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Hernan Makse
Hernán A. Makse is a statistical physicist, Distinguished Professor at the City College of New York, known for his 2008 Nature phase diagram of jammed matter.
Hernán Míguez
Hernán Míguez, born in Buenos Aires in 1971, is a CSIC research professor in Seville who works on photonic crystals and optical materials for solar energy.
Hero of Alexandria (ρων)
Hero of Alexandria (Ἥρων), also called Heron, was a Greek mathematician and engineer in Roman-era Alexandria around the 1st century CE, known for the aeolipile and Hero's formula.
Herre van der Zant
Herre van der Zant (born 1963) is a Dutch experimental physicist and full professor at Delft University of Technology, working on molecular electronics and nanomechanics of atomically thin materials.
Herrick L. Johnston
Herrick L. Johnston, born Herrick Lee Johnston (1898–1965), was an American chemist who co-discovered the heavy oxygen isotopes oxygen-17 and oxygen-18 in 1929 with William F. Giauque.
Herschel Rabitz
Herschel Rabitz is a chemical physicist at Princeton University, a professor of chemistry since 1971, known for inventing the learning-algorithm approach to coherent control of quantum phenomena.
Hertha Wambacher
Hertha Wambacher (1903–1950) was an Austrian physicist at the Vienna Radium Institute who, as Marietta Blau's collaborator, co-discovered cosmic-ray disintegration stars in 1937 and shared the 1937 Lieben Prize.
Herwig Kogelnik
Herwig Kogelnik, born 1932 in Graz, Austria, is a physicist and electrical engineer known for coupled wave theory, stable optical resonators, and the distributed feedback laser at Bell Laboratories.
Hess's law
Hess's law, also called the law of constant heat summation, states that the total enthalpy change of a reaction is the sum of the enthalpy changes of its steps.
Hidehiko Yamabe
Hidehiko Yamabe (山辺英彦, 1923–1960) was a Japanese mathematician who worked on Hilbert's fifth problem and Riemannian geometry; his 1960 claimed proof of the Yamabe problem contained an error, and it was fully solved in 1984.
Hideki Shirakawa
Hideki Shirakawa (白川英樹) was a Japanese polymer chemist at the University of Tsukuba who shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering electrically conductive polymers.
Hideki Yukawa
Hideki Yukawa (湯川秀樹, 1907–1981) was a Japanese theoretical physicist at Kyoto University who predicted the meson in 1934, winning the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Hidenori Takagi
Hidenori Takagi (高木英典, born 1961 in Tokyo) is a Japanese condensed matter physicist known for cuprate superconductivity, spin-orbit Mott physics, and Kitaev quantum spin liquids.
Hideo Aoki
Hideo Aoki (青木 秀夫) is a Japanese condensed-matter theorist and emeritus professor at the University of Tokyo, known for predicting the Floquet topological insulator in graphene in 2009.
Hideo Hosono
Hideo Hosono (細野秀雄, born 1953) is a Japanese materials scientist at Tokyo Institute of Technology known for discovering iron-based superconductors and inventing the IGZO semiconductor used in flat-panel displays.
Hideo Takezoe
Hideo Takezoe (竹添 秀男) is a Japanese liquid-crystal physicist and Professor Emeritus at Tokyo Institute of Technology, known for work on antiferroelectric and bent-core liquid crystals and liquid-crystal photonics.
Hidetoshi Katori
Hidetoshi Katori (香取秀俊, born 1964) is a Japanese physicist at the University of Tokyo who invented the optical lattice clock, accurate to one second in 30 billion years.
Hideya Matsumoto
Hideya Matsumoto is a mathematician whose 1964 note on generalized Weyl groups is the origin of Matsumoto's theorem on Coxeter groups; he earned a 1969 doctorate in Paris under François Bruhat.
Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen
Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen (1839–1920) was a Danish mathematician who helped found enumerative geometry, the counting of geometric figures, and later became a leading historian of Greek mathematics.
Hilda Hänchen
Hilda Hänchen was a German physicist at Hamburg's National Physical Institute who co-discovered the Goos–Hänchen effect, the lateral shift of light under total internal reflection, in 1947.
Hilding Faxén
Hilding Faxén (Olov Hilding Faxén) was a Swedish physicist known for the Faxén correction and Faxén's theorem, which describe the drag on a sphere in slowly varying viscous flow.
Hilkka I. Kenttämaa
Hilkka I. Kenttämaa, also written Hilkka Kenttamaa, is a Finnish-born chemist at Purdue University known for mass spectrometry studies of reactive intermediates and the LIAD technique.
Hillel Furstenberg
Hillel (Harry) Furstenberg, born 1935, is a mathematician who spent his career at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known for ergodic theory and for sharing the 2020 Abel Prize.
Hilmar Wendt
Hilmar Wendt (1913–2002) was a German mathematician who co-named the Hantzsche–Wendt manifold and held a chair of practical mathematics at the University of Bonn from 1948 to 1981.
Hing Tong
Hing Tong was a mathematician who proved the Katětov–Tong insertion theorem, characterizing normal topological spaces, in a 1952 paper in Duke Mathematical Journal; Miroslav Katětov proved it independently in 1951.
Hipparchus (Ἵππαρχος)
Hipparchus (Ἵππαρχος) was a Greek astronomer and mathematician born at Nicaea in Bithynia who discovered the precession of the equinoxes and is credited with the first known star catalog.
Hiroaki Misawa
Hiroaki Misawa (三澤 弘明) is a Japanese photochemist and laser engineer, professor at Hokkaido University's Research Institute for Electronic Science, known for femtosecond laser processing and plasmonic water splitting.
Hirohisa Ohmiya
Hirohisa Ohmiya (大宮 寛久) is a Japanese organic chemist and Kyoto University professor known for radical-polar crossover and NHC organocatalysis, and winner of the 2021 Mukaiyama Award.
Hiroki Ago
Hiroki Ago (吾郷浩樹) is a Japanese physicist and materials scientist at Kyushu University known for CVD growth of graphene and hBN and for leading Japan's 2.5D materials program.
Hiromi Yamashita
Hiromi Yamashita (山下弘巳) is a Japanese materials chemist and professor at Osaka University since 2004, known for single-site and plasmonic photocatalysts and a 2012 self-cleaning TiO2 coating.