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Heinrich Kayser
Heinrich Kayser (Johann Heinrich Gustav Kayser; 1853–1940) was a German physicist who, with Carl Runge, mapped the spectra of many elements and established the laws of spectral series.
Heinrich Mache
Heinrich Mache (1876–1954) was an Austrian physicist who pioneered measuring radon in natural waters, introduced the first radon unit in 1904, and founded technical physics in Vienna.
Heinrich Rohrer
Heinrich Rohrer (1933–2013) was a Swiss physicist at IBM's Zurich laboratory who shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gerd Binnig for the scanning tunneling microscope.
Heinrich Rubens
Heinrich Rubens (1865–1922) was a German experimental physicist who pioneered the far-infrared region, whose 1900 black-body measurements helped drive Planck's quantum radiation law, and who invented the flame tube that makes standing sound waves visible.
Heinz Billing
Heinz Billing (1914–2017) was a German physicist who built the first electronic computers in postwar Germany and started the laser-interferometer work behind the 2015 gravitational-wave detection.
Heinz London
Heinz London (1907–1970) was a German-British physicist who co-created the 1935 London equations of superconductivity with his brother Fritz and proposed the dilution refrigerator, which enabled sustained millikelvin experiments.
Heinz Maier-Leibnitz
Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (1911–2000) was a German experimental physicist who built Germany's first research reactor at Garching, co-founded and directed the Institut Laue–Langevin in Grenoble, and served as president of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft from 1974 to 1979.
Helen Czerski
Helen Czerski is a British physicist at University College London who studies bubbles and breaking waves at the ocean surface, and presents BBC science documentaries.
Helen Quinn
Helen Rhoda Quinn (born 1943) is an Australian-born American theoretical particle physicist, Professor Emerita at SLAC, known for the Peccei–Quinn symmetry behind the axion and for the Georgi–Quinn–Weinberg calculation.
Helen Thom Edwards
Helen Thom Edwards (1936–2016) was an American accelerator physicist at Fermilab who led the Tevatron, the first superconducting proton synchrotron and the world's most powerful collider for 27 years.
Hélène Langevin-Joliot
Hélène Langevin-Joliot (born 1927) is a French nuclear physicist, director of research at CNRS, known for her work at Orsay and as the granddaughter of Marie and Pierre Curie.
Hellmut Fritzsche
Hellmut Fritzsche (1927–2018) was a German-born American experimental physicist and Louis Block Professor at the University of Chicago, a leading experimenter on amorphous semiconductors who confirmed Ovshinsky's switching effect and co-developed the Cohen–Fritzsche–Ovshinsky band model.
Hendrik C. van de Hulst
Hendrik C. van de Hulst (1918–2000) was a Dutch astronomer at Leiden University who predicted the 21-centimeter hydrogen line in 1944 and wrote the classic Light Scattering by Small Particles.
Hendrik Casimir
Hendrik Casimir (1909–2000) was a Dutch theoretical physicist, trained by Ehrenfest, Bohr, and Pauli, who predicted the Casimir effect in 1948 and directed research at Philips until 1972.
Hendrik Jan Vink
Hendrik Jan Vink (1915–2009) was a Dutch solid-state physicist who spent his career at Philips NatLab in Eindhoven and, with F.A. Kröger, founded defect chemistry.
Hendrik Lorentz
Hendrik Lorentz, fully Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, was a Dutch theoretical physicist who refined Maxwell's electromagnetic theory, developed the electron theory, and shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Hendrik van der Bijl
Hendrik Johannes van der Bijl (1887–1948) was a South African physicist who gave the triode vacuum tube its mathematical basis and founded Eskom and Iscor.
Hendrika Johanna van Leeuwen
Hendrika Johanna van Leeuwen was a Dutch physicist whose 1919 Leiden thesis proved the Bohr–van Leeuwen theorem, that classical statistical mechanics gives zero magnetization; she later became the first female lector at TU Delft.
Henk Dorgelo
Hendrik Berend (Henk) Dorgelo (1894–1961) was a Dutch physicist who established the empirical intensity rules for multiplet spectral lines and, with Burger, the summation rule.
Henri Abraham
Henri Abraham (Henri Azariah Abraham, 1868–1943) was a French experimental physicist who directed the ENS physics laboratory, designed the T.M. triode tube, and developed the multivibrator.
Henri Becquerel
Antoine Henri Becquerel (1852–1908) was a French physicist who discovered natural radioactivity in 1896 and shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pierre and Marie Curie.
Henri Bénard
Henri Bénard (1874–1939) was a French physicist who in 1900 gave the first quantitative description of cellular convection, the hexagonal pattern now known as Bénard cells.
Henri Bouasse
Henri Bouasse (1866–1953) was a French physicist and professor at the Faculty of Sciences of Toulouse, best known for the 45-volume Bibliothèque scientifique de l'ingénieur et du physicien.
Henri Victor Regnault
Henri Victor Regnault (1810–1878) was a French chemist and physicist whose precise measurements of the thermal properties of gases fixed the data used by early thermodynamicists.
Henri-Alexandre Deslandres
Henri-Alexandre Deslandres (1853–1948) was a French astrophysicist who established the empirical laws of molecular band spectra and invented the spectroheliograph in 1892, independently of George Hale, later directing the Meudon Observatory.
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868–1921) was an American astronomer at Harvard College Observatory who discovered the Cepheid period–luminosity relation, the Leavitt Law, which enabled measuring distances to galaxies and underpinned Hubble's 1929 expanding-universe result.
Henry Andrews Bumstead
Henry Andrews Bumstead (1870–1920) was an American physicist at Yale University known for research on electromagnetism, radioactivity, and the early American reception of Einstein's relativity.
Henry Augustus Rowland
Henry Augustus Rowland (1848–1901) was an American experimental physicist, the first professor of physics at Johns Hopkins University, known for the concave diffraction grating and his map of the solar spectrum.
Henry Crew
Henry Crew (1859–1953) was an American physicist and spectroscopist, Fayerweather Professor of Physics at Northwestern University from 1892 to 1930, known for atomic spectroscopy and his 1914 translation of Galileo's Two New Sciences.
Henry Draper
Henry Draper (1837–1882) was an American physician and astronomer at the University of the City of New York who pioneered astrophotography, taking the first photograph of a star's spectrum, of Vega, in 1872.