Researchers in structural biology, biochemistry, and biophysics

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.

Sir Hans Kornberg (1928–2019) was a British-American biochemist, born in Germany, who trained under Hans Krebs, discovered the glyoxylate cycle, coined "anaplerotic" reactions, and was knighted in 1978.

Hans Krebs (German-born British biochemist)

Hans Adolf Krebs was a German-born British biochemist who discovered the urea cycle and the citric acid cycle, the Krebs cycle, winning the 1953 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Hans Lineweaver

Hans Lineweaver (1907–2009) was an American biochemist who spent 44 years at the USDA and co-authored the 1934 Lineweaver–Burk plot, the most highly cited paper in JACS history.

Hans Neurath

Hans Neurath (1909–2002) was an Austrian-born American protein biochemist, founding chairman of the University of Washington's biochemistry department and founding editor of the journals Biochemistry and Protein Science.

Harald F. Hess

Harald F. Hess is an American physicist at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus who co-invented PALM super-resolution microscopy and develops 3D electron microscopy for brain connectomics.

Harald Schwalbe

Harald Schwalbe (born 1966) is a German chemist, professor at Goethe University Frankfurt, known for NMR studies of riboswitch RNA regulation and protein folding, and executive director of Instruct-ERIC.

Harden M. McConnell

Harden M. McConnell (H. M. McConnell, 1927–2014) was an American biophysical chemist at Stanford whose spin-label technique opened the study of cell membranes and lipid domains.

Harold A. Scheraga

Harold A. Scheraga was an American biophysical chemist who spent 73 years at Cornell University, showing how amino acid sequences determine protein structure, folding, and activity.

Harold Edwin Umbarger

Harold Edwin Umbarger (1921–1999) was an American biochemist and geneticist at Purdue University who discovered feedback inhibition of enzymes and defined how bacteria synthesize the branched-chain amino acids.

Harold Raistrick

Harold Raistrick (1890–1971) was a British biochemist, internationally acknowledged pioneer of fungal product chemistry, who held the biochemistry chair at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine from 1929.

Harris D. Bernstein

Harris D. Bernstein is an American biochemist who leads the Protein Biogenesis Section at NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, studying how bacterial outer membrane proteins fold.

Harry F. Noller

Harry F. Noller is an American molecular biochemist at UC Santa Cruz who established that ribosomal RNA is the functional heart of the ribosome, winning the 2017 Breakthrough Prize.

Harry H. Low

Harry H. Low is a structural biologist and professor at Imperial College London known for his 2006 Nature structure of a bacterial dynamin-like protein and work on ESCRT-III-like membrane remodelling.

Harry Steenbock

Harry Steenbock (1886–1967) was an American biochemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who discovered in 1923 that ultraviolet light generates vitamin D in foods, prompting the founding of WARF.

Hartmut Luecke

Hartmut Luecke is a German-born structural biologist known for membrane protein structures, above all bacteriorhodopsin and the Helicobacter pylori urea channel; since 2023 he has led a cryo-EM laboratory at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.

Hartmut Michel

Hartmut Michel, born 1948 in Ludwigsburg, is a German biochemist who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the structure of a photosynthetic reaction center.

Hartmut Oschkinat

Hartmut Oschkinat is an NMR spectroscopist and structural biologist who headed the NMR structural biology department at the FMP in Berlin from 1998 until his retirement.

Harvey B. Pollard

Harvey B. Pollard is an American biochemist and professor at the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, Maryland, known for discovering synexin and for cystic fibrosis research.

Hashim Al-Hashimi

Hashim Al-Hashimi is an American biophysical chemist at Columbia University known for using NMR to capture rare, short-lived shapes of RNA and DNA, including transient Hoogsteen base pairs.

Hassane S. Mchaourab

Hassane S. Mchaourab is a Lebanese-born biophysicist, professor at Vanderbilt University, known for using spin labeling and DEER spectroscopy to study ABC transporters like P-glycoprotein.

Hays S. Rye

Hays S. Rye, also published as Hays Rye, is an American biochemist and associate professor at Texas A&M University known for work on protein folding and the GroEL/GroES chaperonin.

Heinrich Matthaei

Heinrich Matthaei is a German biochemist who, as a postdoctoral fellow in Marshall Nirenberg's NIH laboratory, performed the 1961 poly-U experiment that deciphered the first codon of the genetic code.

Heinz-Günter Wittmann

Heinz-Günter Wittmann (1927–1990) was a German biochemist who directed the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin and sequenced nearly all E. coli ribosomal proteins.

Helen M. Berman

Helen M. Berman is an American structural biologist and X-ray crystallographer who helped create the Protein Data Bank in 1971 and directed its US operation from 1998 to 2014.

Helen R. Saibil

Helen R. Saibil is a Canadian-born structural biologist and Fellow of the Royal Society, Bernal Professor at Birkbeck, London, known for cryo-EM studies of chaperones and amyloid fibrils.

Helmut Beinert

Helmut Beinert (1913–2007) was a German-born American biochemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who pioneered EPR spectroscopy of enzymes and discovered the iron-sulfur proteins of the mitochondrial respiratory chain.

Helmut Grubmüller

Helmut Grubmüller (born 1965 in Munich) is a German computational biophysicist who directs the Department of Theoretical and Computational Biophysics at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen.

Hendrik Heinz

Hendrik Heinz is a professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for developing the INTERFACE force field for molecular simulation.