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René Lefever
René Lefever, born in 1943, is a Belgian physicist at the Université libre de Bruxelles who works on dissipative structures, self-organization, and pattern formation, co-authoring landmark papers with Ilya Prigogine.
René Peters (German organic chemist)
René Peters (born 1971) is a German organic chemist and associate professor at the University of Stuttgart known for cooperative asymmetric catalysis and planar chiral palladacycle catalysts.
René Schoof
René Schoof (Renatus Johannes Schoof) is a Dutch-born mathematician at Roma Tor Vergata, best known for his 1985 algorithm for counting points on elliptic curves.
René Thom
René Thom (1923–2002) was a French mathematician who won the 1958 Fields Medal for cobordism theory and later founded catastrophe theory with his 1972 book Structural Stability and Morphogenesis.
René-Louis Baire
René-Louis Baire (1874–1932) was a French mathematician at Dijon who introduced the Baire classes of discontinuous functions in his 1899 thesis and the category notions in letters to Émile Borel.
Renée Hložek
Renée Hložek is a South African cosmologist and associate professor at the University of Toronto, working on the cosmic microwave background, dark matter, and dark energy.
Renfrey Potts
Renfrey Burnard Potts (1925–2005) was an Australian applied mathematician and Rhodes Scholar who proposed the Potts model in 1952 and built applied mathematics at the University of Adelaide.
Renu Malhotra
Renu Malhotra is a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona known for explaining Pluto's strange orbit as the result of planetary migration, and for predicting the Plutinos.
Renyi Zhang
Renyi Zhang is an atmospheric chemist and University Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University, known for aerosol nucleation research and studies of China's severe urban haze.
Renyue Cen
Renyue Cen (岑人岳) is a Chinese-born astrophysicist and cosmologist known as a pioneer of cosmological hydrodynamical simulation, elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2019.
Res Jost
Res Jost (1918–1990) was a Swiss theoretical physicist at ETH Zurich known for the Jost function and the first axiomatic proof of the CPT theorem.
Reto Knutti
Reto Knutti is a Swiss climate physicist and professor at ETH Zurich who studies greenhouse gas effects on climate, developed climate model weighting methods, and contributed to IPCC reports.
Reuben Goodstein
Reuben Louis Goodstein (1912–1985) was a British mathematician and logician who proved Goodstein's theorem in 1944 and held the first British chair in mathematical logic.
Rex Richards (physical chemist)
Sir Rex Edward Richards (1922–2019) was a British physical chemist who pioneered nuclear magnetic resonance for determining molecular structure, held Oxford's chemistry chair from 1964, and served as Vice-Chancellor.
Reynold C. Fuson
Reynold C. Fuson (1895–1979) was an American organic chemist at the University of Illinois, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1944 and known for the principle of vinylogy.
Ricardo Garcı́a
Ricardo García is a Spanish physicist at CSIC in Madrid, known as the inventor of bimodal AFM and a pioneer of multifrequency atomic force microscopy.
Riccardo Comin
Riccardo Comin is an Italian condensed matter physicist and MIT associate professor, trained at Trieste and the University of British Columbia, known for ARPES studies of charge order in kagome metals.
Riccardo Giacconi
Riccardo Giacconi was an Italian-born astrophysicist who founded X-ray astronomy, discovering Scorpius X-1 in 1962 and winning half of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Riccardo Giovanelli
Riccardo Giovanelli (1946–2022) was an Italian-born radio astronomer at Cornell University who, with his wife Martha Haynes, led the ALFALFA survey of 31,500 gas-bearing galaxies and won the 1989 Henry Draper Medal.
Richard A. Feely
Richard A. Feely is an American chemical oceanographer who spent 51 years at NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle, studying ocean carbon uptake and acidification.
Richard A. Friesner
Richard A. Friesner is a computational chemist and the William P. Schweitzer Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University who co-founded Schrödinger, Inc. in 1990 and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2016.
Richard A. Gottscho
Richard A. Gottscho is an American plasma physical chemist who spent 15 years at Bell Laboratories and retired in 2025 as chief technology officer of Lam Research.
Richard A. Holt
Richard A. Holt is a physicist recorded as co-author of the 1969 paper proposing an experiment to test local hidden variable theories, with Clauser, Horne, and Shimony.
Richard A. Keller
Richard A. Keller was an American analytical chemist and Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellow who pioneered single-molecule detection in solution and applied it to DNA sequencing in the Human Genome Project.
Richard A. Mathies
Richard A. Mathies, born in Seattle in 1946, is an American chemist and emeritus UC Berkeley professor known for femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy and capillary array electrophoresis DNA sequencing.
Richard A. Muller
Richard A. Muller, born 1944, is an American physicist at UC Berkeley known for the Nemesis extinction hypothesis, accelerator mass spectrometry, and the Berkeley Earth temperature record.
Richard A. Tapia
Richard A. Tapia (1939–2026) was an American mathematician at Rice University known for numerical optimization and as the first U.S.-born Hispanic member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Richard A. Webb
Richard A. Webb was an American physicist known for the 1985 first observation of h/e Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in normal-metal rings, the 1997 decoherence saturation claim, and the Buckley Prize.
Richard Abegg
Richard Abegg (1869–1910) was a German chemist who formulated the rule that an element's maximum positive and negative valences sum to eight, a forerunner of the octet rule.
Richard Arnowitt
Richard Arnowitt (1928–2014) was an American theoretical physicist who co-developed the ADM formulation of general relativity and later co-founded supergravity grand unification at Texas A&M University.