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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…Julia Roberts
Julia Roberts actressBorn: 10/28/1967Birthplace: Smyrna, Georgia Academy Award-winning film actress known for her Southern charm and her commercially successful romantic comedies, which include…Robert Blake
Name at birth: Michael James Vijencio GubitosiAn actor who played a cop on the TV series Baretta, Robert Blake gained greater notoriety in 2002 when he was charged with, and then acquitted of, the…Robert Benchley
Humorist Robert Benchley was a theater critic, essayist, and entertainer whose witty essays on the small trials of daily life made him the Dave Barry of his day. Robert Benchley grew up in Worcester…Robert Burns
Scotland's favorite historical poet, Robert Burns is the author of "Auld Lang Syne," "To A Mouse" and "Tam o' Shanter." Raised in a poor family of farmers, Robert Burns still managed to learn…Robert Browning
Known for his dramatic monologues, England's Robert Browning is considered one of the most influential and important poets of the 19th century. Browning began publishing poems in the 1830s,…Trending
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