Physical and mathematical scientists

Ho‐kwang Mao

Ho-kwang Mao (毛河光) is a Chinese-American high-pressure geophysicist at the Carnegie Institution who developed the diamond anvil cell to reproduce Earth's-core pressures in the laboratory.

Hoi-Kwong Lo

Hoi-Kwong Lo is a quantum information scientist and professor at the University of Toronto known for QKD security proofs, the decoy-state method, and co-inventing MDI-QKD in 2012.

Holger Bech Nielsen

Holger Bech Nielsen, born in 1941, is a Danish theoretical physicist at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, counted among the fathers of string theory and known for the Nielsen–Olesen vortex.

Holger Braunschweig

Holger Braunschweig is a German inorganic chemist at the University of Würzburg whose boron compounds bind and reduce dinitrogen like transition metals, work honored with the 2009 Leibniz Prize.

Holger F. Bettinger

Holger F. Bettinger, born 1970 in Nördlingen, Germany, is a German organic chemist who has held the organic chemistry chair at the University of Tübingen since 2008.

Holger Frey

Holger Frey is a polymer chemist and professor of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, known for hyperbranched polyglycerols and degradable polymers.

Holger Müller

Holger Müller is a UC Berkeley experimental physicist, on the faculty since 2008, known for atom interferometers, the 2019 laser phase plate for electron microscopy, and biophysics.

Hollis Dow Hedberg

Hollis Dow Hedberg (1903–1988) was an American petroleum geologist who led exploration at Gulf Oil, taught at Princeton, and chaired the International Subcommission on Stratigraphic Classification.

Holly Krieger

Holly Krieger is an American mathematician, Professor at the University of Cambridge since 2022, known for arithmetic dynamics, work on the Mandelbrot set, and Numberphile videos.

Homer Burton Adkins

Homer Burton Adkins (1892–1949) was an American organic chemist at the University of Wisconsin, the leading authority on catalytic hydrogenation and developer of the copper chromite catalyst.

Homi J. Bhabha (હોમી જહાંગીર ભાભા)

Homi J. Bhabha (હોમી જહાંગીર ભાભા) was an Indian nuclear physicist, founder of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and first chairman of India's Atomic Energy Commission.

Homi Jehangir Bhabha

Homi Jehangir Bhabha (1909–1966) was an Indian nuclear physicist who calculated Bhabha scattering and founded the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and India's atomic energy program.

Hon Wai Lam

Hon Wai Lam (born 1976) is a British organic synthesis chemist who has held the GSK Chair of Sustainable Chemistry at the University of Nottingham since 2013.

Hong Ding (丁洪, born 1968) is a Chinese condensed matter physicist who studies high-temperature superconductors and topological materials using ARPES, discovering the cuprate pseudogap in 1996 and Weyl fermions in TaAs in 2015.

Hong Qin

Hong Qin is a theoretical and computational plasma physicist known for structure-preserving geometric algorithms and topological plasma physics, and winner of the 2023 John Dawson Award.

Hong Wang (王虹)

Hong Wang (王虹), born 1991, is a Chinese mathematician at IHES near Paris known for the 2025 proof of the three-dimensional Kakeya conjecture and the 2026 Fields Medal.

Hong X. Tang

Hong X. Tang, also known as Hongxing Tang, is a physicist at Yale University who works on integrated photonic and optomechanical circuits and converting quantum signals between microwave and optical photons.

Hong-Cai "Joe" Zhou

Hong-Cai "Joe" Zhou (周宏才), born 1964, is an inorganic chemist and Robert A. Welch Chair professor at Texas A&M University, known for porous framework materials called metal–organic frameworks.

Hong‐Gyu Park

Hong-Gyu Park (박홍규) is a South Korean nanophotonics experimentalist and professor of physics at Seoul National University, known for nanolasers, photon-triggered nanowire transistors, and subwavelength optical devices.

Hong‐Jun Gao

Hong-Jun Gao (高鸿钧) is a Chinese condensed matter physicist and CAS academician at the Institute of Physics, known for observing Majorana zero modes in iron-based superconductors.

Honggang Cui

Honggang Cui (崔宏刚) is a chemical and biomolecular engineer at Johns Hopkins University, known for developing self-assembling prodrugs in which anticancer drug molecules form their own delivery vehicles.

Hongkun Park

Hongkun Park is Mark Hyman Jr. Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics at Harvard University, working on quantum optoelectronics, quantum sensing, and nanoscale tools for studying living cells.

Hongliang Xin

Hongliang Xin is a chemical engineer and professor at Virginia Tech, where he leads the Xin Group applying machine learning to heterogeneous catalysis and electrocatalysis.

Hongtao Yuan

Hongtao Yuan (袁洪涛) is a Chinese condensed matter physicist and professor at Nanjing University since 2017, after posts at Stanford and SLAC, known for electric-double-layer transistors inducing superconductivity and ferromagnetism.

Hongyu Chen

Hongyu Chen (陈虹宇) is a Chinese chemist known for nanosynthesis, controlling the growth, shape, and assembly of nanoparticles; he has been a professor at Westlake University since 2021.

Hongyu Zhao

Hongyu Zhao (赵宏宇) is a biostatistician at Yale University, holding the Ira V. Hiscock Professorship of Biostatistics, known for statistical and computational methods in genomics.

Hooman Davoudiasl

Hooman Davoudiasl is a theoretical physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, known for work on warped extra dimensions and dark matter cosmology, and a 2007 PECASE awardee.

Horace Bolingbroke Woodward

Horace Bolingbroke Woodward (1848–1914) was a British geologist who spent 41 years on the Geological Survey of Great Britain and wrote The History of the Geological Society of London (1907).

Horace Lamb

Horace Lamb (1849–1934) was an English applied mathematician who held chairs at Adelaide and Manchester, wrote the standard Hydrodynamics, and gave his name to Lamb waves.