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Ronald G. Douglas

Ronald G. Douglas (1938–2018) was an American mathematician in operator theory, co-creator of Brown–Douglas–Fillmore theory of C-algebra extensions, longtime Stony Brook professor, and provost of Texas A&M University.

Ronald G. Prinn

Ronald G. Prinn is an atmospheric scientist at MIT, where he is TEPCO Professor of Atmospheric Science and has led the AGAGE greenhouse gas monitoring network since 1978.

Ronald G.W. Norrish

Ronald George Wreyford Norrish was a British physical chemist at Cambridge who shared the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, using flash photolysis.

Ronald Graham

Ronald Graham, full name Ronald Lewis Graham, is an American mathematician and computer scientist who spent most of his career at Bell Labs and is best known for Graham's number.

Ronald Hanson

Ronald Hanson (born 1976) is a Dutch quantum physicist, Distinguished Professor at Delft University of Technology, known for the first loophole-free Bell test in 2015 and diamond quantum networks.

Ronald Holzwarth

Ronald Holzwarth, born 1969 in Stuttgart, is a German physicist who played a key role in developing the optical frequency comb and co-founded laser company Menlo Systems in 2001.

Ronald J. Stouffer

Ronald J. Stouffer is an American climate modeler who spent 38 years at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, known for coupled climate models and simulations of abrupt Atlantic circulation change.

Ronald Jensen

Ronald Jensen (1936–2025) was an American set theorist who created fine structure theory, introduced the J-hierarchy for Gödel's constructible universe L, and won the 2003 Steele Prize.

Ronald Kent Hanson

Ronald Kent Hanson is a Stanford mechanical engineer, there since 1972, known as a pioneer of laser diagnostics in combustion and shock-tube methods for measuring high-temperature chemical reaction rates.

Ronald Oxburgh, Baron Oxburgh

Ronald Oxburgh, Baron Oxburgh, born 1934, is a British geologist known for plate tectonics who served as Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence.

Ronald Solomon

Ronald Solomon (born 1948) is an American mathematician and Ohio State professor emeritus, co-author of the revised classification of the finite simple groups and its historian.

Ronald Walsworth

Ronald L. Walsworth is an atomic and quantum physicist, Minta Martin Professor and founding director of the Quantum Technology Center at the University of Maryland, known for NV-diamond quantum sensing.

Ronald Wilfred Gurney

Ronald Wilfred Gurney was a British physicist who co-explained alpha decay by quantum tunnelling in 1928 and gave his name to the Gurney model of explosive metal acceleration.

Ronald Woodman

Ronald Woodman is a Peruvian radio physicist who pioneered radar remote sensing of the upper atmosphere at Peru's Jicamarca Radio Observatory and won the Appleton Prize in 1999.

Rongchao Jin

Rongchao Jin (金荣超, born 1971) is a chemist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh known for atomically precise gold nanoclusters so small every atom can be counted.

Ronnie Bell

Ronnie Bell, formally Ronald Percy Bell, was a British physical chemist known for work on proton transfer reactions, a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, from 1933 to 1967.

Ronnie Kosloff

Ronnie Kosloff, born 1948 in Los Angeles, is an Israeli theoretical chemist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem known for the Fourier grid and Chebychev propagation methods.

Ronny Neumann

Ronny Neumann is an Israeli chemist and emeritus professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for a 1997 Nature report of an all-inorganic polyoxometalate mimic of dioxygenase enzymes.

Rony Keppens

Rony Keppens (born 1969) is a Belgian computational plasma astrophysicist and full professor at KU Leuven's Centre for mathematical Plasma Astrophysics, known for the MPI-AMRVAC code and solar prominence simulations.

Rosario Fazio

Rosario Fazio is an Italian condensed matter physicist who heads the Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Section at ICTP in Trieste and studies quantum transport and many-body systems.

Rose Amal

Rose Amal, also known as Professor Rose Amal, is an Australian chemical engineer and Scientia Professor at UNSW, a world leader in photocatalysis and solar fuels.

Rosina M. Bierbaum

Rosina M. Bierbaum is an American ecologist and science policy expert who led national and international climate assessments and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.

Rosine Lallement

Rosine Lallement is a French astrophysicist and CNRS research director at the Paris Observatory who measures interstellar gas flowing through the heliosphere, using data from SOHO, Voyager, Hubble, and Gaia.

Ross A. Widenhoefer

Ross A. Widenhoefer is an American organic chemist and Professor of Chemistry at Duke University since 1997, known for gold(I) and platinum-catalyzed hydroamination of alkenes and allenes.

Ross Aiken Gortner

Ross Aiken Gortner (1885–1942) was an American agricultural biochemist who led agricultural biochemistry at the University of Minnesota and advanced the bound-water hypothesis explaining winter hardiness in plants.

Ross Gunn

Ross Gunn (1897–1966) was an American physicist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory who proposed nuclear submarine propulsion in 1939 and later directed Weather Bureau physical research.

Ross Taylor (earth scientist)

Stuart Ross Taylor (1925–2021) was a New Zealand-born geochemist and planetary scientist at the Australian National University who made the first chemical analysis of the first Apollo 11 lunar sample.

Rossman Irwin III

Rossman Philip Irwin III is an American planetary geologist at the Smithsonian's Center for Earth and Planetary Studies who studies Mars's ancient river valleys and crater lakes, chairing the center since 2019.

Rostyslav Hryhorchuk

Rostyslav Hryhorchuk, publishing as Rostislav Grigorchuk, is a Ukrainian mathematician and Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University who constructed the first Grigorchuk group in 1980, solving Milnor's intermediate growth problem.

Roswitha Blind

Roswitha Blind is a German mathematician specializing in convex and discrete geometry, known for the Blind–Mani-Levitska theorem, and an SPD member of the Stuttgart city council from 2004.