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Herman Auerbach
Herman Auerbach (1901–1942) was a Polish mathematician of the Lwów School of Mathematics who worked on convex geometry and functional analysis and is remembered for the Auerbach basis.
Herman Berendsen
Herman Johan Christiaan Berendsen (1934–2019) was a Dutch physical chemist at the University of Groningen whose Berendsen thermostat, SPC water model, SHAKE algorithm, and GROMACS software underlie modern molecular dynamics simulation.
Herman Chernoff
Herman Chernoff (1923–2026) was an American statistician known for the Chernoff bound, Chernoff faces, and the Chernoff–Savage theorem, who taught at Stanford, MIT, and Harvard.
Herman F. Mark
Herman F. Mark (1895–1992) was an Austrian-born American chemist at Brooklyn Polytechnic known as the father of polymer science, whose X-ray work proved polymers are giant molecules.
Herman Feshbach
Herman Feshbach (1917–2000) was an American theoretical nuclear physicist who spent his career at MIT, led its physics department, and named the Feshbach resonance, now essential for controlling ultracold atomic gases.
Herman Müntz
Herman Müntz (born Chaim) was a Jewish mathematician from Łódź, born in 1884, best known for the 1914 Müntz–Szász theorem on the density of monomial spans.
Herman S. Bloch
Herman S. Bloch (1912–1990) was an American industrial chemist who spent his career at Universal Oil Products near Chicago and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1975.
Herman Wold
Herman Wold (1908–1992) was a Norwegian-born Swedish statistician and econometrician, professor at Uppsala, known for the Wold decomposition of stationary time series and the partial least squares methods.
Herman Z. Cummins
Herman Z. Cummins (1933–2010) was an American experimental physicist who invented laser Doppler velocimetry and photon correlation spectroscopy, studied phase transitions by light scattering, and taught at City College of New York.
Herman Zanstra
Herman Zanstra was a Dutch astronomer who created the Zanstra method for estimating the temperatures of planetary-nebula central stars, publishing his foundational theory in 1927.
Hermann Bondi
Hermann Bondi (1919–2005) was an Austrian-born British mathematician and cosmologist who, with Fred Hoyle and Thomas Gold, formulated the steady-state theory of the universe in 1948 and made lasting contributions to general relativity.
Hermann Brunn
Hermann Brunn, also known as Karl Hermann Brunn, was a German mathematician whose 1887 dissertation founded the theory of convex bodies, giving Brunn's theorem and the Brunn–Minkowski inequality.
Hermann Carl Vogel
Hermann Carl Vogel (1841–1907) was a German astronomer who pioneered the photographic measurement of stellar radial velocities and discovered the spectroscopic binary stars Algol and Spica.
Hermann E. Gaub
Hermann E. Gaub is a German biophysicist who held the Applied Physics chair at LMU Munich from 1995 to 2022 and pioneered single-molecule force spectroscopy and molecular motors.
Hermann Fischer (biochemist)
Hermann Fischer (1888–1960) was a German-born American biochemist and carbohydrate chemist, son of Nobel laureate Emil Fischer, who synthesized the phosphorylated sugars of intermediary metabolism.
Hermann Georg Grimmeiss
Hermann Georg Grimmeiss (born 19 August 1930) was a Swedish semiconductor physicist who led Philips research on efficient gallium phosphide LEDs and became the first professor of solid state physics at Lund.
Hermann Haken
Hermann Haken (1927–2024) was a German theoretical physicist at the University of Stuttgart who formulated the quantum theory of the laser and founded synergetics, the theory of self-organization.
Hermann Irving Schlesinger
Hermann Irving Schlesinger (1882–1960) was an American inorganic chemist at the University of Chicago whose discovery of the borohydrides and aluminohydrides opened modern boron hydride chemistry.
Hermann Kober
Hermann Kober (1888–1973) was a German-born mathematician who worked in England and is known for Kober's Theorem in Banach-space theory and the Erdélyi–Kober fractional operators.
Hermann Künneth
Hermann Künneth (1892–1975) was a German mathematician who proved the Künneth formula for the homology of a product of manifolds, and who worked as a schoolteacher before becoming a professor at Erlangen.
Hermann Nicolai
Hermann Nicolai, born 1952, is a German theoretical physicist known for maximal supergravity and the hidden symmetry E10, and director emeritus at the Albert Einstein Institute in Potsdam.
Hermann Oberth
Hermann Oberth was a physicist and rocketry pioneer whose 1923 book Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen founded astronautics; he later worked with Wernher von Braun.
Hermann Schwarz
Hermann Amandus Schwarz (1843–1921) was a German mathematician known for the Cauchy–Schwarz inequality, the Schwarz lemma, and the first rigorous proof of the Riemann mapping theorem.
Hermann Staudinger
Hermann Staudinger was a German chemist who founded macromolecular chemistry, proposing in 1920 that polymers are giant covalently bonded molecules, and won the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Hermann Struve
Hermann Struve, also known as Karl Hermann Struve, was a Russian-born astronomer of the Struve dynasty who directed the Berlin-Babelsberg Observatory and transformed the study of Saturn's satellites and rings.
Hermann Träuble
Hermann Träuble (1932–1976) was a German physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research who, with Uwe Essmann, first photographed the Abrikosov vortex lattice in 1967.
Hermann Vermeil
Hermann Vermeil (1889–1959) was a German mathematician who, as Hermann Weyl's assistant, gave the first published proof in 1917 that scalar curvature is the only absolute invariant of its type in Riemannian geometry.
Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann von Helmholtz (Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, 1821–1894) was a German physician, physiologist, and physicist who formulated the conservation of energy, invented the ophthalmoscope, and founded the mathematical theory of vortex motion.
Hermann Weyl
Hermann Weyl (1885–1955) was a German-born mathematician and mathematical physicist, Hilbert's student at Göttingen, whose 1918 gauge idea underlies the standard model of particle physics.
Hermenegildo García
Hermenegildo García, born 1957, is a Spanish chemist and Full Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de València whose photocatalysis research converts solar energy into green hydrogen and renewable fuels.