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Harold E. Varmus
Harold E. Varmus (born 1939) is an American oncologist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize with J. Michael Bishop for discovering the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes, and later directed NIH, Memorial Sloan Kettering, and the NCI.
Harold Edgerton
Harold Edgerton, known as "Doc" Edgerton, was an American electrical engineer at MIT who invented the repeatable electronic stroboscopic flash and made high-speed photographs of events too fast for the eye.
Harold Edwards (mathematician)
Harold Mortimer Edwards, Jr. (1936–2020) was an American mathematician at New York University whose books on Riemann's zeta function, Fermat's Last Theorem, and Galois theory won the 1980 Steele Prize.
Harold Edwin Hurst
Harold Edwin Hurst (1880–1978) was a British hydrologist who spent some 60 years studying the Nile for the Egyptian government and discovered the Hurst phenomenon, quantified by the Hurst exponent.
Harold Edwin Umbarger
Harold Edwin Umbarger (1921–1999) was an American biochemist and geneticist at Purdue University who discovered feedback inhibition of enzymes and defined how bacteria synthesize the branched-chain amino acids.
Harold Erickson
Harold Erickson is a cell biologist and James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Duke University, known for his 1995 proposal that bacterial FtsZ is a tubulin homolog.
Harold Etherington
Harold Etherington (1900–1994) was an American nuclear engineer who helped develop the first nuclear submarine power plants and early boiling-water reactors, and edited the 1958 Nuclear Engineering Handbook.
Harold Evans
Sir Harold Evans (1928–2020), British-American editor known as Harry, edited the Sunday Times 1967–81, led the Insight investigative team and the thalidomide campaign, was sacked by Murdoch at The Times in 1982, then became a US publisher and author.
Harold Ewen
Harold Irving Ewen was an American radio astronomer and microwave engineer who, as a Harvard graduate student with Edward Purcell, first detected the 21-centimeter line of neutral hydrogen in 1951.
Harold Exton
Harold Exton (born 20 June 1928) is a mathematician who wrote books on multiple and q-hypergeometric functions, including q-Hypergeometric Functions and Applications (1983), and whose name is attached to the Hahn–Exton q-Bessel function.
Harold F. Dodge
Harold F. Dodge (1893–1976) was an American statistician and quality-control engineer at Bell Laboratories who originated acceptance sampling and co-developed the Dodge-Romig Sampling Inspection Tables.
Harold F. Dvorak
Harold F. Dvorak is an American pathologist and vascular biologist at Harvard Medical School who discovered VEGF, the key growth factor behind tumor angiogenesis, in 1983.
Harold F. Levison
Harold F. Levison, known as Hal Levison, is an American planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and principal investigator of NASA's Lucy mission.
Harold Faltermeyer
Harold Faltermeyer (Hans Hugo Harold Faltermeier), German keyboardist and composer born 1952 in Munich, former right-hand man of Giorgio Moroder; created "Axel F" for Beverly Hills Cop and the Top Gun Anthem, winning two Grammys, and scored Top Gun: Maverick.
Harold Fannin Jr.
Harold Fannin Jr. (born 2004) is a Cleveland Browns tight end from Canton, Ohio; a 2025 third-round pick out of Bowling Green who set FBS tight end single-season records with 117 receptions and 1,555 yards.
Harold Ford Jr.
Harold Ford Jr., born 1970, is a former Democratic U.S. Representative for Tennessee's 9th district (1997–2007) who succeeded his father Harold Ford Sr., lost the 2006 Senate race to Bob Corker, and became a Fox News co-host and banking executive.
Harold Ford Sr.
Harold Eugene Ford Sr. (born 1945), Tennessee Democratic congressman from Memphis 1975–1997, first Black representative from Tennessee, Ways and Means member, Family Support Act sponsor, acquitted in 1987 fraud case.
Harold Furth
Harold Furth (1930–2002) was an Austrian-born American plasma physicist who directed the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory from 1981 to 1990 and conceived the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor.
Harold G. Sowman
Harold G. Sowman was an American ceramic engineer at 3M who pioneered sol-gel ceramic fibers and abrasives, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1984.
Harold Gainer
Harold (Hal) Gainer (died 2023) was an American neuroscientist who worked at NIH from 1969 to 2012, known for work on neurosecretion and posterior pituitary hormones.
Harold Ginsberg
Harold Samuel Ginsberg was an American virologist who showed that adenoviruses cause acute respiratory disease and childhood pneumonia, and chaired microbiology at Penn and Columbia.
Harold Godwinson
Harold Godwinson (Harold II, c. 1022/3–1066), last Anglo-Saxon king of England, Earl of Wessex from 1053; crowned 6 January 1066, killed Harald Hardrada at Stamford Bridge, and died at Hastings on 14 October 1066.
Harold Gould
Harold Gould, born Harold Vernon Goldstein, was an American character actor known for playing Martin Morgenstern on Rhoda and Miles Webber on The Golden Girls.
Harold Grad
Harold Grad (1923–) is an American applied mathematician at New York University's Courant Institute, known for the Boltzmann–Grad limit, rarefied gas kinetic theory, and magnetohydrodynamic plasma theory.
Harold H. Greene
Harold H. Greene (1923–2000) was a United States district judge in Washington, DC, who presided over United States v. AT&T, the case that broke up the Bell System.
Harold Hamm
Harold Hamm is an American oilman who founded Continental Resources in Oklahoma in 1967 and helped unlock the Bakken shale through horizontal drilling and fracking.
Harold Hardman
Harold Payne Hardman (1882–1965), English amateur outside-left, solicitor, 1906 FA Cup winner with Everton and 1908 Olympic football gold medallist; later Manchester United director from 1912 and chairman for about 14 years until his death.
Harold Hardwick
Harold Hampton Hardwick (1888-1959), Australian swimmer and boxer: 1912 Olympic 4x200m relay gold and 400m/1500m bronze, 1911 Empire sprint and heavyweight boxing titles, later Australian heavyweight pro boxer.
Harold Harefoot
Harold Harefoot (Harold I), king of England 1035-1040, son of Cnut by Ælfgifu of Northampton; regent then consecrated king in 1037 while Harthacnut held Denmark; blinded Alfred; died at Oxford 1040, body later mutilated by Harthacnut.
Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere
Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere (1868–1940), was a British newspaper proprietor who built the Daily Mail empire with his brother Lord Northcliffe and owned it from 1922.