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Harunobu (Mercurian crater)

Harunobu is a 107-km-diameter impact crater on Mercury at 14.88°N, 140.93°W, named in 1976 for the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Suzuki Harunobu; its ejecta and central peak expose layered crustal materials at different depths.

Haruo Hosoya

Haruo Hosoya (細谷治) is a Japanese chemist and emeritus professor at Ochanomizu University in Tokyo, best known for introducing the Hosoya topological index in 1971.

Haruo Kasai

Haruo Kasai (河西春郎) is a Japanese cellular neuroscientist and Project Professor at the University of Tokyo, known for discovering structural plasticity in brain spine synapses and winning the 2022 Japan Academy Prize.

Haruo Saito

Haruo Saito (斎藤 春雄) is a Japanese molecular biologist and University of Tokyo professor known for defining the yeast HOG osmosensing pathway and mammalian stress kinase cascades.

Haruomi Hosono

Haruomi Hosono (細野晴臣, Harry Hosono), born 1947 in Tokyo, is a Japanese bassist, composer, and producer, founding member of Happy End and Yellow Magic Orchestra, pioneer of Japanese-language rock, synth-pop, and city pop.

Harusame Monogatari

Harusame Monogatari (春雨物語, "Tales of Spring Rain") is a collection of ten yomihon stories by the Japanese writer Ueda Akinari, assembled in 1808 as a companion to his Ugetsu Monogatari.

Haruspex

A haruspex (plural haruspices) was an ancient diviner who deduced the will of the gods by inspecting the entrails of sacrificed animals, especially sheep livers.

Harut and Marut

Harut and Marut are two angels named in Quran 2:102, the only verse mentioning them, where they appear at Babylon teaching sorcery while warning people they are a temptation.

Haruzo Hida

Haruzo Hida, born 1952 in Japan, is a number theorist at UCLA who created Hida theory, the study of p-adic analytic families of ordinary modular forms with large Galois representations.

Harvard architecture

The Harvard architecture is a computer architecture holding instructions and data in separate memories with separate buses, allowing parallel access and contrasting with the von Neumann design.

Harvard Board of Overseers

The Harvard Board of Overseers, established 1642, is one of Harvard's two governing boards: 30 alumni-elected Overseers plus the president and treasurer ex officio, overseeing visiting committees and consenting to Corporation actions.

Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business Review is a bimonthly management magazine and digital media platform published by Harvard Business Publishing, an affiliate of Harvard Business School, founded in 1922.

Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School, also known as HBS, is the graduate business school of Harvard University in Boston, known for pioneering the case method of teaching management in 1921.

Harvard Classics

The Harvard Classics, or Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf, is a 50-volume anthology (plus a 51st Lectures volume) compiled by Harvard president Charles W. Eliot and published by P.F. Collier & Son from 1909, promising a liberal education through fifteen minutes of daily reading.

Harvard Clean Energy Project

The Harvard Clean Energy Project was a Harvard computational chemistry program launched in December 2008 that screened 2.3 million molecules for organic solar cell materials.

Harvard College

Harvard College, founded October 28, 1636 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the undergraduate liberal arts college of Harvard University and the oldest US higher-education institution, with about 6,600 undergraduates, twelve residential Houses, and a 2026 faculty-approved A-grade cap.

Harvard Divinity School

Harvard Divinity School (HDS), founded 1816 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is Harvard University's nonsectarian graduate school of religious and theological studies, offering MDiv, MTS, MRPL, ThM, ThD, and a joint PhD.

Harvard Extension School

Harvard Extension School (HES), founded 1910 by A. Lawrence Lowell, is one of Harvard University's 12 degree-granting schools and its continuing-education arm, offering open-enrollment online courses and earn-your-way-in ALB and ALM degrees for adult part-time learners.

Harvard Graduate School of Design

The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is Harvard University's degree-granting school for architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning and design, established in 1936 and housed in Gund Hall.

Harvard International Law Journal

Harvard International Law Journal (HILJ), a student-run Harvard Law School journal publishing international, comparative, and foreign affairs law scholarship; oldest and most-cited student-edited international law journal, print plus HILJ Online, annual symposium.

Harvard Kennedy School

Harvard Kennedy School, also called the Kennedy School of Government, is the public policy graduate school of Harvard University, founded in the 1930s in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School (HLS), founded 1817 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is Harvard University's law school and origin of the Langdell case method. Peer score 4.7 (tied 2nd, 2026-27 U.S. News); dean John C.P. Goldberg since 2025.

Harvard Lomax

Harvard Lomax was an American aerodynamicist who spent fifty years at NASA's Ames Research Center and became a central figure in building computational fluid dynamics.

Harvard Mark I

The Harvard Mark I, built by IBM as the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, was an electromechanical programmable computer delivered to Harvard University in 1944, counting among the world's first.

Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School (HMS), founded 1782 and based on Longwood Avenue in Boston since 1906, is Harvard University's medical school, with Pathways and HST MD tracks, 165-student classes, affiliated teaching hospitals it does not own, and low MD graduating debt.

Harvard Oriental Series

The Harvard Oriental Series is a Harvard University book series of critical editions, translations, and studies of South Asian texts, founded by Charles Rockwell Lanman in 1891 and running to more than 80 volumes.

Harvard Project Physics

Harvard Project Physics, later the Project Physics Course, was an American high-school physics curriculum developed at Harvard from 1964 to 1972, teaching physics through history.

Harvard Stadium

Harvard Stadium, at Harvard University's Soldiers Field in Boston, opened November 14, 1903 as the first large reinforced-concrete structure in the United States, a Class of 1879 gift that fixed football field dimensions and helped bring the forward pass.

Harvard step test

The Harvard step test is a submaximal field test of cardiovascular fitness in which heart rate recovery after stepping on and off a bench yields a fitness index.

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology (HSCP) is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Harvard University's Department of the Classics, covering ancient Greece and Rome since 1890.