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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 Molisch

Hans Molisch (1856–1937) was an Austrian botanist and plant physiologist who coined "allelopathy", created the Molisch carbohydrate test, and held chairs at Graz, Prague, and Vienna.

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.

Hans Noll

Hans Noll (1924–2021) was a Swiss-born American molecular biologist who discovered that multiple ribosomes traverse each messenger RNA, the structures called polyribosomes, and determined the genetic coding ratio.

Hans R. Schöler

Hans R. Schöler, also known as Hans Schöler, is a German molecular biologist and stem cell researcher, born in Toronto in 1953, best known for discovering the transcription factor Oct4.

Hans Renata

Hans Renata is an Indonesian-born organic chemist and professor at Rice University, known for chemoenzymatic C–H functionalization and concise enzyme-enabled syntheses of complex terpenoids and steroids.

Hans Ris

Hans Ris (1914–2004) was a Swiss-born cytologist and electron microscopist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, best known for demonstrating that chloroplasts contain their own DNA.

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 Rudolf Herren

Hans Rudolf Herren, born 1947, is a Swiss entomologist whose Africa-wide biological control of the cassava mealybug saved an estimated 20 million lives, winning the 1995 World Food Prize.

Hans Schreiber

Hans Schreiber is an immunologist and Professor of Pathology at the University of Chicago, known for research on tumor-specific antigens and T-cell receptor therapy in cancer immunotherapy.

Hans Spemann

Hans Spemann was a German embryologist, professor at the University of Freiburg, who discovered the organizer effect in embryonic development and won the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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.

Hans Ussing

Hans Ussing (1911–2000) was a Danish physiologist and biophysicist at the University of Copenhagen who founded the quantitative study of epithelial transport, devising the flux-ratio equation and the Ussing chamber.

Hans Wigzell

Hans Wigzell is a Swedish immunologist known for work on natural killer cells and transplantation tolerance, and rector of Karolinska Institutet from 1995 to 2003.

Hans-Reimer Rodewald

Hans-Reimer Rodewald is a German immunologist who heads the Division of Cellular Immunology at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg and received the 2019 Leibniz Prize.

Hans‐Georg Rammensee

Hans-Georg Rammensee, born 1953 in Tübingen, is a German immunologist known for MHC peptide presentation research who led immunology at the University of Tübingen and co-founded immatics and CureVac.

Hans‐Guido Wendel

Hans-Guido Wendel is a physician-scientist and cancer biologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, known for showing that eIF4E acts as an oncogene.

Hans‐Michael Dosch

Hans-Michael Dosch is an immunologist and senior scientist in neurosciences at SickKids in Toronto, known for his 1992 proposal that a bovine milk protein triggers insulin-dependent diabetes.

Hans‐Werner Mewes

Hans-Werner Mewes is a German bioinformatician who built the MIPS genome databases, led bioinformatics for the European yeast genome project, and became TUM professor emeritus in 2017.

Hao WU

Hao Wu (吴昊) is an American epigeneticist and Associate Professor of Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania, known for mapping how TET enzymes reshape DNA methylation.

Hao Yu

Hao Yu, also known as Yu Hao (俞皓), is a Singapore-based plant biologist at the National University of Singapore known for work on flowering control in plants.

Hao Zhu

Hao Zhu is an American physician-scientist and medical oncologist who studies liver regeneration and liver cancer at UT Southwestern, where he directs the Tissue Regeneration Program.

Haojie Huang

Haojie Huang (黄浩杰) is a molecular biologist who researches prostate cancer, transcription factors, and therapy resistance. He is currently a Qiushi Chair Professor at Zhejiang University.

Haoxing Xu

Haoxing Xu is a cell physiologist known for establishing the lysosome as a signaling organelle, pioneering the whole-lysosome patch clamp, identifying TRPML channels, and receiving a 2009 PECASE award.

Har Gobind Khorana (ਹਰ ਗੋਬਿੰਦ ਖੁਰਾਨਾ)

Har Gobind Khorana (ਹਰ ਗੋਬਿੰਦ ਖੁਰਾਨਾ), 1922–2011, Indian American biochemist at Wisconsin and MIT; shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for deciphering the genetic code and made the first functional synthetic gene.

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.

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.

Harald Stenmark

Harald Stenmark is a Norwegian cell biologist and cancer researcher, professor at the University of Oslo, known for work on endocytosis, the FYVE domain, and the ESCRT machinery.