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Robert S. Chau
Robert S. Chau is a semiconductor engineer who led Intel's transistor research behind strained silicon, high-k metal gate, and Tri-Gate FinFET technologies, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013.
Robert S. Elliott
Robert S. Elliott (1921–2009) was an American electrical engineer and UCLA educator known for slot array antenna design, electromagnetic theory, and the textbook Antenna Theory and Design.
Robert S. Langer
Robert S. Langer (born 1948) is an American chemical engineer at MIT whose biomaterials work founded modern controlled drug delivery and tissue engineering, and who co-founded Moderna.
Robert S. O'Neil
Robert S. O'Neil (1935–2021) was an American civil engineer who served as Chief Engineer on the Washington Metrorail and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Robert S. Schechter
Robert S. Schechter (1929–2014) was an American chemical and petroleum engineer who spent his 41-year career at the University of Texas at Austin and co-developed the spinning drop tensiometer.
Robert S. Seiner
Robert S. (Bob) Seiner, Pittsburgh-based consultant, author of the Non-Invasive Data Governance books, president of KIK Consulting, publisher emeritus of TDAN.com, CMU Heinz College adjunct faculty, DAMA Professional Award winner.
Robert Samuel Schechter
Robert Samuel Schechter (1929–2014) was an American chemical and petroleum engineer who spent 41 years at the University of Texas at Austin and co-developed the spinning drop tensiometer.
Robert Schapire
Robert Schapire is an American computer scientist who invented boosting, the method of combining weak learners into one accurate rule, and with Yoav Freund created AdaBoost in 1995.
Robert Sedgewick (computer scientist)
Robert Sedgewick (born 1946) is an American computer scientist, founding chair of Princeton's computer science department, known for red–black trees and the Algorithms textbook series.
Robert Smilowitz
Robert Smilowitz is an American structural engineer specializing in protective design and blast engineering, a Senior Principal at Thornton Tomasetti elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025.
Robert Spinrad
Robert Spinrad (1932–2009) was an American computer designer who pioneered laboratory automation at Brookhaven National Laboratory and headed Xerox PARC from 1978 to 1983, during the commercialization of personal computing.
Robert Stephenson
Robert Stephenson (1803–1859) was an English railway and civil engineer, George Stephenson's only son, chief engineer of the London and Birmingham Railway and inventor of the wrought-iron tubular bridge.
Róbert Szelepcsényi
Róbert Szelepcsényi (born 1966) is a computer scientist who, as an undergraduate at Comenius University in Bratislava, proved in 1987 that nondeterministic space is closed under complementation.
Robert Tappan Morris
Robert Tappan Morris is an American computer scientist who created the 1988 Morris worm and became the first person convicted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Robert Taylor Homes
Robert Taylor Homes was a Chicago public housing project of 28 high-rises along State Street, opened in 1962 as the nation's largest and demolished by 2007.
Robert Thomas Jones (aerodynamicist)
Robert Thomas Jones (1910–1999) was an American aerodynamicist who, working at NACA's Langley laboratory, independently discovered the swept-back wing theory and later proposed the oblique wing.
Robert Tienwen Chien
Robert Tienwen Chien (1931–1983) was a Chinese-born computer scientist and coding theorist at the University of Illinois and IBM, known for the Chien search used in decoding BCH and Reed–Solomon codes.
Robert V. Thomann
Robert V. Thomann (1934–2026) was an American environmental engineer and Professor Emeritus at Manhattan College, known for modeling PCB bioaccumulation in the Lake Michigan food chain.
Robert Venturi
Robert Venturi (1925–2018) was an American architect and writer whose critique of modernism helped open the way to postmodern architecture, winning the Pritzker Prize in 1991.
Robert W. Adams
Robert W. Adams is an American electrical engineer at Analog Devices known for pioneering commercial delta-sigma audio converters; he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018.
Robert W. Balluffi
Robert W. Balluffi (1924–2022) was an American materials scientist and MIT professor whose experiments proved lattice vacancies exist, clarified grain-boundary structure, and co-authored the textbook Kinetics of Materials.
Robert W. Bartlett
Robert W. Bartlett is an American mining and metallurgical engineer known for solution mining and the textbook Solution Mining, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1995.
Robert W. Bower
Robert W. Bower (1936–2024) was an American electrical engineer who invented the self-aligned gate MOSFET, patented in 1969 at Hughes Research Laboratory, and later taught at UC Davis.
Robert W. Brodersen
Robert W. Brodersen (1945–2024) was an American electrical engineer and UC Berkeley professor who pioneered low-power CMOS design and co-founded the Berkeley Wireless Research Center.
Robert W. Cahn
Robert W. Cahn (1924–2007) was a German-born British metallurgist and materials scientist who proved dislocations exist in crystals, named polygonization, and founded leading journals in the field.
Robert W. Cairns
Robert W. Cairns (1909–1985) was an American industrial chemist who led military rocket propellant research at Hercules Incorporated and served as president of the American Chemical Society in 1968.
Robert W. Farquhar
Robert W. Farquhar (1932–2015) was an American astrodynamicist who coined "halo orbit," directed the ISEE-3 mission to the Sun–Earth L1 point, and led NEAR Shoemaker to the first landing on an asteroid.
Robert W. Floyd
Robert W. Floyd (1936–2001) was an American computer scientist at Stanford who designed the Floyd–Warshall algorithm and Floyd–Steinberg dithering, opened the field of program verification, and won the 1978 Turing Award without ever earning a doctorate.
Robert W. Heath
Robert W. Heath Jr. is an electrical engineer working on wireless communication and signal processing, known for MIMO precoding and hybrid beamforming for millimeter wave 5G.
Robert W. Lucky
Robert W. Lucky (1936–2022) was an American electrical engineer who spent three decades at Bell Labs, invented the automatic adaptive equalizer that enabled high-speed modems, and won the 1987 Marconi Prize.