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Herbert Walther
Herbert Walther (1935–2006) was a German physicist whose one-atom maser, the micromaser, was a milestone of cavity quantum electrodynamics and a founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics.
Herbert Wigwe
Herbert Onyewumbu Wigwe was a Nigerian banker who co-founded Access Bank in 2002, built it into Africa's largest retail bank, and died in a 2024 helicopter crash.
Herbert Wilf
Herbert Wilf (1931–2012) was an American mathematician at the University of Pennsylvania known for Wilf–Zeilberger computer-generated proofs, the book generatingfunctionology, and the Stanley–Wilf conjecture on pattern-avoiding permutations.
Herbert William Richmond
Herbert William Richmond (1863–1948) was an English mathematician at King's College, Cambridge, known for his 1893 construction of the regular 17-sided polygon and the Cremona–Richmond configuration.
Herbert Wilson
Herbert Haydon Wilson (1875–1917), British polo player and Royal Horse Guards captain; won 1908 London Olympic polo gold with Roehampton Club, killed in action near Arras, Ypres.
Herbert Woodson
Herbert Woodson (1925–2018) was an American electrical engineer at MIT and the University of Texas at Austin, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1975.
Herbert Y. Meltzer
Herbert Y. Meltzer is an American psychiatrist, Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University, known for the dopamine-serotonin hypothesis of atypical antipsychotics and clinical trials that won clozapine approval for treatment-resistant schizophrenia.
Herbert Zeiger
Herbert Zeiger was an American physicist trained under Isidor Rabi at Columbia who co-authored the 1954 ammonia maser paper and shared the inaugural Charles Hard Townes Award in 1981.
Herberts Cukurs
Herberts Cukurs (1900–1965), Latvian aviator and Arājs Kommando member called the Butcher of Riga, fled to Brazil after World War II and was assassinated by Mossad agents in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1965.
Herbertsmithite
Herbertsmithite is a zinc copper hydroxyl chloride mineral, ZnCu₃(OH)₆Cl₂, whose copper ions sit on a kagome lattice, making it the leading candidate for a quantum spin liquid.
Herbes de Provence
Herbes de Provence (èrbas de Provença) is an unprotected commercial name for a dried herb blend typical of southern French cooking, usually thyme, rosemary, oregano, and savory; Label Rouge certification since 2003 fixes a recipe, while most herbs sold are imported.
Herbicide
Herbicide: chemicals that kill or control unwanted vegetation, used mainly in row-crop farming. Key modes of action include photosynthesis, amino acid, and cell division inhibition; glyphosate is the most widely used, and about 273 weed species show resistance.
Herbicide safener
Herbicide safener (herbicide antidote, crop protectant): chemical or seed treatment protecting crops from herbicide injury without reducing weed control, mainly by inducing GST, P450, and glutathione-based detoxification; examples include dichlormid, benoxacor, and mefenpyr-diethyl.
Herbie
Herbie is Disney's sentient 1963 Volkswagen Beetle, pearl white with number 53, debuting in The Love Bug (1968), which became 1969's highest-grossing US film, followed by three 1970s sequels, a 1997 TV movie with Bruce Campbell, and Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005).
Herbie Farnworth
Herbie Farnworth (Herbert John Felix Farnworth), born in 1999, is an English rugby league center who plays for the Dolphins in the NRL and represents England.
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977) is Disney's third Herbie comedy, directed by Vincent McEveety, starring Dean Jones, Don Knotts, and Julie Sommars in a Paris-to-Monte Carlo road race with a hidden diamond and a Lancia romance, grossing $29 million domestically.
Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock, born 1940) is an American jazz pianist and composer, Miles Davis Quintet member, Head Hunters and Rockit innovator, 14-time Grammy and 1987 Academy Award winner.
Herbie Hancock discography
Herbie Hancock discography: leader albums by the American jazz pianist from Takin' Off (Blue Note, 1962) through Mwandishi, Head Hunters (Columbia, 1973), V.S.O.P., Future Shock, and River: The Joni Letters (Verve, 2007), with labels, dates, and awards.
Herbie Rides Again
Herbie Rides Again (1974) is Disney's first Love Bug sequel, directed by Robert Stevenson, starring Helen Hayes, Ken Berry, and Keenan Wynn as Alonzo Hawk, with Herbie's 1963 VW Beetle saving a San Francisco firehouse.
Herbie: Fully Loaded
Herbie: Fully Loaded is a 2005 American family comedy starring Lindsay Lohan as Maggie Peyton, who restores the sentient Volkswagen Beetle Herbie and races him in NASCAR.
Herbier (DAKAR)
Herbier DAKAR is the herbarium of UCAD's Department of Plant Biology in Dakar, Senegal, founded 1960 by Professor J. Miege to hold a representative collection of Senegal's flora, alongside the older IFAN herbarium.
Herbier (OUA)
Herbier (OUA) is the herbarium of the University of Ouagadougou, now Joseph Ki-Zerbo University, Burkina Faso; founded from Sita Guinko's 1975 work, about 12,000 specimens, digitized in BRAHMS, base for the national flora catalogue.
Herbier (UQAR)
Herbier Jean-Faubert, the herbarium of Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR), founded 1970 from abbé A.A. DeChamplain's donated collection; over 7,000 vascular plant specimens documenting southeastern Quebec and Gaspé flora, named for bryologist Jean Faubert in 2019.
Herbig Ae/Be star
A Herbig Ae/Be star, also called a Herbig star, is a young intermediate-mass star of spectral type A or B still contracting toward the main sequence.
Herbig–Haro object
A Herbig–Haro (HH) object is a small patch of glowing nebulosity in a star-forming region, produced where supersonic jets from a newborn star shock-heat the surrounding gas and dust.
Herbimycin A
Herbimycin A is a benzoquinone ansamycin antibiotic produced by the soil bacterium Streptomyces hygroscopicus, first isolated in 1979 and later found to inhibit the chaperone Hsp90.
Herbita
Herbita (Ἕρβιτα, Erbita), ancient Siculan town in interior eastern Sicily, allied with Ducetius (Calacte, 447 BC), ruled by Archonides, later Roman civitas decumana in Cicero's Verrines; site unidentified, possibly Monte Alburchia near Gangi.
Herbivore
Herbivore: an animal specializing on primary producers (plants), unlike carnivores and omnivores. Defined by plant-based diet, microbial fermentation of cellulose in foregut or hindgut, and major ecosystem roles.
Herbivore men
Herbivore men (草食系男子, sōshoku-kei danshi), also called sōshoku danshi, are Japanese men uninterested in pursuing romance, sex, and conventional career ambition. Coined by Maki Fukasawa and popularized in 2008–2009, the term contrasts with "carnivore" men and is linked to Japan's declining marriage and birth rates.
Herbivore-induced plant terpene synthases
Herbivore-induced plant terpene synthases are plant enzymes switched on by insect feeding, causing emission of volatile terpenes that attract predators and parasitoids and repel herbivores.