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, Rheticus (Austrian astronomer and mathematician)

Rabi, Isidor Isaac (Austrian–American physicist)

Rainwater, Leo James (American physicist)

Raman, Chandrasekhara Venkata, Sir (Indian physicist)

Ramanujan, Srinivasa Iyengar (Indian mathematician)

Ramsay, William, Sir (British chemist)

Ramsey, Norman Foster (American physicist)

Ramón y Cajal, Santiago (Spanish histologist)

Randall, John Turton, Sir (British physicist)

Raoult, Francois-Marie (French chemist)

Raunkiaer, Christen (Danish botanist)

Raup, David Malcolm (American paleontologist)

Rayleigh, John William Strutt (British physicist)

Reber, Grote (American radio astronomer)

Redi, Francesco (Italian biologist, physician, and poet)

Regiomontanus (German astronomer and mathematician)

Regnault, Henri Victor (French physicist and chemist)

Reich, Ferdinand (German mineralogist)

Reichstein, Tadeus (Polish–Swiss biochemist)

Reines, Frederick (American physicist)

Reinhold, Erasmus (German astronomer and mathematician)

Remak, Robert (Polish–German embryologist and anatomist)

Revelle, Roger (American oceanographer)

Riccioli, Giovanni Battista (Italian astronomer)

Richard of Wallingford (English astronomer and mathematician)

Richards, Dickinson Woodruff (American physician)

Richards, Theodore William (American chemist)

Richardson, Lewis Fry (British meteorologist and physicist)

Richardson, Owen Willans, Sir (British physicist)

Richardson, Robert Coleman (American physicist)

Richer, Jean (French astronomer)

Richet, Charles Robert (French physiologist)

Richter, Burton (American physicist)

Richter, Charles Francis (American seismologist)

Riddle, Oscar (American biologist)

Robbins, Frederick Chapman (American virologist and pediatrician)

Roberts, Richard (British molecular biologist)

Robertson, John Monteath (British x-ray crystallographer)

Robertson, Robert, Sir (British chemist)

Robinson, Robert, Sir (British chemist)

Roche, Edouard Albert (French mathematician)

Rodbell, Martin (American biochemist)

Rohrer, Heinrich (Swiss physicist)

Romer, Alfred Sherwood (American paleontologist)

Rose, William Cumming (American biochemist)

Ross, Ronald, Sir (British physician)

Rossby, Carl-Gustaf Arvid (Swedish–American meteorologist)

Rosse, William Parsons (Irish astronomer and telescope builder)

Rossi, Bruno Benedetti (Italian–American physicist)

Rotblat, Joseph (Polish–British physicist)

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