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Henk Dorgelo
Hendrik Berend (Henk) Dorgelo (1894–1961) was a Dutch physicist who established the empirical intensity rules for multiplet spectral lines and, with Burger, the summation rule.
Henk J. Bolink
Henk J. Bolink (Hendrik Bolink) is a Spanish-based inorganic chemist and professor at the Universitat de València known for vacuum-deposited perovskite solar cells and LEDs.
Henning Sirringhaus
Henning Sirringhaus is a physicist who holds the Hitachi Professorship at the University of Cambridge, known for pioneering polymer transistor mobility improvements and co-founding Plastic Logic.
Henri Abraham
Henri Abraham (Henri Azariah Abraham, 1868–1943) was a French experimental physicist who directed the ENS physics laboratory, designed the T.M. triode tube, and developed the multivibrator.
Henri B. Kagan
Henri B. Kagan, born 1930 in France, is a French chemist who pioneered asymmetric catalysis and shared the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Kenso Soai for discovering nonlinear effects.
Henri Becquerel
Antoine Henri Becquerel (1852–1908) was a French physicist who discovered natural radioactivity in 1896 and shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pierre and Marie Curie.
Henri Bénard
Henri Bénard (1874–1939) was a French physicist who in 1900 gave the first quantitative description of cellular convection, the hexagonal pattern now known as Bénard cells.
Henri Bouasse
Henri Bouasse (1866–1953) was a French physicist and professor at the Faculty of Sciences of Toulouse, best known for the 45-volume Bibliothèque scientifique de l'ingénieur et du physicien.
Henri Brocard
Henri Brocard (1845–1922) was a French army officer, meteorologist, and mathematician who co-founded the modern geometry of the triangle with Émile Lemoine and gave his name to the Brocard points, angle, and circle.
Henri Cartan
Henri Cartan (1904–2008) was a French mathematician, eldest son of geometer Élie Cartan and a founding member of Bourbaki, known for several complex variables, topology, and homological algebra.
Henri Delannoy
Henri-Auguste Delannoy (1833–1915) was a French army officer, trained at the École Polytechnique, who became an amateur mathematician and is remembered for the Delannoy numbers.
Henri Lebesgue
Henri Léon Lebesgue (1875–1941) was a French mathematician whose 1902 thesis founded measure theory; his integral generalizes the Riemann integral and underlies modern probability theory.
Henri Moissan
Henri Moissan (1852–1907) was a French chemist who isolated fluorine in 1886, developed the electric-arc furnace in 1892, and won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Henri Padé
Henri Eugène Padé (1863–1953) was a French mathematician and academic administrator who introduced the Padé approximants in his 1892 thesis under Charles Hermite, winning the 1906 Grand Prix.
Henri Poincaré
Henri Poincaré was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, and philosopher of science (1854–1912) who founded algebraic topology, transformed celestial mechanics into chaos theory, and posed the Poincaré conjecture.
Henri Skoda
Henri Skoda, born 1945, is a French mathematician specializing in several complex variables, known for his L2 estimates, division theorem, and work on positive currents.
Henri ter Meulen
Henri ter Meulen (1871–1942) was a Dutch chemist and professor of analytical chemistry at Delft from 1905 to 1936 who developed a catalytic hydrogenation method for organic elemental analysis.
Henri Victor Regnault
Henri Victor Regnault (1810–1878) was a French chemist and physicist whose precise measurements of the thermal properties of gases fixed the data used by early thermodynamicists.
Henri-Alexandre Deslandres
Henri-Alexandre Deslandres (1853–1948) was a French astrophysicist who established the empirical laws of molecular band spectra and invented the spectroheliograph in 1892, independently of George Hale, later directing the Meudon Observatory.
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868–1921) was an American astronomer at Harvard College Observatory who discovered the Cepheid period–luminosity relation, the Leavitt Law, which enabled measuring distances to galaxies and underpinned Hubble's 1929 expanding-universe result.
Henrik Clausen
Henrik Clausen (born 1957 in Denmark) is a Danish glycobiologist, professor at the University of Copenhagen, and director of the Copenhagen Center for Glycomics, which he founded in 2008.
Henrik Koch
Henrik Koch, born 1964 in Aarhus, Denmark, is a quantum chemist and professor of theoretical chemistry at NTNU in Trondheim, known for developments in coupled cluster response theory.
Henrik Topsøe
Henrik Topsøe (1944–2019) was a Danish chemical engineer and catalysis scientist, son of Haldor Topsøe, known for the Co-Mo-S model of refinery hydrotreating catalysts and elected a National Academy of Engineering Foreign Associate in 2013.
Henry A. Bent
Henry A. Bent (1926–2015) was an American physical chemist, professor at Minnesota, North Carolina State, and Pittsburgh, best known for Bent's rule on hybridization and bond angles.
Henry Alexander Miers
Henry Alexander Miers (1858–1942) was a British mineralogist and crystallographer who held the Waynflete Chair at Oxford, led the University of London and Manchester, and was knighted in 1912.
Henry Andrews Bumstead
Henry Andrews Bumstead (1870–1920) was an American physicist at Yale University known for research on electromagnetism, radioactivity, and the early American reception of Einstein's relativity.
Henry Augustus Rowland
Henry Augustus Rowland (1848–1901) was an American experimental physicist, the first professor of physics at Johns Hopkins University, known for the concave diffraction grating and his map of the solar spectrum.
Henry Barker Hill
Henry Barker Hill was an American organic chemist who spent his career at Harvard, becoming professor in 1884 and known for research on uric acid and furfural derivatives that helped establish furan chemistry.
Henry Benedict Medlicott
Henry Benedict Medlicott (1829–1905) was an Irish geologist who led the Geological Survey of India and co-authored the Manual of the Geology of India, the standard reference for Indian geologists.
Henry Bryant Bigelow
Henry Bryant Bigelow (1879–1967) was an American oceanographer who surveyed the Gulf of Maine and served as the first director of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.