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Herbert W. Virgin
Herbert W. Virgin, known as Skip Virgin, is an American virologist and immunologist who discovered murine norovirus, defined the mammalian virome, and directed discovery of the COVID-19 antibody sotrovimab.
Hergen Spits
Hergen Spits, publishing as H. Spits, is a Dutch immunologist who co-proposed the three-group nomenclature for innate lymphoid cells and was professor of experimental immunology at Amsterdam UMC until 2019.
Heribert Hirt
Heribert Hirt is an Austrian plant scientist known for MAP kinase signaling in plant stress responses, and a professor at KAUST in Saudi Arabia since 2014.
Herman Friedman
Herman Friedman was an American immunologist known for work on immune RNA transfer and viral immunosuppression, who chaired microbiology at the University of South Florida.
Herman J. Almquist
Herman J. Almquist (1903–1994) was an American biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley, who independently confirmed vitamin K's discovery and showed in 1938 that bacteria synthesize it in the intestine.
Herman Kalckar
Herman Moritz Kalckar (1908–1991) was a Danish-born American biochemist who demonstrated oxidative phosphorylation in cell-free extracts, performed the first enzymic synthesis of a nucleoside, and identified the enzyme defect in galactosemia.
Herman Nilsson-Ehle
Herman Nilsson-Ehle (1873–1949) was a Swedish geneticist and plant breeder whose 1909 wheat kernel-color experiments showed that continuously varying traits are inherited as discrete Mendelian factors.
Hermann Bujard
Hermann Bujard (1934–2020) was a German molecular biologist who developed the Tet system for switching genes on and off, founded Heidelberg University's ZMBH, and directed EMBO from 2007 to 2009.
Hermann Burmeister
Hermann Burmeister (1807–1892) was a German-born Argentine zoologist, paleontologist, and entomologist, professor at Halle and director of the Buenos Aires natural history museum from 1862 until his death.
Hermann J. Muller
Hermann J. Muller, also known as Hermann Joseph Muller, was an American geneticist and founder of radiation genetics, awarded the 1946 Nobel Prize for showing X-rays induce mutations.
Hermann Rahn
Hermann Rahn (1912–1990) was an American respiratory and environmental physiologist who chaired physiology at the University at Buffalo and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Hermann Rein
Hermann Rein (1898–1953) was a German physiologist who invented the Thermostromuhr, a device for measuring blood flow in unopened vessels, and led the Göttingen Physiological Institute.
Hermann Schindelin
Hermann Schindelin is a structural biologist and biochemist, professor at the Rudolf Virchow Center in Würzburg since 2006, known for the first crystal structure of a ubiquitin E1 enzyme.
Hermann Steller
Hermann Steller is a molecular biologist at Rockefeller University whose laboratory identified the fruit fly cell death genes reaper, hid, and grim, work that underlies cancer therapeutics in clinical trials.
Hermann Wagner
Hermann Wagner, born 1941, is a German immunologist and physician known for T-cell differentiation research and for early work on toll-like receptors, holding the Technical University of Munich microbiology chair from 1989 to 2008.
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.
Herschel L. Roman
Herschel Lewis Roman was an American geneticist who pioneered the use of yeast in genetics and served as founding chair of the genetics department at the University of Washington.
Hervé Vaucheret
Hervé Vaucheret is a French plant molecular biologist at INRAE in Versailles who has led an epigenetics team since 1993 and defined the mechanisms of RNA silencing in plants.
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.
Hesham A. Sadek
Hesham A. Sadek is an Egyptian-born American cardiologist who showed the newborn mouse heart regenerates by cell division, a capacity lost by seven days of age.
Hidde Ploegh
Hidde Ploegh, born in 1953, is a Dutch-born immunologist and biochemist known for his analysis of MHC antigen presentation and for developing the sortagging protein-labeling method.
Hideaki Kato
Hideaki Kato (加藤 英明) is a Japanese structural biologist and professor at the University of Tokyo's RCAST who determines structures of membrane proteins such as channelrhodopsins and GPCRs.
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.
Hideki Kandori
Hideki Kandori (神取 秀樹) is a Japanese biophysicist at Nagoya Institute of Technology known for microbial rhodopsins and optogenetics, including discovering the sodium-pump rhodopsin KR2.
Hideki Taniguchi
Hideki Taniguchi (谷口 英樹) is a Japanese physician-scientist who heads regenerative medicine at the University of Tokyo, known for creating vascularized human liver tissue from iPS cells in 2013.
Hidenori Ichijo
Hidenori Ichijo (一條秀憲), born in 1958, is a Japanese biochemist known for discovering ASK1 and the ASK family of stress-response enzymes, winning the 2021 Japan Academy Prize.
Hidesaburô Hanafusa
Hidesaburô Hanafusa, known as Saburo (1929–2009), was a Japanese virologist at The Rockefeller University who showed that retroviral cancer genes come from healthy host cells, work honored by the 1982 Lasker Award.
Hideyo Noguchi (野口英世)
Hideyo Noguchi (野口英世, 1876-1928), Japanese bacteriologist at the Rockefeller Institute; proved syphilis spirochete causes neurosyphilis, wrongly claimed Leptospira icteroides causes yellow fever, died of it in Accra, Ghana, 1928; on the 1,000-yen note.
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.
Hilde Mangold
Hilde Mangold (née Pröscholdt, 1898–1924) was a German embryologist whose 1923 dissertation under Hans Spemann discovered the embryonic organizer, the basis of his 1935 Nobel Prize.