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Robert Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh
Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh, was a British physicist whose helium measurements of minerals gave minimum ages for the Earth and who first quantified the night sky's light.
Robert T. Kennedy
Robert T. Kennedy is an analytical chemist who holds the Hobart H. Willard Distinguished Professorship at the University of Michigan, developing microfluidics and capillary electrophoresis for bioanalysis.
Robert T. Watson
Robert T. Watson, born 1948, is a British atmospheric chemist who built the scientific assessments behind the Montreal Protocol and chaired the IPCC from 1997 to 2002.
Robert Thalén
Robert Thalén, born Tobias Robert Thalén, was a Swedish physicist and astronomer who mapped spectral wavelengths with Ångström, measured thorium's first spectral lines, and built an iron-ore magnetometer.
Robert Thomas (glaciologist)
Robert H. (Bob) Thomas (1937–2015) was a British-born glaciologist who coined "ice-shelf buttressing" and led NASA's PARCA program, producing the first accurate mass-balance assessment of a polar ice sheet.
Robert Tibshirani
Robert Tibshirani, born 1956, in Niagara Falls, Ontario, is a Canadian-born American statistician and Stanford professor known for the lasso, generalized additive models, and SAM.
Robert Tycko
Robert Tycko, also published as R. Tycko, is an American biophysical chemist at the NIH's NIDDK who uses solid-state NMR to determine the structures of amyloid fibrils in Alzheimer's disease.
Robert V. Kohn
Robert V. Kohn, born Robert Vita Kohn (1953–2026), was an American applied mathematician at NYU's Courant Institute known for the Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg theorem and pioneering mathematical materials science.
Robert W. Boyd
Robert W. Boyd is an American physicist in nonlinear optics and quantum photonics, a professor at Rochester and Ottawa known for slow and fast light research.
Robert W. Carpick
Robert W. Carpick is an American nanotribologist, the John Henry Towne Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, known for atomic-scale studies of friction, adhesion, and wear.
Robert W. Field
Robert W. Field, born in 1944, is an American physical chemist and molecular spectroscopist at MIT, known for spectroscopic perturbations, stimulated emission pumping, and textbooks on diatomic molecules.
Robert W. Noyes
Robert W. Noyes is an astronomer and Research Professor of Astronomy, Emeritus at Harvard University, known for co-discovering the Sun's five-minute oscillations, a founding observation of helioseismology.
Robert W. Parry
Robert W. Parry (1917–2006) was an American inorganic chemist and pre-eminent boron chemist who taught at Michigan and Utah, led the American Chemical Society in 1982, and won its Priestley Medal in 1993.
Robert W. Tkach
Robert W. Tkach is an American physicist at Nokia Bell Labs known for optical fiber communications research, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2009.
Robert W. Wood
Robert W. Wood was an American experimental physicist, professor at Johns Hopkins from 1901 to 1938, known for ultraviolet photography, resonance radiation, blazed diffraction gratings, and his 1904 debunking of N-rays.
Robert Wichard Pohl
Robert Wichard Pohl (1884–1976) was a German experimental physicist who directed the First Physics Institute at Göttingen from 1919 to 1952, studied color centers in crystals, and revolutionized physics teaching with projected lecture demonstrations.
Robert Williams (chemist)
Robert Joseph Paton Williams, known as Bob Williams, was an English chemist at Oxford for over 60 years who helped establish bioinorganic chemistry and first described how proton gradients drive ATP formation.
Robert Woodrow Wilson
Robert Woodrow Wilson, born in 1936, is an American radio astronomer who co-discovered the cosmic microwave background radiation at Bell Labs, earning the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Robert Zimmer
Robert Jeffrey Zimmer (1947–2023) was an American mathematician in ergodic theory and Lie theory who served as the 13th president of the University of Chicago from 2006 to 2021.
Robert Zwanzig
Robert Zwanzig (1928–2014) was an American theoretical physical chemist who worked in statistical mechanics at the University of Maryland and NIH, best known for the projection operator method.
Roberta L. Rudnick
Roberta L. Rudnick is a geochemist and Distinguished Professor at UC Santa Barbara known for the 1995 paper "Making continental crust" and for developing lithium isotope geochemistry.
Roberta Sessoli
Roberta Sessoli, born in 1963, is an Italian chemist and full professor at the University of Florence, a pioneer of single-molecule magnets and molecular spintronics.
Roberto Car
Roberto Car is an Italian computational physicist and chemist, a professor at Princeton University who co-invented Car–Parrinello molecular dynamics, a standard simulation method, in 1985.
Roberto Maiolino
Roberto Maiolino is an Italian astrophysicist, Professor of Experimental Astrophysics at Cambridge since 2012, known for JWST discoveries of massive black holes in the early Universe.
Roberto Morandotti
Roberto Morandotti is a full professor at INRS in Montreal who works in integrated and quantum photonics, known for the first chip-based generation of complex entangled quantum states of light.
Robin E. Bell
Robin E. Bell, also known as Robin Bell, is an American polar geophysicist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory known for work on subglacial lakes and Antarctic ice streams.
Robin Hartshorne
Robin Hartshorne (born 1938) is an American algebraic geometer, Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, and author of Algebraic Geometry (1977), the standard graduate introduction to schemes and cohomology.
Robin Hill (plant biochemist)
Robin Hill (1899–1991) was a British plant biochemist who spent his career in Cambridge, discovered the Hill reaction showing that isolated chloroplasts produce oxygen, and proposed the Z-scheme of photosynthesis with F. L. Bendall in 1960.
Robin M. Canup
Robin M. Canup is an American planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder known for simulations showing a single Mars-sized giant impact could have formed the Moon.
Robin M. Hochstrasser
Robin M. Hochstrasser (1931–2013) was a Scottish-born physical chemist who spent fifty years at the University of Pennsylvania, where he pioneered ultrafast and two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy applied to chemistry and biology.