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H. C. Branner

H. C. Branner, full name Hans Christian Branner, was a Danish writer (1903–1966) known for psychologically probing novels and for raising the radio play to a serious art form.

H. C. Verma (हरिश चंद्र वर्मा)

H. C. Verma, also known as Harish Chandra Verma, is an Indian experimental physicist and IIT Kanpur professor best known for the two-volume textbook Concepts of Physics.

H. Carl Haywood

H. Carl Haywood (Herbert Carlton Haywood) was an American developmental and educational psychologist who studied motivation, intellectual disability, and assessment at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College.

H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins

Hugh Christopher Longuet-Higgins (1923–2004) was a British theoretical chemist who, in mid-career, became a founding figure of cognitive science, co-founding machine intelligence research at Edinburgh and coining the term "cognitive science" in 1973.

H. Clifford Lane

H. Clifford Lane is an American physician-scientist and immunologist who serves as Clinical Director of NIAID at the NIH, known for HIV research and trials of remdesivir and Ebola vaccines.

H. Criss Hartzell

H. Criss Hartzell (Harrison Hartzell Jr.) is a cell biologist who spent his career at Emory University studying ion channels, especially the ANO/TMEM16 chloride channel family.

H. D. Deve Gowda

H. D. Deve Gowda (श्री एच. डी. देवेगौड़ा), born 1933, Karnataka farmer-leader, 14th Karnataka Chief Minister (1994–96) and 11th Prime Minister of India heading the United Front for 325 days in 1996–97; later Janata Dal (Secular) national president.

H. D. F. Kitto

H. D. F. Kitto (Humphrey Davy Findley Kitto, 1897–1982) was a British classical scholar, professor of Greek at Bristol, and author of Greek Tragedy and The Greeks.

H. D. Kumaraswamy

H. D. Kumaraswamy (born 1959), son of H. D. Deve Gowda, Janata Dal (Secular) leader, twice Chief Minister of Karnataka (2006–07, 2018–19), and since June 2024 India's Union Minister of Heavy Industries, MP from Mandya.

H. Damon Matthews

H. Damon Matthews is a Canadian climate scientist and professor at Concordia University in Montreal, known for research showing global warming rises in near-linear proportion to cumulative carbon emissions.

H. David Banta

H. David Banta (Henry David Banta, 1938–2022) was an American physician and health policy scientist who founded the field of health technology assessment, building it at the US Office of Technology Assessment in the 1970s.

H. David Humes

H. David Humes is an American nephrologist and professor emeritus at the University of Michigan who developed the bioartificial kidney and founded Nephros Therapeutics in 1994.

H. David Politzer

H. David Politzer, born 1949, is an American theoretical physicist at Caltech who shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of asymptotic freedom.

H. Donald Ratliff

H. Donald Ratliff is an American industrial engineer and operations researcher, Regent's Professor Emeritus at Georgia Tech, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1996 for logistics optimization.

H. DuBose Montgomery

H. DuBose Montgomery (Henry DuBose Montgomery) is an American venture capitalist who founded Menlo Ventures in 1976 and led its medical and information technology investments, including Gilead Sciences, for nearly 40 years.

H. E. Carter

H. E. Carter, or Herbert Edmund Carter, was an American biochemist who pioneered sphingolipid research at the University of Illinois and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1953.

H. E. de Wardener

Hugh Edward de Wardener (1915–2013) was a British nephrologist who pioneered dialysis and renal biopsy in Britain, became the first professor of medicine at Charing Cross Hospital, and studied salt and blood pressure.

H. E. Hinton

Howard Everest Hinton (1912–1977), British entomologist at Bristol and FRS 1961; beetle taxonomist, cryptobiosis researcher, author of Biology of Insect Eggs, founder of Journal of Insect Physiology.

H. E. Wright

Herbert E. Wright Jr. (1917–2015) was an American Quaternary scientist at the University of Minnesota, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1977 and known for the COHMAP project.

H. Earl Ruley

H. Earl Ruley is a cancer researcher and Professor Emeritus of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, known for showing how oncogenes cooperate to transform cells and for gene-trap mutagenesis.

H. Eugene Stanley

H. Eugene Stanley, born 1941 in Oklahoma City, is an American physicist at Boston University known for critical phenomena, the physics of water, and founding econophysics.

H. F. Baker

H. F. Baker, or Henry Frederick Baker (1866–1956), was a British mathematician at Cambridge known for the Baker–Campbell–Hausdorff formula and for founding the Cambridge school of geometry between the wars.

H. Franklin Bunn

H. Franklin Bunn (Howard Franklin Bunn) is a hematologist and professor at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital whose laboratory established the HbA1c diabetes test.

H. G. Dattatreya

H. G. Dattatreya (Dattanna, Harihar Gundurao Dattatreya), born 1942 in Chitradurga, is a Kannada character actor, retired IAF Wing Commander and engineer, National Award winner for Munnudi with over 180 films.

H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells (1866–1946), British novelist and social commentator, a father of science fiction with Verne and Gernsback; wrote The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, and over 150 books predicting atomic weapons and aerial war.

H. G. Wells bibliography

H. G. Wells bibliography: the published works of Herbert George Wells (1866–1946), from Text-Book of Biology (1893) and the scientific romances to The Outline of History, plus the Wells Society's Comprehensive Bibliography.

H. Georges Berger

H. Georges Berger (Herman Georges Berger, 1875-1924), French fencer with Société d'Encouragement de l'Escrime, Paris; won 1908 Olympic team épée gold, competed in foil and épée at 1900, refereed 1900 épée. Not the Belgian F1 driver of the same name.

H. Gilbert Welch

H. Gilbert Welch, often published as H. G. Welch, is an American internist and cancer epidemiologist known for the overdiagnosis thesis in cancer screening, and author of Overdiagnosed (2011).

H. Gobind Khorana

Har Gobind Khorana was an Indian-born American biochemist who shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for deciphering the genetic code and reported the first chemical synthesis of a gene in 1970.

H. Guy Hunt

H. Guy Hunt (Harold Guy Hunt, 1933-2009) was Alabama's 49th governor (1987-1993), the first Republican elected since Reconstruction, removed by a 1993 ethics conviction over $200,000 of inaugural funds and pardoned on innocence grounds in 1998.