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Thomas R. Cech

Thomas R. Cech, born in 1947, is an American biochemist at the University of Colorado Boulder whose 1982 discovery that RNA can act as a catalyst earned the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Thomas R. Clandinin

Thomas R. Clandinin is an American neuroscientist who studies how the genome programs neural circuits for innate behavior, using the fruit fly visual system, at Stanford University.

Thomas R. Dawber

Thomas R. Dawber (1913–2005) was a Canadian-born American physician and epidemiologist who directed the Framingham Heart Study, which identified the major risk factors for coronary heart disease.

Thomas R. Fleming is an American biostatistician and Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington, co-developer of the O'Brien-Fleming method for early trial stopping and a National Academy of Medicine member.

Thomas R. Frieden

Thomas R. Frieden is an American public health physician who directed the CDC from 2009 to 2017 and led New York City's health department, eliminating artificial trans fats.

Thomas R. Hendrix

Thomas R. Hendrix was an American gastroenterologist who founded and directed the Johns Hopkins Division of Gastroenterology from 1957 to 1988, and served as president of the American Gastroenterological Association.

Thomas R. Hoye

Thomas R. Hoye is an American organic chemist at the University of Minnesota, known for the hexadehydro-Diels–Alder reaction for generating benzyne intermediates, reported in Nature in 2012.

Thomas R. Insel

Thomas R. Insel is an American neuroscientist and psychiatrist who directed the National Institute of Mental Health from 2002 to 2015 and later led mental health at Google's Verily.

Thomas R. Karl

Thomas R. Karl is an American climate scientist who directed NOAA's National Climatic Data Center from 1998 to 2015 and co-chaired the first two US National Climate Assessments.

Thomas R. Kleyman

Thomas R. Kleyman is an American nephrologist and physiologist who studies the epithelial sodium channel and leads the Renal-Electrolyte Division at the University of Pittsburgh.

Thomas R. Knutson

Thomas R. Knutson is an American research meteorologist and Senior Scientist at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, New Jersey, known for modeling how greenhouse warming changes tropical cyclones.

Thomas R. Kuesel

Thomas R. Kuesel (Thomas Robert Kuesel) was an American tunnel and bridge engineer, chairman of Parsons Brinckerhoff, who designed the BART Trans-Bay Tube's seismic defenses and co-edited the Tunnel Engineering Handbook.

Thomas R. Kurfess

Thomas R. Kurfess is an American manufacturing engineer, Regents' Professor and executive director of the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020.

Thomas R. Marshall

Thomas Riley Marshall (1854-1925), Indiana governor 1909-1913 and Woodrow Wilson's vice president 1913-1921, famous for the five-cent cigar quip and for declining to claim presidential power after Wilson's 1919 stroke.

Thomas R. Palfrey

Thomas R. Palfrey, III is an American economist and game theorist at Caltech, co-inventor with Richard McKelvey of quantal response equilibrium, a standard tool for fitting experimental data.

Thomas R. Rizzo

Thomas R. Rizzo is an American physical chemist known for laser spectroscopy of cold biomolecular ions and glycan analysis, professor at EPFL from 1994 until 2023.

Thomas R. Soderling

Thomas R. Soderling is an American biochemist and emeritus professor at Oregon Health & Science University's Vollum Institute, known for showing how CaM-kinase II strengthens synapses.

Thomas R. Ward

Thomas R. Ward, born 1964 in Fribourg, Switzerland, is a professor of bioinorganic chemistry at the University of Basel known for developing artificial metalloenzymes optimized by directed evolution.

Thomas Ralph Merton

Thomas Ralph Merton (1888–1969) was an English physicist and inventor known for precision spectroscopy of gas spectra and for cheap, accurate methods of copying and ruling diffraction gratings.

Thomas Rando

Thomas A. Rando is a neurologist and stem cell biologist who directs the Broad Stem Cell Research Center at UCLA, known for work on muscle stem cell quiescence and aging.

Thomas Rankin

Thomas Rankin (1738–1810) was a Scottish Wesleyan preacher whom John Wesley sent in 1773 to lead American Methodism, presiding over its first conference in Philadelphia.

Thomas Ravelli

Thomas Ravelli, born 1959 in Vimmerby, Swedish goalkeeper; 143 caps 1981–97, 1994 World Cup bronze and Romania shootout saves, eight Swedish titles, twin brother Andreas Ravelli.

Thomas Ravenel

Thomas Jonathan Jackson Ravenel, South Carolina state treasurer elected in 2006 and Southern Charm reality TV star; resigned in 2007 after a federal cocaine indictment, later ran for U.S. Senate in 2014 and briefly for governor in 2025.

Thomas Rawls

Thomas Rawls (born 1993) is a former NFL running back, undrafted in 2015 out of Central Michigan, whose 830-yard, 5.6-yards-per-carry rookie season with Seattle ended with a broken ankle; he finished with 1,336 career rushing yards.

Thomas Reese (cell biologist)

Thomas S. Reese (1935–2024) was an American physician and cell biologist who led structural cell biology at NINDS, using electron microscopy to map synapses, neurons, and the blood-brain barrier.

Thomas Reeve Kaiser

Thomas Reeve Kaiser (1924–1998) was an Australian-born space physicist who spent his career in England as Professor of Space Physics at Sheffield, known for meteor-trail radar theory and Antarctic VLF research.

Thomas Reid

Thomas Reid (1710–1796), Scottish common sense philosopher and founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense; direct realist critic of Locke, Berkeley, and Hume; author of the Inquiry (1764) and Essays on the Intellectual and Active Powers.

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Thomas Reineck

Thomas Reineck (born 1967, Klausdorf, Germany) is a German flatwater canoeist, two-time Olympic gold medalist in the K-4 1,000 m at Barcelona 1992 and Atlanta 1996, with 13 World Championship medals and the Silver Bay Leaf award.

Thomas Reiner

Thomas Reiner is a Partner at Altimeter Capital since January 2010, a buy-side leisure portfolio manager focused on video games and online travel, who writes Platform Aeronaut on Substack.