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Herman Berendsen

Herman Johan Christiaan Berendsen (1934–2019) was a Dutch physical chemist at the University of Groningen whose Berendsen thermostat, SPC water model, SHAKE algorithm, and GROMACS software underlie modern molecular dynamics simulation.

Herman F. Mark

Herman F. Mark (1895–1992) was an Austrian-born American chemist at Brooklyn Polytechnic known as the father of polymer science, whose X-ray work proved polymers are giant molecules.

Herman S. Bloch

Herman S. Bloch (1912–1990) was an American industrial chemist who spent his career at Universal Oil Products near Chicago and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1975.

Hermann Fischer (biochemist)

Hermann Fischer (1888–1960) was a German-born American biochemist and carbohydrate chemist, son of Nobel laureate Emil Fischer, who synthesized the phosphorylated sugars of intermediary metabolism.

Hermann Irving Schlesinger

Hermann Irving Schlesinger (1882–1960) was an American inorganic chemist at the University of Chicago whose discovery of the borohydrides and aluminohydrides opened modern boron hydride chemistry.

Hermann Staudinger

Hermann Staudinger was a German chemist who founded macromolecular chemistry, proposing in 1920 that polymers are giant covalently bonded molecules, and won the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Hermenegildo García

Hermenegildo García, born 1957, is a Spanish chemist and Full Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de València whose photocatalysis research converts solar energy into green hydrogen and renewable fuels.

Herrick L. Johnston

Herrick L. Johnston, born Herrick Lee Johnston (1898–1965), was an American chemist who co-discovered the heavy oxygen isotopes oxygen-17 and oxygen-18 in 1929 with William F. Giauque.

Hess's law

Hess's law, also called the law of constant heat summation, states that the total enthalpy change of a reaction is the sum of the enthalpy changes of its steps.

Hideki Shirakawa

Hideki Shirakawa (白川英樹) was a Japanese polymer chemist at the University of Tsukuba who shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering electrically conductive polymers.

Hilkka I. Kenttämaa

Hilkka I. Kenttämaa, also written Hilkka Kenttamaa, is a Finnish-born chemist at Purdue University known for mass spectrometry studies of reactive intermediates and the LIAD technique.

Hiroaki Misawa

Hiroaki Misawa (三澤 弘明) is a Japanese photochemist and laser engineer, professor at Hokkaido University's Research Institute for Electronic Science, known for femtosecond laser processing and plasmonic water splitting.

Hirohisa Ohmiya

Hirohisa Ohmiya (大宮 寛久) is a Japanese organic chemist and Kyoto University professor known for radical-polar crossover and NHC organocatalysis, and winner of the 2021 Mukaiyama Award.

Hiromi Yamashita

Hiromi Yamashita (山下弘巳) is a Japanese materials chemist and professor at Osaka University since 2004, known for single-site and plasmonic photocatalysts and a 2012 self-cleaning TiO2 coating.

Hiroo Inokuchi

Hiroo Inokuchi (井口洋夫) was a Japanese chemist who showed that organic compounds can conduct electricity, proposed the concept of the organic semiconductor, and won the 2007 Kyoto Prize.

Hiroshi Imahori

Hiroshi Imahori (今堀 博) is a Japanese photochemist and materials chemist, a professor at Kyoto University since 2002, known for artificial photosynthesis and porphyrin solar cells.

Hiroshi Kageyama

Hiroshi Kageyama (陰山 洋) is a Japanese solid-state chemist, professor in Kyoto University's Department of Energy and Hydrocarbon Chemistry since 2010, known for mixed-anion compounds, perovskite oxyhydrides, and low-dimensional quantum magnets.

Hiroshi Kitagawa

Hiroshi Kitagawa (北川 宏) is a Japanese solid-state chemist and professor at Kyoto University since 2009, known for forcing immiscible metals into alloy nanoparticles for catalysts and hydrogen storage.

Hiroshi Matsui

Hiroshi Matsui is a chemist and Professor at Hunter College, CUNY, working in bionanotechnology, known for peptide-based nanotubes, peptide-powered nanomotors, and iron oxide nanocages that deliver anticancer drugs.

Hiroshi Nakatsuji

Hiroshi Nakatsuji (中辻 博, born 1943 in Osaka) is a Japanese theoretical chemist at Kyoto University known for the SAC, SAC-CI, and free complement methods.

Hiroshi Nishihara

Hiroshi Nishihara (西原 寛) is a Japanese coordination chemist and electrochemist, a University of Tokyo emeritus professor now at Tokyo University of Science, known for coordination programming and coordination nanosheets.

Hiroshi Shinokubo

Hiroshi Shinokubo (忍久保 洋) is a Japanese organic chemist and professor at Nagoya University since 2008, known for the gram-scale synthesis of stable antiaromatic norcorrole and stacked antiaromatic porphyrins.

Hiroshi Sugiyama

Hiroshi Sugiyama (杉山 弘) is a Japanese chemical biologist and Kyoto University professor known for pyrrole-imidazole polyamide artificial genetic switches and DNA origami nanotechnology studied by high-speed AFM.

Hiroyuki Furuta

Hiroyuki Furuta (古田弘幸) is a Japanese organic chemist known for discovering N-confused porphyrin in 1994 and building near-infrared dyes on it; he is Emeritus Professor at Kyushu University.

Hiroyuki Isobe

Hiroyuki Isobe (磯部寛之, born 1970 in Tokyo) is a Japanese organic chemist and professor at the University of Tokyo known for synthesizing molecular nanocarbons, including phenine nanotubes and molecular peapods.

Hiroyuki Nishide

Hiroyuki Nishide (西出 宏之, born 1947) is a Japanese polymer chemist at Waseda University, a professor from 1987 to 2018, known for redox-active radical polymers and the organic radical battery.

Hisanori Shinohara

Hisanori Shinohara (篠原 久典) is a Japanese chemist and professor at Nagoya University known for pioneering endohedral metallofullerenes, including the 1992 scandium trimer report and the first nano-peapods.

Hisashi Yamamoto

Hisashi Yamamoto (山本 尚), born 1943 in Kobe, is a Japanese organic chemist known for designer Lewis acid and Brønsted acid catalysts for asymmetric synthesis.

Hisayoshi Yurimoto

Hisayoshi Yurimoto (圦本尚義, born 1958) is a Japanese cosmochemist and professor at Hokkaido University who built the first isotope microscope and led the initial analysis of Hayabusa2's Ryugu samples.

Hitoshi Miyasaka

Hitoshi Miyasaka (宮坂 等) is a Japanese materials chemist and professor at Tohoku University's Institute for Materials Research, known for gas-responsive porous magnets and chiral hybrid perovskites.