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Harvey D. Tananbaum
Harvey D. Tananbaum is an American X-ray astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, best known as the founding director of the Chandra X-ray Center from 1991 to 2014.
Harvey Fletcher
Harvey Fletcher (1884–1981) was an American physicist who directed acoustical research at Bell Telephone Laboratories and pioneered stereophonic sound, the vacuum-tube hearing aid, and loudness measurement.
Harvey Friedman (mathematician)
Harvey Friedman is an American mathematical logician, emeritus professor at Ohio State University, and founder of reverse mathematics, which determines which axioms are needed to prove theorems.
Harvey Raymond Butcher
Harvey Raymond Butcher, born 1947 in Salem, Massachusetts, is a Dutch-American astronomer best known as co-discoverer of the Butcher–Oemler effect, the excess of blue galaxies in distant rich clusters.
Haskell Curry
Haskell Brooks Curry (1900–1982) was an American mathematician and logician who founded combinatory logic at Penn State; currying, Curry's paradox, and the Haskell language bear his name.
Hassler Whitney
Hassler Whitney (1907–1989) was an American mathematician who founded differential topology, proved the Whitney embedding theorems, and introduced matroid theory, working at Harvard and the Institute for Advanced Study.
Hatice Altug
Hatice Altug is a Turkish physicist and engineer, a full professor at EPFL since 2020 who leads its Bionanophotonic Systems Laboratory, known for nanophotonic and plasmonic biosensing and metasurface molecular barcoding.
Hatten Yoder
Hatten Yoder (1921–2003) was an American experimental petrologist who spent fifty-five years at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory, directing it from 1971 to 1986, and whose basalt-melting experiments established how magmas form in the mantle.
Hau L. Lee
Hau L. Lee is a Stanford Graduate School of Business professor emeritus known for the bullwhip effect and Triple-A supply chain, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2010.
Havala Pye
Havala Olson Taylor Pye is an American research physical scientist at the EPA in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, who leads development of the CRACMM chemical mechanism.
Haydn H. Murray
Haydn H. Murray, also known as Haydn Herbert Murray, was an American clay mineralogist, a Georgia Kaolin executive who built Indiana University's applied clay science program.
Haydn Herbert Murray
Haydn Herbert Murray (1924–2015) was an American clay mineralogist and leading expert on kaolin, who directed research at Georgia Kaolin before chairing geology at Indiana University.
Heat-bath configuration interaction
Heat-bath configuration interaction (HCI) is a selected configuration interaction method in quantum chemistry, introduced by Holmes, Tubman, and Umrigar in 2016, which grows a compact wavefunction by thresholding determinants.
Heather Couper
Heather Anita Couper (1949–2020) was a British astronomer and broadcaster who wrote more than 40 books and was the first woman to serve as President of the British Astronomical Association.
Heather D. Maynard
Heather D. Maynard is an American polymer chemist at UCLA, an endowed professor and founding member of the California NanoSystems Institute, known for protein–polymer conjugates for drug delivery.
Heather J. Kulik
Heather J. Kulik is an American computational chemist and chemical engineer who joined MIT in 2013 and uses machine learning with electronic structure calculations to discover new molecules and catalysts.
Heather M. Stapleton
Heather M. Stapleton is an American environmental chemist and exposure scientist at Duke University who studies flame retardants and PFAS in homes, products, and people, especially children.
Heather Wright
Heather Wright is an American volcanologist and Director of the Volcano Disaster Assistance Program at the Cascades Volcano Observatory. She received the Presidential Early Career Award in 2019.
Heber Cinco Ley
Heber Cinco Ley is a Mexican petroleum reservoir engineer known for pressure transient analysis of fractured reservoirs, who led the Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo from 2007 to 2010.
Heber Doust Curtis
Heber Doust Curtis (1872–1942) was an American astronomer who spent eighteen years at the Lick Observatory and argued in the 1920 Shapley–Curtis Debate that spiral nebulae are separate galaxies.
Héctor D. Abruña
Héctor D. Abruña, also written Hector D. Abruna, is a Puerto Rico-born electrochemist and Émile M. Chamot Professor at Cornell University who received the 2024 Enrico Fermi Presidential Award.
Hector Munro Macdonald
Hector Munro Macdonald (1865–1935) was a Scottish mathematician and Fellow of the Royal Society, professor of mathematics at Aberdeen from 1904, known for Macdonald's theorem on zeros of analytic functions.
Hee Cheul Choi
Hee Cheul Choi (최희철) is a South Korean materials chemist who holds a chaired professorship at POSTECH, known for carbon nanotube etching of silicon oxide and vapor-grown nanostructures.
Heejun Yang
Heejun Yang (양희준) is a South Korean condensed matter physicist, professor at KAIST since 2024, known for the graphene barristor in Science in 2012 and MoTe2 homojunction contacts.
Heidi B. Hammel
Heidi B. Hammel is an American planetary astronomer known for her studies of Uranus and Neptune and for leading the Hubble team observing Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9's 1994 impacts on Jupiter.
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853–1926) was a Dutch physicist who liquefied helium in 1908 and discovered superconductivity in 1911, winning the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Heiko Harborth
Heiko Harborth (born 1938, Celle, Germany) is a German mathematician at TU Braunschweig, best known for the Harborth graph, the smallest known 4-regular matchstick graph.
Heileen Hsu-Kim
Heileen (Helen) Hsu-Kim is an American environmental aquatic chemist, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Duke University, and PECASE recipient known for research on mercury bioavailability in aquatic food webs.
Heino Falcke
Heino Falcke, born 1966 in Cologne, is a German radio astronomer at Radboud University who coined "black hole shadow" and led the 2019 first black hole image.
Heinrich Barkhausen
Heinrich Georg Barkhausen was a German physicist and electrical engineer who discovered the Barkhausen effect in 1919 and held the world's first professorship in communications engineering, at Dresden from 1911.