His research has covered, among others, the trajectory method of Bohmian mechanics, based on work by Louis de Broglie, Erwin Madelung and David Bohm.
[1][failed verification] In 2005 Wyatt published his book Quantum dynamics with trajectories with contributions by Corey J. Trahan.
[2] An October 2007 edition of the Journal of Physical Chemistry A is a Festschrift dedicated to the work of Robert E. Wyatt and his group.
Wyatt has been referred to as "the world's leading expert in quantum dynamics and theoretical chemistry".
[3] He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1989 "for fundamental contributions to the theoretical chemical dynamics, particularly quantum mechanical reactive scattering and laser-molecule energy transfer" [4]