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Herman A. Tyroler
Herman Alfred (Al) Tyroler was an American physician and epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina, a pioneer of cardiovascular disease epidemiology elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1980.
Herman Auerbach
Herman Auerbach (1901–1942) was a Polish mathematician of the Lwów School of Mathematics who worked on convex geometry and functional analysis and is remembered for the Auerbach basis.
Herman Baker
Herman Baker, born 1926, is an American clinical biochemistry and nutrition researcher known for his work on biotin deficiency at the East Orange VA Medical Center.
Herman Bang
Herman Bang (1857–1912) was a Danish novelist, journalist, and stage director, the most prominent representative of impressionist literature in Denmark, known for works such as Stuk and Tine.
Herman Bavinck
Herman Bavinck (1854–1921) was a Dutch Reformed theologian who taught dogmatics at Kampen and succeeded Abraham Kuyper at the Free University of Amsterdam, writing the four-volume Reformed Dogmatics.
Herman Berendsen
Herman Johan Christiaan Berendsen (1934–2019) was a Dutch physical chemist at the University of Groningen whose Berendsen thermostat, SPC water model, SHAKE algorithm, and GROMACS software underlie modern molecular dynamics simulation.
Herman Boone
Herman Boone (1935-2019), American high school football coach at T.C. Williams High School, Alexandria, Virginia; led the integrated 1971 Titans to a 13-0 state championship, inspiring the film Remember the Titans, in which Denzel Washington played him.
Herman Brood
Herman Brood (Hermanus Brood, 1946–2001), Dutch rock musician, painter, actor, and poet; frontman of Herman Brood & His Wild Romance, breakthrough 1978 with Shpritsz and "Saturday Night", later a pop-art painter, died jumping from the Amsterdam Hilton.
Herman Brusselmans
Herman Brusselmans is a Flemish novelist, poet, and columnist born in 1957 in Hamme, Belgium, who has published more than 75 books and writes a weekly column for Humo.
Herman Cain
Herman Cain (1945-2020) was an American businessman, Godfather's Pizza CEO, Kansas City Fed chairman, and 2012 Republican presidential candidate known for his 9-9-9 flat tax plan; his campaign ended after sexual harassment allegations, and he died of COVID-19 after a Trump rally.
Herman Charles Bosman
Herman Charles Bosman (1905–1951) was a South African writer widely regarded as the country's finest short-story writer, known for his Marico stories narrated by Oom Schalk Lourens.
Herman Chernoff
Herman Chernoff (1923–2026) was an American statistician known for the Chernoff bound, Chernoff faces, and the Chernoff–Savage theorem, who taught at Stanford, MIT, and Harvard.
Herman de Coninck
Herman de Coninck (1944–1997) was a Flemish poet, essayist, and journalist of Flemish New Realism, remembered as "the man who taught his people to read poetry".
Herman de Coninckprijs
The Herman de Coninckprijs, or Herman de Coninck Prize, is an annual Flemish literary prize for the best Dutch-language poetry collection, established in 2007 in memory of poet Herman de Coninck.
Herman E. Sheets
Herman E. Sheets (Herman Ernst Sheets, 1908–2006) was a German-born American engineer who led research at Electric Boat and invented the slotted-blade axial-flow blower installed in Navy submarines.
Herman F. Mark
Herman F. Mark (1895–1992) was an Austrian-born American chemist at Brooklyn Polytechnic known as the father of polymer science, whose X-ray work proved polymers are giant molecules.
Herman Feshbach
Herman Feshbach (1917–2000) was an American theoretical nuclear physicist who spent his career at MIT, led its physics department, and named the Feshbach resonance, now essential for controlling ultracold atomic gases.
Herman Frazier
Herman Frazier (Herman Ronald Frazier, born 1954), American sprinter and athletics administrator; 1976 Olympic gold in 4x400 m relay and bronze in 400 m; later athletic director at UAB, Hawaii, and Syracuse and 2004 US Chef de Mission.
Herman Friedman
Herman Friedman was an American immunologist known for work on immune RNA transfer and viral immunosuppression, who chaired microbiology at the University of South Florida.
Herman Glass
Herman Theobald Glass (1880–1961), American gymnast with the Richmond YMCA; won the men's rings gold at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics with a perfect 45 points, his only major title; worked as a bookbinder.
Herman Goldstine
Herman Goldstine (1913–2004) was an American mathematician who directed the ENIAC project at the University of Pennsylvania, collaborated with von Neumann, and became an IBM Fellow.
Herman Gorter
Herman Gorter (1864–1927) was a Dutch poet and Marxist theorist of the Tachtigers, best known for the epic poem Mei (1889) and his 1920 open letter opposing Lenin.
Herman Hollerith
Herman Hollerith (1860–1929) was an American inventor who developed the punched-card tabulating system first used for the 1890 US Census and founded the company that became IBM.
Herman J. Almquist
Herman J. Almquist (1903–1994) was an American biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley, who independently confirmed vitamin K's discovery and showed in 1938 that bacteria synthesize it in the intestine.
Herman J. Mankiewicz
Herman J. Mankiewicz (1897-1953), American screenwriter and New Yorker theater critic, co-wrote Citizen Kane with Orson Welles, sharing the 1942 Oscar; subject of the authorship debate and Fincher's Mank.
Herman J. Weber
Herman J. Weber, also known as Herman Jacob Weber, is an American jurist who served as a United States district judge in Ohio, appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1985.
Herman Kalckar
Herman Moritz Kalckar (1908–1991) was a Danish-born American biochemist who demonstrated oxidative phosphorylation in cell-free extracts, performed the first enzymic synthesis of a nucleoside, and identified the enzyme defect in galactosemia.
Herman Li (李康敏)
Herman Li (李康敏), Hong Kong-born co-founder and lead guitarist of Grammy-nominated power metal band DragonForce, known for Through the Fire and Flames, Guitar Hero III, and his PRS Chleo signature guitar.
Herman M. Somers
Herman M. Somers (1911–1991) was an American political scientist and health policy scholar at Princeton who, with his wife Anne R. Somers, helped shape Medicare.
Herman Melville
Herman Melville (1819–1891), American novelist of Moby-Dick, Typee, Omoo, Pierre, and Billy Budd; whaling sailor turned author whose work sold poorly in life and was revived after 1919.