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Rudolf Schulten
Rudolf Schulten (1923–1996) was a German nuclear physicist and RWTH Aachen professor who invented the pebble bed high-temperature reactor, built as the AVR in Jülich and the THTR-300 prototype.
Rudolf Trümpy
Rudolf Trümpy (1921–2009) was a Swiss geologist, professor at ETH Zürich from 1953 to 1986, whose 1960 paleotectonic synthesis reshaped how geologists understand the Alps.
Rudolf Wiechert
Rudolf Wiechert (1928–2013) was a German industrial organic chemist who led steroid chemistry research at Schering AG in Berlin, co-names the Hajos-Parrish-Eder-Wiechert reaction, and developed steroidal drugs including drospirenone.
Rudolf Zentel
Rudolf Zentel is a German polymer chemist at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, known for pioneering work on liquid crystalline polymers and elastomers since the 1980s.
Rudolph A. Marcus
Rudolph A. Marcus (1923–2026) was a Canadian-born American theoretical chemist at Caltech who won the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Marcus theory of electron transfer.
Rudolph Franz
Rudolph Franz (1826–1902) was a German physicist and Berlin schoolteacher who, with Gustav Wiedemann, discovered the 1853 Wiedemann–Franz law relating thermal and electrical conductivity in metals.
Rudolph John Anderson
Rudolph John Anderson (1879–1961) was a Swedish-born American biochemist, professor of chemistry at Yale, best known for his chemical studies of the lipids of the tubercle bacillus.
Rudolph Minkowski
Rudolph Minkowski (1895–1976) was a German-American observational astronomer who fled Nazi Germany in 1935 to join Mount Wilson and Palomar, where he co-classified supernovae, identified radio sources like Cassiopeia A, and led the Palomar Sky Survey.
Rudolph Pariser
Rudolph Pariser (1923–2021) was an American physical chemist who, at DuPont, co-invented with Robert Parr the semiempirical Pariser–Parr–Pople method, a mainstay of quantum-chemical calculations on conjugated molecules.
Ruggiero Torelli
Ruggiero Torelli (1884–1915) was an Italian algebraic geometer, son of the mathematician Gabriele Torelli, whose 1913 papers contain the Torelli theorem: a smooth projective curve is determined by its Jacobian.
Ruibing Wang
Ruibing Wang (王瑞兵) is a Chinese chemist and professor of supramolecular pharmaceutics and biomaterials at the University of Macau, known for supramolecular drug delivery and cytopharmaceuticals for cancer and inflammatory disease.
Rupert F. Oulton
Rupert F. Oulton is a physicist in nanophotonics and plasmonics, Professor of Nanophotonics at Imperial College London since 2020, known for the 2009 plasmon laser demonstration in Nature.
Rupert Wildt
Rupert Wildt (1905–1976) was a German-American astrophysicist who identified methane and ammonia in Jupiter's spectrum, showed how the negative hydrogen ion makes the Sun opaque, and predicted Venus's greenhouse warming in 1940.
Rūsiņš Mārtiņš Freivalds
Rūsiņš Mārtiņš Freivalds (1942–2016) was a Latvian mathematician and computer scientist best known for Freivalds' algorithm, which verifies matrix multiplication in quadratic time using randomness.
Russ E. Davis
Russ E. Davis (1941–2022) was an American physical oceanographer and engineer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography who studied internal waves and invented autonomous ocean-observing instruments.
Russel E. Caflisch
Russel E. Caflisch is an applied mathematician known for work on kinetic theory, Monte Carlo methods, and epitaxial growth modeling; he directs NYU's Courant Institute and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.
Russell A. Hulse
Russell A. Hulse is an American physicist who shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics with Joseph Taylor for discovering the first binary pulsar at Arecibo in 1974.
Russell Alan Hulse
Russell Alan Hulse is an American physicist who, as a graduate student in 1974, discovered the first binary pulsar at Arecibo, earning the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics with Joseph Taylor.
Russell E. Morris
Russell E. Morris is a chemist, the Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Chemistry at the University of St Andrews since 2016, known for ionothermal synthesis and the ADOR route to zeolites.
Russell G. Meyerand Jr.
Russell G. Meyerand Jr. (1933–2003) was an American plasma physicist and corporate research executive at United Technologies who was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1978.
Russell J. Hemley
Russell J. Hemley, born 1954 in Berkeley, California, is an American high-pressure physicist who led Carnegie's Geophysical Laboratory and joined the University of Illinois Chicago in 2019.
Russell John Allgor
Russell John Allgor is an operations researcher who was Amazon's first research scientist and chief scientist of logistics, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021.
Russell Young (physicist)
Russell Young, also Russell D. Young, was an American physicist at the National Bureau of Standards who built the Topografiner, a forerunner of the scanning tunneling microscope.
Rutger A. van Santen
Rutger A. van Santen (born 1945) is a Dutch physical chemist who pioneered quantum-chemical computation in heterogeneous catalysis and won the Netherlands' Spinoza Prize in 1997.
Ruth J. Williams
Ruth J. Williams is a mathematician at UC San Diego known for foundational work on reflected Brownian motion and heavy traffic limits for queueing networks, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2012.
Ruth M. Gschwind
Ruth M. Gschwind is a German organic chemist and professor of organic chemistry at the University of Regensburg since 2005, known for NMR studies of asymmetric catalysis.
Ruth Moufang
Ruth Moufang (1905–1977) was a German mathematician whose 1930s work on projective planes and non-associative algebra gave her name to the Moufang plane, Moufang loop, and Moufang identities.
Ryan A. Shenvi
Ryan A. Shenvi is an American organic chemist and professor at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, known for metal hydride atom transfer chemistry and terpene synthesis.
Ryan C. Chiechi
Ryan C. Chiechi is a chemist in molecular electronics who has been an associate professor at North Carolina State University since 2021, after a decade at the University of Groningen.
Ryan C. Hayward
Ryan C. Hayward is an American polymer scientist and PECASE awardee who works on ionotronic devices, light-driven shape-morphing polymers, and self-assembling nanostructures at the University of Colorado Boulder.