4,646 articles
Robert Clinton Brown
Robert Clinton Brown is an American mechanical engineer at Iowa State University known for converting biomass into fuels, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025.
Robert D. Hanson
Robert D. Hanson is an American structural and earthquake engineer, professor emeritus at the University of Michigan, who received EERI's George W. Housner Medal in 2024 for earthquake hazard reduction work.
Robert D. Maurer
Robert D. Maurer (1924–2025) was an American industrial physicist who spent his career at Corning and led the team that in 1970 made the first optical fiber with losses low enough for telecommunications.
Robert E. Fontana Jr.
Robert E. Fontana Jr. is an American electrical engineer at IBM's Almaden Research Center, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2002 for contributions in magnetic device processing.
Robert E. Henry
Robert E. Henry is an American nuclear engineer and co-founder of Fauske & Associates, Inc., known for his work on two-phase critical flow and severe-accident phenomenology.
Robert E. McIntosh
Robert E. McIntosh (1940–1998) was an American electrical engineer and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, known for microwave remote sensing and airborne cloud radar.
Robert E. Newnham
Robert E. Newnham (1929–2009) was an American materials scientist and crystallographer at Penn State who invented the composite piezoelectric transducer in the late 1970s, transforming medical ultrasound and sonar.
Robert E. Schafrik Sr
Robert E. Schafrik Sr., fully Robert Edward Schafrik Sr. (1946–2018), was an American metallurgical engineer who led materials and process engineering at GE Aviation and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013.
Robert E. Tarjan
Robert E. Tarjan is an American computer scientist and Princeton professor who won the 1986 Turing Award for fundamental work on graph algorithms and data structures, including splay trees and Fibonacci heaps.
Robert E. Wilson
Robert E. Wilson was an American chemical engineer who chaired Standard Oil of Indiana from 1945 to 1958 and later served on the Atomic Energy Commission.
Robert Everett (computer scientist)
Robert Rivers Everett (1921–2018) was an American computer scientist who helped build MIT's Whirlwind computer, led the SAGE air defense system, and served as president and CEO of The MITRE Corporation from 1969 to 1986.
Robert F. Davis
Robert F. Davis is an American materials scientist and emeritus Carnegie Mellon professor, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001 for developing silicon carbide and III-nitrides as practical electronic materials.
Robert F. Rushmer
Robert F. Rushmer (Robert Frazer Rushmer, 1914–2001) was an American physician and cardiac physiologist at the University of Washington who measured the beating heart in unanesthetized animals and pioneered diagnostic Doppler ultrasound.
Robert F. Sawyer
Robert F. Sawyer, born 1935, is an American mechanical engineer and UC Berkeley professor emeritus who chaired the California Air Resources Board from 2005 to 2007.
Robert F. Shepherd
Robert F. Shepherd, also known as Robert Shepherd, is a mechanical engineering professor at Cornell University who works in soft robotics and leads the Organic Robotics Laboratory.
Robert Fano
Robert Mario Fano (1917–2016) was an Italian-born American electrical engineer at MIT known for Fano's inequality in information theory and for founding Project MAC, which grew into CSAIL.
Robert Fischell
Robert Fischell is an American physicist and medical-device inventor who spent 38 years at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, inventing the first rechargeable pacemaker and flexible coronary stents.
Robert Franklin Mehl
Robert Franklin Mehl (1898–1976) was an American physical metallurgist at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, known for the Johnson-Mehl transformation equation and the Kirkendall effect confirmation.
Robert G. Bea
Robert G. Bea is an American civil and offshore engineer and UC Berkeley professor emeritus known for investigating disasters including Piper Alpha, Hurricane Katrina, and Deepwater Horizon.
Robert G. Dean
Robert G. Dean, also known as Robert George Dean, was an American coastal engineer and University of Florida professor known for stream function wave theory and beach nourishment design.
Robert G. Gallager
Robert G. Gallager, born in 1931, is an American information theorist at MIT best known for inventing LDPC codes, now used in 5G, Wi-Fi-era standards, and storage.
Robert Gibrat
Robert Pierre Louis Gibrat was a French engineer and economist, born in 1904, known for Gibrat's law of proportionate effect on firm and city growth.
Robert Gundlach
Robert Gundlach (1926–2010) was an American physicist who joined Xerox's predecessor Haloid in 1952, held 163 patents over 42 years, and helped create the automatic plain-paper office copier.
Robert H. Cannon, Jr.
Robert H. Cannon, Jr. (1923–2017) was an American control engineer, a Stanford professor of aeronautics who founded experimental robotics research on flexible and cooperating robot arms.
Robert H. Dennard
Robert H. Dennard (1932–2024) was an American electrical engineer at IBM who invented the one-transistor DRAM cell and the miniaturization principles known as Dennard scaling.
Robert H. Dodds, Jr.
Robert H. Dodds, Jr. is an American structural engineer and University of Illinois professor emeritus elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2008 for fracture mechanics.
Robert H. Hurt
Robert H. Hurt is an American materials and environmental engineer, Professor of Engineering at Brown University, who leads its Laboratory for Environmental and Health Nanoscience.
Robert H. Park
Robert H. Park (1902–1994) was an American electrical engineer who created Park's transformation and equations for synchronous machines, held over 60 US patents, and won the IEEE Lamme Medal.
Robert H. Rediker
Robert H. Rediker, born 1924 in Brooklyn, is an American electrical engineer whose MIT Lincoln Laboratory group made the first gallium arsenide p-n junction diode and a working diode laser in 1962.
Robert H. Scanlan
Robert H. Scanlan (1914–2001) was an American engineer, a founder of bridge aerodynamics whose 1971 flutter derivatives with John Tomko remain widely used in suspension bridge design.