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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 Saunders hydroelectric plant
The Robert H. Saunders hydroelectric plant is a 1,045-megawatt hydroelectric station at Cornwall, Ontario, owned by Ontario Power Generation and generating baseload power since 1958.
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. Goddard
Robert H. Goddard, also known as Robert Hutchings Goddard, was an American physicist who flew the world's first liquid-propellant rocket in 1926 and is called the father of modern rocketry.
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.
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. Creagan
Robert J. Creagan was a Westinghouse nuclear engineer from 1949 into the 1990s, known for analyzing pressurized water reactor limits and holding nuclear fuel patents.
Robert J. Fascetti
Robert J. Fascetti is an American automotive engineer who spent more than 29 years at Ford Motor Company, retiring as Vice President of Powertrain Engineering after leading Ford's engine programs.
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 Jay Budnitz
Robert Jay Budnitz is an American physicist and nuclear safety engineer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017.
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 Kearns
Robert Kearns was an American engineer and inventor who patented the intermittent windshield wiper and spent decades suing automakers, winning $10.2 million from Ford and $18.7 million from Chrysler.
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.