Robert Ranke Graves
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～ English writer known for his interest in mythology and in the classics (1895-1985)
Robert De Niro
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～ United States film actor who frequently plays tough characters (born 1943)
Robert Floyd Curl Jr.
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～ American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)
Robert Morris
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～ leader of the American Revolution who signed the Declaration of Independence and raised money for the Continental Army (1734-1806)
Robert Graves
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～ English writer known for his interest in mythology and in the classics (1895-1985)
Robert Merton
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～ United States sociologist (1910-2003)
Robert Motherwell
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～ United States abstract expressionist painter (1915-1991)
Robert Oppenheimer
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～ United States physicist who directed the project at Los Alamos that developed the first atomic bomb (1904-1967)
Robert Fulton
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～ American inventor who designed the first commercially successful steamboat and the first steam warship (1765-1815)
Robert Koch
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～ German bacteriologist who isolated the anthrax bacillus and the tubercle bacillus and the cholera bacillus (1843-1910)
Robert Maynard Hutchins
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～ United States educator who was president of the University of Chicago (1899-1977)
Robert Clive
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～ British general and statesman whose victory at Plassey in 1757 strengthened British control of India (1725-1774)
Robert Peel
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～ British politician (1788-1850)
Robert R. Livingston
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～ American Revolutionary leader who served in the Continental Congress and as minister to France (1746-1813)
Robert Bunsen
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～ German chemist who with Kirchhoff pioneered spectrum analysis but is remembered mainly for his invention of the Bunsen burner (1811-1899)
Robert King Merton
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～ United States sociologist (1910-2003)
Robert James Fischer
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～ United States chess master; world champion from 1972 to 1975 (born in 1943)
Robert Gray
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～ American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)
Robert Burns
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～ celebrated Scottish poet (1759-1796)
Robert Bruce Mathias
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～ United States athlete who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon (born in 1930)