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Horace Richard Crane
Horace Richard Crane was an American experimental physicist at the University of Michigan, the first to measure the magnetic moment of free electrons, receiving the National Medal of Science in 1986.
Horace Tabberer Brown
Horace Tabberer Brown (1848–1925) was a British chemist who spent 1866 to 1895 in the Burton-on-Trent brewing industry, published on fermentation chemistry, and won the Royal and Copley Medals.
Horace W. Babcock
Horace W. Babcock was an American astronomer at Mount Wilson and Palomar who made the first detection of a magnetic field on a star other than the sun.
Horacio Casini
Horacio Casini is an Argentine theoretical physicist at CONICET and Centro Atómico Bariloche known for rigorous results on entanglement entropy in quantum field theory, including the c-theorem and F-theorem.
Horia Metiu
Horia Metiu (Horia Mețiu) is a Romanian-born theoretical physical chemist, a UC Santa Barbara professor since 1976, known for surface-enhanced Raman theory and the 2017 molten-metal methane conversion work.
Horng-Tzer Yau
Horng-Tzer Yau (姚鸿泽), born in Taiwan in 1959, is a Taiwanese-born mathematician and Merton Professor at Harvard known for proving universality of random matrix spectra with Erdős and Schlein.
Horst L. Störmer
Horst L. Störmer, born 1949, is a German-born American physicist who shared the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the fractional quantum Hall effect.
Horst Sachs
Horst Sachs (1927–2016) was a German mathematician and professor at the Technical University of Ilmenau, known for the 1964 Sachs subgraph theorem and the monograph Spectra of Graphs.
Horst Weller
Horst Weller (born 1954) is a German physical chemist, professor at Universität Hamburg since 1994, known for synthesizing colloidal nanoparticles and arranging them into ordered superlattices.
Hoshin V. Gupta
Hoshin V. Gupta, also published as Hoshin Gupta, is a hydrologist and Regents Professor at the University of Arizona, known for the SCE-UA optimization method and the Kling-Gupta Efficiency.
Howard Allan Zebker
Howard Allan Zebker is an American electrical engineer and geophysicist at Stanford University, a pioneer of interferometric synthetic aperture radar elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.
Howard Bishop Lewis
Howard Bishop Lewis (1887–1954) was an American biochemist who headed biological chemistry at the University of Michigan and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1949.
Howard Ensign Simmons, Jr.
Howard Ensign Simmons, Jr. (1929–1997) was an American physical organic chemist at DuPont whose diiodomethane-zinc work produced the Simmons–Smith reaction, the first general cyclopropane synthesis.
Howard Georgi
Howard Georgi is an American theoretical particle physicist and Harvard professor, best known as a founder of grand unified theories and inventor of the Heavy Quark Effective Theory.
Howard Johnson Lucas
Howard Johnson Lucas (1885–1963) was an American organic chemist at Caltech who discovered the Lucas reagent for classifying alcohols and gave the first proof of halonium ions.
Howard M. Wiseman
Howard M. Wiseman, also known as Howard Wiseman, is an Australian theoretical quantum physicist at Griffith University in Brisbane, known for work on quantum measurement, EPR steering, and quantum foundations.
Howard P. Robertson
Howard P. Robertson (1903–1961) was an American mathematical physicist at Caltech and Princeton known for the Robertson–Walker metric and for postwar defense science advising.
Howard R. Hart Jr.
Howard R. Hart Jr. (1929–2025) was an American physicist-engineer who spent his entire career at the GE Research Laboratory in New York, working on superconductivity, Apollo experiments, and MRI.
Howard Raiffa
Howard Raiffa (1924–2016) was an American Harvard professor who founded decision analysis and negotiation analysis, co-founded Harvard's Kennedy School, was IIASA's first director, and helped invent decision trees.
Howard Reiss
Howard Reiss (1922–2015) was an American physical chemist at UCLA, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1977, known for statistical-mechanical nucleation theory and scaled particle theory.
Howard Stone (fluid dynamicist)
Howard A. Stone is an American fluid dynamicist and Princeton professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering who studies complex fluids, microfluidics, and flows involving bacteria and biofilms.
Howard Zimmerman
Howard Zimmerman (1926–2012) was an American organic chemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a founder of mechanistic organic photochemistry, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1980.
Howel Williams
Howel Williams (1898–1980) was a British-born American volcanologist and geologist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for his work on calderas and the Cascade volcanoes.
Hratch G. Semerjian
Hratch G. Semerjian is an American measurement scientist and engineering executive who spent 30 years at NIST, serving as Acting Director and pioneering combustion and laser diagnostics research.
Hrvoje Petek
Hrvoje Petek is a physicist at the University of Pittsburgh who studies ultrafast electron and plasmon dynamics at surfaces, imaging them on femtosecond and attosecond scales and winning the 2019 Ahmed Zewail Award.
Hsien Chung Wang
Hsien Chung Wang (王宪钟, 1918–1978) was a Chinese-American mathematician who discovered the Wang sequence for fiber bundles over spheres, solved the Hopf–Samelson problem, and taught at Cornell University.
Hua Chun Zeng
Hua Chun Zeng (曾华淳) is a Singapore-based materials chemist who spent his career at the National University of Singapore, known for designed synthesis of inorganic nanostructures and nanocatalysts for energy and sustainability applications.
Hua Luogeng (华罗庚)
Hua Luogeng (华罗庚, Loo-Keng Hua) was a self-taught Chinese number theorist, first director of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Mathematics and founder of its computing program.
Huaqiang Zeng
Huaqiang Zeng (曾华强) is a Chinese supramolecular chemist who designs artificial ion and water channels, after a research career in Singapore; he joined Fuzhou University in 2022.
Hubert Anson Newton
Hubert Anson Newton (1830–1896) was an American mathematician and astronomer, professor at Yale from 1855, who founded meteoric astronomy through his studies of the November meteor showers.