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Henry C. Wente
Henry C. Wente (1936–2020) was an American differential geometer at the University of Toledo who in 1984 found the first compact constant mean curvature surface besides the sphere, the Wente torus.
Henry Clapp Sherman
Henry Clapp Sherman (1875–1955) was an American food chemist and nutritionist who spent his career at Columbia University, quantifying dietary calcium and vitamin requirements and receiving the Franklin Medal in 1946.
Henry Clifton Sorby
Henry Clifton Sorby (1826–1908) was a Sheffield scientist who founded microscopical petrology, the study of rocks in thin section, and is the father of metallography.
Henry Crew
Henry Crew (1859–1953) was an American physicist and spectroscopist, Fayerweather Professor of Physics at Northwestern University from 1892 to 1930, known for atomic spectroscopy and his 1914 translation of Galileo's Two New Sciences.
Henry Draper
Henry Draper (1837–1882) was an American physician and astronomer at the University of the City of New York who pioneered astrophotography, taking the first photograph of a star's spectrum, of Vega, in 1872.
Henry Drysdale Dakin
Henry Drysdale Dakin (1880–1952) was a British-born chemist who worked in the United States, known for the Dakin oxidation, the synthesis of adrenaline, and Dakin's solution antiseptic.
Henry Dube
Henry Dube is a German organic chemist who holds the Chair of Organic Chemistry I at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg and is known for light-driven molecular motors and photoswitches.
Henry Elderfield
Henry Elderfield (1943–2016), known as Harry, was a British marine geochemist at Cambridge who established modern oceanic trace metal chemistry and the foraminiferal Mg/Ca paleothermometer.
Henry Enfield Roscoe
Henry Enfield Roscoe (1833–1915) was an English chemist who, with Robert Bunsen, founded quantitative photochemistry, first prepared pure metallic vanadium, and built Owens College Manchester into Britain's leading chemistry school.
Henry Evelyn Derek Scovil
Henry Evelyn Derek Scovil (1923–2010) was a Canadian-born physicist who spent his career at Bell Telephone Laboratories, where he built the first solid-state maser in 1957 and developed magnetic bubble memory.
Henry Eyring (theoretical chemist)
Henry Eyring (1901–1981) was a Mexican-born American theoretical chemist who formulated the theory of absolute reaction rates and the Eyring equation, central to chemical kinetics.
Henry F. Schaefer
Henry F. Schaefer III is an American theoretical and computational chemist, Graham Perdue Professor at the University of Georgia, known for ab initio quantum chemistry and the 1970 methylene prediction.
Henry G. Booker
Henry G. Booker (1910–1988) was an English-born physicist and electrical engineer who studied radio-wave propagation in the ionosphere, taught at Cornell and UC San Diego, and created the Booker quartic.
Henry Gilman
Henry Gilman (1893–1986) was an American organic chemist at Iowa State University who systematized organometallic chemistry and created the Gilman reagent, publishing 1020 papers, more than half after losing his sight in 1947.
Henry Gordon Rice
Henry Gordon Rice was a mathematician who earned his Ph.D. at Syracuse University in 1951 and proved Rice's theorem in 1953, a foundational limit on program analysis.
Henry H. Barschall
Henry H. Barschall (1915–1997) was an American nuclear physicist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose fast-neutron measurements shaped the optical model of the nucleus and neutron cancer therapy.
Henry H. Rachford Jr.
Henry H. Rachford Jr. (1925–2022) was an American chemical engineer and applied mathematician, a Rice University professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2000, known for the Douglas-Rachford algorithm.
Henry Kapteyn
Henry C. Kapteyn is a physicist and JILA Fellow at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for ultrafast laser technology and tabletop coherent X-ray sources built by high-harmonic generation.
Henry Lin (theoretical physicist)
Henry WanJune Lin (born 1995) is an American theoretical physicist, a Princeton assistant professor since 2026, first known as a teenager for galaxy-cluster astrophysics research.
Henry Louis Le Chatelier
Henry Louis Le Chatelier (1850–1936) was a French chemist and mining engineer who formulated the principle of chemical equilibrium displacement, founded industrial high-temperature measurement, and stated the conditions for ammonia synthesis.
Henry M. Foley
Henry Michael Foley (1917–1982) was an American experimental physicist and Columbia University professor whose 1947 measurements of the electron's magnetic moment with Polykarp Kusch helped confirm quantum electrodynamics.
Henry M. Sheffer
Henry M. Sheffer (1882–1964) was an American logician at Harvard who showed in 1913 that all of propositional logic can be built from a single connective, the Sheffer stroke.
Henry Martyn Taylor
Henry Martyn Taylor (1842–1927) was an English mathematician and Trinity College, Cambridge tutor who, after going blind at 52, devised a braille mathematical notation adopted as a standard.
Henry McKean
Henry McKean (1930–2024) was an American mathematician at NYU's Courant Institute, which he directed in the 1980s, known for McKean–Vlasov equations and winning the 2007 Steele Prize.
Henry Mitchell (hydrographer)
Henry Mitchell (1830–1902) was an American hydrographer and civil engineer of the United States Coast Survey, known for tidal surveys of New York Harbor and Boston Harbor.
Henry Morton (American chemist)
Henry Morton (1836–1902) was an American chemist and physicist, the first president of the Stevens Institute of Technology, known for research on fluorescence and uranium-salt spectra.
Henry Moseley
Henry Moseley was an English physicist who showed by X-ray spectroscopy that elements should be ordered by atomic number; he was killed at Gallipoli in 1915.
Henry Nathaniel Andrews
Henry Nathaniel Andrews Jr. (1910–2002) was an American paleobotanist and pioneer of North American paleobotany, known for coal-ball studies of Carboniferous floras and Devonian fossil plants.
Henry Norris Russell
Henry Norris Russell (1877–1957) was an American astronomer at Princeton University, remembered as a founder of modern theoretical astrophysics and for the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram relating stellar brightness to spectral type.
Henry O. Pollak
Henry O. Pollak (1927–2026) was an American mathematician who spent 35 years at Bell Laboratories and served as the first nonacademic president of the Mathematical Association of America.