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Robert Duce
Robert Duce is an American atmospheric and marine chemist at Texas A&M University known for research on atmospheric transport of trace metals, dust, and nitrogen to the ocean.
Robert E. Connick
Robert E. Connick was an American inorganic chemist at UC Berkeley who studied plutonium chemistry on the Manhattan Project and pioneered NMR methods for fast ion reactions in solution.
Robert E. Dickinson
Robert E. Dickinson (1940–2026) was an American atmospheric scientist at NCAR and several universities who first brought vegetation into climate models through his BATS land-surface scheme.
Robert E. Horton
Robert E. Horton (1875–1945) was an American hydraulic engineer and hydrologist, best known for his 1933 infiltration theory of storm runoff and flood prediction, which founded engineering hydrology.
Robert Elderfield
Robert Cooley Elderfield (1904–1979) was an American organic chemist known for cardiac glycosides, antimalarial research, and anticancer agents; he taught at Columbia and the University of Michigan.
Robert Emden
Robert Emden (1862–1940) was a Swiss physicist and astrophysicist whose 1907 book Gaskugeln founded the theory of self-gravitating gas spheres, and whose name survives in the Lane–Emden equation.
Robert Empie Rogers
Robert Empie Rogers (1813–1884) was an American chemist and physician who taught at Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Jefferson Medical College and helped incorporate the National Academy of Sciences.
Robert F. Christy
Robert F. Christy (1916–2012) was a Canadian-born American theoretical physicist at Caltech who designed the solid-core plutonium pit tested at Trinity and modeled Cepheid variable stars.
Robert F. Curl Jr.
Robert F. Curl Jr. (1933–2022) was an American physical chemist who spent his career at Rice University and shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering fullerenes.
Robert F. Landel
Robert F. Landel (1925–2024) was an American physical chemist who co-developed the Williams–Landel–Ferry equation, a foundation of polymer time–temperature superposition, while working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Robert F. Strickler
Robert F. Strickler was an American atmospheric scientist at the Weather Bureau and NOAA's GFDL, co-author of the 1964 Manabe paper introducing convective adjustment in climate modeling.
Robert Franklin Muirhead
Robert Franklin Muirhead (1860–1941) was a Scottish mathematician born in Glasgow, best remembered for Muirhead's inequality, a comparison of symmetric sums that generalizes the arithmetic and geometric mean inequalities.
Robert Frucht
Robert Frucht, known in Chile as Roberto Frucht, was a Czech-born mathematician who proved in 1939 that every finite group is the automorphism group of a graph.
Robert G. Bergman
Robert G. Bergman (born 1942) is an American chemist at UC Berkeley known for the Bergman cyclization and the first alkane C–H activation by soluble metal complexes.
Robert G. Chambers
Robert G. Chambers, known as Bob Chambers, was a British experimental physicist who verified the Aharonov–Bohm effect in 1960 and won the Royal Society's Hughes Medal.
Robert G. Coleman
Robert Griffen Coleman was an American geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey and Stanford University, known for his 1977 monograph Ophiolites, Ancient Oceanic Lithosphere? and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1980.
Robert G. Parr
Robert G. Parr (1921–2017) was an American theoretical chemist who helped found quantum chemistry, known for the Pariser–Parr–Pople method, the Lee–Yang–Parr functional, and his 1989 density-functional theory textbook.
Robert G. Sachs
Robert G. Sachs (1916–1999) was an American theoretical physicist who interpreted nucleon form factors as Fourier transforms of charge distributions and directed Argonne National Laboratory from 1973 to 1979.
Robert Ghrist
Robert Ghrist is a mathematician at the University of Pennsylvania known for applying algebraic topology to sensor networks, Euler calculus, and his popular online calculus course.
Robert Gilliard
Robert J. Gilliard is an inorganic chemist who joined MIT in 2023 as the Novartis Associate Professor of Chemistry, working on luminescent boron compounds and small-molecule activation.
Robert Gomer
Robert Gomer (1924–2016) was an Austrian-born American chemical physicist at the University of Chicago, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1981 and known for field emission, surface diffusion, and the Menzel-Gomer-Redhead mechanism.
Robert Graham (theoretical physicist)
Robert Graham (Robert R. F. Graham, born 1942) is a German theoretical physicist known for the phase-transition theory of the laser and winner of the 2009 Max Planck Medal.
Robert Grant Aitken
Robert Grant Aitken (1864–1951) was an American astronomer at Lick Observatory in California, the leading visual observer of double stars of his generation, who discovered over 3,100.
Robert Griess
Robert L. Griess Jr. (born 1945) is an American mathematician at the University of Michigan who constructed the Monster group, the largest sporadic finite simple group, in 1980.
Robert Griffiths (physicist)
Robert Budington Griffiths is an American physicist at Carnegie Mellon University, originator of the consistent histories interpretation of quantum mechanics and a National Academy of Sciences member.
Robert Groves
Robert M. Groves is an American survey statistician who directed the U.S. Census Bureau from 2009 to 2012, overseeing the 2010 Census, and later served as Georgetown University's provost.
Robert H. Austin
Robert H. Austin is an American biophysicist and professor of physics at Princeton University since 1979, known for deterministic lateral displacement and microfluidic studies of antibiotic resistance.
Robert H. Crabtree
Robert H. Crabtree is a British-born organometallic chemist, C.P. Whitehead Professor Emeritus at Yale University, known for Crabtree's catalyst, dihydrogen bonding, and iridium water-splitting catalysts.
Robert H. Dicke
Robert H. Dicke (1916–1997) was an American experimental physicist at Princeton University who invented the Dicke radiometer and led precision tests of general relativity.
Robert H. Swendsen
Robert H. Swendsen is an American physicist at Carnegie Mellon University who co-created the 1987 Swendsen–Wang cluster algorithm, which greatly sped up simulations near phase transitions.