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Robert B. Meyer
Robert B. Meyer (1943–2023) was an American condensed-matter physicist who predicted and verified ferroelectricity in chiral liquid crystals in 1975, a discovery underlying fast ferroelectric displays.
Robert B. Palmer
Robert B. Palmer is an American particle and accelerator physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, known for the Omega-minus confirmation and the Palmer method of stochastic cooling.
Robert B. Woodward
Robert Burns Woodward (1917–1979) was an American organic chemist at Harvard who won the unshared 1965 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for syntheses including quinine, cortisone, and vitamin B12.
Robert Bacher
Robert Bacher was an American nuclear physicist who led the experimental physics division at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project, then served as a charter Atomic Energy Commission commissioner.
Robert Ballard
Robert Duane Ballard, known as Bob Ballard, is an American oceanographer and deep-sea explorer who located the Titanic in 1985 and discovered hydrothermal vents in 1977.
Robert Banks (chemist)
Robert L. Banks (1921–1989) was an American chemist at Phillips Petroleum in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, who with J. Paul Hogan discovered crystalline polypropylene in 1951 and later olefin metathesis.
Robert Behringer
Robert P. Behringer (1948–2018) was an American experimental physicist and James B. Duke Professor at Duke University whose photoelastic studies of granular materials helped establish granular physics as a field.
Robert Boyd (British space physicist)
Sir Robert Lewis Fullarton Boyd (1922–2004) was a British space physicist, called the father of UK space science, who founded UCL's Mullard Space Science Laboratory in 1966.
Robert Brian Palmer
Robert Brian Palmer is a particle and accelerator physicist who spent 60 years at Brookhaven National Laboratory, known for the Omega-minus experiment, the Palmer method, and muon collider work.
Robert Brode
Robert Brode (1900–1986) was an American experimental physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for work on slow electrons, cosmic rays, and atomic bomb fusing.
Robert Broom
Robert Broom (1866–1951) was a Scottish-born South African medical doctor and paleontologist who described hundreds of Karoo mammal-like reptiles and found the first adult australopithecine cranium at Sterkfontein.
Robert Brout
Robert Brout (1928–2011) was an American-born theoretical physicist who spent his career in Belgium and, with François Englert, first published the mechanism by which elementary particles acquire mass.
Robert Bryant (mathematician)
Robert Bryant, born 1953, is an American mathematician at Duke University who works in differential geometry, proved the existence of special holonomy manifolds, and served as President of the American Mathematical Society in 2015 and 2016.
Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen (1811–1899) was a German chemist who, with Gustav Kirchhoff, founded spectrum analysis, discovered caesium and rubidium, and gave his name to the Bunsen burner.
Robert C. Dynes
Robert C. Dynes (1942–2025) was a Canadian-born American condensed matter physicist known for work on superconductors, who served as UC San Diego chancellor and University of California president.
Robert C. Finkel
Robert C. Finkel is an earth scientist in geochronology and paleoclimatology at the Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, applying cosmogenic nuclide dating to fault slip rates and glacier histories.
Robert C. Haddon
Robert C. Haddon (1943–2016) was a solid-state chemist who grew up in Tasmania, known for the prediction and discovery of superconductivity in alkali-metal-doped C60 and for his account of fullerene chemistry.
Robert C. Harriss
Robert C. Harriss, also published as R. C. Harriss, was an American earth scientist who traced pollutant transport between land, atmosphere, and ocean, and led the Houston Advanced Research Center.
Robert C. James
Robert C. James (1918) was an American mathematician whose 1950 James space, a Banach space isometric to its second dual yet non-reflexive, was the first quasi-reflexive space.
Robert C. Kennicutt
Robert C. Kennicutt Jr. is an American astronomer known for the Kennicutt–Schmidt law relating gas density to star formation, and for winning the 2009 Gruber Cosmology Prize.
Robert C. Myers
Robert C. Myers is a Canadian theoretical physicist known for the Myers-Perry black hole solution and the Myers effect, and a founding faculty member of the Perimeter Institute.
Robert C. Richardson
Robert C. Richardson, also known as Robert Coleman Richardson, was an American low-temperature physicist at Cornell University who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering superfluidity in helium-3.
Robert C. Thunell
Robert C. Thunell (Robert Carl Thunell, 1951–2018) was an American paleoceanographer and Carolina Distinguished Professor at the University of South Carolina who reconstructed past ocean conditions from planktonic foraminifera.
Robert Cava
Robert Cava is a solid-state chemist at Princeton University who spent 17 years at Bell Laboratories and is known for superconductors, topological insulators, and frustrated magnets.
Robert Creighton Buck
Robert Creighton Buck (1920–1998) was an American mathematician at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for the textbook Advanced Calculus and research on entire functions, interpolation, and approximation theory.
Robert D. Allen
Robert D. Allen is an American polymer chemist at NREL, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012, known for photoresist polymers used in chip manufacturing.
Robert D. Hatcher, Jr.
Robert D. Hatcher, Jr. is an American structural geologist at the University of Tennessee known for mapping the southern Appalachians and winning the 2006 Penrose Medal.
Robert D. Richtmyer
Robert D. Richtmyer, also known as Robert Davis Richtmyer, was an American physicist at Los Alamos whose artificial-viscosity method made numerical calculation of shock waves practical.
Robert d'Escourt Atkinson
Robert d'Escourt Atkinson was a British astronomer and physicist who, with Fritz Houtermans, pioneered stellar fusion research and served as Deputy Chief Scientific Officer at Royal Observatory Greenwich.
Robert Daniel Carmichael
Robert Daniel Carmichael (1879–1967) was an American mathematician and University of Illinois professor who gave his name to Carmichael numbers, the Carmichael function, and an open conjecture on Euler's totient.