known for demonstrating reversible lithium intercalation in graphite, the anode of the modern lithium-ion battery, and for battery diagnostics.
Radii Gurzhi
Radii Mykolayovych Gurzhi (1930–2011) was a Soviet and Ukrainian theoretical physicist at Kharkiv whose 1963 prediction of the Gurzhi effect, where a clean conductor conducts better as it warms, founded electron hydrodynamics.
Radoslav R. Adžić
Radoslav R. Adžić, also known as Radoslav Adzic, is a Serbian electrochemist who pioneered platinum monolayer and core-shell electrocatalysts that cut platinum use in hydrogen fuel cells.
Rafael Irizarry (biostatistician)
Rafael A. Irizarry is a biostatistician working on genomic data methods, chair of Data Science at Dana-Farber and a Harvard professor, co-founder of Bioconductor and creator of the RMA microarray method.
Rafael L. Bras
Rafael L. Bras is a Puerto Rico-born hydrologist and hydroclimatologist who taught at MIT for 32 years, then served as dean at UC Irvine and provost of Georgia Tech.
Rafael Luque
Rafael Luque is a Spanish chemist in green chemistry and catalysis, known for converting biomass and waste into fuels, chemicals, and materials; he was suspended by the Universidad de Córdoba in 2022.
Rafael Sorkin
Rafael Dolnick Sorkin (1945–2026) was an American theoretical physicist who co-founded the causal set approach to quantum gravity, originated entanglement entropy, and co-discovered the Kaluza-Klein monopole.
Rafal E. Dunin‐Borkowski
Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski is an electron microscopist who has directed the Ernst Ruska-Centre and PGI-5 at Forschungszentrum Jülich since 2011, known for electron holography of magnetic fields and the 2023 hopfion rings paper.
Rafal Klajn
Rafał Klajn is a Polish-born supramolecular chemist known for light-controlled self-assembly of nanoparticles and reactions in confined spaces; he won the 2021 Blavatnik Award in Israel.
Raffaella Buonsanti
Raffaella Buonsanti is an Italian chemist and full professor at EPFL, where she heads the Laboratory of Nanochemistry for Energy and is known for colloidal nanocrystal electrocatalysts for CO2 reduction.
Rafi Bistritzer
Rafi Bistritzer, born 1974, is an Israeli condensed matter physicist who co-predicted magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene in 2011, founding twistronics, and won the 2020 Wolf Prize.
Raghunath Anant Mashelkar (रघुनाथ अनंत माशेलकर)
Raghunath Anant Mashelkar, also known as R A Mashelkar, is an Indian chemical engineer known for polymer research who led CSIR from 1995 to 2006.
Rahul Banerjee (chemist)
Rahul Banerjee is an Indian chemist, professor at IISER Kolkata since 2021, who works on metal-organic and covalent organic frameworks and won the 2018 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize.
Rahul Ramachandran
Rahul Ramachandran is an Earth science informatics researcher and Senior Research Scientist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center who received the 2009 Presidential Early Career Award.
Rainer Berger
Rainer Berger (1930–2003) was an Austrian-born American geochemist who spent his UCLA career, 1963 to 1994, developing radiocarbon dating of bone and shell from their organic components.
Rainer Blatt
Rainer Blatt, born 1952, is a German-Austrian experimental physicist whose Innsbruck team first teleported an atom's quantum state and created a quantum byte of entangled atoms.
Rainer Haag
Rainer Haag, born 1968, is a German organic and macromolecular chemist, chair professor at Freie Universität Berlin since 2004, known for dendritic polyglycerol-based antiviral nanoinhibitors and multivalency research.
Rainer Herges
Rainer Herges (born 1955 in St. Ingbert) is a German organic chemist and professor at Kiel University, known for computer-aided reaction planning and the first stable Möbius aromatic hydrocarbon.
Rainer Hillenbrand
Rainer Hillenbrand is a German physicist working in nanooptics who co-developed s-SNOM and nano-FTIR, leads the Nanooptics Group at CIC nanoGUNE in San Sebastián, Spain, and co-founded Neaspec GmbH.
Rainer K. Sachs
Rainer K. Sachs (1932–2024) was a German-American mathematical physicist at Berkeley, known for the Sachs–Wolfe effect in cosmology and models of radiation damage to DNA.
Rainer Lohmann
Rainer Lohmann is a German-trained marine chemist, professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island since 2004, known for passive sampling of pollutants and PFAS.
Rainer Ludwig Claisen
Rainer Ludwig Claisen (1851–1930) was a German organic chemist, trained under Kekulé, known for the Claisen condensation and the Claisen rearrangement, the first recorded [3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement.
Rainer Schödel
Rainer Schödel is a German astronomer who, as a PhD student at MPE Garching, was first author of the 2002 Nature paper tracing star S2's orbit around the Milky Way's central black hole.