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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. Sackheim
Robert L. Sackheim was an American space propulsion engineer who spent 35 years at TRW before serving as chief engineer for space propulsion at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.
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.
Robert Metcalfe
Robert Metcalfe, also known as Bob Metcalfe, is an American engineer and entrepreneur who invented Ethernet at Xerox PARC in 1973, founded 3Com, and won the 2022 Turing Award.
Robert Michael White
Robert Michael White was an American Air Force test pilot who flew the X-15 and became the first pilot to exceed Mach 4, Mach 5, and Mach 6.
Robert Moog
Robert Arthur Moog, known as Bob Moog, was an American engineer and electronic music pioneer who invented the Moog synthesizer in 1964 and founded Moog Music, creator of the influential Minimoog in 1970.
Robert Moses Niagara hydroelectric plant
The Robert Moses Niagara hydroelectric plant is a 13-turbine generating station at Lewiston, New York, opened in 1961 as the largest hydropower facility in the Western world.
Robert Noyce
Robert Norton Noyce, known as Bob Noyce and nicknamed the Mayor of Silicon Valley, was an American engineer who co-invented the integrated circuit and co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel.
Robert O. Ambrose
Robert O. Ambrose is an American roboticist and Texas A&M professor who led NASA's Robonaut humanoid robot program at Johnson Space Center before joining Texas A&M in 2021.
Robert P. Caren
Robert P. Caren (1932–2017) was an American research scientist who rose at Lockheed from thermophysics researcher to Corporate Vice President of Science and Engineering, pioneering solid cryogenic cooling for space payloads.
Robert Pera
Robert J. Pera is an American electrical engineer who founded networking-equipment maker Ubiquiti, where he remains CEO and majority owner, and bought the Memphis Grizzlies in 2012.
Robert R. Gilruth
Robert R. Gilruth was an American aeronautical engineer who set the flying-qualities standards for aircraft acceptance, then directed NASA's human spaceflight program, including the 1969 Apollo 11 lunar landing.
Robert Ray Beebe
Robert Ray Beebe, known as Ray Beebe, was an American mining engineer and executive at Newmont and Homestake Mining, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1990.
Robert Ritchie (materials scientist)
Robert O. Ritchie is a materials scientist and H.T. & Jessie Chua Distinguished Professor of Engineering at UC Berkeley, known for research on fracture and fatigue of materials.
Robert Ritter von Greim
Robert Ritter von Greim, born Robert Greim, was a German officer and World War I fighter ace with 28 victories who became the Luftwaffe's last commander-in-chief in 1945.
Robert Rosenthal (USAAF officer)
Robert Rosenthal was an American B-17 pilot who flew 52 combat missions with the Eighth Air Force in World War II, surviving two shoot-downs, and later joined the Nuremberg prosecutions.