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Robert Hanbury Brown
Robert Hanbury Brown (1916–2002) was an astronomer and physicist, born in India, who pioneered radar development and invented intensity interferometry, measuring the angular diameters of 32 hot stars with the Narrabri interferometer.
Robert Helliwell
Robert Helliwell (1920–2011) was an American radio scientist and electrical engineer at Stanford University who pioneered the study of whistlers and very low frequency radio propagation in the magnetosphere.
Robert Hellwarth
Robert Hellwarth (1930–2021) was an American physicist and electrical engineer who invented Q-switching, which raises a laser's peak power a millionfold, and developed optical phase conjugation.
Robert Herman
Robert Herman (1914–1997) was an American physicist who, with Ralph Alpher, predicted the cosmic background radiation in 1948 and later founded traffic science at General Motors.
Robert Hofstadter
Robert Hofstadter (1915–1990) was an American physicist at Stanford University who won half of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics for showing that protons and neutrons have measurable structure.
Robert Hołyst
Robert Hołyst (born 1963) is a Polish physical chemist who heads the Soft Condensed Matter group at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.
Robert Homer Simpson
Robert Homer Simpson (1912–2014) was an American meteorologist who founded the National Hurricane Research Project, directed the National Hurricane Center, and co-created the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale.
Robert I. Jewett
Robert I. Jewett, also known as Robert Israel Jewett, was an American mathematician who proved the Jewett–Krieger theorem and shared SIAM's first Pólya Prize in 1972.
Robert J. Aumann
Robert J. Aumann, also known as Robert Aumann, is an Israeli-American mathematician and game theorist who won the 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Robert J. Birgeneau
Robert J. Birgeneau is a Canadian-born American condensed matter physicist known for neutron and X-ray scattering studies of high-temperature superconductors, who led the University of Toronto and UC Berkeley.
Robert J. Charlson
Robert J. Charlson was an American atmospheric scientist at the University of Washington, a pioneer in the climate role of aerosols and co-author of the CLAW hypothesis.
Robert J. Hamers
Robert J. Hamers is an American surface and materials chemist who spent nearly 35 years at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for diamond biosensors, sustainable nanotechnology, and co-founding Silatronix.
Robert J. Lang
Robert J. Lang is an American origami master and former laser physicist who left NASA engineering in 2001 to practice origami full time, with over 800 designs.
Robert J. Madix (materials scientist)
Robert J. Madix (1938–2023) was an American surface chemist, professor of chemical engineering at Stanford from 1965 to 2004, and later a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard.
Robert J. P. Corriu
Robert J. P. Corriu (1934–2016) was a French chemist at the University of Montpellier who in 1972 independently reported the nickel-catalyzed Grignard cross-coupling now called the Kumada–Corriu reaction, and pioneered hypervalent silicon chemistry.
Robert J. Serafin
Robert J. Serafin is an American electrical engineer and radar meteorologist who directed the National Center for Atmospheric Research from 1989 to 2000 and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1994.
Robert J. Silbey
Robert J. Silbey (1940–2011) was an American theoretical physical chemist at MIT, where he was dean of the School of Science and a National Academy of Sciences member.
Robert J. Van de Graaff
Robert J. Van de Graaff (1901–1967) was an American physicist who invented the Van de Graaff electrostatic generator, a standard accelerator for early nuclear physics.
Robert J. Weimer
Robert Jay Weimer (1926–2021) was an American petroleum geologist and Colorado School of Mines professor known for applying stratigraphic principles to oil exploration in the Rocky Mountain Cretaceous basins.
Robert James Blattner
Robert James Blattner (1931–2015) was an American mathematician and UCLA professor who worked in representation theory and geometric quantization, best known for the Blattner formula.
Robert James Thompson
Robert James Thompson, known as Rob Thompson, is an atomic physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who developed the Cold Atom Lab, launched to the International Space Station in 2018.
Robert Julius Trumpler
Robert Julius Trumpler (1886–1956) was a Swiss-born American astronomer at Lick Observatory and UC Berkeley whose 1930 survey of star clusters proved interstellar dust absorbs starlight.
Robert K. Grasselli
Robert K. Grasselli was an American industrial chemist in heterogeneous catalysis who invented the one-step acrylonitrile process at Sohio and formulated the seven pillars of oxidation catalysis.
Robert Kates
Robert Kates (1929–2018) was an American geographer and sustainability scientist who helped found sustainability science, wrote Environment as Hazard, and won the National Medal of Science in 1991.
Robert Kirshner
Robert Kirshner is an American observational astronomer who led the High-Z Supernova Search Team, whose 1998 supernova measurements showed cosmic expansion is accelerating, attributed to dark energy.
Robert Kraft (scientist)
Robert Kraft was an American stellar astronomer, professor at UC Santa Cruz, and director of Lick Observatory, known for showing that novae are close binary stars and for the Kraft break in stellar rotation.
Robert Kraichnan
Robert Kraichnan (1928–2008) was an American theoretical physicist, once an assistant to Albert Einstein, known for the direct interaction approximation and the inverse energy cascade in two-dimensional turbulence.
Robert L. Byer
Robert L. Byer is an American applied physicist at Stanford University known for laser science and nonlinear optics, including the diode-pumped YAG laser that forms LIGO's main beams.
Robert L. Fleischer
Robert L. Fleischer was an American physicist and geoscientist who turned etching nuclear particle tracks in solids into the fission-track method of dating rocks, meteorites, and archaeological materials.
Robert L. Folk
Robert L. Folk (1925–2018) was an American sedimentary petrologist at the University of Texas at Austin who formulated the first carbonate-rock classification and a still-used sandstone classification.