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Robert L. Forward
Robert L. Forward (Robert Lull Forward) was an American gravitational physicist and inventor who spent 31 years at Hughes Aircraft and wrote 11 hard science fiction novels.
Robert L. Willett
Robert L. Willett is an American experimental condensed-matter physicist and Bell Labs Fellow who co-measured the fractional quantum Hall energy gap cited in the 1998 Nobel Prize background.
Robert Ladislav Parker
Robert Ladislav Parker is a geophysicist and emeritus professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, known for his 1973 Fourier-transform method for calculating potential anomalies.
Robert Langlands
Robert Langlands (born 1936) is a Canadian mathematician at the Institute for Advanced Study, founder of the Langlands program and winner of the 2018 Abel Prize.
Robert Lawson Vaught
Robert Lawson Vaught (1926–2002) was an American mathematician at UC Berkeley and a pioneer of model theory, a student of Alfred Tarski known for Vaught's conjecture.
Robert Lazarsfeld
Robert Lazarsfeld is an algebraic geometer and Stony Brook professor known for work on positivity of line bundles and for the two-volume treatise Positivity in Algebraic Geometry.
Robert Le Rossignol
Robert Le Rossignol was a British engineer who, as Fritz Haber's private assistant at Karlsruhe, built the high-pressure apparatus that first synthesized ammonia from its elements in 1909.
Robert Lin
Robert Lin was a Chinese-born American experimental space physicist at UC Berkeley, principal investigator of the RHESSI solar flare mission and called the father of modern experimental high-energy solar physics.
Robert Lupton
Robert Lupton is a British-born astronomer at Princeton University who directed the Sloan Digital Sky Survey imaging pipeline and later served as Pipeline Scientist for the Rubin Observatory's LSST.
Robert M. DeConto
Robert M. DeConto is an American climatologist and glaciologist, professor and director at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, known for Antarctic ice-sheet modeling and 2016 and 2021 Nature sea-level projections.
Robert M. Dickson
Robert M. Dickson is a chemist and the Vassar Woolley Professor at Georgia Tech since 1998, known for 1997 single-molecule GFP blinking work and photoactivated fluorescent silver nanoclusters.
Robert M. Garrels
Robert M. Garrels (1916–1988) was an American geochemist who applied chemical thermodynamics to low-temperature geology, known for Eh–pH diagrams, seawater modeling, and books like Solutions, Minerals, and Equilibria.
Robert M. Hazen
Robert M. Hazen is an American mineralogist and geochemist at the Carnegie Institution for Science, known for the mineral evolution hypothesis and leading the Deep Carbon Observatory.
Robert M. Miura
Robert M. Miura (1938–2018) was an American applied mathematician whose Miura transformation connected two wave equations, opening the route to soliton theory and the 2006 Steele Prize.
Robert M. Nowak
Robert M. Nowak is an American organic and polymer chemist in Midland, Michigan, who spent 37 years at Dow Chemical and led the Michigan Molecular Institute from 1994 to 2009.
Robert M. Oliver
Robert M. Oliver, born 1931, is an American operations researcher and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006.
Robert M. Schoch
Robert M. Schoch is an American geologist and Boston University faculty member since 1984, known for redating the Great Sphinx of Giza and proposing that solar outbursts ended the last ice age.
Robert M. Sneider
Robert M. Sneider (1929–2005) was an American petroleum reservoir geologist in Houston, Texas, founder of Robert M. Sneider Exploration Inc., elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2000.
Robert M. Solovay
Robert M. Solovay is an American mathematical logician and set theorist, Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1986, known for the 1970 Solovay model and a Monte-Carlo primality test.
Robert M. Wald
Robert M. Wald is a theoretical physicist at the University of Chicago known for work on general relativity, black hole thermodynamics, and quantum field theory in curved spacetime.
Robert M. Walker
Robert M. Walker (1929–2004) was an American experimental physicist who pioneered fossil nuclear tracks, discovered extremely heavy cosmic rays in meteorites, and led the search for stardust grains.
Robert M. Waymouth
Robert M. Waymouth is an American organic and polymer chemist at Stanford University, the Robert Eckles Swain Professor, known for stereoselective polymerization, metal-free organocatalysis with IBM, and RNA delivery.
Robert M. White
Robert M. White (Robert Mayer White, 1923–2015) was an American meteorologist who led the Weather Bureau, ESSA, and NOAA, becoming NOAA's first administrator in 1970.
Robert MacPherson
Robert MacPherson, born 1944, is an American mathematician at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, known for intersection homology theory, created with Mark Goresky in the 1970s.
Robert Marshak
Robert Eugene Marshak (1916–1992) was an American theoretical physicist known for the V−A theory of weak interactions, wartime work at Los Alamos, and founding the Rochester high-energy physics conferences.
Robert McCallum Blumenthal
Robert McCallum Blumenthal (1931–2012) was an American mathematician at the University of Washington best known for the Blumenthal zero-one law and the 1968 monograph Markov Processes and Potential Theory with Ronald Getoor.
Robert Meservey
Robert Hilton Meservey (1921–2013) was an American condensed-matter physicist at MIT who, with Paul Tedrow, discovered spin-polarized electron tunneling from superconductors in 1970, a foundation of spintronics.
Robert Mills (American physicist)
Robert Laurence Mills (1927–1999) was an American physicist who coauthored with Chen Ning Yang the 1954 paper introducing Yang–Mills theory, now a foundation of the standard model, and taught at Ohio State University.
Robert Milton Silverstein
Robert Milton Silverstein (1916–2007) was an American chemist and chemical ecologist known for the textbook Spectrometric Identification of Organic Compounds and bark beetle pheromone research.
Robert Minlos
Robert Adol'fovich Minlos (1931–2018) was a Russian mathematician at Moscow State University and IITP RAS, best known for the Bochner–Minlos theorem characterizing when a positive-definite functional is a probability measure.