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Harald von Boehmer
Harald von Boehmer (1942–2018) was a German-born immunologist who established how the thymus selects T cells and discovered the pre-T cell receptor, working at Basel, Paris, and Harvard.
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.
Harinder Singh (immunologist)
Harinder Singh is an American immunologist known for defining how PU.1, IRF4, and IRF8 control blood and immune cell fates, and directs the Center for Systems Immunology at the University of Pittsburgh.
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 Amos
Harold Amos (1918–2003) was an American microbiologist at Harvard Medical School, known for work on animal cell culture and virology, and the first African American to chair an HMS department.
Harold C. Slavkin
Harold C. Slavkin, known as Hal Slavkin, was an American craniofacial developmental biologist and dental educator who directed the NIDCR from 1995 to 2000 and served as dean of USC's dental school.
Harold Charles Bold
Harold Charles Bold (1909–1987) was an American phycologist, C. L. Lundell Professor at the University of Texas, who classified green soil algae, joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1973, and created Bold's Basal Medium.
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 Erickson
Harold Erickson is a cell biologist and James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Duke University, known for his 1995 proposal that bacterial FtsZ is a tubulin homolog.
Harold Ginsberg
Harold Samuel Ginsberg was an American virologist who showed that adenoviruses cause acute respiratory disease and childhood pneumonia, and chaired microbiology at Penn and Columbia.
Harold J. Evans
Harold J. Evans (1921–2007) was an American plant physiologist at Oregon State University who pioneered the study of mineral nutrition in plants and biological nitrogen fixation.
Harold Kelley
Harold Kelley (1921–2003) was an American social psychologist at UCLA, best known for his covariation model of causal attribution and the interdependence theory he developed with John Thibaut.
Harold L. Moses
Harold L. Moses is an American cancer biologist who discovered that TGF-β inhibits cell proliferation and founded and directed the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center from 1993 to 2005.
Harold Munro Fox
Harold Munro Fox, born Harold Munro Fuchs, was a British zoologist known for work on invertebrate respiratory pigments and for his forty-year editorship of Biological Reviews.
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.
Harold Weintraub
Harold Weintraub (1945–1995) was an American molecular biologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle who identified MyoD, the single gene that triggers muscle differentiation in non-muscle cells.
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.
Harris Lewin
Harris Lewin is an American genomicist who co-founded and chairs the Earth BioGenome Project, an effort to sequence the DNA of all known eukaryotic species.
Harrison Echols
Harrison Echols was an American molecular biologist at UC Berkeley whose studies of bacteriophage lambda showed how the virus recombines into the bacterial chromosome; he died in 1993.
Harrison Gray Dyar, Jr.
Harrison Gray Dyar, Jr. (1866–1929) was an American entomologist who formulated Dyar's Law, the geometric-growth rule for insect larvae still in use, and built the United States National Museum's Lepidoptera collection.
Harry Bartelink
Harry Bartelink, born 1946, is a Dutch radiation oncologist who directed radiation oncology at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam from 1985 to 2007 and led European breast and lung cancer trials.
Harry Beevers
Harry Beevers (1924–2004) was a British-born American plant biochemist at Purdue University and UC Santa Cruz, best known for discovering the glyoxysome, the organelle that converts stored seed fat into sugar for the growing seedling.
Harry Borthwick
Harry Borthwick (1898–1974) was an American plant physiologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture who headed the Beltsville photoperiodism research culminating in the discovery of phytochrome, the light-receptive pigment in all higher plants.
Harry C. Dietz
Harry C. Dietz, also known as Hal C. Dietz III, is an American cardiologist and human geneticist at Johns Hopkins who identified genes behind Marfan and Loeys-Dietz syndromes.
Harry Eagle
Harry Eagle (1905–1992) was an American microbiologist and cell biologist who developed Eagle's minimum essential medium, making routine culture of human and animal cells possible.
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 Gilbert (biochemist)
Harry Gilbert was a biochemist and glycobiologist, Professor of Agricultural Biochemistry at Newcastle University, known for showing how gut bacteria break down complex carbohydrates; he died in 2025.
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 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 Klee
Harry Klee is an American plant scientist at the University of Florida who studies tomato flavor chemistry and ethylene perception, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2012.