Physicists and astronomers

Hisashi Kimura

Hisashi Kimura (木村栄, 1870–1943) was a Japanese astronomer and first director of the International Latitude Observatory at Mizusawa, best known for discovering the z-term, an annual component of apparent latitude variation independent of Earth's polar motion.

Ho Nyung Lee

Ho Nyung Lee is a condensed matter physicist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory known for atomic-scale synthesis of complex oxide thin films and a 2006 PECASE award.

Hoi-Kwong Lo

Hoi-Kwong Lo is a quantum information scientist and professor at the University of Toronto known for QKD security proofs, the decoy-state method, and co-inventing MDI-QKD in 2012.

Holger Bech Nielsen

Holger Bech Nielsen, born in 1941, is a Danish theoretical physicist at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, counted among the fathers of string theory and known for the Nielsen–Olesen vortex.

Holger Müller

Holger Müller is a UC Berkeley experimental physicist, on the faculty since 2008, known for atom interferometers, the 2019 laser phase plate for electron microscopy, and biophysics.

Homi J. Bhabha (હોમી જહાંગીર ભાભા)

Homi J. Bhabha (હોમી જહાંગીર ભાભા) was an Indian nuclear physicist, founder of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and first chairman of India's Atomic Energy Commission.

Homi Jehangir Bhabha

Homi Jehangir Bhabha (1909–1966) was an Indian nuclear physicist who calculated Bhabha scattering and founded the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and India's atomic energy program.

Hong Ding

Hong Ding (丁洪, born 1968) is a Chinese condensed matter physicist who studies high-temperature superconductors and topological materials using ARPES, discovering the cuprate pseudogap in 1996 and Weyl fermions in TaAs in 2015.

Hong Qin

Hong Qin is a theoretical and computational plasma physicist known for structure-preserving geometric algorithms and topological plasma physics, and winner of the 2023 John Dawson Award.

Hong X. Tang

Hong X. Tang, also known as Hongxing Tang, is a physicist at Yale University who works on integrated photonic and optomechanical circuits and converting quantum signals between microwave and optical photons.

Hong‐Gyu Park

Hong-Gyu Park (박홍규) is a South Korean nanophotonics experimentalist and professor of physics at Seoul National University, known for nanolasers, photon-triggered nanowire transistors, and subwavelength optical devices.

Hong‐Jun Gao

Hong-Jun Gao (高鸿钧) is a Chinese condensed matter physicist and CAS academician at the Institute of Physics, known for observing Majorana zero modes in iron-based superconductors.

Hongkun Park

Hongkun Park is Mark Hyman Jr. Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics at Harvard University, working on quantum optoelectronics, quantum sensing, and nanoscale tools for studying living cells.

Hongtao Yuan

Hongtao Yuan (袁洪涛) is a Chinese condensed matter physicist and professor at Nanjing University since 2017, after posts at Stanford and SLAC, known for electric-double-layer transistors inducing superconductivity and ferromagnetism.

Hooman Davoudiasl

Hooman Davoudiasl is a theoretical physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, known for work on warped extra dimensions and dark matter cosmology, and a 2007 PECASE awardee.

Horace Richard Crane

Horace Richard Crane was an American experimental physicist at the University of Michigan, the first to measure the magnetic moment of free electrons, receiving the National Medal of Science in 1986.

Horace W. Babcock

Horace W. Babcock was an American astronomer at Mount Wilson and Palomar who made the first detection of a magnetic field on a star other than the sun.

Horacio Casini

Horacio Casini is an Argentine theoretical physicist at CONICET and Centro Atómico Bariloche known for rigorous results on entanglement entropy in quantum field theory, including the c-theorem and F-theorem.

Horst L. Störmer

Horst L. Störmer, born 1949, is a German-born American physicist who shared the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the fractional quantum Hall effect.

Howard Georgi

Howard Georgi is an American theoretical particle physicist and Harvard professor, best known as a founder of grand unified theories and inventor of the Heavy Quark Effective Theory.

Howard M. Wiseman

Howard M. Wiseman, also known as Howard Wiseman, is an Australian theoretical quantum physicist at Griffith University in Brisbane, known for work on quantum measurement, EPR steering, and quantum foundations.

Howard P. Robertson

Howard P. Robertson (1903–1961) was an American mathematical physicist at Caltech and Princeton known for the Robertson–Walker metric and for postwar defense science advising.

Howard R. Hart Jr.

Howard R. Hart Jr. (1929–2025) was an American physicist-engineer who spent his entire career at the GE Research Laboratory in New York, working on superconductivity, Apollo experiments, and MRI.

Howard Stone (fluid dynamicist)

Howard A. Stone is an American fluid dynamicist and Princeton professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering who studies complex fluids, microfluidics, and flows involving bacteria and biofilms.

Hratch G. Semerjian

Hratch G. Semerjian is an American measurement scientist and engineering executive who spent 30 years at NIST, serving as Acting Director and pioneering combustion and laser diagnostics research.

Hrvoje Petek

Hrvoje Petek is a physicist at the University of Pittsburgh who studies ultrafast electron and plasmon dynamics at surfaces, imaging them on femtosecond and attosecond scales and winning the 2019 Ahmed Zewail Award.

Hubert Anson Newton

Hubert Anson Newton (1830–1896) was an American mathematician and astronomer, professor at Yale from 1855, who founded meteoric astronomy through his studies of the November meteor showers.

Hubert Heffner

Hubert Heffner (1924–1975) was an American applied physicist at Stanford University who worked on microwave devices and quantum electronics, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Hugh Churchill

Hugh Churchill is an American condensed matter physicist, Professor and 21st Century Chair in Nanophysics at the University of Arkansas, working on superconducting and two-dimensional quantum devices.