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Henry Prentiss Armsby
Henry Prentiss Armsby (1853–1921) was an American agricultural chemist and animal nutrition scientist who built the world's first respiration calorimeter for cattle at Pennsylvania State College.
Henry Primakoff
Henry Primakoff (1914–1983) was a Russian-born American theoretical physicist, the first Donner Professor of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania, known for the Holstein–Primakoff spin-wave theory and the Primakoff effect.
Henry Rishbeth
Henry Rishbeth was a British ionospheric physicist, trained at Cambridge under J. A. Ratcliffe, whose definitive studies of the F2 layer earned the Royal Astronomical Society's Gold Medal in 2001.
Henry S. White
Henry S. White is an American electrochemist and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of Utah, known for nanometer-scale electrodes, nanopore sensors, and single-entity electrochemistry.
Henry Scheffé
Henry Scheffé (1907–1977) was an American statistician at the University of California, Berkeley, known for the Scheffé method for all contrasts in the analysis of variance and his 1959 book The Analysis of Variance.
Henry Seely White
Henry Seely White (1861–1943) was an American mathematician at Vassar College who worked in invariant theory and algebraic curves and served as president of the American Mathematical Society.
Henry Segerman
Henry Segerman is a British-born mathematician and mathematical maker at Oklahoma State University, known for 3D-printed mathematical sculptures, virtual-reality visualizations of Thurston geometries, and a YouTube channel with over 28 million views.
Henry Siedentopf
Henry Friedrich Wilhelm Siedentopf (1872–1940) was a German physicist at Carl Zeiss in Jena who co-invented the slit ultramicroscope with Richard Zsigmondy in 1903, making sub-wavelength colloidal particles visible.
Henry Stephens Washington
Henry Stephens Washington (1867–1934) was an American petrologist and geochemist, a National Academy member known for the CIPW classification of igneous rocks and the CIPW norm.
Henry Stommel
Henry Melson Stommel (1920–1992) was an American physical oceanographer at Woods Hole who created modern dynamical oceanography and explained the Gulf Stream's westward intensification in 1948.
Henry Taube
Henry Taube (1915–2005) was a Canadian-born American inorganic chemist at Stanford University who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on electron transfer mechanisms in metal complexes.
Henry Tizard
Sir Henry Thomas Tizard (1885–1959) was a British physical chemist and science administrator who, as chairman of the Committee for the Scientific Survey of Air Defence from 1934, set in motion the development of radar.
Henry W. Gould
Henry W. Gould (Henry Wadsworth Gould), born 1928 in Portsmouth, Virginia, is an American mathematician at West Virginia University known for combinatorial identities and Fibonacci numbers.
Henry W. Kendall
Henry W. Kendall, born Henry Way Kendall, was an American MIT particle physicist who shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics for experiments revealing quarks inside protons and neutrons.
Henry William Menard
Henry William Menard (1920–1986) was an American marine geologist who discovered the Pacific fracture zones, aiding plate tectonics, and led the USGS from 1978 to 1981.
Henry William Watson
Henry William Watson (1827–1903) was a British mathematician and Church of England clergyman who co-authored, with Francis Galton, the branching process now called the Galton–Watson process.
Henry Woods (palaeontologist)
Henry Woods (1868–1952) was a British palaeontologist who spent his career at Cambridge, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1916, and is best remembered for his monograph of the Cretaceous Lamellibranchia of England.
Henry Woodward (geologist)
Henry Woodward (1832–1921) was an English geologist and paleontologist who served as Keeper of Geology at the British Museum and edited Geological Magazine for over 50 years.
Henryk Iwaniec
Henryk Iwaniec (born 1947) is a Polish-born American analytic number theorist at Rutgers University, known for proving infinitely many primes of the form a² + b⁴.
Henryk Minc
Henryk Minc was a Polish-born mathematician at UC Santa Barbara from 1963 who wrote influential surveys and books on matrix permanents and nonnegative matrices, leaving his name on the Bregman–Minc theorem.
Henryk Zygalski
Henryk Zygalski (1908–1978) was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who, with Marian Rejewski and Jerzy Różycki, broke the German military Enigma cipher in the 1930s and devised the perforated Zygalski sheets.
Herb Wright
Herb Wright (1917–2015) was an American Quaternary geologist and paleoecologist at the University of Minnesota, known for reconstructing North America's vegetational and climatic history from lake sediments.
Herbert A. Hauptman
Herbert A. Hauptman was an American mathematician who shared the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Jerome Karle for developing direct methods for determining crystal structures.
Herbert Brereton Baker
Herbert Brereton Baker (1862–1935) was an English inorganic chemist, chief professor at Imperial College from 1912 to 1932, who showed that rigorously dried gases resist chemical reaction.
Herbert Busemann
Herbert Busemann (1905–1994) was a German-born American geometer who spent most of his career at the University of Southern California and is regarded as the main founder of metric geometry.
Herbert C. Brown
Herbert C. Brown, born Herbert Brovarnik, was an American organic chemist at Purdue University who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering boron chemistry.
Herbert Callen
Herbert Callen (1919–1993) was an American theoretical physicist at the University of Pennsylvania, known for the 1951 fluctuation–dissipation theorem and a widely used thermodynamics textbook.
Herbert Clemens
Herbert Clemens (Charles Herbert Clemens, Jr.; born 1939) is an American mathematician in complex algebraic geometry and Hodge theory, known for proving the smooth cubic threefold irrational and for the Clemens conjecture.
Herbert E. Huppert
Herbert E. Huppert, also known as H. E. Huppert, is a geophysicist and applied mathematician at Cambridge who studies the flow of fluids in and on the Earth.
Herbert E. Ives
Herbert E. Ives, also known as Herbert Eugene Ives, was an American physicist who headed television and facsimile research at Bell Labs and ran the 1938 Ives–Stilwell experiment.