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Heinrich Behnke
Heinrich Behnke (1898–1979) was a German mathematician, professor at the University of Münster from 1927, known for the 1934 Behnke–Thullen monograph and the Behnke–Stein theorem on Riemann surfaces.
Heinrich Bruns
Ernst Heinrich Bruns (1848–1919) was a German astronomer and mathematician, professor of astronomy at Leipzig from 1882, known for Bruns' theorem and his definition of geodesy.
Heinrich Caro
Heinrich Caro (1834–1910) was a German industrial chemist who, as BASF's first head of research from 1868, invented synthetic dyes including alizarin, eosin, and methylene blue.
Heinrich Franz Friedrich Tietze
Heinrich Franz Friedrich Tietze (1880–1964) was an Austrian mathematician known for the Tietze extension theorem and Tietze transformations, and for introducing lens spaces in his 1908 paper.
Heinrich Heesch
Heinrich Heesch (1906–1995) was a German mathematician who founded the reduction program behind the 1976 computer proof of the four-color theorem and gave his name to the Heesch number in tiling theory.
Heinrich Hertz
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz was a German physicist who first generated and detected electromagnetic waves in 1887, proving Maxwell's theory; the unit hertz is named for him.
Heinrich Holland
Heinrich Dieter Holland (1927–2012) was a German-born American geochemist at Princeton and Harvard who established the Great Oxidation Event, the rise of atmospheric oxygen about 2.3 billion years ago.
Heinrich Hörlein
Heinrich Hörlein (Philipp Heinrich Hörlein, 1882–1954) was a German chemist who headed Bayer's pharmaceutical laboratories at Elberfeld, discovered Luminal, and oversaw the sulfonamides; he was acquitted at Nuremberg in 1948.
Heinrich Jaeger
Heinrich M. Jaeger is a soft condensed matter physicist and Sewell Avery Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, known for granular materials and jamming research.
Heinrich Jung
Heinrich Jung, born Heinrich Wilhelm Ewald Jung (1876–1953), was a German mathematician best known for Jung's theorem and for holding the chair at the University of Halle.
Heinrich Kayser
Heinrich Kayser (Johann Heinrich Gustav Kayser; 1853–1940) was a German physicist who, with Carl Runge, mapped the spectra of many elements and established the laws of spectral series.
Heinrich Mache
Heinrich Mache (1876–1954) was an Austrian physicist who pioneered measuring radon in natural waters, introduced the first radon unit in 1904, and founded technical physics in Vienna.
Heinrich Martin Weber
Heinrich Martin Weber (1842–1913) was a German mathematician who, with Dedekind, put algebraic curves on a rigorous footing, proved the Kronecker–Weber theorem, and wrote the Lehrbuch der Algebra.
Heinrich Maschke
Heinrich Maschke (1853–1908) was a German mathematician best known for Maschke's theorem, the foundational result of finite-group representation theory, and for building the University of Chicago's mathematics department.
Heinrich Rohrer
Heinrich Rohrer (1933–2013) was a Swiss physicist at IBM's Zurich laboratory who shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gerd Binnig for the scanning tunneling microscope.
Heinrich Rubens
Heinrich Rubens (1865–1922) was a German experimental physicist who pioneered the far-infrared region, whose 1900 black-body measurements helped drive Planck's quantum radiation law, and who invented the flame tube that makes standing sound waves visible.
Heinrich Wieland
Heinrich Wieland was a German organic chemist at the University of Munich who won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on bile acids and formulated the dehydrogenation theory of biological oxidation.
Heinrich Wilhelm Dove
Heinrich Wilhelm Dove (1803–1879) was a Prussian physicist and meteorologist at Berlin who formulated the wind-turning law, introduced monthly isotherms, and directed the Prussian Meteorological Institute.
Heinz A. Lowenstam
Heinz A. Lowenstam was a German-born American paleoecologist at Caltech who founded the modern study of biomineralization and discovered magnetite in chiton teeth in 1962.
Heinz Bachmann
Heinz Bachmann was a mathematician whose 1950 Zürich dissertation introduced a hierarchy of normal functions yielding large countable ordinals, including the Bachmann–Howard ordinal, a standard proof-theoretic ordinal of impredicative mathematics.
Heinz Bauer
Heinz Bauer (1928–2002) was a German mathematician and professor at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, known for axiomatic potential theory, where the harmonic spaces called Bauer spaces carry his name.
Heinz Billing
Heinz Billing (1914–2017) was a German physicist who built the first electronic computers in postwar Germany and started the laser-interferometer work behind the 2015 gravitational-wave detection.
Heinz Frei
Heinz Frei is a Swiss-born physical chemist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory known for cobalt oxide water-oxidation catalysts and artificial photosynthesis using sunlight to make fuels.
Heinz G. Viehe
Heinz G. Viehe (Heinz Günther Viehe, 1929–2010) was a German-born organic chemist and professor at Louvain, known for Viehe's salt and cited in the 2021 Nobel Prize background.
Heinz Heinemann
Heinz Heinemann (1913–2005) was a German-born American chemist in heterogeneous catalysis who helped develop 14 commercial processes, held 75 patents, and spent 17 years at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Heinz Hopf
Heinz Hopf (1894–1971) was a German-born mathematician who worked in algebraic topology and differential geometry, and gave his name to Hopf algebras and the Hopf fibration.
Heinz London
Heinz London (1907–1970) was a German-British physicist who co-created the 1935 London equations of superconductivity with his brother Fritz and proposed the dilution refrigerator, which enabled sustained millikelvin experiments.
Heinz Maier-Leibnitz
Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (1911–2000) was a German experimental physicist who built Germany's first research reactor at Garching, co-founded and directed the Institut Laue–Langevin in Grenoble, and served as president of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft from 1974 to 1979.
Heinz Prüfer
Heinz Prüfer (Ernst Paul Heinz Prüfer, 1896–1934) was a German mathematician, a pioneer of abelian group theory, known for the Prüfer sequence, group, and domain.
Heinz-Otto Kreiss
Heinz-Otto Kreiss (1930–2015) was a German-born mathematician who worked in Stockholm and at UCLA, known for the Kreiss matrix theorem and stability theory for the numerical solution of differential equations.