da: Robert Koch

da: Robert Falcon Scott

da: Robert Musil

da: Robert E. Lee

da: Robert Fripp

da: Robert Anton Wilson

da: Robert Pirsig

da: Robert E. Howard

da: Robert Fulton

da: Robert Nozick

da: Robert Penn Warren

da: Robert Siodmak

da: Robert Moog

da: Robert 1. af Skotland

From left to right: Top row-Archimedes, Aristotle, Alhazen | Ibn al-Haytham, Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo Galilei, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek ; Second row-Isaac Newton, James Hutton, Antoine Lavoisier, John Dalton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel ; Third row-Louis Pasteur, James Clerk Maxwell, Henri Poincaré, Sigmund Freud, Nikola Tesla, Max Planck ; Fourth row-Ernest Rutherford, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Erwin Schrödinger, Enrico Fermi ; Bottom row-J. Robert Oppenheimer, Alan Turing, Richard Feynman, E. O. Wilson, Jane Goodall, Stephen Hawking

* Robert A. Heinlein's book Tramp Royale ( about a world trip in 1953-54, unpublished until 1992 ) devoted an entire chapter to his ( almost ) visit to Tristan da Cunha, arguably the most remote human settlement on earth.

da: J. Robert Oppenheimer

da: Robert Schumann

da: Robert Peel

da: Robert Boyle

da: Robert Devereux, 2. jarl af Essex

1977 ); Hughes, Glenn: Pierrot's Mother ( 1923 ); Johnstone, Will B .: I'll Say She Is ( 1924 revue featuring the Marx Brothers and two " breeches " Pierrots ; music by Tom Johnstone ); Macmillan, Mary Louise: Pan or Pierrot: A Masque ( 1924 ); Millay, Edna St. Vincent: Aria da Capo ( 1920 ); Renaud, Ralph E .: Pierrot Meets Himself ( 1933 ); Rogers, Robert Emmons: Behind a Watteau Picture ( 1918 ); Shephard, Esther: Pierrette's Heart ( 1924 ).

* American ( U. S. A .)— Baksa, Robert: Aria da Capo ( 1968 ); Bilotta, John George: Aria da Capo ( 1980 ); Blank, Allan: Aria da Capo ( 1958 – 60 ); Smith, Larry Alan: Aria da Capo ( 1980 )— all libretti by Edna St. Vincent Millay ( see above under Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues ).

da: Horace Walpole

In 1741 – 42 Sterne wrote political articles supporting the administration of Sir Robert Walpole for a newspaper founded by his uncle but soon withdrew from politics in disgust.

Mercantilist policies were also embraced throughout much of the Tudor and Stuart periods, with Robert Walpole being another major proponent.

* 1739 – War of Jenkins ' Ear starts: British Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, reluctantly declares war on Spain.

From 1721 this was the Whig politician Robert Walpole, who held office for twenty-one years.

However, the honorary appellation is traditionally given to Sir Robert Walpole who became First Lord of the Treasury in 1721.

Portrait of Sir Robert Walpole, studio of Jean-Baptiste van Loo, 1740.

King George I called on Robert Walpole, well known for his political and financial acumen, to handle the emergency.

Wharton's club came to an end in 1721 when George I, under the influence of Wharton's political enemies ( namely Robert Walpole ) put forward a Bill " against ' horrid impieties '" ( or immorality ), aimed at the Hellfire Club.

George II ( 1727 – 1760 ) enhanced the stability of the constitutional system, with a government run by Sir Robert Walpole during the period 1730-42.

Robert Walpole managed to wind it down with minimal political and economic damage, although some losers fled to exile or committed suicide.

The British Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole justified Britain's non-intervention by insisting that the Anglo-Austrian Alliance agreed at the 1731 Treaty of Vienna was a purely defensive agreement, while Austria was in this instance the aggressor.

Pitt was particularly frustrated that, due to the isolationist policies of the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole, Britain had not entered the War of the Polish Succession which broke out in 1733 and he had not been given a chance to test himself in battle.

Cobham had originally been a supporter of the government under Sir Robert Walpole, but a dispute over the controversial Excise Bill of 1733 had seen them join the opposition.

Many of Pitt's attacks on the government were directed personally at Sir Robert Walpole who had now been Prime Minister for twenty years.

* Robert Walpole, Prime Minister of Great Britain

It becomes a motion of no confidence which leads to the resignation of Robert Walpole.

* January 9 – Robert Walpole made Earl of Orford and resigns as First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer, effectively ending his period as Prime Minister of Great Britain.

* May 15 – Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, retires from his role in the government of Great Britain, leaving Robert Walpole as sole and undisputed leader of the Cabinet ( i. e., prime minister ).

* March 18 – Robert Walpole, first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1676 )

April 4: Robert Walpole | Walpole.

* April 4 – Robert Walpole becomes the first Prime Minister of Great Britain ( although this is more a term of disparagement at this time ).

* Robert Walpole enters Parliament and soon makes his name as a spokesman for Whig policy.

* August 26 – Robert Walpole, first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1745 )

The leader of the Whigs was Robert Walpole, who maintained control of the government in the period 1721 – 1742 ; his protégé was Henry Pelham ( 1743 – 54 ).