Physical and mathematical scientists

Robin Pemantle

Robin Pemantle is an American probabilist and combinatorialist at the University of Pennsylvania, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024 and known for analytic combinatorics in several variables.

Robin Plackett

Robin Plackett (1920–2009) was a British statistician and founding Professor of Statistics at Newcastle University, known for the Plackett–Burman design, the Plackett distribution, and winning all three Guy medals of the Royal Statistical Society.

Robin Santra

Robin Santra is a German-based theoretical physicist who studies how x rays and intense lasers interact with atoms and molecules, and heads the CFEL Theory Division at DESY in Hamburg.

Robin Wilson (mathematician)

Robin James Wilson (born 1943) is a British mathematician and historian of mathematics at the Open University and Gresham College, known for graph theory and popular books.

Robion Kirby

Robion Kirby is an American mathematician at the University of California, Berkeley, who works on the topology of manifolds and is known for the Kirby calculus and the Kirby–Siebenmann invariant.

Rochus E. Vogt

Rochus E. Vogt, known as Robbie, is a Caltech physicist and the first director of the LIGO project from 1987 to 1994, where he led the 1989 construction proposal that won funding.

Rocio Borrego-Varillas

Rocío Borrego-Varillas is a Spanish physicist and senior researcher at IFN-CNR in Milan who leads attosecond molecular laboratories; her 2022 attosecond spectroscopy review was cited by the 2023 Nobel Committee for Physics.

Roderich Moessner

Roderich Moessner is a German theoretical condensed matter physicist, director at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden since 2007.

Roderick J. A. Little

Roderick J. A. Little is a biostatistician known for methods for analyzing data with missing values and for model-based survey inference at the University of Michigan.

Roderick Murchison, 1st Baronet

Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st Baronet (1792–1871), was a Scottish geologist who established the Silurian, Devonian, and Permian systems and directed the Geological Survey of Great Britain.

Rodey Batiza

Rodey Batiza is a marine geologist and geophysicist whose 1986 Nature papers established that subtle deviations along the East Pacific Rise are real petrological and tectonic boundaries.

Rodion Kuzmin

Rodion Osievich Kuzmin (Родион Осиевич Кузьмин) was a Soviet mathematician, born in 1891 and died in 1949, known for the Gauss–Kuzmin theorem and for proving 2^(√2) transcendental in 1930.

Rodney Baxter

Rodney Baxter (1940–2025) was an Australian mathematical physicist who exactly solved major lattice models in statistical mechanics and gave his name to the Yang–Baxter equation.

Rodney Hill

Rodney Hill (1921–2011) was a British applied mathematician, a leader in the mathematical theory of plasticity and author of the 1950 textbook of that name.

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Rodney J. Bartlett

Rodney J. Bartlett (born 1944) is an American theoretical and quantum chemist who pioneered coupled-cluster methods for molecules and has been a professor at the University of Florida since 1988.

Rodney J. Weber

Rodney J. Weber, also published as R. J. Weber, is a professor at Georgia Tech who studies atmospheric aerosols affecting climate, air quality, and health, and developed the Particle-Into-Liquid Sampler.

Rodney L. Cool

Rodney L. Cool was an American experimental particle physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory whose measurements helped establish the quark as a building block of protons and neutrons.

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Rodney S. Ruoff

Rodney S. Ruoff, also known as Rodney Ruoff, is a physical chemist and graphene researcher who directs the IBS Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials at UNIST in South Korea.

Rodney S. Tucker

Rodney S. Tucker is an Australian electrical engineer and Laureate Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne, known for work on optical networking and telecommunications energy efficiency.

Rodrigo Ibata

Rodrigo Ibata is a British-trained astronomer and CNRS research director at Strasbourg, known for discovering the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy in 1994 and sharing the 2026 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics.

Roel Aaij

Roel Aaij is a Dutch particle physicist, senior scientific staff at Nikhef in Amsterdam since 2018, known for the 2015 pentaquark observation and leading LHCb's GPU-based trigger Allen.

Roeland J. M. Nolte

Roeland J. M. Nolte (1944–2024) was a Dutch supramolecular and organic chemist, professor at Radboud University Nijmegen, and a pioneer of biomimetic nanotechnology known for molecular clips.

Roger A. Chevalier

Roger A. Chevalier is a theoretical astrophysicist, the W. H. Vanderbilt Professor of Astronomy at the University of Virginia since 1990, known for his work on supernovae.

Roger A. De Souza

Roger A. De Souza is a physical chemist and professor at RWTH Aachen University since 2017, known for research on ion transport, defect chemistry, and oxygen diffusion in oxides.

Roger Adams

Roger Adams (1889–1971) was an American organic chemist who spent his career at the University of Illinois, known for Adams' catalyst and pioneering cannabinoid chemistry.

Roger Angel

Roger Angel, born 1941, is an astronomer and optical scientist at the University of Arizona known for casting lightweight honeycomb mirrors for the world's largest telescopes.

Roger Apéry

Roger Apéry (1916–1994) was a French mathematician, professor at the University of Caen from 1949 to 1986, best known for proving in 1978 that ζ(3), now called Apéry's constant, is irrational.

Roger Arthur Johnson

Roger Arthur Johnson (1890–1954) was an American geometer best known for Johnson's theorem, his 1916 result on three equal circles, and the 1929 textbook Modern Geometry.

Roger Bacon (American physicist)

Roger Bacon was an American physicist who discovered graphite whiskers at Union Carbide's Parma Technical Center in 1958, opening the way to high-performance carbon fibers and earning the 2004 Benjamin Franklin Medal.