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Hans‐Joachim Freund
Hans-Joachim Freund, born 1951 in Solingen, is a German chemical physicist known for model catalysts of metal nanoparticles on ultrathin oxide films, directing the Fritz-Haber-Institut in Berlin from 1996 to 2019.
Hans‐Joachim Werner
Hans-Joachim Werner is a German theoretical chemist who developed multireference electronic structure methods, created the Molpro package, and won the Leibniz Prize in 2000 and the Erich Hückel Prize in 2018.
Hans‐Jürgen Butt
Hans-Jürgen Butt is a German physicist, born in Hamburg in 1961, who studies wetting and drop friction and directs the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz.
Hans‐Thomas Janka
Hans-Thomas Janka (born 1960) is a German astrophysicist who leads a core-collapse supernova research group at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany.
Hansgeorg Schnöckel
Hansgeorg Schnöckel (born 1941) is a German inorganic chemist who worked at the University of Karlsruhe and made the largest metalloid aluminum and gallium clusters, with up to 84 atoms.
Hansjörg Grützmacher
Hansjörg Grützmacher, born 1959 in Hamburg, is a German organometallic and inorganic chemist, long-time ETH Zurich professor known for the first stable aminyl radical metal complex and sodium phosphaethynolate.
Harald Ade
Harald Ade is a physicist at North Carolina State University who developed NEXAFS microscopy and resonant soft X-ray scattering, methods used to study organic solar cell morphology and stability.
Harald Brune
Harald Brune, born 1961, is a Full Professor at EPFL in Lausanne who studies nanoscale magnetism, epitaxial growth, and single-atom magnets, including magnetic remanence in single atoms.
Harald Cramér
Harald Cramér (1893–1985) was a Swedish mathematician and statistician at Stockholm University known for the Cramér–Rao bound, ruin theory for insurance, and his 1945 book Mathematical Methods of Statistics.
Harald Fritzsch
Harald Fritzsch (1943–2022) was a German theoretical physicist who, with Murray Gell-Mann and Heinrich Leutwyler, co-founded quantum chromodynamics, the theory of the strong interaction, and later shaped quark mass matrices and neutrino physics.
Harald Gießen
Harald Gießen, also spelled Harald Giessen, is a German physicist and professor at the University of Stuttgart since 2005, known for founding 3D-printed microoptics and imaging plasmonic skyrmions.
Harald Lesch
Harald Lesch (born 1960 in Gießen) is a German theoretical astrophysicist and professor at LMU Munich, known for the ZDF shows Leschs Kosmos and Terra X.
Harald R. Telle
Harald R. Telle is a German physicist at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt in Braunschweig who helped build optical interval dividers and proposed self-referencing for frequency combs in 1999.
Harald Rose
Harald Rose (1935–2026) was a German theoretical physicist and electron optician whose hexapole corrector, proposed in 1990, enabled atomic-resolution electron microscopy and won him the 2020 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience.
Harald Sverdrup (oceanographer)
Harald Sverdrup was a Norwegian oceanographer who directed the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1936 to 1948; the ocean-transport unit sverdrup is named for him.
Haraldur Sigurðsson
Haraldur Sigurðsson, born 1939 in Stykkishólmur, Iceland, is an Icelandic volcanologist and geochemist, emeritus professor at the University of Rhode Island known for work on the AD 79 Vesuvius eruption and Icelandic rhyolites.
Hari Shroff
Hari Shroff is an American optical microscopist known for building fast, gentle super-resolution and light-sheet microscopes for living specimens, and winner of a 2010 PECASE award.
Harish-Chandra
Harish-Chandra (1923–1983) was an Indian-born mathematician at the Institute for Advanced Study who transformed the representation theory of semisimple Lie groups into a major field central to modern mathematics.
Harland Goff Wood
Harland Goff Wood (1907–1991) was an American biochemist at Case Western Reserve University who proved in 1935 that heterotrophic organisms fix carbon dioxide, work honored by the 1989 National Medal of Science.
Harlow Shapley
Harlow Shapley was an American astronomer who located the center of the Milky Way in Sagittarius and directed the Harvard College Observatory from 1921 to 1952.
Harm‐Anton Klok
Harm-Anton Klok, born 1971 in the Netherlands, is a polymer chemist and full professor at EPFL, where he leads the Polymers Laboratory and studies polymer brushes, biologically inspired polymers, and precision polymerization.
Harmon Craig
Harmon Craig (1926–2003) was an American isotope geochemist who spent his career at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, pioneering carbon isotope and radiocarbon studies of the global carbon cycle.
Harmon Northrop Morse
Harmon Northrop Morse (1848–1920) was an American chemist at Johns Hopkins University whose fifteen-year osmotic-pressure campaign supplied experimental support for van 't Hoff's theory of solutions.
Harold Agnew
Harold Agnew was an American physicist who helped build the first nuclear reactor, flew on the Hiroshima mission, and directed Los Alamos from 1970 to 1979.
Harold Baily Dixon
Harold Baily Dixon (1852–1930) was a British chemist who held the Chair of Chemistry at Owens College, Manchester, and became a leading authority on flames in gaseous explosions.
Harold Brown (physicist)
Harold Brown (1927–2019) was an American nuclear physicist who directed Lawrence Livermore, led Caltech, and was the first scientist to serve as U.S. Secretary of Defense.
Harold C. Urey
Harold Clayton Urey was an American chemist who won the 1934 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering deuterium, then founded isotope geochemistry and cosmochemistry, studying the Moon into the 1970s.
Harold Davenport
Harold Davenport (1907–1969) was a British mathematician and leading figure of the mid-century British school of number theory, working on Waring's problem, additive group theory, and Diophantine approximation.
Harold Delos Babcock
Harold Delos Babcock (1882–1968) was an American astronomer at Mount Wilson Observatory known for precision solar spectroscopy, ruled diffraction gratings, and the first measurement of the Sun's general magnetic field.
Harold Edwards (mathematician)
Harold Mortimer Edwards, Jr. (1936–2020) was an American mathematician at New York University whose books on Riemann's zeta function, Fermat's Last Theorem, and Galois theory won the 1980 Steele Prize.