All articles starting with H

Herbert Kleber

Herbert D. Kleber (1934-2018), American psychiatrist and addiction treatment pioneer; founded Yale's Drug Dependence Unit, ran first clonidine trial, ONDCP deputy director under Bush, co-founded Center on Addiction, Columbia professor.

Oct 21, 2026

Herbert Klein

Herbert Klein (1923–2001), West German breaststroke swimmer; 1952 Helsinki Olympic bronze in the 200 m breaststroke (2:35.9), 1950 European champion, world record holder in the 100 m (1:05.8) and 200 m (2:27.3) breaststroke; disqualified at Melbourne 1956.

Herbert Kretzmer

Herbert Kretzmer (1925-2020), South African-born British journalist and lyricist, wrote the English lyrics for Les Misérables and Aznavour's hits She and Yesterday When I Was Young; Tony and Grammy winner.

Herbert Kroemer

Herbert Kroemer (1928–2024) was a German-American physicist at UC Santa Barbara who won a quarter of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics for semiconductor heterostructures.

Herbert L. Abrams

Herbert L. Abrams was an American radiologist at Stanford and Harvard who wrote Angiography (1961) and critiqued imaging overuse, sharing the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize through IPPNW.

Herbert L. Anderson

Herbert L. Anderson (1914–1988) was an American nuclear physicist who helped build Chicago Pile-1, the first self-sustained nuclear chain reaction, and received the 1982 Enrico Fermi Award.

Herbert L. Bonkovsky

Herbert L. Bonkovsky is an American hepatologist known for developing the first heme therapy for acute porphyria attacks and Professor Emeritus at Wake Forest School of Medicine.

Herbert L. Cooper

Herbert L. Cooper is an NIH physician-scientist who studied RNA metabolism in growing lymphocytes and discovered in 1981 that hypusine is formed post-translationally in a single protein.

Sep 20, 2026

Herbert L. DuPont

Herbert L. DuPont is an American infectious disease physician-scientist at UTHealth Houston whose research on travelers' diarrhea, E. coli, and Cryptosporidium shaped diarrheal disease treatment worldwide.

Herbert L. Misch

Herbert L. Misch, born Herbert Louis Misch, was an American mechanical engineer at Packard and Ford who led the 1962 Mustang I prototype and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976.

Herbert L. Needleman

Herbert Leroy Needleman, an American pediatrician and researcher, showed that low-level lead exposure damages children's intelligence, leading to the ban of lead in U.S. gasoline and paint.

Herbert Levine (biological physicist)

Herbert Levine is an American biological physicist at Northeastern University known for physical models of cancer metastasis, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.

Oct 21, 2026

Herbert Lindstrom

Herbert Lindström (Carl Herbert Lindström, 1886–1951), Swedish fisherman from Sandhamn and 1912 Stockholm Olympics tug-of-war gold medalist; the only non-policeman on Sweden's champion team that beat Great Britain 2–0.

Oct 22, 2026

Herbert List

Herbert List (1903–1975) was a German photographer, the leading representative of metaphysical photography, who worked for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and Life and joined Magnum Photos in 1951.

Herbert Lom

Herbert Lom (Herbert Karel Angelo Kuchačevič ze Schluderpacheru, 1917–2012) was a Czech-born, London-based character actor, best known as Chief Inspector Dreyfus in the Pink Panther films and for playing Napoleon three times.

Herbert M. Pinedo

Herbert M. Pinedo, known in Dutch medicine as Bob Pinedo, is a Dutch medical oncologist and professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam who pioneered bench-to-bedside cancer research.

Oct 22, 2026

Herbert Macaulay

Herbert Macaulay (1864–1946) was a Nigerian surveyor, journalist, and politician who founded the Nigerian National Democratic Party and is widely described as the father of Nigerian nationalism.

Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979), German-American Frankfurt School philosopher, author of Eros and Civilization and One-Dimensional Man, Heidegger's assistant, OSS analyst, Brandeis and UCSD professor, and intellectual figure of the 1960s New Left.

Herbert Marshall

Herbert Marshall (1890-1966), English stage, film, and radio actor; lost a leg in WWI yet starred in Trouble in Paradise, The Letter, and The Little Foxes, and played Ken Thurston on radio's A Man Called X.

Herbert Mataré

Herbert F. Mataré (1912–2011) was a German physicist who, with Heinrich Welker at Westinghouse's laboratory near Paris, invented the transistron in 1948 independently of Bell Labs, and founded Intermetall.

Sep 20, 2026

Herbert Mayr

Herbert Mayr, born 1947 in Weilheim, Germany, is a German physical organic chemist, professor in retirement at LMU Munich, known for reactivity scales predicting polar organic reaction rates.

Herbert McLean Evans

Herbert McLean Evans (1882–1971) was an American anatomist and endocrinologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who co-discovered vitamin E and pioneered pituitary growth hormone research.

Herbert Mescon

Herbert Mescon (1919–1985) was an American dermatologist who built and chaired the dermatology department at Boston University School of Medicine from 1952 to 1984, known for research on skin pigmentation.

Herbert Mortimer Luckock

Herbert Mortimer Luckock (1833–1909) was a Church of England theologian, canon of Ely from 1875, and dean of Lichfield from 1892, best known for his book After Death.

Herbert Mullin

Herbert William Mullin (1947–2022), American serial killer who murdered 13 people in Northern California, October 1972 to February 1973, claiming human sacrifice to prevent earthquakes; convicted of 10 murders, denied parole, died in prison.

Herbert N. Straus House

Herbert N. Straus House, also called Nine East 71st Street or the Epstein townhouse, is a 1930 Horace Trumbauer French neoclassical limestone mansion in Manhattan, built for a Macy's heir, later a hospital annex, school, Leslie Wexner's home, and Jeffrey Epstein's residence until 2019.