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Hermann Heibel
Hermann Heibel (Hermann Hans Heibel, 1912–1941), German freestyle swimmer of Bremischer Schwimmverband Bremen; 10th in the 1936 Olympic 100 m freestyle, fifth in the 4×200 m relay, and 1938 world record holder in the 4×100 m freestyle relay.
Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), German-born Swiss writer of Demian, Siddhartha, Der Steppenwolf, and Das Glasperlenspiel; Nobel Prize in Literature 1946; over 150 million books sold in more than 70 languages.
Hermann Hoth
Hermann Hoth (1885-1971), German Generaloberst; commanded Panzer Group 3 in Barbarossa, 17th Army, and 4th Panzer Army (Stalingrad relief, Kursk); dismissed December 1943 after Kiev fell; convicted 1948 in the Nuremberg High Command trial.
Hermann Hupfeld
Hermann Hupfeld (1796–1866) was a German Protestant Old Testament scholar and orientalist whose 1853 monograph introduced the newer documentary hypothesis, and whose four-volume Psalms commentary was highly esteemed.
Hermann Irving Schlesinger
Hermann Irving Schlesinger (1882–1960) was an American inorganic chemist at the University of Chicago whose discovery of the borohydrides and aluminohydrides opened modern boron hydride chemistry.
Hermann J. Muller
Hermann J. Muller, also known as Hermann Joseph Muller, was an American geneticist and founder of radiation genetics, awarded the 1946 Nobel Prize for showing X-rays induce mutations.
Hermann Julius Hering
Hermann Julius Hering (1838–1920) was a German Lutheran theologian who held the chair of practical theology at the University of Halle from 1878 until his retirement.
Hermann K. Gummel
Hermann K. Gummel, also known as Hermann Gummel, was a German-born physicist at Bell Laboratories who pioneered semiconductor device modeling and won the first Phil Kaufman Award in 1994.
Hermann Kantorowicz
Hermann Kantorowicz (1877–1940) was a German jurist who co-founded the free law movement, argued that judges create law to fill statutory gaps, and died in exile in Cambridge.
Hermann Kesten
Hermann Kesten (1900–1996) was a German novelist and editor of the Neue Sachlichkeit movement who, in exile from the Nazis, published and rescued persecuted German-language writers.
Hermann Klare
Hermann Klare (1909–2003) was a German chemist who helped build the first large-scale Perlon plant and led East Germany's Academy of Sciences from 1968 to 1979.
Hermann Knaus
Hermann Knaus was an Austrian gynecologist who, working independently of Kyūsaku Ogino, showed that ovulation occurs at a fixed interval before menstruation, providing the physiological basis of the Knaus–Ogino calendar rhythm method.
Hermann Kober
Hermann Kober (1888–1973) was a German-born mathematician who worked in England and is known for Kober's Theorem in Banach-space theory and the Erdélyi–Kober fractional operators.
Hermann Kohler
Hermann Köhler (born 1950, Niedermarsberg) is a retired West German 400 m sprinter of TV Wattenscheid; fourth in the 4x400 m relay at the 1972 Munich Olympics, European relay champion 1971, and 1975 European indoor 400 m champion.
Hermann Künneth
Hermann Künneth (1892–1975) was a German mathematician who proved the Künneth formula for the homology of a product of manifolds, and who worked as a schoolteacher before becoming a professor at Erlangen.
Hermann Lenz
Hermann Lenz (1913–1998) was a German writer known for a nine-volume autobiographical novel cycle around his alter ego Eugen Rapp; he won the 1978 Georg Büchner Prize.
Hermann Linkenbach
Hermann Linkenbach (1889-1959), German cavalry officer and equestrian; won team dressage gold and placed sixth individually riding Gimpel at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics; later Wehrmacht Generalmajor and commandant of Trieste in 1945.
Hermann Löns
Hermann Löns (1866–1914) was a German journalist and writer known for hunting and nature sketches set in the Lüneburg Heath and for his bestselling novel Der Wehrwolf.
Hermann Maier
Hermann Maier, the Herminator, Austrian alpine ski racer born 1972; 54 World Cup wins, four overall titles, 1998 Nagano double gold after a famous downhill crash, 2001 motorcycle comeback.
Hermann Minkowski
Hermann Minkowski (1864–1909) was a German mathematician who created the geometry of numbers and gave special relativity its four-dimensional spacetime formulation, now called Minkowski space.
Hermann Mooser
Hermann Mooser (1891–1971) was a Swiss physician and microbiologist who first distinguished murine typhus from epidemic typhus, established rats as its reservoir, and gave his name to the Neill–Mooser reaction.
Hermann Ney
Hermann Ney is a German computer scientist and RWTH Aachen professor known for Kneser-Ney smoothing and the phrase-based machine translation approach his students used to build Google Translate.
Hermann Nicolai
Hermann Nicolai, born 1952, is a German theoretical physicist known for maximal supergravity and the hidden symmetry E10, and director emeritus at the Albert Einstein Institute in Potsdam.
Hermann Nitsch
Hermann Nitsch (1938 Vienna – 2022 Mistelbach), Austrian Actionist, painter, and composer, co-founder of Viennese Actionism and creator of the Orgien Mysterien Theater, a six-day total artwork of ritual actions, poured paintings, and noise music.
Hermann Oberth
Hermann Oberth was a physicist and rocketry pioneer whose 1923 book Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen founded astronautics; he later worked with Wernher von Braun.
Hermann of Reichenau
Hermann of Reichenau, called Hermannus Contractus or Hermann the Lame, was an eleventh-century Reichenau monk and scholar of music, mathematics, and astronomy who wrote the first surviving chronicle of the German imperial era.
Hermann Olshausen
Hermann Olshausen (1796–1839) was a German Protestant New Testament exegete, professor of theology at Königsberg and then Erlangen, best known for his Biblical Commentary on the whole New Testament, begun in 1830.
Hermann Oppenheim
Hermann Oppenheim (1858–1919) was a German neurologist in Berlin who described the Oppenheim reflex, amyotonia congenita, and dystonia musculorum deformans, and wrote the standard German neurology textbook of 1894.
Hermann Osthoff
Hermann Osthoff (1847–1909) was a German linguist who, with Karl Brugmann, founded the Neogrammarian school of historical linguistics and gave his name to a Greek sound law.
Hermann Paasche
Hermann Paasche (1851–1925) was a German economist, statistician, and Reichstag politician known for the Paasche price index, developed in 1874 from Hamburg prices, which weights goods by current-period quantities.