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Richard J. Goldstein
Richard J. Goldstein (1928–2023) was an American mechanical engineer and heat-transfer researcher at the University of Minnesota, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1985.
Richard J. Grosh
Richard J. Grosh was an American mechanical engineer and heat transfer researcher who served as dean of engineering at Purdue and 13th president of RPI from 1971 to 1976.
Richard J. Lipton
Richard J. Lipton is a computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at Georgia Tech, known for the planar separator theorem with Robert Tarjan and the 2014 Knuth Prize.
Richard J. Robbins
Richard James Robbins (1933–2019) was an American engineer who led The Robbins Company for 35 years, refined the tunnel boring machine, and held 67 patents.
Richard J. Stegemeier
Richard J. Stegemeier was an American petroleum engineer who spent 45 years at Unocal, rising from its first research engineer in Brea, California to chairman, president, and CEO.
Richard Jordan Gatling
Richard Jordan Gatling (1818–1903) was an American inventor from Hertford County, North Carolina, who held 43 patents and created the hand-cranked multi-barrel Gatling gun, patented in 1862.
Richard L. Sites
Richard L. Sites, known as Dick Sites, is an American computer architect who co-designed the DEC Alpha processor and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2008.
Richard L. Tomasetti
Richard L. Tomasetti is an American structural engineer who co-founded Thornton Tomasetti, chaired it until 2007, and led the engineering of Taipei 101 and the Petronas Towers.
Richard Leach Maddox
Richard Leach Maddox (1816–1902) was an English physician and amateur photographer who invented the first practicable gelatin dry plate in 1871, freeing photography from wet collodion.
Richard Li
Richard Li, also known as Li Tzar-kai, is a Hong Kong businessman, the younger son of tycoon Li Ka-shing, who founded Star TV and FWD Group and chairs PCCW.
Richard Lunt
Richard R. Lunt is an American chemical engineer at Michigan State University known for inventing transparent solar cells and co-founding Ubiquitous Energy to commercialize them.
Richard M. Carlson
Richard M. Carlson (1925–2004) was an American helicopter and VTOL aircraft engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1990 for applying composite materials to operational helicopters.
Richard M. Christensen
Richard M. Christensen (1932–2024) was an American mechanics of materials researcher and Stanford professor, a National Academy of Engineering member known for his failure criteria for isotropic and composite materials.
Richard M. Karp
Richard M. Karp, born in Boston in 1935, is an American computer scientist at UC Berkeley who won the 1985 Turing Award for contributions to NP-completeness theory.
Richard M. White
Richard M. White (1930–2020) was an American applied physicist and electrical engineer at UC Berkeley, known for pioneering work on ultrasonics and surface acoustic waves.
Richard March Hoe
Richard March Hoe (1812–1886) was an American inventor and press manufacturer of New York City who patented the type-revolving "lightning" rotary press in 1846, transforming newspaper printing.
Richard McCoy Jr.
Richard McCoy Jr., also known as Richard Floyd McCoy Jr., was an American skydiver who hijacked a 1972 United Airlines flight, extorted $500,000, and parachuted over Utah.
Richard Mille
Richard Mille is a Swiss ultra-luxury watchmaker founded by Richard Mille and Dominique Guenat in 1999, known for the highest average prices in the Swiss watch industry.
Richard Murray (American control theorist)
Richard M. Murray is an American control theorist and bioengineer, the Everhart Professor at Caltech, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013 for contributions to control theory.
Richard N. White
Richard Norman White (1933–2009) was an American structural engineer and Cornell professor, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1992 and president of the American Concrete Institute in 1997–98.
Richard Norman Shaw
Richard Norman Shaw (1831–1912) was a British architect who led the English Domestic Revival and popularized the Queen Anne style, designing Bedford Park and New Scotland Yard.
Richard P. O'Neill
Richard P. O'Neill is an American energy economist at ARPA-E who was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022 for designing natural gas and electricity markets.
Richard Padovan
Richard Padovan (born 1935) is a British architect, teacher, and writer on architectural proportion, known for the Padovan sequence and his books on Dom Hans van der Laan.
Richard Phillips (merchant mariner)
Richard Phillips, also known as Captain Richard Phillips, is an American merchant mariner held hostage by Somali pirates off Somalia in 2009 and rescued by Navy SEALs.
Richard R. Hough
Richard R. Hough (1917–1992) was an American electrical engineer and telecommunications executive who led the introduction of electronic telephone switching into the Bell System, winning the 1980 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal.
Richard Redmayne
Sir Richard Augustine Studdert Redmayne (1865–1955) was a British mining engineer, the UK's first Chief Inspector of Mines, who led the 1913 Senghenydd disaster inquiry.
Richard Reid
Richard Colvin Reid, known as the "shoe bomber," is a British citizen who tried to detonate explosives hidden in his shoes on American Airlines Flight 63 in December 2001.
Richard Rogers
Richard Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside (1933–2021), British Pritzker-winning high-tech architect of the Centre Pompidou with Renzo Piano, Lloyd's of London, the Millennium Dome, and Barajas T4; chaired the UK Urban Task Force.
Richard S. Engelbrecht
Richard S. Engelbrecht (1926–1996) was an American environmental engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who researched waterborne virus disinfection and led major international water organizations.
Richard Sandstrom
Richard Sandstrom is an American engineer who co-founded Cymer in San Diego in 1986, holding 155 patents in excimer laser and EUV light-source design for nanoscale chip manufacturing.