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Richard Keith Ellis
Richard Keith Ellis is a British theoretical particle physicist whose calculations helped establish quantum chromodynamics as the theory of the strong interaction; he led Fermilab's Theory Department before joining Durham University.
Richard Kraus
Richard Gordon Kraus is an American experimental high-pressure physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory who studies matter at terapascal pressures and won a 2017 PECASE award.
Richard Kuhn
Richard Kuhn was an Austrian-born German biochemist who won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on carotenoids and vitamins, and directed the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut in Heidelberg.
Richard L. Brutchey
Richard L. Brutchey is an American inorganic and materials chemist, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Southern California, known for low-temperature, solution-phase synthesis of functional nanocrystals.
Richard L. McCreery
Richard L. McCreery, also known as Richard McCreery, is an American electrochemist and emeritus professor at Ohio State known for carbon electrodes, Raman spectroscopy, and molecular electronics.
Richard L.M. Synge
Richard L.M. Synge, full name Richard Laurence Millington Synge, was a British biochemist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with A.J.P. Martin for inventing partition chromatography.
Richard Layfield
Richard A. Layfield is a British inorganic chemist and Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Sussex, known for lanthanide and uranium single-molecule magnetism.
Richard Leibler
Richard A. Leibler (1914–2003) was an American mathematician and cryptanalyst who spent most of his career at the NSA and co-authored the 1951 paper introducing the Kullback–Leibler divergence.
Richard Lindzen
Richard Lindzen is an American dynamical meteorologist, MIT's Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology from 1983 until 2013, known for his low satellite-based estimates of climate sensitivity.
Richard Lyons (mathematician)
Richard Lyons is a Rutgers University mathematician in finite group theory, known for the Lyons sporadic group and, since 1982, for coleading the classification proof revision with Gorenstein and Solomon.
Richard M. Crooks
Richard M. Crooks is an American electrochemist and Robert A. Welch Chair Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, known for nanoscale catalysts, bipolar electrochemistry, and paper sensors.
Richard M. Goody
Richard M. Goody (1921–2023) was a British-American atmospheric physicist who spent his career at Harvard, wrote the influential textbook Atmospheric Radiation, and helped launch Pioneer Venus.
Richard M. Laine
Richard M. Laine is an American materials chemist at the University of Michigan known for converting silica into reactive silicon compounds and for flame spray pyrolysis.
Richard M. Lambert
Richard M. Lambert is a surface chemist and heterogeneous catalysis researcher at the University of Cambridge, known for his 2008 Nature work on gold nanoparticle oxidation catalysts.
Richard M. Noyes
Richard M. Noyes (1919–1997) was an American physical chemist at the University of Oregon who explained oscillating chemical reactions and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1977.
Richard Martel
Richard Martel is a Canadian chemist and professor at Université de Montréal who helped build the first carbon nanotube transistors at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center.
Richard McCray
Richard McCray, known to colleagues as Dick McCray, was an American theoretical astrophysicist at JILA in Boulder, Colorado, and an authority on supernovae and stellar winds.
Richard McLean Badger
Richard McLean Badger (1896–1974) was an American physical chemist at Caltech known for molecular spectroscopy and Badger's rule, relating bond length to bond strength; he joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1952.
Richard Melrose
Richard Melrose is a mathematician and Simons Professor at MIT, known for the b-calculus and scattering calculus for partial differential equations on manifolds with boundary.
Richard Mollier
Richard Mollier (1863–1935) was a German physicist and mechanical engineer, professor of technical thermodynamics at Dresden, who devised the enthalpy-entropy chart for steam, the Mollier diagram, named for him in 1923.
Richard Moore (NASA scientist)
Richard Moore is a Research Physical Scientist at NASA's Langley Research Center who studies how aerosols affect air quality, clouds, and climate, and received the 2019 PECASE award.
Richard N. Zare
Richard N. Zare, born in 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio, is an American physical chemist at Stanford known for laser-induced fluorescence and showing that reactions accelerate in microdroplets.
Richard P. Binzel
Richard P. Binzel is an American planetary scientist at MIT known for linking asteroids to meteorites and for inventing the Torino Scale, which communicates asteroid impact risk to the public.
Richard P. Evershed
Richard P. Evershed is a British chemist at the University of Bristol known for organic residue analysis of archaeological pottery and direct radiocarbon dating of ceramics.
Richard P. Feynman
Richard P. Feynman (1918–1988) was an American theoretical physicist at Caltech, known for Feynman diagrams and the path integral, who shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Richard P. Stanley
Richard P. Stanley, born 1944, is an American combinatorist who spent most of his career at MIT, known for algebraic and enumerative combinatorics and the standard two-volume Enumerative Combinatorics.
Richard P. Van Duyne
Richard P. Van Duyne (1945–2019) was an American analytical chemist at Northwestern University who led surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, invented nanosphere lithography, and developed LSPR biosensing.
Richard Palais
Richard S. Palais (1931–2026) was an American differential geometer at Brandeis University, known for the Palais–Smale condition in Morse theory and the principle of symmetric criticality.
Richard Q. Twiss
Richard Quentin Twiss (1920–2005) was a British mathematician who supplied the theory for intensity interferometry, giving his name to the Hanbury Brown–Twiss effect in quantum optics.
Richard R. Ernst
Richard R. Ernst (1933–2021) was a Swiss physical chemist at ETH Zurich who won the 1991 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing Fourier transform and two-dimensional NMR spectroscopy.