Science
- Robert R. Wilson (1914–2000), American physicist
- Robert Wilson (astronomer) (1927–2002), British astronomer
- Robert Woodrow Wilson (born 1936), American astronomer and 1978 Nobel laureate in physics
- Robert Arnott Wilson (born 1958), British mathematician
- Robert Dick Wilson (1856–1930), American linguist and Presbyterian scholar
- Robert B. Wilson (born 1937), American economist and professor at Stanford University
- Robert Wilson (engineer) (1803–1882), Scottish engineer; inventor of the first practical screw propeller
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“The method of political science ... is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.”
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