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H. Donald Ratliff

H. Donald Ratliff is an American industrial engineer and operations researcher, Regent's Professor Emeritus at Georgia Tech, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1996 for logistics optimization.

H. E. Carter

H. E. Carter, or Herbert Edmund Carter, was an American biochemist who pioneered sphingolipid research at the University of Illinois and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1953.

H. E. Wright

Herbert E. Wright Jr. (1917–2015) was an American Quaternary scientist at the University of Minnesota, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1977 and known for the COHMAP project.

H. Eugene Stanley

H. Eugene Stanley, born 1941 in Oklahoma City, is an American physicist at Boston University known for critical phenomena, the physics of water, and founding econophysics.

H. F. Baker

H. F. Baker, or Henry Frederick Baker (1866–1956), was a British mathematician at Cambridge known for the Baker–Campbell–Hausdorff formula and for founding the Cambridge school of geometry between the wars.

H. J. W. de Baar

H. J. W. de Baar, also known as Hein J.W. de Baar, is a Dutch chemical oceanographer known for rare-earth measurements in seawater and iron limitation of the Southern Ocean.

H. Jay Melosh

H. Jay Melosh (1947–2020) was an American planetary scientist known for impact cratering physics and acoustic fluidization, a Purdue professor and author of the 1989 monograph Impact Cratering.

H. Jay Zwally

H. Jay Zwally is an American glaciologist at NASA Goddard who pioneered satellite altimetry of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and served as ICESat Project Scientist.

H. Jeff Kimble

H. Jeff Kimble, full name Harry Jeffrey Kimble (1949–2024), was an American experimental physicist at Caltech who pioneered cavity quantum electrodynamics and helped found quantum information science.

H. William Menard Jr.

H. William Menard Jr. (Henry William Menard Jr., 1920–1986) was an American marine geologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography whose Pacific seafloor mapping underpinned plate tectonics.

H.W. Nesbitt

H.W. Nesbitt, or H. Wayne Nesbitt, is a Canadian geochemist and Royal Society of Canada fellow at Western University known for work on continental weathering and rare earth elements.

Hadas Shtrikman

Hadas Shtrikman is a physicist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, known for the first electronic Mach–Zehnder interferometer and superconductor vortex-matter experiments.

Hae Jung Son

Hae Jung Son (손해정) is a South Korean chemist and organic photovoltaics researcher who is a principal researcher at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology.

Haeshin Lee

Haeshin Lee is a South Korean chemist and professor at KAIST known for inventing polydopamine, a mussel-inspired surface coating, and for bio-inspired adhesives and hemostatic medical devices.

Hailiang Dong

Hailiang Dong (董海良) is a Chinese geomicrobiologist and professor at China University of Geosciences, Beijing, who showed iron-reducing bacteria catalyze clay transformation and won the 2025 Arthur L. Day Medal.

Hailiang Wang

Hailiang Wang is an energy chemist and Yale professor of chemistry since 2014 who studies electrocatalysis and batteries, known for the 2019 molecular catalyst that converts carbon dioxide to methanol.

Haïm Brezis

Haïm Brezis (1944–2024) was a French mathematician who worked in functional analysis and nonlinear partial differential equations, as professor at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie and Rutgers University.

Haim Hanani

Haim Hanani (1912–1991) was an Israeli mathematician born in Poland, known for the Hanani–Tutte theorem and combinatorial design theory, who served as the first rector of the University of the Negev.

Haimin Wang

Haimin Wang is a solar physicist, Distinguished Professor of Physics at NJIT, and director of its space weather research centers, known for showing that solar flares visibly rotate the Sun's surface magnetic fields.

Hajime Ito

Hajime Ito (伊藤 肇, born 1968 in Osaka) is a Japanese materials chemist and Distinguished Professor at Hokkaido University, known for solvent-free mechanochemistry and asymmetric catalysis.

Hajime Tanaka

Hajime Tanaka (田中 肇) is a Japanese soft matter and liquid physicist known for viscoelastic phase separation, water's anomalies, and the glass transition, and a University of Tokyo professor.

Hal Tasaki

Hal Tasaki (田﨑 晴明), born 1959, is a Japanese mathematical condensed-matter physicist at Gakushuin University in Tokyo, co-inventor of the AKLT chain that rigorously established the Haldane gap.

Hal Thirlaway

Hal Thirlaway, born Henry Ivison Shipley Thirlaway (1917–2009), was a British seismologist who led the UK's forensic seismology program at Blacknest, Berkshire, developing methods to distinguish underground nuclear explosions from earthquakes.

Hale F. Trotter

Hale F. Trotter (Hale Freeman Trotter, 1931–2022) was a Canadian mathematician who spent his career at Princeton and is known for the Trotter product formula and the Johnson–Trotter algorithm.

Hale Telescope

The Hale Telescope, also known as the Hale reflector, is a 200-inch (5.1-meter) reflecting telescope at Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, owned and operated by Caltech.

Halvor Solberg

Halvor Solberg (1895–1974) was a Norwegian meteorologist who gave the Bergen School's cyclone model its mathematical form and identified the polar front, the boundary along which low-pressure systems form.

Hamish Robertson

R. G. Hamish Robertson (born 1943) is a Canadian-born nuclear and neutrino physicist, emeritus professor at the University of Washington, known for the Los Alamos tritium experiments, SNO, and KATRIN.

Han Htoon

Han Htoon is a Los Alamos National Laboratory staff scientist and Thrust Leader for Nanophotonics at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, studying single-photon emitters in nanoscale materials.

Han Woong Yeom

Han Woong Yeom is a South Korean condensed matter physicist at POSTECH who studies atomic wires and directs an Institute for Basic Science center since 2013.

Han Young Woo

Han Young Woo is a South Korean polymer chemist, a full professor of chemistry at Korea University in Seoul, known for semi-crystalline polymer donors for organic solar cells.