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Hans Görges
Hans (Johannes) Görges (1859–1946) was a German electrical engineer who led the three-phase system at Siemens & Halske and held the first electrical engineering chair at TH Dresden.
Hans Grieder
Hans Grieder (12 November 1901 – 31 October 1995) was a Swiss artistic gymnast from Basel and Arbon, Olympic team gold 1928 and bronze 1924, world team champion 1934; death once misdated 1973.
Hans Groß
Hans Groß, also known as Hans J. Gross, was a German biochemist and RNA biologist at the University of Würzburg who sequenced the first complete viroid in 1978.
Hans Gruhne
Hans Gruhne (born 1988, Berlin) is a German rower, 2016 Rio Olympic gold medalist in the men's quadruple sculls with Wende, Schoof, and Schulze; also 2015 world champion, three-time Olympian, Ruder-Club Potsdam.
Hans H. Hirsch
Hans H. Hirsch is a Swiss virologist and infectious-diseases physician known for defining how BK polyomavirus threatens kidney transplants and building the plasma viral-load testing used to monitor it.
Hans Haas
Hans Haas (1906–1973), Austrian Olympic weightlifter; shared 1928 Amsterdam lightweight gold with Kurt Helbig at 322.5 kg, won 1932 silver; only Austrian lifter with two Olympic medals.
Hans Hahn (mathematician)
Hans Hahn (1879–1934) was an Austrian mathematician who proved the Hahn–Banach theorem in 1927, co-founded the Vienna Circle, and was the doctoral adviser of Kurt Gödel.
Hans Hamburger
Hans Ludwig Hamburger (1889–1956) was a German mathematician known for the Hamburger moment problem, extending the Stieltjes moment problem to the whole real line in 1920–21.
Hans Heilbronn
Hans Heilbronn, also known as Hans Arnold Heilbronn, was a German-born mathematician who proved Gauss's class number conjecture in 1934, showed Riemann-type hypotheses fail for general zeta-functions, and posed the Heilbronn triangle problem.
Hans Heinrich Landolt
Hans Heinrich Landolt (1831–1910) was a Swiss-born chemist who spent his career in Germany, discovered the iodine clock reaction, ran the first rigorous test of conservation of mass, and gave his name to Landolt-Börnstein.
Hans Hellmann
Hans Hellmann (1903–1938) was a German theoretical chemist who helped found quantum chemistry, originated the pseudopotential method for heavy atoms, and wrote the first quantum chemistry textbooks before being executed in the Soviet Union in 1938.
Hans Hengartner
Hans Hengartner is a Swiss immunologist and professor emeritus at the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, known for work on immunological tolerance and cell-mediated killing.
Hans Henny Jahnn
Hans Henny Jahnn, born Hans Henny August Jahn (1894–1959), was a German writer and organ reformer whose novels Perrudja and Fluß ohne Ufer rank among German modernism's most demanding works.
Hans Henrik Holm
Hans Henrik Holm (1896–1980) was a Norwegian poet and folk-life researcher who wrote in difficult archaic Nynorsk, debuting with the lyrical epic Jonsoknatt in 1933.
Hans Hinrich Wendt
Hans Hinrich Wendt (1853–1928) was a German evangelical Lutheran theologian who held chairs at Kiel, Heidelberg, and Jena, known for his reconstruction of the teaching of Jesus.
Hans Hinz
Hans Hinz, born 1909 in Hamburg, was a physicist who with Dr. Heinrich Netheler founded the company that became Eppendorf SE, maker of the first microliter pipette and Eppendorf Tube.
Hans Hofmann
Hans Hofmann (1880–1966) was a German-born American painter and art teacher, a leading figure of Abstract Expressionism and, per the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the most influential teacher of modern art in the United States.
Hans Holbein the Younger
Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/98–1543), German Northern Renaissance painter from Augsburg and Basel, court painter to Henry VIII; famed for The Ambassadors, the Henry VIII portrait, and the Dance of Death woodcuts published at Lyon in 1538.
Hans Island
Hans Island (Tartupaluk, Hans Ø), a 1.2 km² barren Arctic island in Nares Strait's Kennedy Channel between Ellesmere Island and Greenland, was disputed by Canada and Denmark from 1973 until a 2022 treaty split it along a natural ridge, ending the Whisky War.
Hans J. Bohnert
Hans J. Bohnert, also published as H. J. Bohnert, is a plant biologist at the University of Illinois known for research on how plants tolerate salt and drought.
Hans J. Briegel
Hans J. Briegel, also known as Hans Briegel, is a German theoretical physicist and professor at the University of Innsbruck, known for co-creating the one-way quantum computer and quantum machine learning.
Hans J. Geuze
Hans J. Geuze (H. J. Geuze), born 1936, is a Dutch cell biologist known for immuno-electron microscopy of intracellular protein transport and professor at Utrecht University.
Hans J. Herrmann
Hans J. Herrmann (born 1954) is a German theoretical and computational physicist known for work on granular media and sand dunes, a CNRS researcher in Paris since 2019.
Hans J. Langer
Hans J. Langer is a German physicist and entrepreneur who founded the industrial 3D-printing company EOS GmbH near Munich in 1989; Forbes calls him the world's first 3D-printing billionaire.
Hans J. Müller‐Eberhard
Hans J. Müller-Eberhard (1927–1998) was a German-born molecular immunologist who defined the complement system's proteins, established its alternative pathway, and linked complement defects to paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria.
Hans Jacob Horst
Hans Jacob Horst, also written Hans Jakob Horst, was a Norwegian schoolteacher and Liberal parliamentarian, born in 1848, who led school reform and served on the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
Hans Jacobson
Hans Jacobson (Hans Olov Dan Jacobson, 1947–1984), Swedish fencer and modern pentathlete. Olympic gold in team épée at Montreal 1976; seven World Championship medals; competed at four Games from 1968 to 1980.
Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (c. 1622–1676) was a German Baroque novelist whose picaresque Simplicissimus, set in the Thirty Years' War, became the era's most widely read German novel.
Hans Jakob Polotsky
Hans Jakob Polotsky (1905–1991) was an Israeli linguist and Egyptologist at the Hebrew University whose analysis of Egyptian verb forms became known as the Standard Theory.
Hans Jakob Wörner
Hans Jakob Wörner is a Swiss-based physicist and physical chemist, a full professor at ETH Zurich known for attosecond spectroscopy of molecules and liquids and attosecond control of chiral photoionization.