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Robert H. Wagoner
Robert H. Wagoner (1952-2025) was an American materials scientist and engineer at Ohio State, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1995 for contributions to industrial sheet metal forming.
Robert H. Wentorf, Jr.
Robert H. Wentorf, Jr. (1926–1997) was an American chemist at General Electric's research lab who first synthesized cubic boron nitride, Borazon, and helped make the first man-made diamonds.
Robert Hadfield
Sir Robert Abbott Hadfield (1858–1940) was an English metallurgist who headed Hadfields Ltd in Sheffield, discovered manganese steel in 1882, and patented silicon steel in 1886.
Robert Harrington Kent
Robert Harrington Kent (1886–1961) was an American ballistician and ordnance engineer at Aberdeen Proving Ground from 1922 to 1956, credited with about 200 publications and the Kent battery.
Robert I. Jaffee
Robert I. Jaffee (1917–1991) was an American metallurgist who established the physical metallurgy of titanium alloys for aerospace, spending 32 years at Battelle Memorial Institute.
Robert Isaac Jaffee
Robert Isaac Jaffee (1917–1991) was an American metallurgist who established the physical metallurgy of titanium alloys for aerospace, spending 32 years at Battelle Memorial Institute.
Robert J. Hermann
Robert J. Hermann is an American electrical engineer who directed the National Reconnaissance Office from 1979 to 1981 and later held senior posts at United Technologies.
Robert J. McEliece
Robert J. McEliece (1942–2019) was an American information theorist at Caltech and JPL, known for the 1978 McEliece cryptosystem and coding for Voyager, Galileo, and Cassini.
Robert J. Wood
Robert J. Wood is an American roboticist at Harvard University who founded the Harvard Microrobotics Lab and leads the RoboBee project of insect-scale flapping-wing flying robots.
Robert K. Prud'homme
Robert K. Prud'homme is an American chemical engineer and emeritus Princeton professor who co-invented Flash NanoPrecipitation, a process for manufacturing drug nanoparticles including COVID-19 mRNA vaccines.
Robert K. Roney
Robert K. Roney (Robert Kenneth Roney) was an American aerospace engineer who spent 38 years at Hughes Aircraft, leading the Falcon missile, Surveyor lunar landers, and Syncom satellites.
Robert Kahn (computer scientist)
Robert E. Kahn is an American computer scientist who designed the ARPANET system and co-invented TCP/IP with Vinton Cerf, sharing the 2004 Turing Award and founding CNRI in 1986.
Robert Katzschmann
Robert Katzschmann is a German mechanical engineer and Assistant Professor of Robotics at ETH Zurich, known for the soft robotic fish SoFi and 2023 vision-controlled jetting for 3D-printed soft robots.
Robert Kenedi
Robert Maximilian Kenedi (1921–1998) was a Hungarian-born bioengineer who led the Strathclyde Bioengineering Unit in Glasgow, pioneering biomechanics and prosthetics research and elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 1976.
Robert L. Coble
Robert L. Coble (1928–1992) was an American physical ceramist and MIT professor known for the creep model named after him, Coble creep, and for the transparent ceramic Lucalox.
Robert L. Cook
Robert L. Cook, known professionally as Rob Cook, is a computer graphics researcher who developed stochastic sampling, wrote the Reyes rendering architecture, and was primary author of Pixar's RenderMan.
Robert L. Pigford
Robert L. Pigford (1917–1988) was an American chemical engineer who built the University of Delaware's chemical engineering department into one of the leading departments in the United States.
Robert L. Smith
Robert L. Smith was an American civil engineer and water-resources pioneer at the University of Kansas, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1975.
Robert L. Steigerwald
Robert L. Steigerwald is an American power electronics engineer who spent 37 years at General Electric Global Research and won the 1993 IEEE Newell Power Electronics Award.
Robert L. Taylor
Robert L. Taylor is an American civil engineer at UC Berkeley known for the finite element method; he co-authored its standard three-volume reference book with O.C. Zienkiewicz.
Robert L. Whetten
Robert L. Whetten is a chemical physicist and professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio, known for early-1990s fullerene chemistry and ligand-protected gold and silver nanoclusters.
Robert L. Wiegel
Robert Louis Wiegel (1922–2016) was an American coastal engineer and professor of civil engineering at UC Berkeley who helped establish coastal engineering as a recognized discipline.
Robert L. Z. Hoye
Robert L. Z. Hoye is a New Zealand-born materials chemist and professor at the University of Oxford known for bismuth oxyiodide solar cells, X-ray detectors, and indoor photovoltaics.
Robert Loewy
Robert Loewy (1926–2025) was an American aerospace engineer who created Loewy's theory of helicopter rotor aerodynamics, led the US Air Force as chief scientist, and won the 2006 Guggenheim Medal.
Robert M. Drake Jr.
Robert M. Drake Jr. (Robert Mortimer Drake, Jr.) was an American mechanical engineer specializing in heat transfer, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1974; he died in 2020.
Robert M. Gray
Robert M. Gray is an American information theorist and electrical engineer known for quantization theory, who spent 1969 to 2013 on the Stanford faculty and won the 2008 Shannon Award.
Robert M. Koerner
Robert M. Koerner (1933–2019) was an American geotechnical engineer, a professor at Drexel University, and founder of the Geosynthetic Institute, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998.
Robert M. Nerem
Robert M. Nerem (1937–2020) was an American bioengineer who pioneered the study of how blood-flow forces regulate vessel cells and of tissue engineering at Georgia Tech.
Robert Malpas
Sir Robert Malpas (1927–2023) was a British engineer and industrialist who rose to ICI's main board, served as a managing director of BP, chaired Cookson Group, and co-chaired Eurotunnel.
Robert Mehrabian
Robert Mehrabian is an Armenian-American materials scientist and executive who led Carnegie Mellon University from 1990 to 1997 and spent over two decades as Teledyne Technologies' chairman and CEO.