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Heinrich Behnke
Heinrich Behnke (1898–1979) was a German mathematician, professor at the University of Münster from 1927, known for the 1934 Behnke–Thullen monograph and the Behnke–Stein theorem on Riemann surfaces.
Heinrich Betz
Heinrich Betz, born 1944 in Reutlingen, Germany, is a German molecular neurobiologist who identified gephyrin and purified the first neurotransmitter receptor from the mammalian CNS.
Heinrich Böll
Heinrich Böll (1917–1985) was a German writer from Cologne associated with postwar rubble literature who won the 1972 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first for a German writer in 43 years.
Heinrich Braun
Heinrich Braun (1862–1934) was a German surgeon who made local anesthesia practical by adding adrenaline to cocaine, coined "conduction anesthesia", and led the Zwickau hospital.
Heinrich Brück
Heinrich Brück (1831–1903) was a German Catholic church historian who served as the 102nd Bishop of Mainz from 1900 until his death, known for his standard history of the Catholic Church in 19th-century Germany.
Heinrich Brüning
Heinrich Brüning (1885-1970), Zentrum politician and Reich Chancellor 1930-1932, led Weimar's first presidential cabinet, pursued deflationary austerity and reparations cancellation, was dismissed by Hindenburg in May 1932, and died in exile in Norwich, Vermont.
Heinrich Bruns
Ernst Heinrich Bruns (1848–1919) was a German astronomer and mathematician, professor of astronomy at Leipzig from 1882, known for Bruns' theorem and his definition of geodesy.
Heinrich Burger
Heinrich Burger (1881–1942), German figure skater from Munich; with Annie Hübler won the first Olympic pairs title (London 1908) and first pairs World Championship (1908, 1910); also world singles silver medalist and lawyer.
Heinrich Caro
Heinrich Caro (1834–1910) was a German industrial chemist who, as BASF's first head of research from 1868, invented synthetic dyes including alizarin, eosin, and methylene blue.
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486–1535), German humanist and occult philosopher, author of De occulta philosophia libri tres (1510/1533) and the skeptical De vanitate (1530), defining magic as natural, celestial, and divine.
Heinrich Curschmann
Heinrich Curschmann (1846–1910) was a German internist who built and directed the Hamburg-Eppendorf general hospital and the University of Leipzig medical clinic, and described the Curschmann spirals found in asthmatic sputum.
Heinrich events
Heinrich events are episodes of massive iceberg discharge into the North Atlantic during the last glacial period, named for Hartmut Heinrich, who documented their sediment layers in 1988.
Heinrich Franz Friedrich Tietze
Heinrich Franz Friedrich Tietze (1880–1964) was an Austrian mathematician known for the Tietze extension theorem and Tietze transformations, and for introducing lens spaces in his 1908 paper.
Heinrich Gelzer
Heinrich Gelzer, born in Schaffhausen in 1813, was a Swiss-German Protestant historian and theologian who taught at Basel and Berlin and wrote on Swiss history and German literature.
Heinrich Grüber
Heinrich Grüber (1891–1975) was a German Protestant pastor and Propst of Berlin whose Büro Grüber helped about 2,000 persecuted people emigrate; he survived Sachsenhausen and Dachau.
Heinrich Harrer
Heinrich Harrer (1912–2006), Austrian mountaineer of the 1938 Eiger North Face first ascent, escaped a British POW camp to Tibet, tutored the 14th Dalai Lama, wrote Seven Years in Tibet, and was revealed in 1997 to have been an SA, SS, and Nazi Party member.
Heinrich Heesch
Heinrich Heesch (1906–1995) was a German mathematician who founded the reduction program behind the 1976 computer proof of the four-color theorem and gave his name to the Heesch number in tiling theory.
Heinrich Heine
Heinrich Heine (Harry Heine, 1797–1856), German lyric poet and critic, author of Buch der Lieder and Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen; baptized 1825, Paris exile from 1831, works banned in Prussia 1835.
Heinrich Heine Prize
The Heinrich Heine Prize (Heinrich-Heine-Preis) is a biennial literary and personality prize awarded by Düsseldorf with a 50,000-euro endowment, first awarded in 1972 to Carl Zuckmayer.
Heinrich Hertz
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz was a German physicist who first generated and detected electromagnetic waves in 1887, proving Maxwell's theory; the unit hertz is named for him.
Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Himmler (1900–1945), Reichsführer-SS from 1929 and Chief of German Police, oversaw the SS, Gestapo, concentration camps, and the Final Solution; distinct from Heydrich, his deputy.
Heinrich Hoffmann (photographer)
Heinrich Hoffmann (1885–1957), German photographer and Reichsbildberichterstatter, was Adolf Hitler's personal photographer; his Munich studio, picture books such as Hitler wie ihn keiner kennt, and portrait monopoly created the Führer's public image, and he was convicted as a denazification Major Offender.
Heinrich Holland
Heinrich Dieter Holland (1927–2012) was a German-born American geochemist at Princeton and Harvard who established the Great Oxidation Event, the rise of atmospheric oxygen about 2.3 billion years ago.
Heinrich Hörlein
Heinrich Hörlein (Philipp Heinrich Hörlein, 1882–1954) was a German chemist who headed Bayer's pharmaceutical laboratories at Elberfeld, discovered Luminal, and oversaw the sulfonamides; he was acquitted at Nuremberg in 1948.
Heinrich Jaeger
Heinrich M. Jaeger is a soft condensed matter physicist and Sewell Avery Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, known for granular materials and jamming research.
Heinrich Jasper
Heinrich Jasper is a German-educated aging and stem cell biologist who showed how stress signaling and immunity control stem cells in the aging fruit fly gut, and now leads regenerative medicine research at Genentech.
Heinrich Joseph Wetzer
Heinrich Joseph Wetzer (1801–1853) was a German Orientalist and lay professor of Oriental philology at the University of Freiburg, remembered as co-founder and co-editor, with Benedict Welte, of the Kirchen-Lexikon.
Heinrich Jung
Heinrich Jung, born Heinrich Wilhelm Ewald Jung (1876–1953), was a German mathematician best known for Jung's theorem and for holding the chair at the University of Halle.
Heinrich Kalteisen
Heinrich Kalteisen (c. 1390–1465) was a German Dominican theologian and inquisitor for heretical depravity in Rhineland dioceses who disputed with the Hussites at the Council of Basel.
Heinrich Kayser
Heinrich Kayser (Johann Heinrich Gustav Kayser; 1853–1940) was a German physicist who, with Carl Runge, mapped the spectra of many elements and established the laws of spectral series.