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Robert Cray

Sweet Potato PieMercury As a recording artist, Robert Cray has never fit any mold or mindset. Instead, he's gone where he's wanted to, with little or no regard for what's hip or correct in…

Robert Maurer

Robert MaurerBorn: 1924Birthplace: St. Louis, Mo. Fused silica optical waveguide—The inventors, Maurer, Keck, and Schultz. designed and produced the first optical fiber with light loss during…

Robert Banks

Robert BanksBorn: 1921 Birthplace: Piedmont, Mo. Polypropylene and high-density polyethylene (HDPE)—While working for the Phillips Petroleum Company, Banks and Hogan developed two of the world's most…

Robert Gallo

Robert GalloBorn: 1937 HIV Isolation and Identification. Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier both discovered HIV, determining that the virus was the cause of AIDS, and making it more possible to…

Robert Gundlach

Robert Gundlach Born: 1926 Photocopying. Gundlach devoted over three decades to transforming photocopiers into small, robust…

Robert Kahn

Robert Kahn Born: 1938 Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)—Cerf and Kahn created the Internet…

Tiffany Roberts

Tiffany RobertsBorn: May 5, 1977Soccer M defensive specialist for U.S. women's soccer team; won olympic gold medal in 1996 and World Cup title in 1999; led North Carolina to NCAA…

Robert Donat

Robert Donatactor, directorBorn: 3/18/1905Birthplace: Withington, Manchester, England Prominent British leading man with mellifluous voice who began his career on the state at age 16 then switched to…

Robert Goulet

Robert Goulet singer, actor Born: 11/26/1933 Birthplace: Lawrence, Massachusetts Tall, dark, and…

Robert Ludlum

Robert Ludlum(another pen name, Jonathan Ryder)novelistBorn: 5/25/1927Birthplace: New York City suspense novelist whose fast-paced books about spies and international conspiracies have sold…