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Henry Heimlich
Henry Heimlich, Cincinnati thoracic surgeon who invented the Heimlich maneuver (abdominal thrusts) for choking, published June 1974; later guidelines renamed it and added back blows first.
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 Hess
Henry Hess is a German-born nanobiotechnology researcher and professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia University, known for kinesin-powered molecular shuttles and a 2009 smart dust biosensor.
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 Hugh Clutton
Henry Hugh Clutton (1850–1909) was an English surgeon at St Thomas's Hospital whose 1886 Lancet description of painless knee effusions in congenital syphilis gave medicine "Clutton's joints".
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.
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 Molaison
Henry Gustav Molaison (H.M., 1926–2008), American epilepsy patient whose 1953 bilateral medial temporal lobe resection caused profound amnesia; decades of study by Brenda Milner revealed distinct memory systems and the hippocampus's role.
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 Suter
Henry Suter, born Hans Heinrich Suter in Switzerland (1841–1918), was a New Zealand malacologist who named over 400 native mollusc species and wrote the influential Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca (1913).