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Roland R. Netz
Roland R. Netz is a theoretical physicist who has been a full professor at the Free University Berlin since 2011, working on soft matter, charged polymers, and water at interfaces.
Roland Weitzenböck
Roland Weitzenböck (1885–1955) was an Austrian mathematician who held the chair in number and invariant theory at the University of Amsterdam from 1923 to 1945, known for the Weitzenböck inequality and connection.
Roland Wester
Roland Wester, born 1971, is an Austrian-based experimental physicist and professor at the University of Innsbruck known for imaging nucleophilic substitution and quantum tunnelling in ion–molecule reactions.
Rolf Hagedorn
Rolf Hagedorn (1919–2003) was a German theoretical physicist at CERN who found a limiting temperature in hadronic collisions, about 150 MeV, and built the statistical bootstrap model behind it.
Rolf Huisgen
Rolf Huisgen (1920–2020) was a German organic chemist who defined the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition around 1960, the reaction type underlying modern click chemistry, and led organic chemistry at the University of Munich from 1952 to 1988.
Rolf Landauer
Rolf Landauer (1927–1999) was a German-born American physicist at IBM who established the thermodynamics of information and formulated Landauer's principle on the energy cost of erasing information.
Rolf Mülhaupt
Rolf Mülhaupt, born 1954 in Waldshut-Tiengen, Germany, is a German polymer chemist and retired Freiburg professor known for hyperbranched polyglycerols, sustainable plastics, and the 2009 Hermann-Staudinger Prize.
Rolf Nevanlinna
Rolf Nevanlinna (1895–1980) was a Finnish mathematician whose 1925 theory of meromorphic functions made him the central figure of value distribution theory, and the namesake of the IMU's Nevanlinna Prize.
Rolf Widerøe
Rolf Widerøe, born 1902, was a Norwegian accelerator physicist who built the first operating linear accelerator in 1927 and described the betatron principle in a landmark 1928 paper.
Rollin Thomas Chamberlin
Rollin Thomas Chamberlin (1881–1948) was an American geologist, professor at the University of Chicago, known for the rock-dust method of preventing coal-dust explosions and studies of glacier motion.
Rom Varshamov
Rom Varshamov (Ром Варшамов) was an Armenian mathematician who worked in the Soviet system and became a founder of algebraic coding theory, known for the Gilbert–Varshamov bound and Varshamov–Tenengolts codes.
Romain Quidant
Romain Quidant is a physicist in nanophotonics and plasmonics, Full Professor at ETH Zurich since 2020, known for thermoplasmonics and chip-scale vacuum levitation of nanoparticles.
Romain Teyssier
Romain Teyssier is a French computational astrophysicist and cosmologist, a Princeton professor since 2021, best known for creating the widely used RAMSES cosmological simulation code.
Roman Boulatov
Roman Boulatov is a chemist and Personal Chair in Chemistry at the University of Liverpool who studies polymer mechanochemistry, the coupling of mechanical load and chemical reactivity.
Román Fasel
Roman Fasel is a Swiss surface physicist and chemist who heads the nanotech@surfaces Laboratory at Empa and is a pioneer of on-surface synthesis, known for atomically precise graphene nanoribbons.
Roman Jackiw
Roman Jackiw (1939–2023) was an American theoretical physicist at MIT known for the Adler–Bell–Jackiw anomaly, theta vacua, and Chern–Simons theory, with constructions like Jackiw–Teitelboim gravity named for him.
Roman L. Znajek
Roman L. Znajek is a physicist at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, who with Roger Blandford proposed the 1977 Blandford–Znajek mechanism for how rotating black holes power relativistic jets.
Roman Schnabel
Roman Schnabel is a German physicist working on quantum optics, squeezed light, and gravitational-wave detection, and professor of experimental physics at Universität Hamburg since 2014.
Roman Sikorski
Roman Sikorski (1920–1983) was a Polish mathematician at the University of Warsaw and the Polish Academy of Sciences, known for the Loomis–Sikorski theorem, the Sikorski extension theorem, and the Rasiowa–Sikorski lemma.
Roman Zubarev
Roman A. Zubarev is a chemist and professor of medical proteomics at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, known as a pioneer of electron capture dissociation, a mass spectrometry fragmentation method.
Romeel Davé
Romeel Davé is a theoretical astrophysicist who studies how galaxies form and evolve using computer simulations, and is Professor and Chair of Physics at the University of Edinburgh.
Ron Eglash
Ron Eglash is an American mathematician who founded ethnocomputing, wrote African Fractals (1999) on fractal geometry in African design, and created school software with NSF funding.
Ron Naaman
Ron Naaman is an Israeli physical chemist and professor emeritus at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for discovering the chirality-induced spin selectivity effect in chiral molecules.
Ronald A. Hites
Ronald A. Hites (1942, Detroit – January 5, 2024, Bloomington, Indiana) was an American environmental chemist and Distinguished Professor at Indiana University, regarded as the father of modern environmental mass spectrometry for his work on pollutants.
Ronald Breslow
Ronald Breslow (1931–2017) was an American organic chemist at Columbia University for over six decades who founded biomimetic chemistry, coined antiaromaticity, and developed the anticancer drug vorinostat.
Ronald C. Cohen
Ronald C. Cohen is an American atmospheric chemist at UC Berkeley known for research on nitrogen oxides and for leading the BEACO2N urban greenhouse-gas sensor network.
Ronald DeVore
Ronald DeVore (born 1941) is an American applied mathematician known for approximation theory, wavelet compression, and compressed sensing, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2017.
Ronald Drever
Ronald Drever (1931–2017) was a Scottish experimental physicist who co-founded LIGO and invented the optical techniques behind its 2015 gravitational-wave detection, dying months before the 2017 Nobel Prize went to his colleagues.
Ronald Ekers
Ronald Ekers, born 1941, is an Australian radio astronomer known for high-resolution imaging of the Galactic Centre and for directing the VLA and CSIRO's Australia Telescope National Facility.
Ronald Fisher
Sir Ronald Fisher (1890–1962) was a British statistician and geneticist, considered the founder of modern statistics, who developed ANOVA, maximum likelihood, and experimental design at Rothamsted.