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Henri Moissan
Henri Moissan (1852–1907) was a French chemist who isolated fluorine in 1886, developed the electric-arc furnace in 1892, and won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Henri ter Meulen
Henri ter Meulen (1871–1942) was a Dutch chemist and professor of analytical chemistry at Delft from 1905 to 1936 who developed a catalytic hydrogenation method for organic elemental analysis.
Henrik Clausen
Henrik Clausen (born 1957 in Denmark) is a Danish glycobiologist, professor at the University of Copenhagen, and director of the Copenhagen Center for Glycomics, which he founded in 2008.
Henrik Koch
Henrik Koch, born 1964 in Aarhus, Denmark, is a quantum chemist and professor of theoretical chemistry at NTNU in Trondheim, known for developments in coupled cluster response theory.
Henrik Topsøe
Henrik Topsøe (1944–2019) was a Danish chemical engineer and catalysis scientist, son of Haldor Topsøe, known for the Co-Mo-S model of refinery hydrotreating catalysts and elected a National Academy of Engineering Foreign Associate in 2013.
Henry A. Bent
Henry A. Bent (1926–2015) was an American physical chemist, professor at Minnesota, North Carolina State, and Pittsburgh, best known for Bent's rule on hybridization and bond angles.
Henry Barker Hill
Henry Barker Hill was an American organic chemist who spent his career at Harvard, becoming professor in 1884 and known for research on uric acid and furfural derivatives that helped establish furan chemistry.
Henry Clapp Sherman
Henry Clapp Sherman (1875–1955) was an American food chemist and nutritionist who spent his career at Columbia University, quantifying dietary calcium and vitamin requirements and receiving the Franklin Medal in 1946.
Henry Drysdale Dakin
Henry Drysdale Dakin (1880–1952) was a British-born chemist who worked in the United States, known for the Dakin oxidation, the synthesis of adrenaline, and Dakin's solution antiseptic.
Henry Dube
Henry Dube is a German organic chemist who holds the Chair of Organic Chemistry I at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg and is known for light-driven molecular motors and photoswitches.
Henry Enfield Roscoe
Henry Enfield Roscoe (1833–1915) was an English chemist who, with Robert Bunsen, founded quantitative photochemistry, first prepared pure metallic vanadium, and built Owens College Manchester into Britain's leading chemistry school.
Henry Eyring (theoretical chemist)
Henry Eyring (1901–1981) was a Mexican-born American theoretical chemist who formulated the theory of absolute reaction rates and the Eyring equation, central to chemical kinetics.
Henry F. Schaefer
Henry F. Schaefer III is an American theoretical and computational chemist, Graham Perdue Professor at the University of Georgia, known for ab initio quantum chemistry and the 1970 methylene prediction.
Henry Gilman
Henry Gilman (1893–1986) was an American organic chemist at Iowa State University who systematized organometallic chemistry and created the Gilman reagent, publishing 1020 papers, more than half after losing his sight in 1947.
Henry Louis Le Chatelier
Henry Louis Le Chatelier (1850–1936) was a French chemist and mining engineer who formulated the principle of chemical equilibrium displacement, founded industrial high-temperature measurement, and stated the conditions for ammonia synthesis.
Henry Prentiss Armsby
Henry Prentiss Armsby (1853–1921) was an American agricultural chemist and animal nutrition scientist who built the world's first respiration calorimeter for cattle at Pennsylvania State College.
Henry S. White
Henry S. White is an American electrochemist and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of Utah, known for nanometer-scale electrodes, nanopore sensors, and single-entity electrochemistry.
Henry Taube
Henry Taube (1915–2005) was a Canadian-born American inorganic chemist at Stanford University who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on electron transfer mechanisms in metal complexes.
Henry Tizard
Sir Henry Thomas Tizard (1885–1959) was a British physical chemist and science administrator who, as chairman of the Committee for the Scientific Survey of Air Defence from 1934, set in motion the development of radar.
Herbert A. Hauptman
Herbert A. Hauptman was an American mathematician who shared the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Jerome Karle for developing direct methods for determining crystal structures.
Herbert Brereton Baker
Herbert Brereton Baker (1862–1935) was an English inorganic chemist, chief professor at Imperial College from 1912 to 1932, who showed that rigorously dried gases resist chemical reaction.
Herbert C. Brown
Herbert C. Brown, born Herbert Brovarnik, was an American organic chemist at Purdue University who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering boron chemistry.
Herbert Freundlich
Herbert Freundlich, full name Herbert Max Finlay Freundlich, was a German physical chemist and founder of colloid science, known for the Freundlich adsorption isotherm formulated in 1907.
Herbert Mayr
Herbert Mayr, born 1947 in Weilheim, Germany, is a German physical organic chemist, professor in retirement at LMU Munich, known for reactivity scales predicting polar organic reaction rates.
Herbert Naarman
Herbert Naarman, also spelled Naarmann, was a German polymer chemist at BASF in Ludwigshafen who in 1987 developed polyacetylene with a claimed conductivity of the same order as copper's.
Herbert S. Eleuterio
Herbert S. Eleuterio was an American industrial chemist at DuPont who first observed olefin metathesis in 1956 and whose hexafluoropropylene chemistry underpinned Teflon FEP, Viton, Kalrez, and Nafion.
Herbert S. Gutowsky
Herbert S. Gutowsky (1919–2000) was an American chemist who pioneered nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for chemistry; his discovery of spin-spin coupling helped make NMR a major tool in chemistry, biochemistry, and biology.
Herbert S. Harned
Herbert S. Harned (1888–1969) was an American physical chemist, professor at Pennsylvania and then Yale, known for Harned's rule and the monograph The Physical Chemistry of Electrolytic Solutions.
Herbert W. Roesky
Herbert W. Roesky (1935–2025) was a German inorganic chemist at the University of Göttingen who published over 1,250 papers on fluorine and main-group element chemistry.
Herbert Waldmann
Herbert Waldmann (born 1957 in Neuwied, Germany) is a German chemical biologist and medicinal chemist, director at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology in Dortmund, known for Biology Oriented Synthesis and pseudo-natural products.