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Henry Primakoff
Henry Primakoff (1914–1983) was a Russian-born American theoretical physicist, the first Donner Professor of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania, known for the Holstein–Primakoff spin-wave theory and the Primakoff effect.
Henry Purcell
Henry Purcell (c. 1659–1695), English Baroque composer and organist of Westminster Abbey and the Chapel Royal; wrote Dido and Aeneas, King Arthur, The Fairy Queen, about 800 works; died at 36, buried in the Abbey.
Henry R. Bourne
Henry R. Bourne (Henry Reid Bourne, 1940–2023) was an American pharmacologist and cell biologist at UCSF known for showing how G proteins transmit hormone-receptor signals.
Henry R. Halperin
Henry R. Halperin is a cardiologist and biomedical engineer at Johns Hopkins University, known for the 2017 study showing MRI is safe for patients with cardiac devices.
Henry R. Linden
Henry R. Linden (1922–2009) was an Austrian-born American chemical engineer who directed the Institute of Gas Technology in Chicago and served as the first president of the Gas Research Institute.
Henry R. Seager
Henry R. Seager, also known as Henry Rogers Seager, was an American labor economist at Columbia University whose 1910 book Social Insurance helped found the US social insurance movement.
Henry R. Shinefield
Henry R. Shinefield (born 1925) is an American pediatrician and vaccine researcher who was chief of pediatrics at Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco and co-developed its Vaccine Study Center.
Henry Raeburn
Sir Henry Raeburn (1756–1823) was a Scottish portrait painter who worked almost exclusively in Edinburgh, painting about 1,000 portraits and famous for Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch.
Henry Rathbone
Henry Reed Rathbone, Union Army major in the presidential box at Lincoln's 1865 Ford's Theatre assassination, stabbed by Booth, later killed his wife Clara Harris in 1883 and died in a German asylum in 1911.
Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson
Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson (1864-1925), British general, son of the Assyriologist H. C. Rawlinson; commanded IV Corps at Ypres and Neuve Chapelle, the Fourth Army on the Somme 1916 and at Amiens 1918, then British forces in India until his death.
Henry reaction
The Henry reaction, also called the nitroaldol reaction, is a base-promoted carbon–carbon bond-forming reaction in which a nitroalkane adds to an aldehyde or ketone to give a β-nitro alcohol.
Henry Reeve (soldier)
Henry Reeve, known as "Enrique el Americano", was an American from Brooklyn who fought for Cuban independence in the Ten Years' War, rising to brigadier general.
Henry Reid
Henry Reid is a former registered person of Five Rings Capital LLP, the London arm of a New York proprietary trading firm, FCA-approved from 2016 to 2017.
Henry Richards Luard
Henry Richards Luard (1825–1891) was a Church of England clergyman, Cambridge registrary, vicar of Great St Mary's, and editor of medieval chronicles for the Rolls Series.
Henry rifle
The Henry rifle, formally the Model 1860, is an American lever-action repeating rifle in .44 Henry rimfire, made by the New Haven Arms Company from 1860 to 1866.
Henry Rishbeth
Henry Rishbeth was a British ionospheric physicist, trained at Cambridge under J. A. Ratcliffe, whose definitive studies of the F2 layer earned the Royal Astronomical Society's Gold Medal in 2001.
Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins (Henry Lawrence Garfield, born 1961) is an American punk musician, spoken word artist, writer, actor, and radio host: Black Flag singer 1981–86, Rollins Band frontman, Grammy-winning author of Get in the Van, and founder of 2.13.61.
Henry Rono
Henry Rono (1952-2024), Kenyan distance runner, set four world records in 81 days in 1978 (5000m, 3000m steeplechase, 10,000m, 3000m) plus a fifth 5000m record in 1981; missed Olympics via boycotts.
Henry Rowan
Henry Rowan was an American electrical engineer and industrialist who founded Inductotherm Corp. in 1953 and gave $100 million to Glassboro State College in 1992, which became Rowan University.
Henry Ruggs
Henry Ruggs III is a former American football wide receiver drafted 12th overall by the Las Vegas Raiders in 2020, whose career ended after a fatal 2021 drunk-driving crash.
Henry S. Kaplan
Henry S. Kaplan (1918–1984) was an American radiation oncologist and cancer biologist at Stanford who developed the first medical linear accelerator in the Western hemisphere and helped make Hodgkin's disease curable.
Henry S. White
Henry S. White is an American electrochemist and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of Utah, known for nanometer-scale electrodes, nanopore sensors, and single-entity electrochemistry.
Henry Samueli
Henry Samueli, born in 1954 in Buffalo, New York, is an American electrical engineer who co-founded the semiconductor company Broadcom in 1991 and holds more than 75 U.S. patents.
Henry Scheffé
Henry Scheffé (1907–1977) was an American statistician at the University of California, Berkeley, known for the Scheffé method for all contrasts in the analysis of variance and his 1959 book The Analysis of Variance.
Henry Seely White
Henry Seely White (1861–1943) was an American mathematician at Vassar College who worked in invariant theory and algebraic curves and served as president of the American Mathematical Society.
Henry Segerman
Henry Segerman is a British-born mathematician and mathematical maker at Oklahoma State University, known for 3D-printed mathematical sculptures, virtual-reality visualizations of Thurston geometries, and a YouTube channel with over 28 million views.
Henry Seiling
Henry Seiling, American tug-of-war athlete, won gold at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics for the Milwaukee Athletic Club team, though he and all teammates were actually Chicago athletes; his true identity remains unverified.
Henry Selick
Henry Selick (born 1952, Glen Ridge, New Jersey) is an American stop-motion animation director, distinct from Tim Burton; he directed The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), James and the Giant Peach, Monkeybone, Coraline (2009), and Wendell & Wild (2022), all using stop-motion puppet animation.
Henry Sherwood Lawrence
Henry Sherwood Lawrence, known as H. Sherwood Lawrence, was an American immunologist at New York University who discovered transfer factor in 1949 and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1972.
Henry Siedentopf
Henry Friedrich Wilhelm Siedentopf (1872–1940) was a German physicist at Carl Zeiss in Jena who co-invented the slit ultramicroscope with Richard Zsigmondy in 1903, making sub-wavelength colloidal particles visible.