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Richard Askey
Richard Askey (1933–2019) was an American mathematician who spent his career at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and was known for special functions, orthogonal polynomials, and the Askey–Wilson polynomials.
Richard Averitt
Richard D. Averitt is an American physicist at UC San Diego who works on terahertz metamaterials and uses intense terahertz fields to drive phase transitions in quantum materials like vanadium dioxide.
Richard B. Alley
Richard B. Alley is an American glaciologist and climate scientist at Penn State, known for work on Antarctic ice streams and abrupt climate change recorded in Greenland ice cores.
Richard B. Bernstein
Richard Barry Bernstein was an American chemical physicist who founded the use of molecular beam scattering as a quantitative method for measuring atomic and molecular forces.
Richard B. Kaner
Richard B. Kaner is an American materials chemist and Distinguished Professor at UCLA known for rapid solid-state synthesis, conducting polymers, graphene supercapacitors, and founding four technology companies.
Richard B. Stothers
Richard B. Stothers (1938–2011) was an American astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, known for stellar pulsation and a 1984 mass-extinction cycle hypothesis.
Richard B. Turner
Richard Baldwin Turner (1916–1971) was an American organic chemist and professor of chemistry at Rice University from 1951 to 1971, known for total synthesis and tracer studies of steroid rearrangements.
Richard Barrer
Richard Barrer (1910–1996) was a New Zealand-born chemist who spent his career in Britain, called the founding father of zeolite chemistry and a dominant figure in membrane science.
Richard Bellman
Richard Ernest Bellman (1920–1984) was an American applied mathematician who invented dynamic programming at the RAND Corporation in 1953 and later taught at the University of Southern California.
Richard Berndt
Richard Berndt is a German experimental physicist and professor at Kiel University since 1999, known for STM studies of light emission from single molecules, including a 1993 Science paper.
Richard Bersohn
Richard Bersohn (1925–2003) was an American physical chemist and longtime Columbia University professor known for experimental and theoretical work on how molecules break apart when they absorb light.
Richard Borcherds
Richard Borcherds, born in Cape Town in 1959, is a British mathematician at UC Berkeley who won the 1998 Fields Medal for proving the Monstrous Moonshine conjecture.
Richard Brauer
Richard Dagobert Brauer was a German-American algebraist, born in 1901, who created modular representation theory, the Brauer group, and the finite simple groups classification program.
Richard Briggs
Richard William Briggs is a USGS research geologist in Golden, Colorado, known for reconstructing earthquake prehistories on major faults, mapping seafloor deformation with coral microatolls, and receiving a PECASE award.
Richard Bruck
Richard Hubert Bruck (1914–1991) was a Canadian-born mathematician at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for Bruck loops, the Bruck–Ryser–Chowla theorem, and his 1958 monograph A Survey of Binary Systems.
Richard C. Alkire
Richard C. Alkire is an American chemical engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988 for research on electrodeposition and corrosion.
Richard Chace Tolman
Richard Chace Tolman (1881–1948) was an American mathematical physicist and statistical mechanics authority who spent his last twenty-six years at Caltech and advised on the Manhattan Project.
Richard Courant
Richard Courant was a German-born American mathematician known for work on partial differential equations and minimal surfaces, who built the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University.
Richard D. Cummings
Richard D. Cummings is a glycobiologist who directs the National Center for Functional Glycomics and the Harvard Medical School Center for Glycoscience at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Richard D. McCullough
Richard D. McCullough (born 1959) is an American chemist who invented practical syntheses of regioregular polythiophenes for plastic electronics and became Florida State University's 16th president in 2021.
Richard D. Schaller
Richard D. Schaller is an American ultrafast spectroscopist at Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory, known for the 2004 report of efficient carrier multiplication in lead selenide quantum dots.
Richard D. Tilley
Richard D. Tilley is a materials chemist and professor at UNSW Sydney, previously at Victoria University of Wellington, known for single-atom electrocatalysts, nanoparticle synthesis, and MRI contrast agents.
Richard Dalitz
Richard Dalitz (1925–2006) was an Australian-born theoretical particle physicist who spent his career at Oxford and is known for the Dalitz plot and Dalitz pairs.
Richard Dedekind
Richard Dedekind (1831–1916) was a German mathematician who defined the real numbers through Dedekind cuts and founded the theory of ideals in algebraic number theory.
Richard Dixon Oldham
Richard Dixon Oldham (1858–1936) was a British geologist who identified P, S, and surface waves and used earthquake travel times to demonstrate in 1906 that Earth has a central core.
Richard Doell
Richard Doell (1923–2008) was an American geophysicist and paleomagnetist who, with Allan Cox and G. Brent Dalrymple, proved Earth's magnetic field has reversed polarity and dated those reversals over the last four million years.
Richard Dronskowski
Richard Dronskowski is a German inorganic and materials chemist, born in 1961, who holds the Chair of Solid-State and Quantum Chemistry at RWTH Aachen University.
Richard Duffin
Richard Duffin was an American mathematician at Carnegie Mellon University known for the Duffin–Schaeffer conjecture, geometric programming, and network theory, and winner of the 1982 John von Neumann Theory Prize.
Richard E. Goodman
Richard E. Goodman (1935–2025) was a geological engineer and UC Berkeley professor who built its geological engineering program and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1991.
Richard E. P. Winpenny
Richard E. P. Winpenny (Richard Eric Parry Winpenny) is a British inorganic chemist, Professor at the University of Manchester since 2000, known for polymetallic cage complexes and molecular qubits.