Social and behavioral scientists

Ronald Hutton

Ronald Edmund Hutton, born in 1953, is a British historian at the University of Bristol and author of The Triumph of the Moon, a history of pagan witchcraft.

Ronald M. Andersen

Ronald M. Andersen is an American health services researcher at UCLA, creator of the Behavioral Model of Health Services Use and a National Academy of Medicine member.

Ronald Melzack

Ronald Melzack (1929–2019) was a Canadian psychologist at McGill University who co-authored the 1965 gate control theory of pain and developed the McGill Pain Questionnaire.

Ronald W. Jones (1931–2022) was an American international trade economist and Xerox Professor at the University of Rochester, known for the 1965 hat calculus and early work on production fragmentation.

Ronald W. Masulis

Ronald W. Masulis is a financial economist and Scientia Professor of Finance at UNSW Business School in Sydney, known for research on corporate governance, seasoned equity offerings, and political connections.

Rosa Liliana Matzkin

Rosa Liliana Matzkin is an econometrician and the Charles E. Davidson Professor of Economics at UCLA, known for nonparametric identification and elected 2023 president of the Econometric Society.

Rosamond L. Naylor

Rosamond L. Naylor, known as Roz Naylor, is an American environmental economist at Stanford who studies aquaculture, climate impacts on agriculture, and food price volatility.

Rosemary A. Stevens

Rosemary A. Stevens, born in England in 1935, is a British-born American historian of medicine and health policy, a National Academy of Medicine member and Penn professor emerita.

Ross Levine

Ross Eric Levine is an American finance economist, Professor Emeritus at Berkeley Haas and a Hoover Institution senior fellow, who studies how finance and regulation shape growth.

Roy Amara

Roy Amara (1925–2007) was an American researcher and forecaster who served as president and CEO of the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, known for Amara's Law.

Roy C. Geary

Roy C. Geary (Robert Charles Geary, 1896–1983) was an Irish statistician known for Geary's C, the Geary ratio, and the Geary–Khamis method for comparing real incomes between countries.

Roy D'Andrade

Roy D'Andrade was an American anthropologist who helped found cognitive anthropology, taught at UC San Diego, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1998.

Roy Radner

Roy Radner (1927–2022) was an American mathematical economist and microeconomic theorist at New York University, known for the economic theory of teams, the turnpike theorem, and Radner equilibrium.

Rüdiger Dornbusch

Rüdiger Dornbusch (1942–2002) was a German-born MIT economist whose 1976 overshooting model of exchange rates, co-authorship with Stanley Fischer, and Latin American policy work shaped international macroeconomics.

Rudolf E. Klein

Rudolf E. Klein, born 1930, is a British social policy scholar and emeritus professor at the University of Bath, best known for The Politics of the NHS.

Ruha Benjamin

Ruha Benjamin is an American sociologist at Princeton University who studies how technology reproduces inequality and coined the "New Jim Code"; she won a 2024 MacArthur Fellowship.

Russell Smyth

Russell Smyth, born 1969, is an Australian economist and Vice-Chancellor's Distinguished Professor at Monash University, known for research on energy economics, China, and empirical legal studies.

Ruth Benedict

Ruth Fulton Benedict (1887–1948), American cultural anthropologist at Columbia under Franz Boas; author of Patterns of Culture (1934) and The Chrysanthemum and the Sword (1946); mentor of Margaret Mead; AAA president 1947.

Ruth Enid Zambrana

Ruth Enid Zambrana is an American medical and community sociologist at the University of Maryland, College Park, known for research on structural racism, Latino health, and minority faculty working conditions.

Ruth S. Hanft

Ruth S. Hanft was an American health economist who served as an HHS Deputy Assistant Secretary under President Carter and taught at George Washington University.

Sabine Doebel

Sabine Doebel is an American developmental psychologist and associate professor at George Mason University, where she directs the Developing Minds Lab and studies how everyday experience shapes children's executive function.

Sam Richards (sociologist)

Sam Richards (Samuel M. Richards, born 1960) is an American sociologist and Teaching Professor at Penn State, known for SOC 119, the large Race and Ethnic Relations course, the World in Conversation dialogue center with Laurie Mulvey, and his TEDx talk "A Radical Experiment in Empathy"; distinguish him from same-name journalists and astronomers.