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Dictionary of Scientists


Here are authoritative and up-to-date biographies of the world's scientists, from ancient times to the cutting edge. All areas of science are represented, from physics and astronomy to medicine and ecology, plus key figures in the fields of mathematics and technology.
On this page: , Rheticus to Rossby, Carl-Gustaf Arvid.

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, Rheticus (Austrian astronomer and mathematician)
Rabi, Isidor Isaac (American physicist)
Rainwater, Leo James (American physicist)
Ramanujan, Srinivasa Iyengar (Indian mathematician)
Ramón y Cajal, Santiago (Spanish physician)
Ramsay, William, Sir (Scottish chemist)
Ramsey, Norman Foster (American physicist)
Raunkiaer, Christen (Danish botanist)
Raup, David Malcolm (American paleontologist)
Rayleigh, John William Strutt (English physicist)
Réaumur, René Antoine Ferchault de (French physicist & zoologist)
Reber, Grote (American astronomer)
Redi, Francesco (Italian zoologist, poet, linguist & physician)
Regiomontanus (German astronomer & mathematician)
Regnault, Henri Victor (French physicist & chemist)
Reichstein, Tadeus (Swiss-Polish chemist)
Richards, Dickinson Woodruff (American physician & anatomist)
Richards, Theodore William (American painter)
Richardson, Owen Willans, Sir (British physicist)
Richer, Jean (French astronomer)
Richet, Charles Robert (French anatomist)
Richter, Burton (American physicist)
Riddle, Oscar (American biologist)
Robbins, Frederick Chapman (American physician)
Roberts, Richard (British microbiologist & geneticist)
Robertson, Robert, Sir (English economist)
Robinson, Robert, Sir (Canadian jurist)
Rohrer, Heinrich (Swiss physicist)
Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad (German physicist)
Ross, Ronald, Sir (English physician)