Physical and mathematical scientists

Rashid Zia

Rashid Zia is a nanophotonics researcher at Brown University who was Dean of the College from 2018 to 2025, studying light emission from quantum emitters.

Rasmus Fensholt

Rasmus Fensholt is a Danish remote-sensing scientist and professor of Geography at the University of Copenhagen, known for satellite-based mapping of individual trees and their carbon.

Raul Briceno

Raúl Briceño is a Venezuelan-born theoretical nuclear physicist and assistant professor at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, awarded a 2025 PECASE for lattice QCD research.

Ravi K. Sheth

Ravi K. Sheth is a cosmologist and professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania, known for the halo model and excursion-set theory of dark matter halo formation.

Ray F. Weiss

Ray F. Weiss is a chemical oceanographer and atmospheric scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, known for the first experimental proof of deep-sea hydrothermal vents.

Ray Freeman (Raymond Freeman, 1932–2022) was a British chemist who pioneered advances in liquid-state NMR spectroscopy, inventing widely used pulse sequences including INEPT, INADEQUATE, and DANTE, and training a generation of NMR leaders.

Ray J. Weymann

Ray J. Weymann is an American astronomer known for his work on quasar absorption lines, the Lyman-alpha forest, and mass ejection from active galactic nuclei.

Ray K. Linsley

Ray K. Linsley (1917–1990) was an American hydrologist and Stanford civil engineering professor, remembered as a father of modern hydrology and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976.

Raymond A. Dwek

Raymond A. Dwek, born 1941, is a British biochemist at the University of Oxford who founded and directed the Oxford Glycobiology Institute and coined the term glycobiology.

Raymond A. Price

Raymond A. Price (1933–2024) was a Canadian structural geologist whose mapping and synthesis of the southern Canadian Rocky Mountains made the Cordilleran foreland thrust belt a worldwide reference model.

Raymond Arthur Kreig

Raymond Arthur Kreig is an American civil engineer and permafrost-terrain specialist in Anchorage, Alaska, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025 for his Trans-Alaska Pipeline work.

Raymond Carroll

Raymond J. Carroll, born 1949, is an American biostatistician, Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University, known as the founder of nonlinear measurement error modeling and winner of the 1988 COPSS Presidents' Award.

Raymond Cecil Moore

Raymond Cecil Moore (1892–1974) was an American geologist and paleontologist at the University of Kansas who founded and edited the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology and led the Kansas Geological Survey.

Raymond Davis Jr.

Raymond Davis Jr. was an American chemist at Brookhaven National Laboratory who built the first detector to observe solar neutrinos, winning the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Raymond Dean Astumian

Raymond Dean Astumian is a professor of physics at the University of Maine known for his work on Brownian motors and the thermodynamics of molecular machines, including a 1997 Science paper cited more than 1,400 times.

Raymond Dingledine

Raymond Dingledine is an American neuropharmacologist known for discovering that glycine acts with glutamate at NMDA receptors, and for epilepsy research that spawned two biotech companies.

Raymond E. Goldstein

Raymond E. Goldstein is a British and American biological physicist at the University of Cambridge, a Royal Society Fellow known for research on microbial swimming and the evolution of multicellularity.

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Raymond E. Schaak

Raymond E. Schaak is an American solid-state chemist, the DuPont Professor of Materials Chemistry at Penn State, known for cation-exchange synthesis of vast nanoparticle libraries.

Raymond Flood (mathematician)

Raymond Flood is a mathematician and educator who was Gresham Professor of Geometry from 2012 to 2016, after a long career in adult education at the University of Oxford.

Raymond Herb

Raymond Herb was an American experimental nuclear physicist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who pioneered the pressurized electrostatic accelerator, the tandem accelerator, and the pelletron.

Raymond Hide

Raymond Hide (1929–2016) was a British physicist at Cambridge, the Met Office, and Oxford whose rotating-annulus experiments first demonstrated Rossby waves and whose 1966 work explained the westward drift of Earth's magnetic field.

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Raymond Jeanloz

Raymond Jeanloz is an American geophysicist and high-pressure mineral physicist, professor at UC Berkeley, whose 1987 iron melting-curve experiments gave the first experimental bound on Earth's core temperature.

Raymond John Fonck

Raymond John Fonck is an American fusion plasma physicist, professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for the Pegasus spherical tokamak and pioneering fusion spectroscopy diagnostics.

Raymond Laflamme

Raymond Laflamme (1960–2025) was a Canadian quantum information scientist at the University of Waterloo, founding director of its Institute for Quantum Computing and a pioneer of quantum error correction.

Raymond Lemieux

Raymond Urgel Lemieux was a Canadian organic chemist who made the first chemical synthesis of sucrose in 1953 and won the 1999 Wolf Prize in Chemistry.

Raymond Louis Wilder

Raymond Louis Wilder (1896–1982) was an American mathematician who created generalized manifolds, spent most of his career at the University of Michigan, and led the American Mathematical Society.

Raymond Lyttleton

Raymond Arthur Lyttleton (1911–1995) was a British mathematician and theoretical astronomer who co-created the Bondi–Hoyle–Lyttleton accretion theory and proposed capture-based origins for the Solar System and comets.

Raymond M. Fuoss

Raymond Matthew Fuoss (1905–1987) was an American physical chemist who worked on electrolytes, dielectrics, and polymers, and held the first Sterling professorship in Yale's chemistry department.

Raymond Paley

Raymond Edward Alan Christopher Paley (1907–1933) was an English mathematician who worked with Littlewood, Wiener, and Zygmund, and died at 26 in an avalanche near Banff, Alberta.