All articles starting with H

Herbert F. Oettgen

Herbert F. Oettgen (1923–2023) was a German-born tumor immunologist who spent his career at Memorial Sloan Kettering, founding its Division of Applied Immunology in 1970 and pioneering cancer immunotherapy.

Herbert Federer

Herbert Federer (1920–2010) was an American mathematician of Austrian birth at Brown University, a founder of geometric measure theory who proved the coarea formula and solved Plateau's problem.

Herbert Fleischner

Herbert Fleischner (1944–2025) was an Austrian graph theorist best known for Fleischner's theorem, his 1974 proof that the square of every 2-connected finite graph is Hamiltonian.

Herbert Freundlich

Herbert Freundlich, full name Herbert Max Finlay Freundlich, was a German physical chemist and founder of colloid science, known for the Freundlich adsorption isotherm formulated in 1907.

Herbert Friedman

Herbert Friedman (1916–2000) was an American physicist who pioneered X-ray astronomy at the Naval Research Laboratory, detecting solar X-rays in 1949 and X-ray pulsations from the Crab Nebula in 1969.

Herbert Friedmann

Herbert Friedmann (1900–1987) was an American ornithologist and longtime Smithsonian curator of birds, known for decades of work on the evolution of brood parasitism in cowbirds and cuckoos.

Herbert Fröhlich

Herbert Fröhlich (1905–1991) was a German-born British theoretical physicist who brought quantum field theory into solid-state physics, formulated the Hamiltonian behind superconductivity theory, and proposed coherent excitations in living cells.

Herbert G. MacPherson

Herbert G. MacPherson (1911–1993) was an American nuclear engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory who developed boron-free graphite for Manhattan Project reactors and led the molten-salt reactor program.

Herbert Grötzsch

Herbert Grötzsch (1902–1993) was a German mathematician, the main founder of the theory of quasiconformal mappings, and the namesake of the Grötzsch theorem, Grötzsch graph, Grötzsch domain, and Grötzsch Problem.

Herbert Gursky

Herbert Gursky (c. 1930–2006) was an American astrophysicist who helped found X-ray astronomy, co-discovering Sco X-1 on the 1962 rocket flight and later leading HEAO-1 experiments.

Herbert H. Johnson

Herbert H. Johnson (1931–1989) was an American materials scientist and engineer at Cornell University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1987, known for his work on hydrogen embrittlement of steels.

Herbert H. Lehman

Herbert H. Lehman (1878–1963), American investment banker and Democrat; New York's forty-ninth and first Jewish governor (1933–1942), first UNRRA Director General, and US Senator (1949–1957) known for refugee relief and anti-McCarthy advocacy.

Herbert H. Richardson

Herbert H. Richardson is an American mechanical engineer in dynamic systems, measurement, and control who led the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M until 2006.

Herbert H. Samuels

Herbert H. Samuels is an endocrinologist at NYU School of Medicine whose 1973–1977 papers on rat pituitary GH1 cells supplied the earliest characterizations of the nuclear thyroid hormone receptor.

Herbert Hall Turner

Herbert Hall Turner was a British astronomer and seismologist, Savilian professor of astronomy at Oxford from 1893, who coined "parsec," led the Carte du Ciel survey, and discovered deep-focus earthquakes.

Herbert Harold Read

Herbert Harold Read (1889–1970) was a British geologist who mapped the Scottish Highlands and led Britain's granite controversy with his dictum "there are granites and granites".

Oct 21, 2026

Herbert Heinrich

Herbert Heinrich (Johannes Herbert Walter Heinrich, 1899–1975), German freestyle swimmer of SV Poseidon Leipzig; 1926 and 1927 European 4x200 m relay champion, 1927 world record 9:49.6, 12 national titles, competed only at Amsterdam 1928.

Herbert Henry Dow

Herbert Henry Dow (1866–1930) was a Canadian-born American chemist and industrialist who founded The Dow Chemical Company in Midland, Michigan, and pioneered extracting bromine from underground brine by electrolysis.

Herbert Herzog

Herbert Herzog is an Australian neuroscientist known for research on neuropeptide Y, appetite, and stress-induced obesity, who led a laboratory at Sydney's Garvan Institute from 1991.

Oct 21, 2026

Herbert Higgins

Herbert Higgins (John Herbert Higgins, 1916-2004), American breaststroke swimmer and coach; fourth in 200 m breaststroke at 1936 Berlin Olympics; first breaststroke world record set entirely with butterfly arm recovery; longtime US Naval Academy head swim coach.

Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover, also known as Herbert Clark Hoover, was an American mining engineer and the 31st President of the United States, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1922.

Sep 23, 2026

Herbert Hope Risley

Herbert Hope Risley (हर्बर्ट रिस्ली; 1851–1911) was a British Indian Civil Service administrator and leading anthropologist of British India who conducted the 1901 Census of India and served as Home Secretary under Lord Curzon.

Herbert J. C. Kouts

Herbert J. C. Kouts (1920–2008) was an American nuclear physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory who directed reactor safety research for the AEC and NRC, and served on the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board.

Herbert J. Davenport

Herbert J. Davenport (1861–1931) was an American economist who taught at Cornell, led the American Economic Association in 1920, and built a theory of price around opportunity cost.

Sep 20, 2026

Herbert Jäckle

Herbert Jäckle (born 1949 in Konstanz, Germany) is a German developmental biologist known for molecular genetic analysis of early Drosophila embryonic development, centered on the Krüppel segmentation gene.

Herbert Jasper

Herbert Henri Jasper (1906–1999) was a Canadian neuroscientist who helped found clinical neurophysiology, confirmed the human EEG in North America, and led the Montreal Neurological Institute's EEG laboratories.

Herbert John Ryser

Herbert John Ryser was a mathematician and professor at Caltech from 1967 until his death in 1985, a major figure in combinatorics known for the Bruck–Ryser–Chowla theorem.

Herbert John Shaw

Herbert John Shaw (1918–2006) was an American electrical engineer and applied physicist at Stanford University's Ginzton Laboratory, known for surface acoustic wave devices, fiber-optic gyroscopes, and fiber-optic amplifiers.

Herbert Kappler

Herbert Kappler (1907–1978), SS colonel and Gestapo chief of Rome, directed the October 1943 deportation of Rome's Jews and the Ardeatine Caves massacre of 335 hostages; sentenced to life in 1948, he escaped to West Germany in 1977.