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Robert Mokaya
Robert Mokaya is a Kenyan-born materials chemist working on porous carbons for clean energy storage, a Royal Society Fellow, and the 95th President of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Robert N. Clayton
Robert N. Clayton (1930–2017) was a Canadian-born American cosmochemist and University of Chicago professor whose 1973 discovery of non-mass-dependent oxygen isotopes in meteorites transformed meteorite classification.
Robert N. Hall
Robert N. Hall (1919–2016) was an American physicist at General Electric in Schenectady who led the team demonstrating the first semiconductor injection laser in 1962.
Robert Ochsenfeld
Robert Ochsenfeld (1901–1993) was a German physicist who, as a young researcher in Berlin, co-discovered with Walther Meißner in 1933 the expulsion of magnetic fields from superconductors, the effect known as the Meissner effect.
Robert Otto Pohl
Robert Otto Pohl (1929–2024) was a German-born American experimental condensed-matter physicist at Cornell University, known for his measurements of heat transport in glasses at very low temperatures.
Robert P. Dilworth
Robert P. Dilworth, also known as Robert Palmer Dilworth, was an American mathematician at Caltech whose 1950 Dilworth's theorem became central to combinatorics and lattice theory.
Robert P. Sharp
Robert P. Sharp (1911–2004) was an American geomorphologist at Caltech, a leading authority on Earth and Mars surfaces who received the National Medal of Science in 1989.
Robert Paul Dziak
Robert Paul Dziak is an American marine geophysicist at NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Newport, Oregon, known for monitoring undersea earthquakes and whale calls with hydrophones.
Robert Phipps
Robert J. Phipps is Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, working in organic synthesis and transition-metal catalysis; he won the RSC Harrison Meldola Memorial Prize in 2019.
Robert Pound
Robert Pound (1919–2010) was a Canadian-born American experimental physicist at Harvard who co-discovered nuclear magnetic resonance in 1945 and led the Pound–Rebka experiment, the first accurate measurement of gravitational redshift.
Robert Prevedel
Robert Prevedel is a physicist who trained under Anton Zeilinger in Vienna in quantum computing, and leads a group at EMBL Heidelberg developing deep-tissue and Brillouin microscopy.
Robert R. Berg
Robert R. Berg, also known as Robert Raymond Berg, was an American petroleum geologist and Texas A&M professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988.
Robert R. Knowles
Robert R. Knowles is an American organic chemist and Henry W. Putnam Professor at Princeton University, known for proton-coupled electron transfer catalysis and anti-Markovnikov hydroamination.
Robert R. Williams
Robert R. Williams was an American chemist, a National Academy of Sciences member, best known for isolating vitamin B1 (thiamine), determining its structure, and synthesizing it.
Robert Raynolds McMath
Robert Raynolds McMath (1891–1962) was an American solar astronomer and engineer who turned a private Michigan observatory into a research institution and helped create Kitt Peak National Observatory.
Robert Remak
Robert Erich Remak (1888–1942) was a German mathematician known for the Krull–Remak–Schmidt theorem; barred from a university career until 1929, he was murdered at Auschwitz.
Robert Retherford
Robert C. Retherford was Willis Lamb's graduate student at Columbia whose 1947 measurements revealed the Lamb shift in hydrogen, the point of departure for renormalizing quantum electrodynamics.
Robert Risch
Robert Henry Risch is a mathematician who earned his Ph.D. from Berkeley in 1968 and created the Risch algorithm for deciding elementary integrability, published in 1969.
Robert S. Anderson
Robert S. Anderson (born 1952) is an American geomorphologist, Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for models of wind-blown sediment transport and glacial erosion.
Robert S. Mulliken
Robert S. Mulliken was an American physical chemist at the University of Chicago who developed the molecular orbital method and won the 1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Robert S. White
Robert S. White is a British geophysicist, Emeritus Professor of Geophysics at the University of Cambridge, known for work on oceanic crust formation and melt beneath Icelandic volcanoes.
Robert Schatten
Robert Schatten, born Rubin Schatten (1911–1977), was a Polish-born American mathematician who pioneered tensor products of Banach spaces and gave his name to the Schatten classes of operators.
Robert Schlögl
Robert Schlögl (born 1954) is a German chemist known for heterogeneous catalysis and chemical energy conversion who directed the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin from 1994 to 2023.
Robert Schoelkopf
Robert J. Schoelkopf is an American applied physicist at Yale University whose team created circuit quantum electrodynamics and the transmon qubit for superconducting quantum computing.
Robert Schrieffer
Robert Schrieffer, fully John Robert Schrieffer, was an American theoretical physicist who defined the BCS wave function behind the theory of superconductivity, sharing the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Robert Serber
Robert Serber (1909–1997) was an American theoretical physicist who, as Oppenheimer's assistant at Los Alamos in 1943, organized the atomic bomb's theoretical foundations and wrote the Los Alamos Primer.
Robert Simpson Woodward
Robert Simpson Woodward was an American geophysicist and geodesist who measured the Earth's figure and gravity field, then led the Carnegie Institution from 1904 to 1920.
Robert Sinclair Dietz
Robert Sinclair Dietz (1914–1995) was an American geophysicist and oceanographer who proposed seafloor spreading in a 1961 Nature paper, coined the term, and later studied meteorite impact structures.
Robert Sorgenfrey
Robert Sorgenfrey was an American mathematician who spent his career at UCLA and is remembered for a 1947 paper introducing the Sorgenfrey line and plane, standard counterexamples in general topology.
Robert Steinberg
Robert Steinberg (1922–2014) was a Canadian-American mathematician at UCLA whose work on algebraic groups produced the Steinberg representation, Steinberg group, and twisted groups of Lie type.