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Robert C. Prim
Robert C. Prim (1921–2021) was an American mathematician and computer scientist at Bell Laboratories, known for Prim's algorithm for finding minimum spanning trees, published in 1957.
Robert C. Reid
Robert C. Reid, or Robert Clark Reid, was an American chemical engineer and MIT professor best known as co-author of The Properties of Gases and Liquids.
Robert C. Sprague
Robert C. Sprague (1900–1991) was an American electronics engineer who founded the Sprague Electric Company in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1926, a leader in capacitors and semiconductors.
Robert Charles McMaster
Robert Charles McMaster (1913–1986) was an American electrical engineer, a pioneer of nondestructive testing, professor of welding engineering at Ohio State, and editor of the Nondestructive Testing Handbook.
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. Caligiuri
Robert D. Caligiuri is an American materials engineer specializing in metal failure analysis, Corporate Vice President at Exponent and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.
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 Dunlop
Robert Dunlop, born Stephen Robert Dunlop, was a Northern Irish motorcycle road racer who won 5 Isle of Man TT and a record 15 North West 200 races.
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. Murray
Robert E. Murray, known as Bob Murray, was an American coal executive who founded Murray Energy Corporation in 1988 and was a prominent opponent of mine safety and environmental regulation.
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 Emmett Ginna nuclear power plant
The Robert Emmett Ginna nuclear power plant is a single-unit Westinghouse pressurized water reactor plant on Lake Ontario near Rochester, New York, owned by Constellation.
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. Mast
Robert F. Mast was an American structural engineer who spent fifty years at BERGER/ABAM Engineers in Washington, led precast concrete design, and died in 2020.
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 Fulton
Robert Fulton (1765–1815) was an American engineer and inventor who designed the first commercially successful steamboat, which began running on the Hudson River in 1807.
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.