Academic/intellectual Famous Names Starting with Letter R

Is a German theologian and university lecturer, who teaches evangelic religion and their didactics w

Is a German theologian and university lecturer, who teaches evangelic religion and their didactics with the main focus on the New Testament at the TU Dortmund University. Since 1986 he is married to medic Cornelia Riesner and has four children.[1]

To a Tatar family, and educated at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MS) and Moscow St

To a Tatar family, and educated at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MS) and Moscow State University (Ph.D). He became a professor at MIPT in 1974. Sunyaev is the head of the High Energy Astrophysics Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and has been chief scientist of the Academy's Space Research Institute since 1992. He is also Director at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany since 1996.

An Australian chemistry professor and university administrator

An Australian chemistry professor and university administrator

Is an American professor of political science at the University of Southern California in Los Angele

Is an American professor of political science at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. His teachings are primarily focused on world leadership. He is also world-renowned for his experience on World Genocides as well as Global Terrorism.

Is a Professor

Is a Professor

Was a professor of physics at Johns Hopkins University, known for Cox's theorem relating to the foun

Was a professor of physics at Johns Hopkins University, known for Cox's theorem relating to the foundations of probability.He was born in Portland, Oregon the son of attorney Lewis Cox and Elinor Junkin Cox. After Lewis Cox died, Elinor Cox married John L

Was a Dutch communication and argumentation theory scholar. He was professor for dutch speech commun

Was a Dutch communication and argumentation theory scholar. He was professor for dutch speech communication at the University of Amsterdam. His contributions to the argumentation field include the co-foundation of the pragma-dialectic school in argumentation theory.[1]

Is the Sterling Professor emeritus of political science at Yale University. He is past president of

Is the Sterling Professor emeritus of political science at Yale University. He is past president of the American Political Science Association and one of the most distinguished political scientists writing today. Dahl has often been described as "the Dean" of American political scientists. He earned this title by his prolific writing output and the fact that scores of prominent political scientists studied under him.

Is a professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University who, together with Horst L. Störmer and Daniel C. Tsui, was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in physics for his explanation of the fractional quantum Hall effect. Laughlin was born in Visalia, California. He earned a B.A. in Physics from UC Berkeley in 1972, and his Ph.D. in physics in 1979 at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. In the period of 2004-2006 he served as the president of KAIST in Daejeon, South Korea, a tenure full of controversy.

S professor of South-East Asian History

S professor of South-East Asian History

The son of a Methodist Minister[1] is an emeritus professor of chemistry at Rice University.Born in

The son of a Methodist Minister[1] is an emeritus professor of chemistry at Rice University.Born in Alice, Texas, United States, Curl received a B.A. from Rice University in 1954 and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1957. Professor Curl's current research interests involve physical chemistry, developing DNA genotyping and sequencing instrumentation, and creating quantum cascade laser-based mid-infrared trace gas monitoring instrumentation. Dr. Curl often attended the German table at Hanszen College at Rice University. Dr. Curl graduated from William Adams High School in Alice, Texas.

Is a conservative American legal scholar who advocates the judicial philosophy of originalism. Bork

Is a conservative American legal scholar who advocates the judicial philosophy of originalism. Bork formerly served as Solicitor General, acting Attorney General, and judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. In 1987, he was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan, but the Senate rejected his nomination. Bork had more success as an antitrust scholar, where his once-idiosyncratic view that antitrust law should focus on maximizing consumer welfare has come to dominate American legal thinking on the subject. Currently, Bork is a lawyer, law professor, and best-selling author.

Was a French academic and author who studied and taught literature and thought, particularly that of

Was a French academic and author who studied and taught literature and thought, particularly that of eighteenth century France. He was born in Toulouse, attended then later taught at the Faculty of Arts in Lyon. Mauzi was named a full professor at the Sorbonne in 1969, and continued to served there actively or as professor emeritus until his death.

Was a lawyer and a professor at the law faculty in Bordeaux. His speciality was penal law, but he al

Was a lawyer and a professor at the law faculty in Bordeaux. His speciality was penal law, but he also studied and published in the field of the pharmaceutical law. He published a pharmaceutical law treaty written with his colleagues Coustou and Jean-Marie Auby. Robert Poplawski has been chosen in 1946 to direct with Dean Henri Vizioz the law institute in Pau with tuitions given by professors from the law faculty of Bordeaux. This institute has given birth thereafter to the law faculty at the University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour and was lodged in Villa Lawrence in Pau town centre.

Is a Brazilian contemporary social theorist, politician, and law professor at Harvard Law School.He

Is a Brazilian contemporary social theorist, politician, and law professor at Harvard Law School.He is the Harvard Law School's only South American faculty member.[1] He was associated with the Critical Legal Studies movement for a brief period in the late 1970s and early 1980s, although Unger has set forth his own criticisms of some of the central ideas that emerged out of this movement, in particular the indeterminacy debate in legal theory, which Unger calls the "radicalization of indeterminacy" in his own writings.[2] He also taught Barack Obama while in Harvard.[3]

Is Panasonic Professor of Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is Chief Technic

Is Panasonic Professor of Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is Chief Technical Officer and sits on the Board of iRobot Corp. From July 1, 2003, until June 30, 2007, he was director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelli

Is a history and theory professor at the Berlage Institute Laboratory of Architecture [1], Rotterdam

Is a history and theory professor at the Berlage Institute Laboratory of Architecture [1], Rotterdam. He graduated with honors from the Delft University of Technology as an architect and published The Invisible in Architecture (1994) [2] in collaboration with Ole Bouman, in which he dissected the varied range of cultural, economic, political and philosophic outlook within the contemporary architectural and urban discourse with the aim of outlining the different positions and issues of today’s architecture.

Is professor of Applied Language Studies

Is professor of Applied Language Studies

Was a noted 20th century Sinologist and Tibetologist. He contributed in particular to the study of t

Was a noted 20th century Sinologist and Tibetologist. He contributed in particular to the study of the Epic of King Gesar, on which he wrote two books, and the use of Chinese sources in Tibetan history. He was the first scholar to correctly identify the Minyag of Tibetan sources with the Xixia of Chinese sources.

Is a German sexologist. He is also a member of Mensa.[1] Originally a graduate from a language schoo

Is a German sexologist. He is also a member of Mensa.[1] Originally a graduate from a language school (diplomas in French, English, Spanish, Arabic), Dr. Gindorf first worked as a translator. Attending night classes in economics, law, and social sciences he became a successful export merchant and eventually president/controlling share holder of an international corporation supplying capital goods to the Middle and Far East. Then he started on his sexological career, studying sexual science, sociology, and psychology at the University of Düsseldorf, at the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, San Francisco (CA), and at Maimonides University, Miami (FL; Ph.D. in Clinical Sexology). He is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the American Academy of Clinical Sexologists, Orlando (FL, U.S.A.).

Is Emeritus Professor of Old Testament at the University of Heidelberg. He has written frequently on

Is Emeritus Professor of Old Testament at the University of Heidelberg. He has written frequently on the Jewish scriptures and is notable chiefly for his contribution to the debate over the origins of the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Old Testament. Rendtorff has published many works on Old Testament subjects, but is notable chiefly for his 1977 book, "Das überlieferungsgeschichtliche Problem des Pentateuch" (The Problem of the Transmission of the Pentateuch).[1] The book was a study of the question of Pentateuchal origins (the question of how the first five books of the bible - Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Book of Numbers and Deuteronomy - came to be written), and appeared at the same time time as two other important books, John Van Seters' Abraham in History and Tradition (1975),[2] and Hans Heinrich Schmid's Der sogenannte Jahwist (The So-called Yahwist) (1976).[3] The three studies, appearing almost together, inaugurated a heated discussion in scholarly circles on the validity of the then-dominant consensus on Pentateuchal origins, the Documentary Hypothesis.

Is head coach of the men's basketball team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After

Is head coach of the men's basketball team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After averaging about an 80% win percentage in 15 seasons at the University of Kansas, he became the eighteenth head coach at North Carolina when he replaced Matt Doherty in 2003. He is second all-time for most wins at Kansas behind Phog Allen, and third all-time in the NCAA for winning percentage. He earned his 400th win in January 2003, when Kansas beat the University of Wyoming. Coach Williams won his 500th career game against High Point University on December 9th, 2006 in Chapel Hill. On April 4, 2005, Williams shed his title as "the most successful coach to never have won an NCAA ring" as his Tar Heels defeated the University of Illinois in the 2005 NCAA Championship game. Williams was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2007.

Is a German computer scientist and professor at KIT, Germany. He is the head of the knowledge manage

Is a German computer scientist and professor at KIT, Germany. He is the head of the knowledge management research group at the Institute AIFB and one of the directors of the Karlsruhe Service Research Institute (KSRI). He is former president of the Semantic Web Science Association,[1] and a member of numerous programme committees and editorial boards. He was one of the inaugural editor-in-chiefs of the Journal of Web Semantics, a position he held until 2007. He is a co-author of the Semantic Wikipedia proposal.[2]

Is a Professor of Department of Chinese Studies in University of Heidelberg, Germany.[1] He is also

Is a Professor of Department of Chinese Studies in University of Heidelberg, Germany.[1] He is also the Secretary-General of European Association of Chinese Studies (EACS, Chinese: ??????).[2]

Was born in 1920 and educated at Cairo, Zurich and Harvard Universities. He is the father[peacock t

Was born in 1920 and educated at Cairo, Zurich and Harvard Universities. He is the father[peacock term] of Egyptian geology, and is considered[who?] to be one of the most Egyptian scientists.A professor of geology, he was the chairman of the board of the Egyptian Mining and geological research Organization (1968 - 1977).He played a great role in the development of this organization with the new mining discoveries that enabled Egypt to compensate for the various mines lost after the occupation of Sinai.