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Hermann Wieland
Hermann Wieland (1885–1929) was a German pharmacologist, professor at Königsberg and Heidelberg, remembered for introducing lobeline as a respiratory stimulant and pure acetylene as an anesthetic.
Hermann Wilker
Hermann Wilker (1874–1941), German rower of Ludwigshafener RV; Olympic bronze in coxed fours 1900 Paris and gold 1912 Stockholm; five-time German coxless pair champion with Otto Fickeisen; author of Das Rudern.
Hermann Witsius
Hermann Witsius, also known as Herman Wits, was a Dutch Reformed theologian (1636–1708) who taught at Franeker, Utrecht, and Leiden and wrote The Economy of the Covenants.
Hermann Zapf
Hermann Zapf (1918–2015) was a German calligrapher and type designer whose about 200 typefaces include Palatino, Optima, and Zapfino; the 1985 Apple laser printer bundled three of his families.
Hermanni Pihlajamaki
Hermanni Pihlajamäki (1903–1982), Finnish policeman and wrestler of Vaasan Voima-Veikot; Olympic freestyle featherweight gold 1932, lightweight bronze 1936, European champion 1931; cousin of Kustaa Pihlajamäki.
Hermanos (Breaking Bad)
Hermanos is the eighth episode of Breaking Bad season 4 (AMC, September 4, 2011), directed by Johan Renck and written by Sam Catlin and George Mastras. It reveals Gus Fring's backstory: partner Max Arciniega's murder and the origin of Los Pollos Hermanos. Distinct from unrelated shows named Brothers.
Hermanos Lebrón
Los Hermanos Lebrón, the Lebrón Brothers, are a Puerto Rican salsa band formed in New York in the mid-1960s by five Lebrón brothers raised in Brooklyn.
Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome
Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome (HPS), a rare autosomal recessive disorder of lysosome-related organelles, causing oculocutaneous albinism, platelet-based bleeding diathesis, and in some subtypes pulmonary fibrosis, colitis, immunodeficiency.
Hermanto Tanoko
Hermanto Tanoko, born 1962 in Malang, is an Indonesian businessman who controls the Avia Avian paint group with his brother Wijono and ranks among Indonesia's richest people.
Hermanus Brockmann
Hermanus Gerardus Brockmann (1871–1936), Dutch physician and rowing coxswain of club Nereus, won gold, silver, and bronze at Paris 1900 steering Minerva Amsterdam boats, but was replaced in the coxed pairs final by an unknown French boy.
Hermaphrodite
Hermaphrodite: an organism with both male and female reproductive functions, simultaneous or sequential (protandry, protogyny). Common in over 90% of plant genera and 70% of animal phyla; in humans the term is replaced by intersex.
Hermaphroditus (ρμαφρόδιτος)
Hermaphroditus (Ἑρμαφρόδιτος) was the Greco-Roman deity combining female and male attributes, son of Hermes and Aphrodite. Known for Ovid's Salmacis myth, 4th-century BCE Athenian cult, the Sleeping Hermaphroditus statue, and as origin of the word hermaphrodite.
Hermatypic and ahermatypic corals
Hermatypic and ahermatypic corals: the traditional split of stony corals into reef-building (zooxanthellate, shallow, sunlit) and non-reef-building (azooxanthellate, deep-sea) groups, with Wells 1933 origins and the 1985 Schuhmacher-Zibrowius terminology reform.
Hermenegildo Bustos
Hermenegildo Bustos, born José Hermenegildo de la Luz Bustos Hernández, was a self-taught Mexican painter of Purísima del Rincón, Guanajuato, known for portraits of his community.
Hermenegildo Galeana
Hermenegildo Galeana was a Mexican insurgent commander of the War of Independence, one of José María Morelos's principal lieutenants, born in 1762 and killed in 1814.
Hermenegildo García
Hermenegildo García, born 1957, is a Spanish chemist and Full Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de València whose photocatalysis research converts solar energy into green hydrogen and renewable fuels.
Hermeneutic phenomenology
Hermeneutic phenomenology, also called interpretive or existential phenomenology, is a qualitative research methodology that interprets lived experience by combining phenomenological description with hermeneutic interpretation of interview texts, producing provisional written interpretations rather than generalizable findings.
Hermeneutics
Hermeneutics, from Greek hermēneuein (to interpret), is the study of interpretation of texts, actions, and experience; founded as a discipline by Schleiermacher and Dilthey, transformed ontologically by Heidegger and Gadamer.
Hermès
Hermès International, French luxury house founded 1837 in Paris by Thierry Hermès as a saddlery workshop; family-controlled, known for Kelly and Birkin bags and silk carrés; 2025 revenue €16 billion with a 41% operating margin.
Hermes (Ἑρμῆς)
Hermes (Ἑρμῆς), Greek god of boundaries, travel, trade, and herald of the gods, Roman Mercury, fused with Thoth as Hermes Trismegistus; attested in Mycenaean Linear B, born of Zeus and Maia on Mt. Cyllene.
Hermes 900
The Hermes 900 is a medium-altitude long-endurance surveillance drone built by Elbit Systems of Israel, first flown in 2009 and serving more than 20 customers.
Hermes Agent
Hermes Agent is a free, open-source, self-hosted AI agent framework in Python by Nous Research, released in February 2026, known for persistent memory and skills that improve with use.
Hermes and Aphrodite Sanctuary
Sanctuary of Hermes and Aphrodite at Syme Viannou (Kato Syme), a Minoan-to-Roman cult site on Mt. Dikte, Crete, at 1,200 m altitude, excavated by Angeliki Lebessi from 1972, with continuous worship ca. 2000 BC to 7th century AD.
Hermes and the Infant Dionysus
Hermes and the Infant Dionysus, also called the Hermes of Praxiteles, is an ancient Greek marble statue of Hermes holding the infant Dionysus, found at Olympia in 1877.
Hermes da Fonseca
Hermes Rodrigues da Fonseca, a Brazilian army marshal, served as president from 1910 to 1914. His term was marked by the "política das salvações" and the Contestado War.
Hermes Mensa
Hermes Mensa is an IAU-approved flat-topped mountain (mensa) on Jupiter's moon Io, adopted in 1997, about 133 km across, centered at -43.65 degrees latitude, named for the Greek god who freed Io from Argus.
Hermes Oil and Gas Field
Hermes is an offshore oil field in the North Carnarvon Basin, north-west Western Australia, one of four CWLH fields in the North West Shelf Oil Project, producing since 1997.
Hermes Ramirez
Hermes Ramírez (Hermes Julián Ramírez Limonta), Cuban sprinter born 1948 in Guantánamo, died 2024. Olympic 4x100 m relay silver at Mexico 1968 (38.40); three Olympian; Pan American and CAC Games medalist.
Hermes Trismegistus
Hermes Trismegistus is the legendary author of the Hermetica, texts from Hellenistic and Roman Egypt fusing the Greek god Hermes with the Egyptian god Thoth.
Hermeskeil Roman Camp
Hermeskeil Roman Camp (Militärlager Hermeskeil), a late-Republican Roman military fortress near Hermeskeil, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, built during Caesar's Gallic Wars; the only securely dated Gallic Wars camp, holding three then two legions in 53 and 51 BC.