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Herbert Federer
Herbert Federer (1920–2010) was an American mathematician of Austrian birth at Brown University, a founder of geometric measure theory who proved the coarea formula and solved Plateau's problem.
Herbert Fleischner
Herbert Fleischner (1944–2025) was an Austrian graph theorist best known for Fleischner's theorem, his 1974 proof that the square of every 2-connected finite graph is Hamiltonian.
Herbert Freundlich
Herbert Freundlich, full name Herbert Max Finlay Freundlich, was a German physical chemist and founder of colloid science, known for the Freundlich adsorption isotherm formulated in 1907.
Herbert Friedman
Herbert Friedman (1916–2000) was an American physicist who pioneered X-ray astronomy at the Naval Research Laboratory, detecting solar X-rays in 1949 and X-ray pulsations from the Crab Nebula in 1969.
Herbert Fröhlich
Herbert Fröhlich (1905–1991) was a German-born British theoretical physicist who brought quantum field theory into solid-state physics, formulated the Hamiltonian behind superconductivity theory, and proposed coherent excitations in living cells.
Herbert Grötzsch
Herbert Grötzsch (1902–1993) was a German mathematician, the main founder of the theory of quasiconformal mappings, and the namesake of the Grötzsch theorem, Grötzsch graph, Grötzsch domain, and Grötzsch Problem.
Herbert Gursky
Herbert Gursky (c. 1930–2006) was an American astrophysicist who helped found X-ray astronomy, co-discovering Sco X-1 on the 1962 rocket flight and later leading HEAO-1 experiments.
Herbert Hall Turner
Herbert Hall Turner was a British astronomer and seismologist, Savilian professor of astronomy at Oxford from 1893, who coined "parsec," led the Carte du Ciel survey, and discovered deep-focus earthquakes.
Herbert Harold Read
Herbert Harold Read (1889–1970) was a British geologist who mapped the Scottish Highlands and led Britain's granite controversy with his dictum "there are granites and granites".
Herbert J. C. Kouts
Herbert J. C. Kouts (1920–2008) was an American nuclear physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory who directed reactor safety research for the AEC and NRC, and served on the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board.
Herbert John Ryser
Herbert John Ryser was a mathematician and professor at Caltech from 1967 until his death in 1985, a major figure in combinatorics known for the Bruck–Ryser–Chowla theorem.
Herbert John Shaw
Herbert John Shaw (1918–2006) was an American electrical engineer and applied physicist at Stanford University's Ginzton Laboratory, known for surface acoustic wave devices, fiber-optic gyroscopes, and fiber-optic amplifiers.
Herbert Kroemer
Herbert Kroemer (1928–2024) was a German-American physicist at UC Santa Barbara who won a quarter of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics for semiconductor heterostructures.
Herbert L. Anderson
Herbert L. Anderson (1914–1988) was an American nuclear physicist who helped build Chicago Pile-1, the first self-sustained nuclear chain reaction, and received the 1982 Enrico Fermi Award.
Herbert Mataré
Herbert F. Mataré (1912–2011) was a German physicist who, with Heinrich Welker at Westinghouse's laboratory near Paris, invented the transistron in 1948 independently of Bell Labs, and founded Intermetall.
Herbert Mayr
Herbert Mayr, born 1947 in Weilheim, Germany, is a German physical organic chemist, professor in retirement at LMU Munich, known for reactivity scales predicting polar organic reaction rates.
Herbert Naarman
Herbert Naarman, also spelled Naarmann, was a German polymer chemist at BASF in Ludwigshafen who in 1987 developed polyacetylene with a claimed conductivity of the same order as copper's.
Herbert Robbins
Herbert Robbins (1915–2001) was an American mathematical statistician at Columbia University who created empirical Bayes, co-founded stochastic approximation in 1951, and coauthored What Is Mathematics? with Richard Courant.
Herbert S. Eleuterio
Herbert S. Eleuterio was an American industrial chemist at DuPont who first observed olefin metathesis in 1956 and whose hexafluoropropylene chemistry underpinned Teflon FEP, Viton, Kalrez, and Nafion.
Herbert S. Gutowsky
Herbert S. Gutowsky (1919–2000) was an American chemist who pioneered nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for chemistry; his discovery of spin-spin coupling helped make NMR a major tool in chemistry, biochemistry, and biology.
Herbert S. Harned
Herbert S. Harned (1888–1969) was an American physical chemist, professor at Pennsylvania and then Yale, known for Harned's rule and the monograph The Physical Chemistry of Electrolytic Solutions.
Herbert Seifert
Herbert Seifert, born Karl Johannes Herbert Seifert, was a German mathematician (1907–1996) at Heidelberg known for Seifert surfaces, Seifert fibered spaces, and the Seifert–van Kampen theorem.
Herbert Spohn
Herbert Spohn (born 1946) is a German mathematical physicist, emeritus at TU Munich, known for nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and the first exact solution of the KPZ equation.
Herbert W. Roesky
Herbert W. Roesky (1935–2025) was a German inorganic chemist at the University of Göttingen who published over 1,250 papers on fluorine and main-group element chemistry.
Herbert Wagner (German physicist)
Herbert Wagner (born 1935 in Munich) is a German theoretical physicist, professor emeritus at LMU Munich and a last student of Werner Heisenberg, best known for the 1966 Mermin–Wagner theorem.
Herbert Waldmann
Herbert Waldmann (born 1957 in Neuwied, Germany) is a German chemical biologist and medicinal chemist, director at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology in Dortmund, known for Biology Oriented Synthesis and pseudo-natural products.
Herbert Walther
Herbert Walther (1935–2006) was a German physicist whose one-atom maser, the micromaser, was a milestone of cavity quantum electrodynamics and a founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics.
Herbert Wilf
Herbert Wilf (1931–2012) was an American mathematician at the University of Pennsylvania known for Wilf–Zeilberger computer-generated proofs, the book generatingfunctionology, and the Stanley–Wilf conjecture on pattern-avoiding permutations.
Herbert William Richmond
Herbert William Richmond (1863–1948) was an English mathematician at King's College, Cambridge, known for his 1893 construction of the regular 17-sided polygon and the Cremona–Richmond configuration.
Herbert Zeiger
Herbert Zeiger was an American physicist trained under Isidor Rabi at Columbia who co-authored the 1954 ammonia maser paper and shared the inaugural Charles Hard Townes Award in 1981.