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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.

Hendrik N. Poinar

Hendrik N. Poinar is a molecular evolutionary geneticist at McMaster University who founded the McMaster Ancient DNA Centre and studies ancient DNA, including plague pathogens.

Hendrik Zwaardemaker

Hendrik Zwaardemaker was a Dutch physiologist, professor at Utrecht University from 1897 to 1927, who founded experimental research on smell and invented the first olfactometer in 1888.

Heng Li

Heng Li (李恒) is a bioinformatician and associate professor at Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber, known for the BWA aligner, SAM format, minimap2, and hifiasm.

Heng Zhu

Heng Zhu is a molecular biology professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, known for co-inventing functional protein microarrays that test thousands of proteins at once.

Henk F. Tabak

Henk F. Tabak (1941–2026) was a Dutch biochemist known for work on RNA splicing in yeast mitochondria and on peroxisome formation from the endoplasmic reticulum.

Henna-Maria Uusitupa

Henna-Maria Uusitupa, also published as Henna-Maria Kailanto, is a Finnish food chemistry researcher who studied early-life nutrition at the University of Turku and led DuPont's Infant Health Platform.

Henning Bundgaard

Henning Bundgaard is a Danish cardiologist, clinical professor at the University of Copenhagen and senior consultant at Rigshospitalet, known for leading the POET and POTCAST trials.

Henning Hermjakob

Henning Hermjakob is a bioinformatician who leads Molecular Systems at EMBL-EBI in Hinxton, heading IntAct, Reactome, and BioModels and co-founding the HUPO Proteomics Standards Initiative.

Henning Pontoppidan

Henning Pontoppidan (1925–2017) was an American anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who established the nation's first respiratory intensive care unit in 1961 and pioneered mechanical ventilation research.

Henning Walczak

Henning Walczak is a German molecular biologist and cancer researcher who studies cell death and ubiquitin signaling in cancer, and is a professor at the University of Cologne and UCL.

Henri Bismuth

Henri Bismuth (born 1934) is a French hepatobiliary surgeon and pioneer of liver transplantation, the first in France to launch a hepatic transplantation program in the 1970s.

Henri Bounameaux

Henri Bounameaux, born 1953 in Liège, Belgium, is a Swiss physician-scientist who built Geneva University Hospitals' angiology service into an international reference center for pulmonary embolism.

Henri Carré

Henri Carré (1870–1938) was a French veterinarian who showed in 1905 that the disease of young dogs is caused by a filterable virus, known in French as the maladie de Carré.

Henri Coutard

Henri Coutard (1876–1950) was a French radiation therapist at the Curie Institute in Paris who pioneered fractionated radiotherapy, delivering small daily radiation doses over several weeks.

Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers

Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers (1821–1901) was a French zoologist who studied corals, molluscs, and ascidians, founded the Roscoff and Banyuls-sur-Mer marine laboratories, and is regarded as the founder of experimental zoology in France.

Henri Duret

Henri Duret (1849–1921) was a French surgeon and neurologist who first mapped the arterial territories of the brainstem and cerebral cortex; brainstem microbleeds called Duret haemorrhages bear his name.

Henri G. Hers

Henri-Géry Hers (1923–2008) was a Belgian biochemist at the Université Catholique de Louvain who classified glycogen storage diseases, conceived the concept of inborn lysosomal disease, and discovered fructose 2,6-bisphosphate, winning the 1988 Wolf Prize.

Henri Huchard

Henri Huchard (1844–1910) was a French physician at the Hôpitaux Bichat and Necker, a foremost Paris teacher remembered for "maladie de Huchard", continued hypertension causing arteriosclerosis.

Henri Korn

Henri Korn (1934–2023) was a French physician and cellular neurobiologist, a professor at the Institut Pasteur and former student of John Carew Eccles, known for quantal analysis of synaptic transmission.

Henri Milne-Edwards

Henri Milne-Edwards (1800–1885) was a French zoologist specializing in invertebrates who held chairs at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle and wrote the Histoire naturelle des Crustacés.

Henricus Weve

Henricus Jacobus Marie Weve (1888–1962) was a Dutch ophthalmologist and professor at Utrecht University, ranked among Europe's leading retinal surgeons for improving Gonin's retinal detachment operation and pioneering diathermy.

Henrik Dam

Henrik Carl Peter Dam (1895–1976) was a Danish biochemist who discovered vitamin K, needed for blood coagulation, winning the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Henrik Dohlman

Henrik Dohlman is a Swedish-American biochemist and chair of pharmacology at UNC Chapel Hill who studies G protein signaling and identified the first RGS protein in 1995.

Henrik Garoff

Henrik Garoff is a Swedish virologist at Karolinska Institutet in Huddinge who studies how virus spike proteins drive cell entry by membrane fusion, chiefly in Semliki Forest virus.

Henrik Kaessmann

Henrik Kaessmann is a Swiss-based researcher in evolutionary genomics and professor at Heidelberg University since 2015, known for studies of how gene expression and organs evolved in mammals.

Henrik Kehlet

Henrik Kehlet (born 1942) is a Danish surgeon and professor at the University of Copenhagen known for creating enhanced recovery after surgery, or fast-track surgery, to shorten recovery.

Henrik Lundegårdh

Henrik Lundegårdh (1888–1969) was a Swedish plant physiologist and ecologist known for the anion-respiration theory of salt uptake by plant roots and for inventing the flame photometer.

Henrik Salje

Henrik Salje is an infectious-disease epidemiologist who is Professor of Disease Ecology at the University of Cambridge, known for estimating the global burden of chikungunya and evaluating the Dengvaxia vaccine.

Henrik Toft Sørensen

Henrik Toft Sørensen is a Danish physician and clinical epidemiologist, founder and chair of Aarhus University's Department of Clinical Epidemiology, elected to the US National Academy of Medicine in 2024.