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Hans Jakob Wörner
Hans Jakob Wörner is a Swiss-based physicist and physical chemist, a full professor at ETH Zurich known for attosecond spectroscopy of molecules and liquids and attosecond control of chiral photoionization.
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, known as John Schellnhuber, is a German climate scientist who founded the Potsdam Institute and introduced climate tipping elements and the 2 °C warming limit.
Hans Kramers
Hans Kramers, full name Hendrik Anthony Kramers, was a Dutch theoretical physicist (1894–1952) and Niels Bohr's first assistant, known for the Kramers–Heisenberg dispersion formula and WKB method.
Hans Lewy
Hans Lewy (1904–1988) was a German-born American mathematician who worked on partial differential equations, joined UC Berkeley in 1935, and co-created the Courant–Friedrichs–Lewy stability condition.
Hans Maass
Hans Maass (1911–1992) was a German mathematician and Heidelberg professor, trained under Erich Hecke, who founded the theory of non-holomorphic modular forms, now called Maass forms, in his 1949 paper.
Hans Martin Senn
Hans Martin Senn is a Swiss-born theoretical and computational chemist, a lecturer and group leader at the University of Glasgow since 2007, known for QM/MM methods for biomolecular systems.
Hans Meerwein
Hans Meerwein was a German organic chemist (1879–1965) whose work on carbocations and oxonium salts produced named reactions such as the Meerwein–Ponndorf–Verley reduction and the Wagner–Meerwein rearrangement.
Hans Oeschger
Hans Oeschger (1927–1998) was a Swiss climatologist and professor at the University of Bern who pioneered measuring ancient atmospheric CO2 in polar ice and identified abrupt Dansgaard–Oeschger climate events.
Hans P. Eugster
Hans P. Eugster (Hans-Peter Eugster, 1925–1987) was a Swiss-born American experimental petrologist and geochemist at Johns Hopkins University, known for the oxygen buffer technique and saline lake geochemistry.
Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen
Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen (1826–1909) was a Danish chemist and founder of thermochemistry who made over 3,500 calorimetric measurements and proposed an 1895 periodic system used by Niels Bohr.
Hans Petersson
Hans Petersson (1902–1984) was a German mathematician who introduced the Petersson inner product on cusp forms and the Ramanujan–Petersson conjecture, and led the Mathematical Institute at Münster.
Hans Pettersson
Hans Pettersson (1888–1966) was a Swedish physicist and oceanographer, professor of oceanography at Gothenburg, who led the 1947–1948 Albatross deep-sea expedition, whose 20-meter sediment cores marked the beginning of palaeoceanography.
Hans Rademacher
Hans Rademacher (1892–1969) was a German-born mathematician and one of the twentieth century's most influential number theorists, best known for his exact convergent series for the partition function p(n), published in 1937.
Hans Raj Tiwary
Hans Raj Tiwary is a Czech-based mathematician and theoretical computer scientist at Charles University in Prague, known for proving exponential lower bounds on linear programs, recognized with the 2023 Gödel Prize.
Hans Ramberg
Hans Ramberg was a Norwegian geologist who studied mountain-chain formation and crustal deformation, building the Hans Ramberg Tectonic Laboratory at Uppsala University and writing Gravity, Deformation and the Earth's Crust in 1967.
Hans Schouten
Hans Schouten is a marine geophysicist and Scientist Emeritus at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, co-author of a 2003 Nature paper defining an ultraslow-spreading class of ocean ridge.
Hans Suess
Hans Suess (1909–1993) was an Austrian-born American geochemist, professor at UC San Diego from 1958 to 1977, known for the Suess effect and work on nuclear shell model.
Hans Thacher Clarke
Hans Thacher Clarke was an American organic chemist who chaired Columbia's biochemistry department for nearly three decades, determined the thiazole structure of vitamin B1, and coordinated wartime penicillin research.
Hans Thirring
Hans Thirring (1888–1976) was an Austrian theoretical physicist at the University of Vienna who predicted the Lense–Thirring effect in 1918 and later co-founded the Pugwash movement.
Hans von Euler-Chelpin
Hans von Euler-Chelpin was a German-born Swedish biochemist at Stockholm University who shared the 1929 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Arthur Harden for work on enzymes in fermentation.
Hans Wynberg
Hans Wynberg, also known as Hans Wijnberg (1922–2011), was a Dutch organic chemist who pioneered asymmetric organocatalysis using cinchona alkaloids like quinine as chiral catalysts.
Hans Zassenhaus
Hans Zassenhaus (1912–1991) was a German mathematician who worked in group theory, number theory, and computation, known for the Zassenhaus (butterfly) lemma, Zassenhaus groups, and a proof of the Schur–Zassenhaus theorem.
Hans-Arwed Weidenmüller
Hans-Arwed Weidenmüller, born 1933 in Dresden, is a German theoretical physicist known for the statistical theory of nuclear reactions based on random matrices, and for work on quantum chaos.
Hans-Egon Richert
Hans-Egon Richert (1924–1993) was a German analytic number theorist whose 1965 improvement of Selberg's sieve with Jurkat underpinned Chen's theorem, and who coauthored Sieve Methods.
Hans-Joachim Bremermann
Hans-Joachim Bremermann (1926–1996) was a German-American mathematician and biomathematician at UC Berkeley, best known for the Bremermann limit and as an original investigator of genetic algorithms.
Hans-Joachim Queisser
Hans-Joachim Queisser (1931–2025) was a German semiconductor physicist who, with William Shockley, established the Shockley–Queisser limit for solar cell efficiency, and founded the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart.
Hans-Jürgen Borchers
Hans-Jürgen Borchers (1926–2011) was a German mathematical physicist and leading figure in algebraic quantum field theory, professor at Göttingen from 1966 and recipient of the 1994 Max Planck Medal.
Hans-Walter Rix
Hans-Walter Rix is a German galactic astronomer, director at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg since 1999, known for reconstructing the Milky Way's formation history from Gaia data.
Hans‐Conrad zur Loye
Hans-Conrad zur Loye is an inorganic and materials chemist at the University of South Carolina, best known for flux crystal growth of complex oxides and transuranium compounds.
Hans‐Heinrich Limbach
Hans-Heinrich Limbach (born 1943 in Brühl, Germany) is a German chemist who used NMR spectroscopy to study proton and hydrogen transfer, holding a chair at the Freie Universität Berlin from 1990.