Chemists

Harrison Shull

Harrison Shull (1923–2003) was an American theoretical chemist known for quantum-mechanical work on small-molecule electronic spectra and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1969.

Harry B. Gray

Harry B. Gray, born in 1935, is an American inorganic chemist at Caltech known for demonstrating long-range electron tunneling through proteins and for solar fuels research.

Harry C. Dorn

Harry C. Dorn was an American fullerene chemist on the Virginia Tech faculty for fifty years, known for discovering trimetallic nitride template endohedral metallofullerenes in 1999.

Harry Melville (chemist)

Sir Harry Work Melville was a British physical chemist known for polymerization kinetics who left research in 1956 to lead Britain's Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.

Harry R. Allcock is a chemist at Pennsylvania State University who discovered polyphosphazenes, inorganic-backbone polymers used in biomaterials, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2014.

Sep 17, 2026

Harry Wasserman

Harry Wasserman, born Harry Herschal Wasserman (1920–2013), was an American organic chemist at Yale University known for singlet oxygen research and the vicinal tricarbonyl chemistry he originated.

Hartmuth C. Kolb

Hartmuth C. Kolb is a chemist who was first author of the 2001 paper defining click chemistry with Finn and Sharpless, and later developed the first FDA-approved tau PET tracer.

Harun Tüysüz

Harun Tüysüz is a Turkish chemist known for water-electrolysis catalysts based on abundant cobalt, nickel, and iron, leading a group at IMDEA Materials in Madrid since 2024.

Haruo Hosoya

Haruo Hosoya (細谷治) is a Japanese chemist and emeritus professor at Ochanomizu University in Tokyo, best known for introducing the Hosoya topological index in 1971.

Oct 22, 2026

Heat-bath configuration interaction

Heat-bath configuration interaction (HCI) is a selected configuration interaction method in quantum chemistry, introduced by Holmes, Tubman, and Umrigar in 2016, which grows a compact wavefunction by thresholding determinants.

Heather D. Maynard

Heather D. Maynard is an American polymer chemist at UCLA, an endowed professor and founding member of the California NanoSystems Institute, known for protein–polymer conjugates for drug delivery.

Heather J. Kulik

Heather J. Kulik is an American computational chemist and chemical engineer who joined MIT in 2013 and uses machine learning with electronic structure calculations to discover new molecules and catalysts.

Héctor D. Abruña

Héctor D. Abruña, also written Hector D. Abruna, is a Puerto Rico-born electrochemist and Émile M. Chamot Professor at Cornell University who received the 2024 Enrico Fermi Presidential Award.

Hee Cheul Choi

Hee Cheul Choi (최희철) is a South Korean materials chemist who holds a chaired professorship at POSTECH, known for carbon nanotube etching of silicon oxide and vapor-grown nanostructures.

Heinrich Caro

Heinrich Caro (1834–1910) was a German industrial chemist who, as BASF's first head of research from 1868, invented synthetic dyes including alizarin, eosin, and methylene blue.

Heinrich Hörlein

Heinrich Hörlein (Philipp Heinrich Hörlein, 1882–1954) was a German chemist who headed Bayer's pharmaceutical laboratories at Elberfeld, discovered Luminal, and oversaw the sulfonamides; he was acquitted at Nuremberg in 1948.

Heinrich Wieland

Heinrich Wieland was a German organic chemist at the University of Munich who won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on bile acids and formulated the dehydrogenation theory of biological oxidation.

Heinz Frei

Heinz Frei is a Swiss-born physical chemist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory known for cobalt oxide water-oxidation catalysts and artificial photosynthesis using sunlight to make fuels.

Heinz G. Viehe

Heinz G. Viehe (Heinz Günther Viehe, 1929–2010) was a German-born organic chemist and professor at Louvain, known for Viehe's salt and cited in the 2021 Nobel Prize background.

Sep 17, 2026

Heinz Heinemann

Heinz Heinemann (1913–2005) was a German-born American chemist in heterogeneous catalysis who helped develop 14 commercial processes, held 75 patents, and spent 17 years at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Sep 17, 2026

Helen Sharman

Helen Sharman is a British chemist who became the first Briton in space and the first woman to visit Mir, flying there in May 1991.

Helma Wennemers

Helma Wennemers (born 1969) is a German organic chemist and professor of organic chemistry at ETH Zurich, known for peptide catalysts, synthetic collagen, and supramolecular chemistry.

Helmut Cölfen

Helmut Cölfen (1965–2023) was a German physical and colloid chemist, professor of physical chemistry at the University of Konstanz from 2010, known for discovering stable pre-nucleation clusters and the concept of mesocrystals.

Helmut Schwarz

Helmut Schwarz, born in 1943, is a German chemist at TU Berlin known for gas-phase mass spectrometry, two-state reactivity, and methane activation; he won the 2025 Wolf Prize.

Helmuth Möhwald

Helmuth Möhwald (1946–2018) was a German physicist and physical chemist, founding director of the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, known for layer-by-layer film assembly and hollow capsule templating.

Hemamala I. Karunadasa

Hemamala I. Karunadasa is a Sri Lankan-born materials chemist, Professor of Chemistry at Stanford with a joint appointment at SLAC, known for lead-free halide perovskites for solar cells and lighting.

Hening Lin

Hening Lin is a chemical biologist and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator who joined the University of Chicago in 2024, known for establishing lysine succinylation and malonylation as regulated protein modifications.

Henk J. Bolink

Henk J. Bolink (Hendrik Bolink) is a Spanish-based inorganic chemist and professor at the Universitat de València known for vacuum-deposited perovskite solar cells and LEDs.

Henning Sirringhaus

Henning Sirringhaus is a physicist who holds the Hitachi Professorship at the University of Cambridge, known for pioneering polymer transistor mobility improvements and co-founding Plastic Logic.