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Herbert Clemens

Herbert Clemens (Charles Herbert Clemens, Jr.; born 1939) is an American mathematician in complex algebraic geometry and Hodge theory, known for proving the smooth cubic threefold irrational and for the Clemens conjecture.

Herbert E. Huppert

Herbert E. Huppert, also known as H. E. Huppert, is a geophysicist and applied mathematician at Cambridge who studies the flow of fluids in and on the Earth.

Herbert E. Ives

Herbert E. Ives, also known as Herbert Eugene Ives, was an American physicist who headed television and facsimile research at Bell Labs and ran the 1938 Ives–Stilwell experiment.

Herbert E. Kaufman

Herbert E. Kaufman, also known as H E Kaufman, was an American ophthalmologist who established idoxuridine, the first effective drug treatment for a viral eye infection.

Herbert F. Oettgen

Herbert F. Oettgen (1923–2023) was a German-born tumor immunologist who spent his career at Memorial Sloan Kettering, founding its Division of Applied Immunology in 1970 and pioneering cancer immunotherapy.

Herbert Federer

Herbert Federer (1920–2010) was an American mathematician of Austrian birth at Brown University, a founder of geometric measure theory who proved the coarea formula and solved Plateau's problem.

Herbert Fleischner

Herbert Fleischner (1944–2025) was an Austrian graph theorist best known for Fleischner's theorem, his 1974 proof that the square of every 2-connected finite graph is Hamiltonian.

Herbert Freundlich

Herbert Freundlich, full name Herbert Max Finlay Freundlich, was a German physical chemist and founder of colloid science, known for the Freundlich adsorption isotherm formulated in 1907.

Herbert Friedman

Herbert Friedman (1916–2000) was an American physicist who pioneered X-ray astronomy at the Naval Research Laboratory, detecting solar X-rays in 1949 and X-ray pulsations from the Crab Nebula in 1969.

Herbert Friedmann

Herbert Friedmann (1900–1987) was an American ornithologist and longtime Smithsonian curator of birds, known for decades of work on the evolution of brood parasitism in cowbirds and cuckoos.

Herbert Fröhlich

Herbert Fröhlich (1905–1991) was a German-born British theoretical physicist who brought quantum field theory into solid-state physics, formulated the Hamiltonian behind superconductivity theory, and proposed coherent excitations in living cells.

Herbert G. MacPherson

Herbert G. MacPherson (1911–1993) was an American nuclear engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory who developed boron-free graphite for Manhattan Project reactors and led the molten-salt reactor program.

Herbert Grötzsch

Herbert Grötzsch (1902–1993) was a German mathematician, the main founder of the theory of quasiconformal mappings, and the namesake of the Grötzsch theorem, Grötzsch graph, Grötzsch domain, and Grötzsch Problem.

Herbert Gursky

Herbert Gursky (c. 1930–2006) was an American astrophysicist who helped found X-ray astronomy, co-discovering Sco X-1 on the 1962 rocket flight and later leading HEAO-1 experiments.

Herbert H. Johnson

Herbert H. Johnson (1931–1989) was an American materials scientist and engineer at Cornell University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1987, known for his work on hydrogen embrittlement of steels.

Herbert H. Lehman

Herbert H. Lehman (1878–1963), American investment banker and Democrat; New York's forty-ninth and first Jewish governor (1933–1942), first UNRRA Director General, and US Senator (1949–1957) known for refugee relief and anti-McCarthy advocacy.

Herbert H. Richardson

Herbert H. Richardson is an American mechanical engineer in dynamic systems, measurement, and control who led the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M until 2006.

Herbert H. Samuels

Herbert H. Samuels is an endocrinologist at NYU School of Medicine whose 1973–1977 papers on rat pituitary GH1 cells supplied the earliest characterizations of the nuclear thyroid hormone receptor.

Herbert Hall Turner

Herbert Hall Turner was a British astronomer and seismologist, Savilian professor of astronomy at Oxford from 1893, who coined "parsec," led the Carte du Ciel survey, and discovered deep-focus earthquakes.

Herbert Harold Read

Herbert Harold Read (1889–1970) was a British geologist who mapped the Scottish Highlands and led Britain's granite controversy with his dictum "there are granites and granites".

Oct 21, 2026

Herbert Heinrich

Herbert Heinrich (Johannes Herbert Walter Heinrich, 1899–1975), German freestyle swimmer of SV Poseidon Leipzig; 1926 and 1927 European 4x200 m relay champion, 1927 world record 9:49.6, 12 national titles, competed only at Amsterdam 1928.

Herbert Henry Dow

Herbert Henry Dow (1866–1930) was a Canadian-born American chemist and industrialist who founded The Dow Chemical Company in Midland, Michigan, and pioneered extracting bromine from underground brine by electrolysis.

Herbert Herzog

Herbert Herzog is an Australian neuroscientist known for research on neuropeptide Y, appetite, and stress-induced obesity, who led a laboratory at Sydney's Garvan Institute from 1991.

Oct 21, 2026

Herbert Higgins

Herbert Higgins (John Herbert Higgins, 1916-2004), American breaststroke swimmer and coach; fourth in 200 m breaststroke at 1936 Berlin Olympics; first breaststroke world record set entirely with butterfly arm recovery; longtime US Naval Academy head swim coach.