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Hendrik Dietz
Hendrik Dietz, born 1977 in Dresden, is a German biophysicist and professor at the Technical University of Munich known for designing and mass-producing DNA origami.
Hendrik G. Stunnenberg
Hendrik G. Stunnenberg is a Dutch molecular biologist known for epigenomics and trained immunity, professor at Radboud University from 1996 to 2019, now at the Prinses Máxima Centrum.
Hendrik Heinz
Hendrik Heinz is a professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for developing the INTERFACE force field for molecular simulation.
Hendrik Jan Vink
Hendrik Jan Vink (1915–2009) was a Dutch solid-state physicist who spent his career at Philips NatLab in Eindhoven and, with F.A. Kröger, founded defect chemistry.
Hendrik Kloosterman
Hendrik Douwe Kloosterman (1900–1968) was a Dutch mathematician and Leiden professor known for the Kloosterman sums, introduced in his 1926 paper, and his refinement of the Hardy–Littlewood circle method.
Hendrik Lenstra
Hendrik Willem Lenstra Jr., born 1949, is a Dutch number theorist who created the LLL lattice reduction and elliptic curve factoring algorithms and taught at Berkeley and Leiden.
Hendrik Lorentz
Hendrik Lorentz, fully Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, was a Dutch theoretical physicist who refined Maxwell's electromagnetic theory, developed the electron theory, and shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Hendrik Marsman
Hendrik Marsman (1899–1940) was a Dutch poet, translator, and critic, a leading interwar Dutch-language writer whose poem Herinnering aan Holland (1936) was named the Dutch-language poem of the century in 2000.
Hendrik N. Poinar
Hendrik N. Poinar is a molecular evolutionary geneticist at McMaster University who founded the McMaster Ancient DNA Centre and studies ancient DNA, including plague pathogens.
Hendrik Ø
Hendrik Ø (Hendrik Island) is an uninhabited island in far northern Greenland, about 50 by 12 km, named after Hendrik Olsen, who vanished there during the Second Thule Expedition in July 1917.
Hendrik Reiher
Hendrik Reiher (born 1962, Eisenhüttenstadt) is a German rowing coxswain; Olympic gold 1988 Seoul and silver 1992 Barcelona in the coxed fours, three world titles.
Hendrik S. Houthakker
Hendrik S. Houthakker (1924–2008) was a Dutch-born American economist at Harvard known for the strong axiom of revealed preference and service on the Council of Economic Advisers.
Hendrik Tollens
Hendrik Tollens (1780–1856) was a Dutch poet, considered the most important national poet of the nineteenth-century Netherlands, known for the anthem "Wien Neêrlands bloed" and the epic about the Nova Zembla wintering.
Hendrik van der Bijl
Hendrik Johannes van der Bijl (1887–1948) was a South African physicist who gave the triode vacuum tube its mathematical basis and founded Eskom and Iscor.
Hendrik van Veldeke
Hendrik van Veldeke, also Heinrich von Veldeke, was a poet of the Meuse region active in the late twelfth century, the first Dutch writer known by name.
Hendrik Verwoerd
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (1901–1966), Dutch-born South African prime minister 1958–1966 and chief architect of apartheid; Bantu Education Act, Bantustan homelands, 1960 republic referendum, assassinated by Dimitri Tsafendas in Parliament.
Hendrik Wade Bode
Hendrik Wade Bode (1905–1982) was an American engineer and control theorist at Bell Telephone Laboratories who developed frequency-domain techniques for designing feedback amplifiers and control systems.
Hendrik Willem van Loon
Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882–1944) was a Dutch-American historian, journalist, and illustrator whose The Story of Mankind (1921) won the first Newbery Medal, and who broadcast to occupied Holland as "Oom Henk" during World War II.
Hendrik Witbooi
Hendrik Witbooi was a Nama captain who led the ǀKhowesin community at Gibeon in present-day Namibia, resisting German colonial rule until he died in combat in 1905.
Hendrik Wüst
Hendrik Wüst is a German CDU politician who serves as Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia and state party chairman, after serving as the state's transport minister.
Hendrik Zwaardemaker
Hendrik Zwaardemaker was a Dutch physiologist, professor at Utrecht University from 1897 to 1927, who founded experimental research on smell and invented the first olfactometer in 1888.
Hendrika Johanna van Leeuwen
Hendrika Johanna van Leeuwen was a Dutch physicist whose 1919 Leiden thesis proved the Bohr–van Leeuwen theorem, that classical statistical mechanics gives zero magnetization; she later became the first female lector at TU Delft.
Hendrika van Rumt
Hendrika (Riek) van Rumt, 1897-1985, Dutch gymnast; won gold in the first women's Olympic gymnastics event, the 1928 Amsterdam team all-around, her only Games.
Hendrina power station
Hendrina power station is a coal-fired power station operated by Eskom at Hendrina, Mpumalanga, South Africa, the largest station designed by ESCOM when built and its oldest continuously operated plant.
Hendrycks, Dan
Dan Hendrycks is an American AI safety researcher who earned a PhD at UC Berkeley in 2022 and directs the Center for AI Safety, known for GELU and MMLU.
Henenu
Henenu was a high official and chief steward of Eleventh Dynasty Egypt under King Mentuhotep II, known from his large mortuary complex at Deir el-Bahari.
Heneral Luna
Heneral Luna, also known as General Luna, is a 2015 Filipino historical war drama directed by Jerrold Tarog, starring John Arcilla as General Antonio Luna of the Philippine-American War.
Heng Huang
Heng Huang is an American-based machine learning researcher working on AI, health computing, and precision medicine, and the inaugural Brendan Iribe Endowed Professor at the University of Maryland.
Heng Li
Heng Li (李恒) is a bioinformatician and associate professor at Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber, known for the BWA aligner, SAM format, minimap2, and hifiasm.
Heng Swee Keat
Heng Swee Keat (王瑞杰) is a Singaporean politician who served as Minister for Finance from 2015 to 2021 and then Deputy Prime Minister until retiring before the 2025 election.