Physical world and mathematics

Henry Stommel

Henry Melson Stommel (1920–1992) was an American physical oceanographer at Woods Hole who created modern dynamical oceanography and explained the Gulf Stream's westward intensification in 1948.

Henry Taube (1915–2005) was a Canadian-born American inorganic chemist at Stanford University who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on electron transfer mechanisms in metal complexes.

Henry Tizard

Sir Henry Thomas Tizard (1885–1959) was a British physical chemist and science administrator who, as chairman of the Committee for the Scientific Survey of Air Defence from 1934, set in motion the development of radar.

Henry W. Gould

Henry W. Gould (Henry Wadsworth Gould), born 1928 in Portsmouth, Virginia, is an American mathematician at West Virginia University known for combinatorial identities and Fibonacci numbers.

Henry W. Kendall

Henry W. Kendall, born Henry Way Kendall, was an American MIT particle physicist who shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics for experiments revealing quarks inside protons and neutrons.

Henry William Menard

Henry William Menard (1920–1986) was an American marine geologist who discovered the Pacific fracture zones, aiding plate tectonics, and led the USGS from 1978 to 1981.

Henry William Watson

Henry William Watson (1827–1903) was a British mathematician and Church of England clergyman who co-authored, with Francis Galton, the branching process now called the Galton–Watson process.

Henry Woods (palaeontologist)

Henry Woods (1868–1952) was a British palaeontologist who spent his career at Cambridge, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1916, and is best remembered for his monograph of the Cretaceous Lamellibranchia of England.

Henry Woodward (geologist)

Henry Woodward (1832–1921) was an English geologist and paleontologist who served as Keeper of Geology at the British Museum and edited Geological Magazine for over 50 years.

Henry's law

Henry's law is a law of physical chemistry stating that a gas's solubility in a liquid is proportional to its partial pressure, formulated by William Henry in 1803.

Henryk Iwaniec

Henryk Iwaniec (born 1947) is a Polish-born American analytic number theorist at Rutgers University, known for proving infinitely many primes of the form a² + b⁴.

Henryk Minc

Henryk Minc was a Polish-born mathematician at UC Santa Barbara from 1963 who wrote influential surveys and books on matrix permanents and nonnegative matrices, leaving his name on the Bregman–Minc theorem.

Henryk Zygalski

Henryk Zygalski (1908–1978) was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who, with Marian Rejewski and Jerzy Różycki, broke the German military Enigma cipher in the 1930s and devised the perforated Zygalski sheets.

Hensel's lemma

Hensel's lemma, or Hensel lifting, is a number theory theorem stating that a simple root of a polynomial modulo a prime p lifts uniquely to a p-adic root.

Henselian ring

A henselian ring, also called a Hensel local ring, is a local ring in which simple roots of polynomials over the residue field lift to roots in the ring.

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Heptachlor

Heptachlor is a manufactured organochlorine insecticide, first registered in the United States in 1952 and used on crops and against termites until most uses were canceled in the late 1970s.

Heptagon

A heptagon, sometimes called a septagon, is a polygon with seven sides and seven interior angles; a regular heptagon has interior angles of about 128.57°.

Heptagram

Heptagram (Heptagramm, heptagramme, heptagrama): a regular seven-pointed star polygon, {7/2} or great heptagram {7/3}, formed from a heptagon's diagonals; density 2, apex angles 540°/7 and 180°/7, not compass-and-straightedge constructible.

Heptane

Heptane, also called n-heptane, is a straight-chain alkane with formula C₇H₁₆, a colorless, highly flammable petroleum liquid used as solvent and as the 0 octane reference fuel.

Herb Wright

Herb Wright (1917–2015) was an American Quaternary geologist and paleoecologist at the University of Minnesota, known for reconstructing North America's vegetational and climatic history from lake sediments.

Herbert A. Hauptman

Herbert A. Hauptman was an American mathematician who shared the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Jerome Karle for developing direct methods for determining crystal structures.

Herbert Brereton Baker

Herbert Brereton Baker (1862–1935) was an English inorganic chemist, chief professor at Imperial College from 1912 to 1932, who showed that rigorously dried gases resist chemical reaction.

Herbert Busemann

Herbert Busemann (1905–1994) was a German-born American geometer who spent most of his career at the University of Southern California and is regarded as the main founder of metric geometry.

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Herbert Butterfield

Sir Herbert Butterfield (1900–1979) was a British historian at Cambridge whose 1931 book The Whig Interpretation of History gave historians one of their most used critical terms.

Herbert C. Brown

Herbert C. Brown, born Herbert Brovarnik, was an American organic chemist at Purdue University who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering boron chemistry.

Herbert Callen

Herbert Callen (1919–1993) was an American theoretical physicist at the University of Pennsylvania, known for the 1951 fluctuation–dissipation theorem and a widely used thermodynamics textbook.

Herbert Clemens

Herbert Clemens (Charles Herbert Clemens, Jr.; born 1939) is an American mathematician in complex algebraic geometry and Hodge theory, known for proving the smooth cubic threefold irrational and for the Clemens conjecture.

Herbert E. Huppert

Herbert E. Huppert, also known as H. E. Huppert, is a geophysicist and applied mathematician at Cambridge who studies the flow of fluids in and on the Earth.

Herbert E. Ives

Herbert E. Ives, also known as Herbert Eugene Ives, was an American physicist who headed television and facsimile research at Bell Labs and ran the 1938 Ives–Stilwell experiment.