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David H. Ledbetter
David H. Ledbetter is an American human geneticist known for the 1981 report that a chromosome 15 deletion causes Prader–Willi syndrome and for cloning the LIS-1 gene in 1993.
David H. Liu
David H. Liu (Liu Haifeng) is a Hong Kong private equity investor, co-founder and Executive Chairman of DCP Capital, formerly of KKR and Morgan Stanley.
David H. MacLennan
David H. MacLennan (1937–2020) was a Canadian biochemist at the University of Toronto who purified and sequenced the muscle calcium pump and cloned the ryanodine receptor gene.
David H. Mathews
David H. Mathews is an American computational RNA biologist and professor at the University of Rochester School of Medicine who created and maintains the RNAstructure software package.
David H. McNear Jr.
David H. McNear Jr. is an American soil scientist and professor at the University of Kentucky who studies the chemistry of soil around plant roots and won a 2008 PECASE award.
David H. Munn
David H. Munn is an American physician-scientist and immunologist at Augusta University in Georgia, known for establishing the enzyme IDO as a mechanism of immune tolerance.
David H. Persing
David H. Persing is an American physician-scientist in molecular diagnostics who established PCR testing for tick-borne diseases at the Mayo Clinic and later led test development at Cepheid.
David H. Raulet
David H. Raulet is an American immunologist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for defining how natural killer cells recognize cancer cells and for identifying NKG2D ligands.
David H. Russell
David H. Russell is an American chemist at Texas A&M University who develops ion mobility-mass spectrometry instruments and applies them to the structures and dynamics of large protein complexes.
David H. Sachs
David H. Sachs, born 1942, is an American transplant immunologist and surgeon known for inducing transplantation tolerance and developing miniature swine as a research model.
David H. Sherman
David H. Sherman is an American natural products biochemist at the University of Michigan who studies microbial compounds to develop new antibiotics and anticancer drugs.
David H. Smith
David H. Smith (1931–1999) was an American pediatrician who, with Porter W. Anderson Jr., developed the Hib conjugate vaccine that all but eliminated Hib meningitis in children.
David H. Spodick
David H. Spodick (1927–2019) was an American cardiologist who specialized in pericardial disease, cardiac tamponade, and electrocardiography, publishing over 400 papers and lending his name to Spodick's sign.
David H. Urias
David H. Urias, also known as David Herrera Urias, is a United States district judge for the District of New Mexico, appointed by President Biden in 2022.
David H. Van Thiel
David H. Van Thiel is an American hepatologist known for his 1975 work showing alcohol damages the testis directly and for building liver transplantation at Pittsburgh.
David H. Waldeck
David H. Waldeck (1956–2026) was an American physical chemist at the University of Pittsburgh who co-discovered the Chiral-Induced Spin Selectivity effect, in which chiral molecules filter electron spins.
David H. Weinberg
David H. Weinberg is a Distinguished University Professor of astronomy at Ohio State University, known for galaxy clustering research and leadership in the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys.
David H. West
David H. West is an American industrial chemical engineer known for oxidative coupling of methane reactor and catalyst technology, who spent 31 years at Dow before joining SABIC in 2012.
David H.K. Chui
David H.K. Chui is a physician-scientist in hematology known for discovering that embryonic ζ-globin chains persist in adults with two-gene α-thalassemia deletion, a carrier-screening marker.
David Ha
David Ha is a Tokyo-based AI researcher who co-authored the 2018 "World Models" paper and co-founded Sakana AI in 2023, serving as its chief executive officer.
David Hackworth
David Haskell Hackworth (1930-2005), U.S. Army colonel and one of America's most decorated soldiers of Korea and Vietnam, who denounced the war on TV in 1971, wrote About Face, and became a military journalist.
David Hafler
David A. Hafler is an American neurologist and immunologist, Edgerly Professor of Neurology at Yale, whose work established regulatory T cell dysfunction in multiple sclerosis and autoimmune disease.
David Hahn
David Charles Hahn, known as the Radioactive Boy Scout, was an American who as a teenager in Michigan collected radioactive materials from consumer products to attempt a breeder reactor.
David Haig
David Haig, English actor and playwright trained at LAMDA, Olivier winner for Our Country's Good (1988); wrote and starred in My Boy Jack, Pressure (D-Day weather forecaster James Stagg), and Magic about Conan Doyle and Houdini.
David Halberstam
David Halberstam (1934-2007), American journalist and historian, New York Times Saigon correspondent, 1964 Pulitzer for International Reporting; author of The Best and the Brightest (1972), The Powers That Be, The Fifties, The Coldest Winter; 22 books, 15 bestsellers.
David Hallyday
David Hallyday, born David Smet in 1966, is a French singer-songwriter, son of Johnny Hallyday and Sylvie Vartan, known for "High" (1988) and for composing his father's album Sang pour sang.
David Hamilton (photographer)
David Hamilton (1933–2016) was a British photographer based in France, famous for soft-focus portraits of young women, best-selling books like Rêves de Jeune Filles, and L'Air du Temps advertising; his reputation collapsed after rape allegations and his 2016 death in Paris.
David Hammons
David Hammons (born 1943) is an American artist who transforms everyday and discarded materials into charged symbols of the Black American experience, working outside the gallery system.
David Hand (statistician)
David John Hand, born 1950, is a British statistician and emeritus professor at Imperial College London, a past president of the Royal Statistical Society known for classification and fraud detection research.
David Hansman
David Hansman is an Australian medical microbiologist who first showed antibiotic resistance in the pneumococcus in Australia and directed microbiology at the Adelaide Children's Hospital from 1970 to 1998.