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Hiroo Inokuchi
Hiroo Inokuchi (井口洋夫) was a Japanese chemist who showed that organic compounds can conduct electricity, proposed the concept of the organic semiconductor, and won the 2007 Kyoto Prize.
Hiroo Kanamori
Hiroo Kanamori, born in Tokyo in 1936, is a Japanese-American geophysicist and Caltech professor emeritus who introduced the moment magnitude scale and earthquake early warning, winning the 2007 Kyoto Prize.
Hiroshi Amano
Hiroshi Amano (天野浩), born in 1960 in Hamamatsu, Japan, is a Japanese materials scientist who shared the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing efficient blue LEDs.
Hiroshi Haruki
Hiroshi Haruki (春日) was a Japanese mathematician who worked on functional equations and mean-value properties of harmonic and analytic functions; his 'square' equation was cited as Haruki's functional equation by 1968.
Hiroshi Imahori
Hiroshi Imahori (今堀 博) is a Japanese photochemist and materials chemist, a professor at Kyoto University since 2002, known for artificial photosynthesis and porphyrin solar cells.
Hiroshi Kageyama
Hiroshi Kageyama (陰山 洋) is a Japanese solid-state chemist, professor in Kyoto University's Department of Energy and Hydrocarbon Chemistry since 2010, known for mixed-anion compounds, perovskite oxyhydrides, and low-dimensional quantum magnets.
Hiroshi Kitagawa
Hiroshi Kitagawa (北川 宏) is a Japanese solid-state chemist and professor at Kyoto University since 2009, known for forcing immiscible metals into alloy nanoparticles for catalysts and hydrogen storage.
Hiroshi Matsui
Hiroshi Matsui is a chemist and Professor at Hunter College, CUNY, working in bionanotechnology, known for peptide-based nanotubes, peptide-powered nanomotors, and iron oxide nanocages that deliver anticancer drugs.
Hiroshi Nakatsuji
Hiroshi Nakatsuji (中辻 博, born 1943 in Osaka) is a Japanese theoretical chemist at Kyoto University known for the SAC, SAC-CI, and free complement methods.
Hiroshi Nishihara
Hiroshi Nishihara (西原 寛) is a Japanese coordination chemist and electrochemist, a University of Tokyo emeritus professor now at Tokyo University of Science, known for coordination programming and coordination nanosheets.
Hiroshi Ohmoto
Hiroshi Ohmoto is a geochemist and Professor Emeritus at Pennsylvania State University known for challenging the standard account of an oxygen-poor early Earth atmosphere using sulfur isotopes.
Hiroshi Okamoto
Hiroshi Okamoto (岡本 博) is a Japanese condensed matter physicist and professor at the University of Tokyo known for photoinduced phase transitions studied with femtosecond and terahertz spectroscopy.
Hiroshi Shinokubo
Hiroshi Shinokubo (忍久保 洋) is a Japanese organic chemist and professor at Nagoya University since 2008, known for the gram-scale synthesis of stable antiaromatic norcorrole and stacked antiaromatic porphyrins.
Hiroshi Sugiyama
Hiroshi Sugiyama (杉山 弘) is a Japanese chemical biologist and Kyoto University professor known for pyrrole-imidazole polyamide artificial genetic switches and DNA origami nanotechnology studied by high-speed AFM.
Hiroshi Tanaka (mathematician)
Hiroshi Tanaka (田中博) is a Japanese mathematician who works in probability theory, especially Brownian motion and diffusion in random media, and is a Keio University emeritus professor.
Hirosi Ooguri (大栗博司)
Hirosi Ooguri (大栗博司), born 1962, is a Japanese theoretical physicist, the Fred Kavli Professor at Caltech, known for the OSV conjecture relating black hole entropy to topological string theory.
Hirotugu Akaike
Hirotugu Akaike (赤池弘次) was a Japanese statistician at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics in Tokyo who formulated the Akaike Information Criterion, published in 1973 and 1974, and received the 2006 Kyoto Prize.
Hiroyuki Furuta
Hiroyuki Furuta (古田弘幸) is a Japanese organic chemist known for discovering N-confused porphyrin in 1994 and building near-infrared dyes on it; he is Emeritus Professor at Kyushu University.
Hiroyuki Isobe
Hiroyuki Isobe (磯部寛之, born 1970 in Tokyo) is a Japanese organic chemist and professor at the University of Tokyo known for synthesizing molecular nanocarbons, including phenine nanotubes and molecular peapods.
Hiroyuki Nishide
Hiroyuki Nishide (西出 宏之, born 1947) is a Japanese polymer chemist at Waseda University, a professor from 1987 to 2018, known for redox-active radical polymers and the organic radical battery.
Hiroyuki Sakaki
Hiroyuki Sakaki (榊裕之), born 1944, is a Japanese semiconductor physicist who conceived the quantum wire and quantum dot and is Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo.
Hisanori Shinohara
Hisanori Shinohara (篠原 久典) is a Japanese chemist and professor at Nagoya University known for pioneering endohedral metallofullerenes, including the 1992 scandium trimer report and the first nano-peapods.
Hisashi Kimura
Hisashi Kimura (木村栄, 1870–1943) was a Japanese astronomer and first director of the International Latitude Observatory at Mizusawa, best known for discovering the z-term, an annual component of apparent latitude variation independent of Earth's polar motion.
Hisashi Kuno
Hisashi Kuno (久野久) was a Japanese petrologist and volcanologist, professor at the University of Tokyo, known for distinguishing the tholeiitic, high-alumina, and alkali basalt magma series.
Hisashi Yamamoto
Hisashi Yamamoto (山本 尚), born 1943 in Kobe, is a Japanese organic chemist known for designer Lewis acid and Brønsted acid catalysts for asymmetric synthesis.
Hisayoshi Yurimoto
Hisayoshi Yurimoto (圦本尚義, born 1958) is a Japanese cosmochemist and professor at Hokkaido University who built the first isotope microscope and led the initial analysis of Hayabusa2's Ryugu samples.
Hitoshi Miyasaka
Hitoshi Miyasaka (宮坂 等) is a Japanese materials chemist and professor at Tohoku University's Institute for Materials Research, known for gas-responsive porous magnets and chiral hybrid perovskites.
Hitoshi Nozaki
Hitoshi Nozaki (野崎 一, 1922–2019) was a Japanese organic chemist and Kyoto University professor whose laboratory developed the Nozaki–Hiyama–Kishi reaction and pioneering asymmetric cyclopropanation work.
Hjalmar Mellin
Hjalmar Mellin, full name Robert Hjalmar Mellin, was a Finnish mathematician (1854–1933) who gave the Mellin transform its first systematic formulation and applied it to the Riemann zeta function.
Ho Nyung Lee
Ho Nyung Lee is a condensed matter physicist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory known for atomic-scale synthesis of complex oxide thin films and a 2006 PECASE award.