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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.
Herbert Budka
Herbert Budka (born 1946) is an Austrian neuropathologist, professor at the Medical University of Vienna, known for work on HIV brain pathology and prion diseases.
Herbert E. Kaufman
Herbert E. Kaufman, also known as H E Kaufman, was an American ophthalmologist who established idoxuridine, the first effective drug treatment for a viral eye infection.
Herbert F. Oettgen
Herbert F. Oettgen (1923–2023) was a German-born tumor immunologist who spent his career at Memorial Sloan Kettering, founding its Division of Applied Immunology in 1970 and pioneering cancer immunotherapy.
Herbert Friedmann
Herbert Friedmann (1900–1987) was an American ornithologist and longtime Smithsonian curator of birds, known for decades of work on the evolution of brood parasitism in cowbirds and cuckoos.
Herbert H. Samuels
Herbert H. Samuels is an endocrinologist at NYU School of Medicine whose 1973–1977 papers on rat pituitary GH1 cells supplied the earliest characterizations of the nuclear thyroid hormone receptor.
Herbert Herzog
Herbert Herzog is an Australian neuroscientist known for research on neuropeptide Y, appetite, and stress-induced obesity, who led a laboratory at Sydney's Garvan Institute from 1991.
Herbert Jäckle
Herbert Jäckle (born 1949 in Konstanz, Germany) is a German developmental biologist known for molecular genetic analysis of early Drosophila embryonic development, centered on the Krüppel segmentation gene.
Herbert Jasper
Herbert Henri Jasper (1906–1999) was a Canadian neuroscientist who helped found clinical neurophysiology, confirmed the human EEG in North America, and led the Montreal Neurological Institute's EEG laboratories.
Herbert Kleber
Herbert D. Kleber (1934-2018), American psychiatrist and addiction treatment pioneer; founded Yale's Drug Dependence Unit, ran first clonidine trial, ONDCP deputy director under Bush, co-founded Center on Addiction, Columbia professor.
Herbert L. Abrams
Herbert L. Abrams was an American radiologist at Stanford and Harvard who wrote Angiography (1961) and critiqued imaging overuse, sharing the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize through IPPNW.
Herbert L. Bonkovsky
Herbert L. Bonkovsky is an American hepatologist known for developing the first heme therapy for acute porphyria attacks and Professor Emeritus at Wake Forest School of Medicine.
Herbert L. Cooper
Herbert L. Cooper is an NIH physician-scientist who studied RNA metabolism in growing lymphocytes and discovered in 1981 that hypusine is formed post-translationally in a single protein.
Herbert L. DuPont
Herbert L. DuPont is an American infectious disease physician-scientist at UTHealth Houston whose research on travelers' diarrhea, E. coli, and Cryptosporidium shaped diarrheal disease treatment worldwide.
Herbert L. Needleman
Herbert Leroy Needleman, an American pediatrician and researcher, showed that low-level lead exposure damages children's intelligence, leading to the ban of lead in U.S. gasoline and paint.
Herbert Levine (biological physicist)
Herbert Levine is an American biological physicist at Northeastern University known for physical models of cancer metastasis, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.
Herbert M. Pinedo
Herbert M. Pinedo, known in Dutch medicine as Bob Pinedo, is a Dutch medical oncologist and professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam who pioneered bench-to-bedside cancer research.
Herbert McLean Evans
Herbert McLean Evans (1882–1971) was an American anatomist and endocrinologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who co-discovered vitamin E and pioneered pituitary growth hormone research.
Herbert Mescon
Herbert Mescon (1919–1985) was an American dermatologist who built and chaired the dermatology department at Boston University School of Medicine from 1952 to 1984, known for research on skin pigmentation.
Herbert S. Gasser
Herbert S. Gasser (1888–1963) was an American physiologist who shared the 1944 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Joseph Erlanger for classifying nerve fibers, and directed the Rockefeller Institute from 1935 to 1953.
Herbert S. Strauss
Herbert S. Strauss was an American physician-scientist in hematology who in the 1960s defined factor VIII inhibitors in hemophilia A and the clinical picture of von Willebrand's disease.
Herbert Spencer Jennings
Herbert Spencer Jennings (1868–1947) was an American zoologist and geneticist who spent 1906 to 1938 at Johns Hopkins University as an early investigator of heredity in single-celled organisms.
Herbert Tilg
Herbert Tilg is an Austrian gastroenterologist and hepatologist who has headed the University Hospital for Internal Medicine I at the Medical University of Innsbruck since 2012.
Herbert W. Virgin
Herbert W. Virgin, known as Skip Virgin, is an American virologist and immunologist who discovered murine norovirus, defined the mammalian virome, and directed discovery of the COVID-19 antibody sotrovimab.
Herbert Y. Meltzer
Herbert Y. Meltzer is an American psychiatrist, Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University, known for the dopamine-serotonin hypothesis of atypical antipsychotics and clinical trials that won clozapine approval for treatment-resistant schizophrenia.
Herbicide
Herbicide: chemicals that kill or control unwanted vegetation, used mainly in row-crop farming. Key modes of action include photosynthesis, amino acid, and cell division inhibition; glyphosate is the most widely used, and about 273 weed species show resistance.
Herbicide safener
Herbicide safener (herbicide antidote, crop protectant): chemical or seed treatment protecting crops from herbicide injury without reducing weed control, mainly by inducing GST, P450, and glutathione-based detoxification; examples include dichlormid, benoxacor, and mefenpyr-diethyl.