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Rainer Weiss
Rainer Weiss (1932–2025) was an American experimental physicist at MIT who conceived the laser interferometer that became LIGO and shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for detecting gravitational waves.
Rainer Zahn
Rainer Zahn is a paleoceanographer at ICREA and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona who studies how past ocean circulation shaped climate, leading a 2010 Nature study on reversed glacial Atlantic flow.
Raj Chandra Bose (রাজ চন্দ্র বসু)
Raj Chandra Bose (রাজ চন্দ্র বসু) was an Indian mathematician and statistician, active mainly in the United States, known for design theory, finite geometry, and the BCH error-correcting codes.
Rajamani Gounder
Rajamani Gounder is a chemical engineer at Purdue University who studies zeolite catalysis, including how copper ions move through zeolite pores during emissions control reactions.
Rajeev Ahuja
Rajeev Ahuja is a computational materials scientist who uses density functional theory to study energy materials and high-pressure physics, professor at Uppsala University and Director of IIT Ropar since 2021.
Rajendra Bhatia
Rajendra Bhatia, born 1952, is an Indian mathematician known for matrix analysis, the Bhatia–Davis inequality, and the book Matrix Analysis; he won the 1995 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize.
Ralf I. Kaiser
Ralf I. Kaiser, born 1966 in Germany, is a physical chemist at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa who directs the W. M. Keck Research Laboratory in Astrochemistry.
Ralf Ludwig
Ralf Ludwig is a German physical chemist and professor at the University of Rostock, known for his 2001 review "Water: From Clusters to the Bulk".
Ralf S. Klessen
Ralf S. Klessen, born 1968, is a German theoretical astrophysicist and professor at Heidelberg University known for his gravo-turbulent theory of how supersonic turbulence controls star formation.
Ralph A. Bradley
Ralph A. Bradley, also known as Ralph Allan Bradley, was a Canadian-born statistician who co-created the Bradley–Terry model for paired comparisons and led the American Statistical Association in 1981.
Ralph A. Logan
Ralph A. Logan was a semiconductor device researcher at Bell Laboratories who held at least 21 US patents on semiconductor lasers and integrated optics from 1976 to 1991.
Ralph Alger Bagnold
Ralph Alger Bagnold (1896–1990) was an English soldier and physicist who founded the Long Range Desert Group and wrote The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes.
Ralph Allen Sampson
Ralph Allen Sampson (1866–1939) was an Irish-born British astronomer, Astronomer Royal for Scotland from 1910 to 1937, known for his theory of Jupiter's four great satellites.
Ralph Alpher
Ralph Alpher (1921–2007) was an American physicist who in 1948, with Robert Herman, predicted the cosmic microwave background and formulated the first quantitative Big Bang nucleosynthesis model.
Ralph Asher Alpher
Ralph Asher Alpher was an American cosmologist who predicted the cosmic microwave background with Robert Herman in 1948 and was omitted from the 1978 Nobel Prize.
Ralph Beebe Blackman
Ralph Beebe Blackman (1904–1990) was a Bell Telephone Laboratories researcher known for Blackman's formula on feedback and impedance, published in 1943, and the Blackman–Tukey method.
Ralph Dorfman
Ralph Dorfman (1911–1985) was an American biochemist who studied steroid hormone synthesis, directed the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, and helped develop the first oral contraceptive.
Ralph E. Gomory
Ralph E. Gomory, born 1929, is an American applied mathematician who founded the field of integer programming and led IBM's Research Division from 1970 to 1986.
Ralph Elmer Wilson
Ralph Elmer Wilson (1886–1960) was an American astronomer known for measuring stellar radial velocities and compiling the 1953 General Catalogue of Stellar Radial Velocities, listing 15,107 stars.
Ralph F. Hirschmann
Ralph F. Hirschmann (1922–2009) was a German-born American medicinal chemist at Merck who led the first solution synthesis of an enzyme, ribonuclease S, in 1969.
Ralph Fowler
Ralph Howard Fowler was an English mathematical physicist at Cambridge who in 1926 explained white dwarf stars as degenerate matter and supervised Dirac, Chandrasekhar, and Mott.
Ralph Fox
Ralph Hartzler Fox (1913–1973) was an American topologist at Princeton University who led a leading knot theory group and created the Fox calculus and n-coloring test.
Ralph G. Nuzzo
Ralph G. Nuzzo is an American chemist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign known for self-assembled monolayers on gold and the 2022 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience.
Ralph Henstock
Ralph Henstock (1923–2007) was a British mathematician who independently created the Henstock–Kurzweil gauge integral and held the pure mathematics chair at the New University of Ulster.
Ralph J. Cicerone
Ralph J. Cicerone (1943–2016) was an American atmospheric chemist known for work on ozone depletion and the greenhouse effect, and president of the National Academy of Sciences from 2005 to 2016.
Ralph Keeling
Ralph Keeling is an American geochemist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography who directs the Mauna Loa CO2 record and first demonstrated that fossil-fuel burning depletes atmospheric oxygen.
Ralph L. Disney
Ralph L. Disney (1928–2014) was an American industrial engineer and applied probabilist known as the father of queueing networks, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997.
Ralph Lynde Disney
Ralph Lynde Disney (1928–2014) was an American industrial engineer and applied probabilist known as the father of queueing networks, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997.
Ralph P. Boas, Jr.
Ralph P. Boas, Jr. (1912–1992) was an American mathematician at Northwestern University who wrote the standard monograph on entire functions and led the Mathematical Association of America.
Ralph Pearson
Ralph Pearson (1919–2022) was an American physical inorganic chemist who developed the hard and soft acids and bases (HSAB) rule, taught at Northwestern and UC Santa Barbara, and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1974.