Life and health

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 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.

Sep 17, 2026

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.

Sep 17, 2026

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.

Sep 17, 2026

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.