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Hermann Pentz
Hermann Pentz, German backstroke swimmer for Neptun Hannover; set the 400 m backstroke long course world record, 5:59.2 min, 11 October 1913 in Magdeburg, and a 200 m backstroke world record 2:50.6 in 1911.
Hermann Rahn
Hermann Rahn (1912–1990) was an American respiratory and environmental physiologist who chaired physiology at the University at Buffalo and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Hermann Rahtmann
Hermann Rahtmann, also spelled Rathmann, was a German Lutheran theologian and Danzig pastor whose doctrine of Word and Spirit triggered the Rathmann controversy from 1621.
Hermann Rauschning
Hermann Rauschning (1887–1982), German politician and publicist, President of the Danzig Senate 1933–34, NSDAP member who broke with Hitler, exiled to the USA; author of Die Revolution des Nihilismus and the disputed Gespräche mit Hitler.
Hermann Rein
Hermann Rein (1898–1953) was a German physiologist who invented the Thermostromuhr, a device for measuring blood flow in unopened vessels, and led the Göttingen Physiological Institute.
Hermann Rorschach
Hermann Rorschach (1884-1922), Swiss psychiatrist, creator of the Rorschach inkblot test; published Psychodiagnostik in 1921 with ten blots; died at 37; test's validity remains debated.
Hermann Sahli
Hermann Sahli (1856–1933) was a Swiss internist and hematologist who directed the Inselspital medical clinic in Bern and created the 1902 Sahli hemoglobinometer for measuring blood hemoglobin.
Hermann Schindelin
Hermann Schindelin is a structural biologist and biochemist, professor at the Rudolf Virchow Center in Würzburg since 2006, known for the first crystal structure of a ubiquitin E1 enzyme.
Hermann Schridde
Hermann Schridde (1937–1985), German show jumper, Olympic team gold and individual silver at Tokyo 1964 on Dozent, team bronze 1968, European champion 1965, later West German national coach until dying in a 1985 plane crash.
Hermann Schwarz
Hermann Amandus Schwarz (1843–1921) was a German mathematician known for the Cauchy–Schwarz inequality, the Schwarz lemma, and the first rigorous proof of the Riemann mapping theorem.
Hermann Simon (German business academic)
Hermann Simon is a German business academic and management consultant who co-founded the pricing consultancy Simon-Kucher & Partners in Bonn in 1985 and originated the "Hidden Champions" concept.
Hermann Statz
Hermann Statz (1928–2020) was a German-born solid-state physicist and microwave engineer who spent forty years at Raytheon's Research Division and won the 2005 IEEE Microwave Pioneer Award.
Hermann Staudinger
Hermann Staudinger was a German chemist who founded macromolecular chemistry, proposing in 1920 that polymers are giant covalently bonded molecules, and won the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Hermann Stehr
Hermann Stehr (1864–1940) was a German novelist and short-story writer from Habelschwerdt, Silesia, whose religious-mystical fiction about Silesian peasants culminated in Der Heiligenhof (1918).
Hermann Steller
Hermann Steller is a molecular biologist at Rockefeller University whose laboratory identified the fruit fly cell death genes reaper, hid, and grim, work that underlies cancer therapeutics in clinical trials.
Hermann Struve
Hermann Struve, also known as Karl Hermann Struve, was a Russian-born astronomer of the Struve dynasty who directed the Berlin-Babelsberg Observatory and transformed the study of Saturn's satellites and rings.
Hermann Tast
Hermann Tast, also Harmen Tast (c. 1490–1551), was a Lutheran reformer and pastor of the Marienkirche in Husum who helped bring the Reformation to Schleswig-Holstein.
Hermann Tertsch
Hermann Tertsch, born in Madrid in 1958, is a Spanish VOX politician and former journalist serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.
Hermann Tilke
Hermann Tilke (born 1954, Olpe) is a German civil engineer and former touring car racer whose Tilke Engineers & Architects designed most new Formula 1 circuits since 1999, including Sepang, Shanghai, Bahrain, and Circuit of the Americas.
Hermann Träuble
Hermann Träuble (1932–1976) was a German physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research who, with Uwe Essmann, first photographed the Abrikosov vortex lattice in 1967.
Hermann Vermeil
Hermann Vermeil (1889–1959) was a German mathematician who, as Hermann Weyl's assistant, gave the first published proof in 1917 that scalar curvature is the only absolute invariant of its type in Riemannian geometry.
Hermann von der Hardt
Hermann von der Hardt (1660–1746) was a German Orientalist, Old Testament scholar, and Protestant theologian who taught oriental languages at Helmstedt and edited the documents of the Council of Constance.
Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann von Helmholtz (Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, 1821–1894) was a German physician, physiologist, and physicist who formulated the conservation of energy, invented the ophthalmoscope, and founded the mathematical theory of vortex motion.
Hermann von Oppeln Bronikowski
Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski (1899–1966), German Generalmajor and dressage rider; won 1936 Berlin Olympic team dressage gold on Gimpel with Pollay and Gerhard, commanded the 20th Panzer Division, Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords.
Hermann von Salza
Hermann von Salza (Hermann of Salza), fourth Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (1209/1210–1239), Thuringian ministerial, mediator between Frederick II and the papacy, founder of the order's Prussian state via the Golden Bull of Rimini.
Hermann Wagner
Hermann Wagner, born 1941, is a German immunologist and physician known for T-cell differentiation research and for early work on toll-like receptors, holding the Technical University of Munich microbiology chair from 1989 to 2008.
Hermann Weingarten
Hermann Weingarten (1834–1892) was a German Protestant church historian and professor at Berlin, Marburg, and Breslau whose 1877 study argued that Christian monasticism arose only after the mid-fourth century.
Hermann Weingartner
Hermann Weingärtner (1864–1919), German artistic gymnast of the Berliner Turnerschaft; won six medals including three golds at the 1896 Athens Olympics, the most of any athlete there, later ran his family's swimming pool in Frankfurt (Oder).
Hermann Werner Siemens
Hermann Werner Siemens (1891–1969) was a German dermatologist and professor of dermatology at the University of Leiden who pioneered twin-based methodology in dermatological genetics, with several skin disorders named after him.
Hermann Weyl
Hermann Weyl (1885–1955) was a German-born mathematician and mathematical physicist, Hilbert's student at Göttingen, whose 1918 gauge idea underlies the standard model of particle physics.