Life and health

Harry Eagle

Harry Eagle (1905–1992) was an American microbiologist and cell biologist who developed Eagle's minimum essential medium, making routine culture of human and animal cells possible.

Harry F. Noller

Harry F. Noller is an American molecular biochemist at UC Santa Cruz who established that ribosomal RNA is the functional heart of the ribosome, winning the 2017 Breakthrough Prize.

Harry George Armstrong

Harry George Armstrong was an American physician and Air Force major general who founded the Aero Medical Laboratory and gave his name to the Armstrong limit.

Harry Gideon Wells

Harry Gideon Wells (1875–1943) was an American pathologist and immunologist who chaired pathology at the University of Chicago and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1925.

Harry Gilbert was a biochemist and glycobiologist, Professor of Agricultural Biochemistry at Newcastle University, known for showing how gut bacteria break down complex carbohydrates; he died in 2025.

Harry Goldblatt

Harry Goldblatt (1891–1977) was an American pathologist whose 1934 experiment producing persistent high blood pressure in dogs by clamping the renal arteries created the first animal model of hypertension.

Harry Grundfest

Harry Grundfest (1904–1983) was an American neurophysiologist and National Academy of Sciences member who, at the Rockefeller Institute and Columbia, established nerve fiber conduction velocities and GABA's inhibitory role.

Harry H. Low

Harry H. Low is a structural biologist and professor at Imperial College London known for his 2006 Nature structure of a bacterial dynamin-like protein and work on ESCRT-III-like membrane remodelling.

Harry Harris (biochemical geneticist)

Harry Harris (1919–1994) was a British-born human biochemical geneticist who used enzyme electrophoresis to show that genetic variation among ordinary healthy people is common and usually harmless.

Harry Heller

Harry Heller (1899–1967) was an Israeli physician born in Berlin who defined familial Mediterranean fever, classified the inherited amyloidoses, and was medical director of Tel-Hashomer Hospital.

Harry Hemingway

Harry Hemingway is a British physician-scientist, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at University College London, whose research on electronic health records has shaped cardiovascular prevention guidelines and policy.

Harry Hollander

Harry Hollander is an American infectious-disease physician and medical educator at UCSF, known for early HIV research and for directing its internal medicine residency program from 1995 to 2018.

Harry J. de Koning

Harry J. de Koning (Henricus J. de Koning) is a Dutch clinical epidemiologist and professor at Erasmus MC who designed and led the NELSON lung-cancer screening trial.

Harry J.G.M. Crijns

Harry J.G.M. Crijns is a Dutch cardiologist and emeritus professor at Maastricht University known for the RACE trials, which showed lenient rate control is safe in atrial fibrillation.

Harry J.M. Groen

Harry J.M. Groen is a Dutch pulmonologist and thoracic oncology researcher at the University Medical Center Groningen, known for a 2000 study of PET scanning in lung cancer staging.

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Harry Klee

Harry Klee is an American plant scientist at the University of Florida who studies tomato flavor chemistry and ethylene perception, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2012.

Harry Klinefelter

Harry Klinefelter, also known as Harry Fitch Klinefelter, Jr., is an American endocrinologist at Johns Hopkins whose name is attached to Klinefelter syndrome from a 1942 paper.

Harry L. Malech

Harry L. Malech, born Harry Lewis Malech, is an American immunologist at NIAID who has led gene therapy for chronic granulomatous disease since 1991, including first-in-human prime-edited stem cell therapy.

Harry L.A. Janssen

Harry L.A. Janssen (Harry Janssen) is a Dutch hepatologist, Professor and Chair of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, known for the 2013 miravirsen hepatitis C trial.

Harry M. Meyer

Harry M. Meyer, or Harry Martin Meyer Jr. (1928–2001), was an American pediatrician and virologist who co-developed the first rubella vaccine and later led the FDA's Bureau of Biologics.

Harry M. Rose

Harry M. Rose (Harry Melvin Rose, 1906–1986) was an American physician and microbiologist at Columbia University who developed the first reliable diagnostic test for rheumatoid arthritis.

Harry Marshall Ward

Harry Marshall Ward (1854–1906) was a British botanist and mycologist whose investigation of coffee leaf rust in Ceylon placed him in the first rank of mycological investigators, and who later became Professor of Botany at Cambridge.

Harry N. Antoniades

Harry N. Antoniades was a molecular biologist at Harvard University who moved from studying insulin in diabetic blood to isolating and sequencing platelet-derived growth factor, PDGF.

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Harry P. Cain II

Harry P. Cain II (1937–2023) was an American health policy scholar and executive, a National Academy of Medicine member who led Blue Cross and Blue Shield operations.

Harry R. Büller

Harry R. Büller (born 1952) is a Dutch internist and clinical trialist in vascular medicine at Amsterdam UMC whose trials reshaped the diagnosis and treatment of venous thromboembolism.

Harry Rubin

Harry Rubin (1926–2020) was an American cancer biologist at UC Berkeley who developed the 1958 focus assay for Rous sarcoma virus and shared the 1964 Lasker Award.

Harry S. Jacob

Harry S. Jacob is a Harvard-trained hematologist who led the University of Minnesota's Division of Hematology from 1968 to 1998 and served as president of the American Society of Hematology.

Harry Shwachman

Harry Shwachman was an American pediatrician at Children's Hospital, Boston, whose four decades of work established cystic fibrosis as a diagnosable, treatable disease and whose name survives in the Shwachman–Diamond syndrome.

Harry Sokol

Harry Sokol is a French gastroenterologist and microbiome researcher, professor at Sorbonne Université and Hôpital Saint-Antoine, known for work on gut microbiota in inflammatory bowel disease.