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Kennedy, Robert Francis

(Encyclopedia) Kennedy, Robert Francis, 1925–68, American politician, U.S. Attorney General (1961–64), b. Brookline, Mass., younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and son of Joseph P. Kennedy.…

Laughlin, Robert Betts

(Encyclopedia) Laughlin, Robert Betts, 1950–, American physicist, b. Visalia, Calif., Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979. Laughlin was a researcher at Lawrence Livermore National…

Leslie, Charles Robert

(Encyclopedia) Leslie, Charles RobertLeslie, Charles Robertlĕzˈlē [key], 1794–1859, English painter and writer, b. London. Educated in the United States, he returned to England to study art and to…

Lewis, John Robert

(Encyclopedia) Lewis, John Robert, 1940–2020, African-American politician and civil-rights leader, b. near Troy, Ala., B.A. American Baptist…

Lefkowitz, Robert Joseph

(Encyclopedia) Lefkowitz, Robert Joseph, 1943–, American physician, b. New York City, M.D. Columbia, 1966. Since 1973 Lefkowitz has been a professor at Duke Univ.; he was appointed a Howard Hughes…

Lowie, Robert Harry

(Encyclopedia) Lowie, Robert Harry, or Robert Heinrich LowieRobert Heinrich Lowielōˈē [key], 1883–1957, American anthropologist, b. Vienna, grad. College of the City of New York, 1901, Ph.D. Columbia…

Knolles, Sir Robert

(Encyclopedia) Knolles or Knollys, Sir RobertKnolles or Knollys, Sir Robertboth: nōlz [key], d. 1407, English military commander in the Hundred Years War. He became a leader of a company of…

Kocharian, Robert Sedraki

(Encyclopedia) Kocharian or Kocharyan, Robert Sedraki, 1954–, Armenian political leader. He served (1972–74) in the Soviet army and worked as a mechanical engineer (1977–81) before graduating (1982)…

Kirchhoff, Gustav Robert

(Encyclopedia) Kirchhoff, Gustav RobertKirchhoff, Gustav Robertg&oobreve;sˈtäf rōˈbĕrt kĭrkhˈhôf [key], 1824–87, German physicist. He served as professor of physics at the universities of Breslau…

Klein, Lawrence Robert

(Encyclopedia) Klein, Lawrence Robert, 1920–2013, American economist, b. Omaha, Nebr., Ph.D Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1944. He was active in academia, government, and private research…