Rudolf Heinz Pose (10 April 1905 – 13 November 1975) was a German nuclear physicist.
He did pioneering work which contributed to the understanding nuclear energy levels.
He worked on the German nuclear energy project Uranverein.
After World War II, the Soviet Union sent him to establish and head Laboratory V in Obninsk.
From 1957, he was at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia.
He settled in East Germany in 1959, and he held teaching posts and directed nuclear physics institutes at Technische Hochschule Dresden.