Physical and mathematical scientists

Rouslan Krechetnikov

Rouslan Krechetnikov is a fluid dynamicist and applied mathematician, a professor at the University of Alberta who won the 2012 Ig Nobel Prize for studying why coffee spills.

Rowan Leary is a materials scientist at the University of Cambridge's Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, known for compressed sensing electron tomography and 3D imaging of nanoparticulate catalysts.

Rowan Sutton

Rowan Sutton is a climate scientist at the University of Reading and NCAS who studies Atlantic climate variability, decadal predictability, and climate risk, and became Director of the Met Office Hadley Centre (Climate Science) in 2024.

Rowena Green Matthews

Rowena Green Matthews is an American biochemist at the University of Michigan known for her work on folate and vitamin B12 enzyme mechanisms, especially methionine synthase.

Rowland Pettit

Rowland Pettit (1927–1981) was an Australian-born organometallic chemist and professor at the University of Texas at Austin, best known for the first synthesis of the tropylium ion.

Rowland W. Redington

Rowland W. Redington (1925–1995) was an American physicist who led General Electric teams in Schenectady, New York, driving advances in CT and MRI, including high-field imaging.

Roy Allan Freeze

R. Allan Freeze, born 1939, is a Canadian groundwater hydrologist and emeritus University of British Columbia professor who co-authored the standard 1979 textbook Groundwater with John Cherry.

Roy Bar-Ziv

Roy Bar-Ziv is an Israeli biological physicist and full professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, known for building artificial cells from DNA on a chip.

Roy J. Glauber

Roy J. Glauber (1925–2018) was an American theoretical physicist at Harvard who won half of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for founding the field of quantum optics.

Roy Kerr

Roy Patrick Kerr, born 1934, is a New Zealand mathematician who in 1963 found the exact solution to Einstein's field equations describing the space-time outside a rotating black hole.

Roy M. Harrison

Roy M. Harrison, also published as R. M. Harrison, is a British atmospheric chemist known for research on air pollution, holding an environmental health chair at the University of Birmingham since 1991.

Roy R. Gould

Roy R. Gould is a science-education researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He specializes in technology-based tools, the MicroObservatory, and exoplanet education programs.

Roy Taylor (British laser physicist)

Roy Taylor, full name James Roy Taylor, is a British laser physicist and Emeritus Professor at Imperial College London, known for supercontinuum "white light" fiber sources.

Roy W. Gould

Roy W. Gould (1927–2022) was an American plasma physicist at Caltech known for the Trivelpiece–Gould modes, plasma wave echoes, and directing US fusion research from 1970 to 1972.

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Royce W. Murray

Royce W. Murray (1937–2022) was an American electrochemist and Kenan Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, known for introducing chemically modified electrodes and for gold nanocluster electrochemistry.

Rubén D. Costa

Rubén D. Costa, born 1983, is a Spanish chemist and professor at the Technical University of Munich known for light-emitting electrochemical cells and protein-based bio-LEDs.

Ruben Juanes

Ruben Juanes (Rubén Juanes) is a computational geoscientist and MIT professor who studies multiphase flow in porous media, applied to carbon sequestration and induced earthquakes.

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Rubén Martín

Rubén Martín Romo, born 1976 in Barcelona, is a Spanish organic chemist and ICREA professor at ICIQ in Tarragona known for nickel-catalyzed activation of inert bonds and carbon dioxide use.

Ruby Leung

Ruby Leung, born Lai-yung Leung, is an American climate scientist and Battelle Fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory who leads the Department of Energy's E3SM climate model.

Rudi Fasan

Rudi Fasan is an Italian-born chemical biologist who joined UT Dallas in 2023 as a CPRIT Scholar, engineering myoglobin and P450 enzymes for carbene- and nitrene-transfer reactions useful in making pharmaceuticals.

Rudolf Ahlswede

Rudolf Ahlswede (1938–2010) was a German mathematician and professor at the University of Bielefeld, a worldwide leader in information theory for decades who also did central work in extremal combinatorics.

Rudolf Carnap

Rudolf Carnap was a German-American philosopher (1891–1970), a founder and leading representative of logical positivism and an originator of the philosophy of science as a distinct field.

Rudolf Clausius

Rudolf Clausius (1822–1888) was a German theoretical physicist, one of the founders of thermodynamics, who gave the first correct form of the first law in 1850 and named entropy in 1865.

Rudolf Criegee

Rudolf Criegee (1902–1975) was a German organic chemist, professor and institute director at Karlsruhe, known for the Criegee rearrangement and the Criegee intermediate he proposed in 1949 to explain ozonolysis.

Rudolf Fueter

Rudolf Fueter (Karl Rudolf Fueter, 1880–1950) was a Swiss mathematician who studied under David Hilbert, spent most of his career at the University of Zürich, and founded quaternionic function theory.

Rudolf Haag

Rudolf Haag (1922–2016) was a German mathematical physicist who founded algebraic quantum field theory, proved Haag's 1955 theorem on the interaction picture, and with Kastler developed the Haag–Kastler framework.

Rudolf Kazarinov

Rudolf Kazarinov (Rudolf Fyodorovich Kazarinov, Рудольф Фёдорович Казаринов), born 1933, is a Soviet and American physicist who co-formulated the double-heterostructure laser concept with Zhores Alferov in 1963 and later worked at Bell Laboratories.

Rudolf Lipschitz

Rudolf Lipschitz (1832–1903) was a German mathematician, professor at Bonn from 1864, whose Lipschitz condition underlies uniqueness proofs for differential equations and whose work anticipated relativity and spinor theory.

Rudolf Mössbauer

Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer (1929–2011) was a German physicist from Munich who discovered recoilless nuclear resonance absorption of gamma radiation, the Mössbauer effect, winning the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics.