All articles A–Z
519,064 articles
Herbario nacional
Herbario Nacional de Costa Rica (CR), the national herbarium of Costa Rica at the Museo Nacional in San José: founded 1887, about 500,000 specimens, roughly 4,500 types, largest herbarium in Central America.
Herbario paul c . standley
Herbario Paul C. Standley (EAP), herbarium of Zamorano's Escuela Agrícola Panamericana in Honduras, founded 1943, renamed 1964; largest Honduran collection, over 200,000 sheets, most type specimens in Central America.
Herbarium
The herbarium: a collection of dried, pressed plant specimens arranged by family, genus and species for study. 4,035 active herbaria hold about 406 million specimens; Kew's holds around seven million, and digitization is unlocking their climate and biodiversity data.
Herbarium collections
Herbarium collections are preserved, labeled plant specimens kept for long-term study; over 350 million exist worldwide, exemplified by Prague's PRC herbarium (founded 1775, over 2.2 million specimens), used in taxonomy, biogeography, and conservation.
Herbarium hyderabadensis
Herbarium Hyderabadensis (HY), Osmania University herbarium in Hyderabad, Telangana, India; founded 1930, Index Herbariorum code HY; about 7,000–8,000 seed plant specimens, mainly angiosperms, arranged by Bentham & Hooker and focused on Telangana flora.
Herbarium jujuy agronomia
Herbarium JUA (Herbario JUA) is the herbarium of the Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Jujuy, Argentina, founded April 1981 by Osvaldo Ahumada and Alicia Rotman, holding over 18,000 specimens and the only herbarium in Jujuy province.
Herbarium messanaensis
Herbarium messanaensis (MS) is the University of Messina herbarium, founded 1900, holding about 15,000 vascular plant and algae specimens, with an 8,481-specimen historic Sicilian section and a 17th-century Castelli-attributed volume.
Herbarium SZB
Herbarium SZB is the botanical collection of the Haus der Natur in Salzburg, Austria: over 200,000 dried plant, fungus, and lichen specimens, including 400-year-old flowering plants and the Ludwig Glaab collection, digitized via GBIF.
Herbarium UFRO
Herbarium UFRO (UFROH) is the Index Herbariorum-registered herbarium of the Universidad de La Frontera in Temuco, Chile; registered in 2015 with 50 specimens, it vouchers plant and fungal research in the Araucanía Region.
HERBARIUM Universidad de Valparaiso
Herbarium-UV (Herbario de la Universidad de Valparaíso), code UV in Index Herbariorum, is a Chilean university herbarium founded in 1961, now under the Faculty of Pharmacy, holding about 8,000 lichen, algal, bryophyte, and vascular plant specimens from across Chile.
Herbarium universitatis senensis
Herbarium Universitatis Senensis (SIENA), the University of Siena herbarium founded by Giovanni Campani in 1856, holding over 100,000 vascular-plant exsiccata plus lichens, bryophytes, fungi and algae, indexed in Index Herbariorum and being digitized under the PNRR NBFC project.
Herbaspirillum
Herbaspirillum: genus of gram-negative, vibrioid Oxalobacteraceae bacteria (Baldani et al. 1986; type species H. seropedicae), nitrogen-fixing endophytes of grasses used as crop inoculants.
Herbert (Family Guy)
Herbert (John Herbert, Herbert the Pervert) is a fictional elderly neighbor of the Griffin family in Family Guy, voiced and created by Mike Henry; a recurring pedophile gag targeting Chris Griffin, debuting in 2001.
Herbert A. Hauptman
Herbert A. Hauptman was an American mathematician who shared the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Jerome Karle for developing direct methods for determining crystal structures.
Herbert A. Mang
Herbert A. Mang, born 1942 in Vienna, is an Austrian civil engineer and computational mechanist, Professor Emeritus at TU Wien and a professor at Tongji University in Shanghai.
Herbert A. Selenkow
Herbert A. Selenkow (1923–2007) was an American endocrinologist and Harvard associate professor who directed the Thyroid Laboratory at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston for twenty years.
Herbert A. Simon
Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001) was an American polymath at Carnegie Mellon who co-founded artificial intelligence and won both the 1975 Turing Award and the 1978 Nobel Prize in Economics.
Herbert Adamski
Herbert Adamski (Herbert Felix Otto Adamski), German rower, 1910-1941; Olympic gold in coxed pairs at 1936 Berlin with Gerhard Gustmann and cox Dieter Arend; killed in action at Soltsy, USSR, in 1941.
Herbert B. Peterson
Herbert B. Peterson is an American obstetrician-gynecologist and reproductive health epidemiologist, a distinguished professor at UNC who spent 20 years at the CDC defining the risks of tubal sterilization.
Herbert Bayer
Herbert Bayer was an Austrian-born graphic designer, typographer, and photographer who studied and taught at the Bauhaus, created the Universal alphabet, and emigrated to America in 1938.
Herbert Benson
Herbert Benson (1935–2022) was an American cardiologist at Harvard Medical School who defined the relaxation response, the counterpart of fight-or-flight, and wrote the 1975 bestseller The Relaxation Response.
Herbert Blum
Herbert Blum, born in 1950, is an Austrian family-business manager who led furniture fittings maker Julius Blum GmbH from 1983, growing it to over €2.4 billion.
Herbert Boyer
Herbert Wayne Boyer, born 1936, is an American biochemist and microbiologist whose UCSF work on the EcoRI enzyme enabled recombinant DNA technology and who co-founded Genentech in 1976.
Herbert Brereton Baker
Herbert Brereton Baker (1862–1935) was an English inorganic chemist, chief professor at Imperial College from 1912 to 1932, who showed that rigorously dried gases resist chemical reaction.
Herbert Budka
Herbert Budka (born 1946) is an Austrian neuropathologist, professor at the Medical University of Vienna, known for work on HIV brain pathology and prion diseases.
Herbert Busemann
Herbert Busemann (1905–1994) was a German-born American geometer who spent most of his career at the University of Southern California and is regarded as the main founder of metric geometry.
Herbert Butterfield
Sir Herbert Butterfield (1900–1979) was a British historian at Cambridge whose 1931 book The Whig Interpretation of History gave historians one of their most used critical terms.
Herbert C. Brown
Herbert C. Brown, born Herbert Brovarnik, was an American organic chemist at Purdue University who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering boron chemistry.
Herbert Callen
Herbert Callen (1919–1993) was an American theoretical physicist at the University of Pennsylvania, known for the 1951 fluctuation–dissipation theorem and a widely used thermodynamics textbook.
Herbert Chitepo
Herbert Chitepo (1923–1975) was a Zimbabwean nationalist, lawyer, and poet who led ZANU from exile until he was killed by a car bomb in Lusaka, Zambia, in 1975.