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Researchers in neuroscience

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György Buzsáki

György Buzsáki, born in Kaposvár, Hungary in 1949, is a Hungarian-born American neuroscientist at NYU known for hippocampal oscillations and the two-stage model of memory consolidation.

Haim Sompolinsky

Haim Sompolinsky, born 1949 in Copenhagen, is an Israeli computational neuroscientist, professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Harvard professor since 2022, known for spin-glass models of neural memory.

Håkan Persson

Håkan Persson (1952–1993) was a Swedish cellular and molecular neuroscientist who founded the Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology at the Karolinska Institute, where his group helped clone NT-3 and discovered neurotrophin 4/5.

Hallowell Davis

Hallowell Davis (1896–1992) was an American neurophysiologist who helped found clinical electroencephalography in the United States and became a leading figure in audiology and hearing conservation.

Hannah Monyer

Hannah Monyer is a Romanian-born German neuroscientist who has led the Department of Clinical Neurobiology at Heidelberg University and the German Cancer Research Center since 1999.

Hans Rudolf Brenner

Hans Rudolf Brenner is a molecular neurobiologist and emeritus professor at the University of Basel, known for research on how nerves form and stabilize the neuromuscular junction.

Hans Thoenen

Hans Thoenen (1928–2012) was a Swiss neurobiologist best known for cloning BDNF and studying CNTF, and director of the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Munich from 1977.

Harald Sontheimer

Harald Sontheimer is an American neuroscientist known for discovering how brain tumors cause epilepsy, and Professor and Chair of Neuroscience at the University of Virginia since 2021.

Harry Grundfest

Harry Grundfest (1904–1983) was an American neurophysiologist and National Academy of Sciences member who, at the Rockefeller Institute and Columbia, established nerve fiber conduction velocities and GABA's inhibitory role.

Harry T. Orr

Harry T. Orr is an American neurogeneticist at the University of Minnesota who identified the SCA1 gene and shared the 2022 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience with Huda Zoghbi.

Haruhiko Bito

Haruhiko Bito (尾藤 晴彦) is a Japanese molecular neuroscientist, Professor and Chair of Neurochemistry at the University of Tokyo, known for work on calcium signaling and memory.

Haruo Kasai

Haruo Kasai (河西春郎) is a Japanese cellular neuroscientist and Project Professor at the University of Tokyo, known for discovering structural plasticity in brain spine synapses and winning the 2022 Japan Academy Prize.

Hee‐Sup Shin

Hee-Sup Shin (신희섭) is a South Korean neuroscientist known for pioneering a mouse model of empathy and for applying molecular genetics to the thalamus and social behaviors.

Heinrich Betz

Heinrich Betz, born 1944 in Reutlingen, Germany, is a German molecular neurobiologist who identified gephyrin and purified the first neurotransmitter receptor from the mammalian CNS.

Helen Neville

Helen J. Neville (1946–2018) was a Canadian-born cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Oregon known for research on how experience reshapes the human brain, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014.

Helmut Kettenmann

Helmut Kettenmann is a German neurobiologist who studies glial cells and microglia, leading cellular neuroscience research at Berlin's Max Delbrück Center from 1993 to 2022.

Henri Korn

Henri Korn (1934–2023) was a French physician and cellular neurobiologist, a professor at the Institut Pasteur and former student of John Carew Eccles, known for quantal analysis of synaptic transmission.

Henrique von Gersdorff

Henrique von Gersdorff is a neurophysiologist and Senior Scientist at the Vollum Institute of Oregon Health & Science University who studies synaptic transmission in sensory systems.

Henry A. Lester

Henry A. Lester, born 1945 in New York City, is an American neuroscientist and Professor of Biology at Caltech, known for studies of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.

Henry Herbert Donaldson

Henry Herbert Donaldson (1857–1938) was an American neurologist who made the albino rat a standard laboratory animal through the Wistar Institute stock, used in research worldwide.

Henry Houlden

Henry Houlden is a British neurologist and neurogeneticist, Professor at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, known for identifying genes for ataxia and parkinsonism.

Henry Markram

Henry Markram is a neuroscientist and Full Professor at EPFL in Switzerland, known for discovering spike timing dependent plasticity and founding the Blue Brain Project.

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.

Hermona Soreq

Hermona Soreq is an Israeli molecular neurobiologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known for applying molecular biology and genomics to the study of cholinergic signaling.

Herwig Baier

Herwig Baier is a neuroscientist who directs the Department Genes – Circuits – Behavior at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, using zebrafish to study behavior.

Hidehiko Inagaki

Hidehiko Inagaki is a Japanese systems neuroscientist who leads a research group at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, studying how the brain times actions.

Hideyuki Okano

Hideyuki Okano (岡野栄之, born 1959 in Tokyo) is a Japanese neuroscientist, professor of physiology at Keio University School of Medicine and leader of Japan's Brain/MINDS brain-mapping project.

Hillel Adesnik

Hillel Adesnik is a neuroscientist and Associate Professor of Neurobiology at UC Berkeley who studies cortical microcircuits and received the 2013 Presidential Early Career Award.

Hilmar Bading

Hilmar Bading is a neuroscientist who has been Chair of Neurobiology at Heidelberg University since 2001, known for discovering nuclear calcium as the central mediator of activity-dependent gene expression.

Hiro Furukawa

Hiro Furukawa is a structural neuroscientist and professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, known for mapping how NMDA receptors open and bind drugs.