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Heather Wright
Heather Wright is an American volcanologist and Director of the Volcano Disaster Assistance Program at the Cascades Volcano Observatory. She received the Presidential Early Career Award in 2019.
Heber Cinco Ley
Heber Cinco Ley is a Mexican petroleum reservoir engineer known for pressure transient analysis of fractured reservoirs, who led the Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo from 2007 to 2010.
Heileen Hsu-Kim
Heileen (Helen) Hsu-Kim is an American environmental aquatic chemist, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Duke University, and PECASE recipient known for research on mercury bioavailability in aquatic food webs.
Heinrich Holland
Heinrich Dieter Holland (1927–2012) was a German-born American geochemist at Princeton and Harvard who established the Great Oxidation Event, the rise of atmospheric oxygen about 2.3 billion years ago.
Heinz A. Lowenstam
Heinz A. Lowenstam was a German-born American paleoecologist at Caltech who founded the modern study of biomineralization and discovered magnetite in chiton teeth in 1962.
Henry Alexander Miers
Henry Alexander Miers (1858–1942) was a British mineralogist and crystallographer who held the Waynflete Chair at Oxford, led the University of London and Manchester, and was knighted in 1912.
Henry Benedict Medlicott
Henry Benedict Medlicott (1829–1905) was an Irish geologist who led the Geological Survey of India and co-authored the Manual of the Geology of India, the standard reference for Indian geologists.
Henry Clifton Sorby
Henry Clifton Sorby (1826–1908) was a Sheffield scientist who founded microscopical petrology, the study of rocks in thin section, and is the father of metallography.
Henry Mitchell (hydrographer)
Henry Mitchell (1830–1902) was an American hydrographer and civil engineer of the United States Coast Survey, known for tidal surveys of New York Harbor and Boston Harbor.
Henry Nathaniel Andrews
Henry Nathaniel Andrews Jr. (1910–2002) was an American paleobotanist and pioneer of North American paleobotany, known for coal-ball studies of Carboniferous floras and Devonian fossil plants.
Henry Stephens Washington
Henry Stephens Washington (1867–1934) was an American petrologist and geochemist, a National Academy member known for the CIPW classification of igneous rocks and the CIPW norm.
Henry Woods (palaeontologist)
Henry Woods (1868–1952) was a British palaeontologist who spent his career at Cambridge, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1916, and is best remembered for his monograph of the Cretaceous Lamellibranchia of England.
Henry Woodward (geologist)
Henry Woodward (1832–1921) was an English geologist and paleontologist who served as Keeper of Geology at the British Museum and edited Geological Magazine for over 50 years.
Herb Wright
Herb Wright (1917–2015) was an American Quaternary geologist and paleoecologist at the University of Minnesota, known for reconstructing North America's vegetational and climatic history from lake sediments.
Herbert E. Huppert
Herbert E. Huppert, also known as H. E. Huppert, is a geophysicist and applied mathematician at Cambridge who studies the flow of fluids in and on the Earth.
Herbert Harold Read
Herbert Harold Read (1889–1970) was a British geologist who mapped the Scottish Highlands and led Britain's granite controversy with his dictum "there are granites and granites".
Hiroo Kanamori
Hiroo Kanamori, born in Tokyo in 1936, is a Japanese-American geophysicist and Caltech professor emeritus who introduced the moment magnitude scale and earthquake early warning, winning the 2007 Kyoto Prize.
Hiroshi Ohmoto
Hiroshi Ohmoto is a geochemist and Professor Emeritus at Pennsylvania State University known for challenging the standard account of an oxygen-poor early Earth atmosphere using sulfur isotopes.
Hisashi Kuno
Hisashi Kuno (久野久) was a Japanese petrologist and volcanologist, professor at the University of Tokyo, known for distinguishing the tholeiitic, high-alumina, and alkali basalt magma series.
Ho‐kwang Mao
Ho-kwang Mao (毛河光) is a Chinese-American high-pressure geophysicist at the Carnegie Institution who developed the diamond anvil cell to reproduce Earth's-core pressures in the laboratory.
Hollis Dow Hedberg
Hollis Dow Hedberg (1903–1988) was an American petroleum geologist who led exploration at Gulf Oil, taught at Princeton, and chaired the International Subcommission on Stratigraphic Classification.
Horace Bolingbroke Woodward
Horace Bolingbroke Woodward (1848–1914) was a British geologist who spent 41 years on the Geological Survey of Great Britain and wrote The History of the Geological Society of London (1907).
Hoshin V. Gupta
Hoshin V. Gupta, also published as Hoshin Gupta, is a hydrologist and Regents Professor at the University of Arizona, known for the SCE-UA optimization method and the Kling-Gupta Efficiency.
Howard Allan Zebker
Howard Allan Zebker is an American electrical engineer and geophysicist at Stanford University, a pioneer of interferometric synthetic aperture radar elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.
Howel Williams
Howel Williams (1898–1980) was a British-born American volcanologist and geologist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for his work on calderas and the Cascade volcanoes.
Hugh P. Taylor Jr.
Hugh P. Taylor Jr. was an American geochemist at the California Institute of Technology known for applying oxygen-isotope measurements to rocks, tektites, and Apollo lunar samples.
Hugo Benioff
Hugo Benioff (1899–1968) was an American seismologist at Caltech known for charting the inclined deep-earthquake planes called Benioff zones and for designing the variable-reluctance seismograph.
Huiming Bao
Huiming Bao (鲍惠铭) is a Chinese isotope geochemist who used sulfate oxygen-17 anomalies to show ultra-high CO2 after a global glaciation about 630 million years ago.
Ian McDougall (geochronologist)
Ian McDougall (1935–2018) was an Australian geochronologist at the Australian National University known for argon dating, the geomagnetic reversal time-scale, and dating Turkana Basin hominin sites.
Ian W. D. Dalziel
Ian W. D. Dalziel is a British-born field geologist and tectonicist known for mapping the Southern Andes and West Antarctica and for work on the supercontinent Rodinia.