Richard Hamilton (born February 24 1922) is an English painter and collage artist. His 1956 collage titled Just What Is It that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?, produced for the This Is Tomorrow exhibition of the Independent Group in London, is considered by some critics and historians to be the first work of Pop Art.
Richard Clay "Rip" Hamilton (born February 14 1978 in Coatesville, Pennsylvania) is an American National Basketball Association player for the Detroit Pistons. He is 6 ft 7 in, 193 pounds (2.01 m, 87.5 kg) and plays shooting guard and small forward.
Richard Streit Hamilton (born 1943) is professor of mathematics at Columbia University.
He received his Ph.D. in 1966 from Princeton University. Robert Gunning supervised his thesis. Hamilton has taught at UC Irvine, UC San Diego, Cornell University, and Columbia University.
Hamilton is best known for having invented the Ricci flow, which Grigori Perelman employed in his proof of the Thurston geometrization conjecture and the Poincaré conjecture. See the Hamilton–Perelman solution of the Poincaré conjecture.
Hamilton was awarded the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry in 1996 and the Clay Research Award in 2003. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1999 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003.
Richard Hamilton (January 23, 1836-January 20, 1881), a naval coal heaver, received the Medal of Honor for bravery during the American Civil War.
Richard Hamilton (December 31 1920–December 21 2004) was an American film, television, theater, and radio actor. He was raised in California, where he worked at the Pasadena Playhouse, before moving to Broadway. There, he performed in award winning productions of Buried Child and Mornings at Seven. He acted in over 50 movie and TV roles, including playing Tommy Lee Jones' first partner in Men in Black.
