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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 Krakauer

Henry Krakauer was an American health services researcher affiliated with the Uniformed Services University and Medicare's HCFA, known for influential New England Journal of Medicine papers on outcomes and transplantation.

Henry Krum

Henry Krum (1958–2015) was an Australian clinical pharmacologist at Monash University and The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, known for establishing β-blockers as standard therapy in heart failure.

Henry L. Nadler

Henry L. Nadler was an American pediatrician and medical geneticist who established prenatal diagnosis of hereditary disorders by amniocentesis at Northwestern, then served as dean of Wayne State University's medical school.

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 M. Kronenberg

Henry M. Kronenberg is an American physician-scientist who leads the Endocrine Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital and is known for cloning parathyroid hormone DNA and its receptor.

Henry M. Lemon

Henry M. Lemon (1915–1997) was an American physician-scientist who studied estrogen metabolism and breast cancer risk, and was the first director of the Eppley Institute in Nebraska.

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 Masur

Henry Masur is an American infectious disease physician who wrote one of the first papers describing AIDS and leads critical care medicine at the NIH Clinical Center.

Henry Meige

Henry Meige (1866–1940) was a French neurologist of the Charcot school at the Salpêtrière, eponymist of Meige syndrome and co-author of the first book on movement disorders.

Henry Metzger

Henry Metzger (1932–2018) was a German-born American immunologist at NIH who showed how IgE receptor aggregation triggers mast cell activation in allergy, and led NIAMS research.

Henry N. Claman

Henry N. Claman was an American physician-immunologist and allergist who headed allergy and clinical immunology at the University of Colorado for 25 years and discovered thymus–marrow synergism in 1966.

Henry N. Ginsberg

Henry N. Ginsberg is an American physician-scientist at Columbia University known for research on apoB lipoproteins, insulin resistance, and atherosclerosis, and for leading the ACCORD Lipid trial.

Henry P. Close

Henry P. Close was an American pulmonary physician who served as Chief of the Medical Service at the Philadelphia VA Hospital and taught clinical medicine at Temple University.

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 R. Halperin

Henry R. Halperin is a cardiologist and biomedical engineer at Johns Hopkins University, known for the 2017 study showing MRI is safe for patients with cardiac devices.

Henry R. Shinefield

Henry R. Shinefield (born 1925) is an American pediatrician and vaccine researcher who was chief of pediatrics at Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco and co-developed its Vaccine Study Center.

Henry S. Kaplan

Henry S. Kaplan (1918–1984) was an American radiation oncologist and cancer biologist at Stanford who developed the first medical linear accelerator in the Western hemisphere and helped make Hodgkin's disease curable.

Henry Sherwood Lawrence

Henry Sherwood Lawrence, known as H. Sherwood Lawrence, was an American immunologist at New York University who discovered transfer factor in 1949 and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1972.

Henry T. Lynch

Henry T. Lynch, also known as Henry Lynch, was an American cancer geneticist at Creighton University who established that common cancers can be inherited; Lynch syndrome is named after him.

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.

Heo Jun

Heo Jun (허준, 1539–1615) was a Joseon-dynasty court physician who rose to head of the royal clinic and compiled the Donguibogam, Korea's representative traditional medical text.

Heping Zhang

Heping Zhang is a Chinese American biostatistician who directs Yale's Collaborative Center for Statistics in Science and led the 2014 letrozole trial that changed PCOS infertility treatment.

Herbert A. Selenkow

Herbert A. Selenkow (1923–2007) was an American endocrinologist and Harvard associate professor who directed the Thyroid Laboratory at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston for twenty years.

Herbert B. Peterson

Herbert B. Peterson is an American obstetrician-gynecologist and reproductive health epidemiologist, a distinguished professor at UNC who spent 20 years at the CDC defining the risks of tubal sterilization.

Herbert Benson

Herbert Benson (1935–2022) was an American cardiologist at Harvard Medical School who defined the relaxation response, the counterpart of fight-or-flight, and wrote the 1975 bestseller The Relaxation Response.

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.