Robert Chambers (disambiguation)
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Robert Chambers may refer to:
- Robert Chambers (judge)Robert Chambers (judge)Sir Robert Chambers , was a jurist, Vinerian Professor of English Law, and Chief Justice of Bengal.-Biography:...
(1737–1803), English judge, professor of jurisprudence, Chief Justice of Bengal, collector of Sanskrit manuscripts - Robert Chambers (publisher born 1802) (1802–1871), Scottish publisher, writer, and scientist
- Robert Chambers (publisher born 1832), Scottish publisher, son of the above
- Robert Chambers (oarsman)Robert Chambers (oarsman)Robert Chambers was a famous Tyneside professional oarsman. He became the Tyne, Thames, English and World Sculling Champion.He was one of three great Tyneside oarsmen, the other two being Harry Clasper and James Renforth....
(1831–1868), English oarsman and world sculling champion - Robert Chambers (development scholar)Robert Chambers (development scholar)- His approach:Since the 1980s, he has been one of the leading advocates for putting the poor, destitute and marginalised at the centre of the processes of development policy. In particular he argues they should be taken into account when the development problem is identified, policy formulated and...
- Robert Chambers (Quebec City mayor)Robert Chambers (Quebec City mayor)Robert Chambers was a Canadian politician, serving as Mayor of Quebec City from May 1878 to May 1880.-References:...
, Canadian politician - Robert W. ChambersRobert W. ChambersRobert William Chambers was an American artist and writer.-Biography:He was born in Brooklyn, New York, to William P. Chambers , a famous lawyer, and Caroline Chambers , a direct descendant of Roger Williams, the founder of Providence, Rhode Island...
(1865–1933), American artist and writer, author of The King in YellowThe King in YellowThe King in Yellow is a collection of short stories written by Robert W. Chambers and published in 1895. The stories could be categorized as early horror fiction or Victorian Gothic fiction, but the work also touches on mythology, fantasy, mystery, science fiction and romance... - Robert Emmet Chambers (born 1966), also known as the Preppie Killer
- Robert C. "Chuck" Chambers, West Virginia politician
- Robert G. ChambersRobert G. ChambersRobert G. Chambers is a British scientist. He won the 1994 Hughes Medal of the Royal Society "for his many contributions to solid-state physics, in particular his ingenious and technically demanding experiment which verified the Aharonov-Bohm effect concerning the behaviour of charged particles in...
, British physicist known for the first observation of the Aharonov-Bohm effect