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Henry Eyring (theoretical chemist)
Henry Eyring (1901–1981) was a Mexican-born American theoretical chemist who formulated the theory of absolute reaction rates and the Eyring equation, central to chemical kinetics.
Henry F. Schaefer
Henry F. Schaefer III is an American theoretical and computational chemist, Graham Perdue Professor at the University of Georgia, known for ab initio quantum chemistry and the 1970 methylene prediction.
Henry G. Booker
Henry G. Booker (1910–1988) was an English-born physicist and electrical engineer who studied radio-wave propagation in the ionosphere, taught at Cornell and UC San Diego, and created the Booker quartic.
Henry Gilman
Henry Gilman (1893–1986) was an American organic chemist at Iowa State University who systematized organometallic chemistry and created the Gilman reagent, publishing 1020 papers, more than half after losing his sight in 1947.
Henry Gordon Rice
Henry Gordon Rice was a mathematician who earned his Ph.D. at Syracuse University in 1951 and proved Rice's theorem in 1953, a foundational limit on program analysis.
Henry H. Barschall
Henry H. Barschall (1915–1997) was an American nuclear physicist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose fast-neutron measurements shaped the optical model of the nucleus and neutron cancer therapy.
Henry H. Rachford Jr.
Henry H. Rachford Jr. (1925–2022) was an American chemical engineer and applied mathematician, a Rice University professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2000, known for the Douglas-Rachford algorithm.
Henry Kapteyn
Henry C. Kapteyn is a physicist and JILA Fellow at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for ultrafast laser technology and tabletop coherent X-ray sources built by high-harmonic generation.
Henry Lin (theoretical physicist)
Henry WanJune Lin (born 1995) is an American theoretical physicist, a Princeton assistant professor since 2026, first known as a teenager for galaxy-cluster astrophysics research.
Henry Louis Le Chatelier
Henry Louis Le Chatelier (1850–1936) was a French chemist and mining engineer who formulated the principle of chemical equilibrium displacement, founded industrial high-temperature measurement, and stated the conditions for ammonia synthesis.
Henry M. Foley
Henry Michael Foley (1917–1982) was an American experimental physicist and Columbia University professor whose 1947 measurements of the electron's magnetic moment with Polykarp Kusch helped confirm quantum electrodynamics.
Henry M. Sheffer
Henry M. Sheffer (1882–1964) was an American logician at Harvard who showed in 1913 that all of propositional logic can be built from a single connective, the Sheffer stroke.
Henry Martyn Taylor
Henry Martyn Taylor (1842–1927) was an English mathematician and Trinity College, Cambridge tutor who, after going blind at 52, devised a braille mathematical notation adopted as a standard.
Henry McKean
Henry McKean (1930–2024) was an American mathematician at NYU's Courant Institute, which he directed in the 1980s, known for McKean–Vlasov equations and winning the 2007 Steele Prize.
Henry Mitchell (hydrographer)
Henry Mitchell (1830–1902) was an American hydrographer and civil engineer of the United States Coast Survey, known for tidal surveys of New York Harbor and Boston Harbor.
Henry Morton (American chemist)
Henry Morton (1836–1902) was an American chemist and physicist, the first president of the Stevens Institute of Technology, known for research on fluorescence and uranium-salt spectra.
Henry Moseley
Henry Moseley was an English physicist who showed by X-ray spectroscopy that elements should be ordered by atomic number; he was killed at Gallipoli in 1915.
Henry Nathaniel Andrews
Henry Nathaniel Andrews Jr. (1910–2002) was an American paleobotanist and pioneer of North American paleobotany, known for coal-ball studies of Carboniferous floras and Devonian fossil plants.
Henry Norris Russell
Henry Norris Russell (1877–1957) was an American astronomer at Princeton University, remembered as a founder of modern theoretical astrophysics and for the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram relating stellar brightness to spectral type.
Henry O. Pollak
Henry O. Pollak (1927–2026) was an American mathematician who spent 35 years at Bell Laboratories and served as the first nonacademic president of the Mathematical Association of America.
Henry Prentiss Armsby
Henry Prentiss Armsby (1853–1921) was an American agricultural chemist and animal nutrition scientist who built the world's first respiration calorimeter for cattle at Pennsylvania State College.
Henry Primakoff
Henry Primakoff (1914–1983) was a Russian-born American theoretical physicist, the first Donner Professor of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania, known for the Holstein–Primakoff spin-wave theory and the Primakoff effect.
Henry reaction
The Henry reaction, also called the nitroaldol reaction, is a base-promoted carbon–carbon bond-forming reaction in which a nitroalkane adds to an aldehyde or ketone to give a β-nitro alcohol.
Henry Rishbeth
Henry Rishbeth was a British ionospheric physicist, trained at Cambridge under J. A. Ratcliffe, whose definitive studies of the F2 layer earned the Royal Astronomical Society's Gold Medal in 2001.
Henry S. White
Henry S. White is an American electrochemist and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of Utah, known for nanometer-scale electrodes, nanopore sensors, and single-entity electrochemistry.
Henry Scheffé
Henry Scheffé (1907–1977) was an American statistician at the University of California, Berkeley, known for the Scheffé method for all contrasts in the analysis of variance and his 1959 book The Analysis of Variance.
Henry Seely White
Henry Seely White (1861–1943) was an American mathematician at Vassar College who worked in invariant theory and algebraic curves and served as president of the American Mathematical Society.
Henry Segerman
Henry Segerman is a British-born mathematician and mathematical maker at Oklahoma State University, known for 3D-printed mathematical sculptures, virtual-reality visualizations of Thurston geometries, and a YouTube channel with over 28 million views.
Henry Siedentopf
Henry Friedrich Wilhelm Siedentopf (1872–1940) was a German physicist at Carl Zeiss in Jena who co-invented the slit ultramicroscope with Richard Zsigmondy in 1903, making sub-wavelength colloidal particles visible.
Henry Stephens Washington
Henry Stephens Washington (1867–1934) was an American petrologist and geochemist, a National Academy member known for the CIPW classification of igneous rocks and the CIPW norm.