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Raymond S. Bradley

Raymond S. Bradley is an American paleoclimatologist, emeritus professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, whose multiproxy reconstructions of past global temperature produced the "Hockey Stick" curve.

Raymond Simmonds

Raymond W. Simmonds is an American physicist at NIST in Boulder, Colorado, whose superconducting quantum circuit research helped establish quantum information processing; he won a 2007 PECASE award.

Raymond Stora

Raymond Stora (1930–2015) was a French theoretical physicist who co-discovered BRST symmetry with Becchi and Rouet, and the Stora–Zumino descent equations for anomalies, winning the Max Planck Medal in 1998.

Raymond Thayer Birge

Raymond Thayer Birge (1887–1980) was an American physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for his 1929 determination of best values of the fundamental physical constants.

Raymond Ziessel

Raymond Ziessel is a French materials chemist, a CNRS research director at the Université de Strasbourg, known for luminescent BODIPY dyes, artificial light harvesting, and organic solar cells.

Re’em Sari

Re’em Sari, born in Israel in 1971, is a theoretical astrophysicist and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known for gamma-ray burst jets and Kuiper-belt binaries.

Rebecca Dodder

Rebecca Dodder is an American systems scientist at the EPA, a 2013 PECASE recipient who is Associate National Program Director for its Air, Climate, and Energy research program.

Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio

Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio, also known as Rebecca Kramer, is an engineer working in soft robotics, known for robotic skins and adaptive morphogenesis robots, who received the 2024 Waterman Award.

Rebecca Smethurst

Rebecca (Becky) Smethurst is a British astrophysicist at the University of Oxford who studies how supermassive black holes grow without galaxy mergers and runs the Dr Becky YouTube channel.

Rebekah Shirley

Rebekah Shirley is a Trinidad-born energy researcher and Deputy Regional Director of WRI Africa in Nairobi, appointed in 2023, whose work spans renewable energy policy and electric mobility.

Reg Watson

Reg A. Watson is an Australian fisheries and ecological modeling scientist at the University of Tasmania, known for mapping where the world's marine fisheries catch is taken.

Reginald Aldworth Daly

Reginald Aldworth Daly (1871–1957) was a Canadian-born American petrologist who spent most of his career at Harvard University and is best known for the theory of magmatic stoping.

Reginald E. Newell

Reginald E. Newell (1931–2002) was a British-born meteorologist who spent his career at MIT, studying climate system balances, global air pollution, and layered trace gases in the troposphere.

Reginald M. Penner

Reginald M. Penner, also published as Reginald Penner, is an American electrochemist at UC Irvine known for the LPNE nanowire fabrication method and nanowire sensors.

Reginald Victor Jones

Reginald Victor Jones was a British physicist who led scientific intelligence in World War II, countering German bomber beams and warning of the V-1 and V-2.

Rei Kinjo

Rei Kinjo (金城 玲, born 1979) is a Japanese chemist at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, known for his 2011 Science paper on tricoordinate organoboron compounds.

Reiner Anwander

Reiner Anwander is a German inorganic chemist and professor of chemistry at the University of Tübingen since 2008, working on organolanthanide chemistry and olefin polymerization catalysis.

Reinhard Genzel

Reinhard Genzel is a German astrophysicist who shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way's center.

Reinhard Schinke

Reinhard Schinke is a German theoretical physicist who spent his career at Göttingen's Max Planck institutes, known for photodissociation dynamics, ozone theory, and the 1993 monograph Photodissociation Dynamics.

Reinhart Ahlrichs

Reinhart Ahlrichs (1940–2016) was a German theoretical chemist and professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, best known as the founder of the TURBOMOLE quantum chemistry program package.

Reinhold Baer

Reinhold Baer (1902–1979) was a German mathematician who worked in group theory, abelian groups, geometry, and topology, giving his name to Baer's criterion, Baer groups, and Baer rings.

Reinhold Blumel

Reinhold Blumel, also written Reinhold Blümel, is a physicist and the Charlotte Augusta Ayres Professor at Wesleyan University, awarded a 2000 PECASE for quantum chaos research.

Reinhold Remmert

Reinhold Remmert (1930–2016) was a German mathematician who helped found the modern theory of several complex variables, proved the proper mapping theorem, and wrote the Grauert–Remmert monographs on Stein spaces.

Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

Reinout Willem van Bemmelen, known as Rein van Bemmelen, was a Dutch geologist whose 1949 treatise The Geology of Indonesia became the standard work on Indonesian geology.

Ren‐Gen Xiong

Ren-Gen Xiong (熊仁根, born 1961) is a Chinese chemist at Southeast University who founded ferroelectrochemistry and was elected a Chinese Academy of Sciences academician in 2023.

Renata M. Wentzcovitch

Renata M. Wentzcovitch is a Brazilian-born computational mineral physicist, a professor at Columbia University since 2017, known for variable-cell ab initio molecular dynamics and the 2025 Bridgman Award.

Renate Loll

Renate Loll, born 1962 in Aachen, Germany, is a theoretical physicist who co-developed Causal Dynamical Triangulations, a lattice approach to quantum gravity, and is a professor at Radboud University Nijmegen.

Renato Caccioppoli

Renato Caccioppoli (1904–1959) was an Italian mathematician from Naples, a pioneer of the theory of sets of finite perimeter and namesake of the Caccioppoli inequality.

Renato Zenobi

Renato Zenobi, born 1961 in Zurich, is a Swiss analytical chemist and professor emeritus at ETH Zurich, known for pioneering tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy and winning the Thomson Medal.

René Gateaux

René Eugène Gateaux was a French mathematician who worked on the calculus of functionals; killed in the First World War in 1914, he is known for the Gateaux derivative.