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Rick L. Danheiser
Rick L. Danheiser is an American organic chemist at MIT, known for the Danheiser Annulation and Benzannulation, who has led Organic Syntheses since 2004 and chaired the MIT Faculty.
Rien van Genuchten
Rien van Genuchten, born Martinus Th. van Genuchten, is a Dutch-born soil physicist whose 1980 equation for unsaturated soil hydraulics won him the 2023 Wolf Prize in Agriculture.
Rifqät Bağdanof
Rifqät Bağdanof, or Rifkat Ibragimovich Bogdanov (Рифкат Ибрагимович Богданов; 1950–2013), is a Russian mathematician known for the Bogdanov–Takens bifurcation and a student of Vladimir Arnold.
Rigoberto C. Advíncula
Rigoberto C. Advíncula is a Filipino-American polymer and nanomaterials scientist, UT-ORNL Governor's Chair at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee since 2020.
Rik R. Tykwinski
Rik R. Tykwinski is a Canadian physical organic chemist and professor at the University of Alberta known for synthesizing polyynes and cumulenes as model compounds for carbyne.
Rimhak Ree
Rimhak Ree (이임학, 1922–2005) was a Korean-born Canadian mathematician at the University of British Columbia who discovered the Ree groups, the last infinite families of finite simple groups.
Rint Sijbesma
Rint P. Sijbesma is a Dutch supramolecular polymer chemist, full professor at Eindhoven University of Technology, known for self-assembling polymers built on quadruple hydrogen bonding since his 1997 Science paper.
Risa Wechsler
Risa Wechsler is an American theoretical cosmologist at Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory known for work on the galaxy–halo connection, dark matter, and dark energy.
Risto M. Nieminen
Risto M. Nieminen, born Risto Matti Nieminen in 1948, is a Finnish computational condensed-matter physicist, emeritus professor at Aalto University, known for his pioneering theories of positrons in solids.
Roald Hoffmann
Roald Hoffmann, born Roald Safran, is a Polish-born American theoretical chemist at Cornell University, known for the Woodward–Hoffmann rules and half of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Roald Sagdeev
Roald Sagdeev (Роальд Сагдеев), born 1932, is a Soviet-born plasma physicist known for collisionless shock waves and plasma turbulence, who directed the Soviet Space Research Institute from 1973 to 1988.
Rob Ameloot
Rob Ameloot (born 1985) is a materials chemist and professor at KU Leuven, known for chemical vapor deposition of metal–organic framework thin films for microelectronics.
Rob Dunbar
Rob Dunbar, or Robert B. Dunbar, is an oceanographer and biogeochemist who is Keck Professor of Earth Sciences at Stanford, known for reconstructing past ocean temperatures from corals and sediments.
Rob Ivison
Rob Ivison, also published as R. J. Ivison, is an astronomer who studies galaxy formation and evolution, and was ESO Director for Science from 2014 to 2023.
Rob N.J. Comans
Rob N.J. Comans is a soil chemist and geochemist who is full professor and chair of the Soil Chemistry group at Wageningen University & Research.
Robert A. Alberty
Robert A. Alberty (1921–2014) was an American physical chemist at MIT, dean of its School of Science from 1967 to 1982, known for enzyme kinetics and biochemical thermodynamics.
Robert A. Berner
Robert A. Berner (1935–2015) was an American geochemist at Yale University who reconstructed atmospheric CO2 and oxygen over the past several hundred million years with the BLAG and GEOCARB carbon cycle models.
Robert A. de Groot
Robert Aart (Rob) de Groot (1949–2026) was a Dutch solid-state chemist at Nijmegen who introduced the half-metal concept in a 1983 paper on NiMnSb, credited by the 2007 Nobel Prize background.
Robert A. Millikan
Robert A. Millikan (1868–1953) was an American experimental physicist who measured the electron's charge and verified Einstein's photoelectric equation, winning the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physics and later leading Caltech.
Robert A. West
Robert A. West is an American planetary scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory known for work on Titan, including showing in 2005 that it has no global ocean.
Robert A. Wolkow
Robert A. Wolkow is a Canadian condensed-matter physicist at the University of Alberta who places individual atoms on silicon to build atomic-scale circuits and leads Quantum Silicon Inc.
Robert Adair (physicist)
Robert Adair (1924–2020) was an American experimental particle physicist at Yale who measured rare K meson decays and wrote The Physics of Baseball in 1990.
Robert Alexander Rankin
Robert Alexander Rankin (1915–2001) was a British mathematician who wrote over 100 papers on number theory and gave his name to the Rankin–Selberg method for studying L-functions.
Robert Andrews Millikan
Robert Andrews Millikan was an American experimental physicist who measured the elementary electric charge with the oil-drop experiment and verified Einstein's photoelectric equation, winning the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Robert B. Corey
Robert B. Corey (1897–1971) was an American chemist at Caltech who co-authored the 1951 papers proposing the alpha-helix and pleated beta-sheet, and designed the first space-filling molecular models.
Robert B. Gagosian
Robert B. Gagosian, born 1944, is an American chemical oceanographer who led the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution as Director and President from 1993 to 2006.
Robert B. Hallock
Robert B. Hallock is an American experimental physicist who spent his career at the University of Massachusetts Amherst studying superfluid helium films and atom transport through solid helium-4.
Robert B. Laughlin
Robert B. Laughlin is an American condensed matter physicist at Stanford who won the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics for his 1983 theory of the fractional quantum Hall effect.
Robert B. Leighton
Robert B. Leighton (1919–1997) was an American physicist and astronomer at Caltech who discovered the Sun's five-minute oscillation, led Mariner Mars imaging, and wrote the final draft of The Feynman Lectures on Physics.
Robert B. Mann
Bob Mann, full name Robert Bruce Mann, is a Canadian theoretical physicist at the University of Waterloo known as a leading developer of black hole chemistry.