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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. Lardy

Henry A. Lardy (1917–2010) was an American biochemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose egg yolk–based semen preservative made artificial insemination practical; he also studied oxidative phosphorylation and metabolic regulation.

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 Beachell

Henry Monroe Beachell (1906–2006) was an American rice breeder who developed nine USDA rice varieties and IR8, the miracle rice of the Green Revolution in Asia.

Henry Chapman (physicist)

Henry N. Chapman is a British-born physicist, founding director of the Coherent Imaging Division at CFEL, DESY, Hamburg, since 2007, known for pioneering serial femtosecond crystallography.

Henry Charlton Bastian

Henry Charlton Bastian (1837–1915) was a British physician and neurologist at University College London who lost the Victorian spontaneous generation debate but made lasting contributions to neurology.

Henry Daniell

Henry Daniell is an American plant biotechnologist at the University of Pennsylvania who pioneered chloroplast genetic engineering and oral delivery of plant-made drugs, including lettuce-grown clotting factors for hemophilia.

Henry F. Epstein

Henry F. Epstein, also known as Henry Epstein, was an American molecular biologist who discovered the UNC-45 chaperone and studied muscle assembly in C. elegans.

Henry H. Balfour

Henry H. Balfour is an American pediatric infectious-diseases physician and epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota Medical School since 1970, known for acyclovir trials and an EBV vaccine.

Henry Harpending

Henry Harpending (1944–2016) was an American anthropologist and population geneticist at the University of Utah who developed the mismatch-distribution method and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1996.

Henry Harris (cell biologist)

Henry Harris (1925–2014) was a British cell biologist at Oxford, born in Russia and raised in Australia, known for cell fusion work and showing malignancy can be recessive.

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 James Clark

Henry James Clark (1826–1873) was an American biologist and microscopist, the foremost American histologist of his generation and first professor of Natural History at Massachusetts Agricultural College.

Henry M. Krause

Henry M. Krause is a molecular biologist and professor at the University of Toronto's Donnelly Centre, known for genome-scale studies showing most Drosophila mRNAs are localized before translation.

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.

Henry Pickering Bowditch

Henry Pickering Bowditch (1840–1911) was an American physiologist who taught at Harvard for 35 years and discovered the all-or-none law of cardiac muscle in 1871.

Henry R. Bourne

Henry R. Bourne (Henry Reid Bourne, 1940–2023) was an American pharmacologist and cell biologist at UCSF known for showing how G proteins transmit hormone-receptor signals.

Henry Van Peters Wilson

Henry Van Peters Wilson (1863–1939) was an American zoologist at the University of North Carolina known for showing in 1907 that dissociated sponge cells reassemble into complete animals.

Henry Wieghorst Nissen

Henry Wieghorst Nissen (1901–1958) was an American psychobiologist at the Yale and Yerkes Laboratories of Primate Biology, director from 1955, known for his 1931 chimpanzee field study.

Hensin Tsao

Hensin Tsao is a dermatologist and melanoma genetics researcher who directs the Melanoma and Pigmented Lesion Center at Massachusetts General Hospital and teaches at Harvard Medical School.

Herbert Boyer

Herbert Wayne Boyer, born 1936, is an American biochemist and microbiologist whose UCSF work on the EcoRI enzyme enabled recombinant DNA technology and who co-founded Genentech in 1976.

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 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.

Herbert Jäckle

Herbert Jäckle (born 1949 in Konstanz, Germany) is a German developmental biologist known for molecular genetic analysis of early Drosophila embryonic development, centered on the Krüppel segmentation gene.

Herbert L. Cooper

Herbert L. Cooper is an NIH physician-scientist who studied RNA metabolism in growing lymphocytes and discovered in 1981 that hypusine is formed post-translationally in a single protein.

Herbert Levine (biological physicist)

Herbert Levine is an American biological physicist at Northeastern University known for physical models of cancer metastasis, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.

Herbert McLean Evans

Herbert McLean Evans (1882–1971) was an American anatomist and endocrinologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who co-discovered vitamin E and pioneered pituitary growth hormone research.

Herbert S. Gasser

Herbert S. Gasser (1888–1963) was an American physiologist who shared the 1944 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Joseph Erlanger for classifying nerve fibers, and directed the Rockefeller Institute from 1935 to 1953.

Herbert Spencer Jennings

Herbert Spencer Jennings (1868–1947) was an American zoologist and geneticist who spent 1906 to 1938 at Johns Hopkins University as an early investigator of heredity in single-celled organisms.