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Henrique Marques-Souza

Henrique Marques-Souza, full name Henrique Marques Barbosa de Souza, is a Brazilian insect developmental geneticist at UNICAMP known for Tribolium segmentation work and RNAi pest control.

Henrique Veiga-Fernandes

Henrique Veiga-Fernandes is a Portuguese immunologist who leads the Immunophysiology Laboratory at the Champalimaud Foundation in Lisbon, known for showing how nerves, diet, and microbes are sensed by immune cells.

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.

Hēnry Buchwald

Henry Buchwald, born in Vienna, is an American surgeon-scientist and emeritus professor at the University of Minnesota known for metabolic surgery and the first implantable infusion pump.

Henry Burger (endocrinologist)

Henry George Burger (1933–2024) was an Australian endocrinologist who directed Prince Henry's Institute in Melbourne and was known for isolating inhibin and developing pulsatile GnRH ovulation treatment.

Henry C. Pitot

Henry C. Pitot (1930–2021) was an American physician-scientist who spent his career at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for multistage liver carcinogenesis and the Min mouse model of intestinal cancer.

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 D. Janowitz

Henry D. Janowitz (1915–2008) was an American gastroenterologist who led Mount Sinai's Division of Gastroenterology from 1958 to 1983 and helped found the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation.

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 Edward Shortt

Henry Edward Shortt (1887–1987) was a British protozoologist and Indian Medical Service colonel who proved in 1948, with Cyril Garnham, that malaria parasites develop first in the liver.

Henry F. Chambers

Henry F. Chambers, known as Chip, is an American infectious-diseases physician-researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, known for work on Staphylococcus aureus, antimicrobial resistance, and infective endocarditis.

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 F. McFarland

Henry F. McFarland (1940–2024) was an American neuroimmunologist who spent his career at NINDS, co-founded its Neuroimmunology Branch in 1975, and pioneered MRI for diagnosing and monitoring multiple sclerosis.

Henry Fairfield Osborn

Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857–1935) was an American vertebrate paleontologist, professor of zoology at Columbia University, and president of the American Museum of Natural History, best known for describing Tyrannosaurus rex in 1905.

Henry Foy

Henry Foy (1900–1991) was a haematologist and nutrition researcher who spent his career studying tropical anemias, running a research laboratory in Nairobi, Kenya, from 1948.

Henry Friesen

Henry George Friesen (1934–2025) was a Canadian endocrinologist from Morden, Manitoba, who first isolated human prolactin and, as MRC president, laid the foundation for the CIHR.

Henry G. Kunkel

Henry G. Kunkel (1916–1983) was an American immunologist who spent his career at Rockefeller University in New York and is known as the father of immunopathology.

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 Head

Henry Head (1861–1940) was a British neurologist, physician to the London Hospital, and editor of Brain, known for Head's zones, dermatome maps, and studies of sensation and aphasia.

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 J. Binder

Henry J. Binder (1936–2025) was an American gastroenterologist and intestinal transport physiologist at Yale whose laboratory explained colonic sodium absorption and co-designed a resistant-starch oral rehydration solution for cholera.

Henry J. Mankin

Henry J. Mankin was an American orthopedic surgeon who chaired orthopedic surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital for 24 years and created the Mankin grading system for osteoarthritic cartilage.

Henry J.M. Barnett

Henry J.M. Barnett (1922–2016) was a Canadian neurologist who directed the trials establishing modern stroke prevention, including the first randomized aspirin trial and NASCET, and co-founded the Robarts Research Institute.