Social and behavioral scientists

Heather Sutherland (historian)

Heather Amanda Sutherland (born 1943) is an Australian historian and retired professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam specializing in Indonesian and Southeast Asian history, known for The Making of a Bureaucratic Elite (1979), Seaways and Gatekeepers (2021), and An Indonesian History (2026) on Makassar and South Sulawesi.

Hector P. Rodriguez

Hector P. Rodriguez is an American health services researcher and health economist, professor at UC Berkeley and an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Heidi J. Larson

Heidi J. Larson is an anthropologist who studies vaccine hesitancy, professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and founder of the Vaccine Confidence Project.

Heinrich Klüver

Heinrich Klüver (1897–1979) was a German-born American biological psychologist at the University of Chicago, known for Klüver–Bucy syndrome, mescaline research and form constants, and the Klüver–Barrera stain.

Helen E. Fisher

Helen E. Fisher (1945–2024) was an American biological anthropologist who used fMRI to study romantic love and rejection and advised Match.com on the science of dating.

Helen Ladd

Helen "Sunny" Ladd is an American education economist and Susan B. King Distinguished Professor Emerita at Duke University, known for research on school finance, teacher labor markets, and school choice.

Helen Milner

Helen Milner is an American political scientist who holds the B. C. Forbes Professorship at Princeton University, studies the politics of trade and globalization, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.

Helene Rey

Hélène Rey is a French economist known for the global financial cycle and recasting the Mundellian trilemma as a dilemma, and became BIS Economic Adviser in 2026.

Hendrik S. Houthakker

Hendrik S. Houthakker (1924–2008) was a Dutch-born American economist at Harvard known for the strong axiom of revealed preference and service on the Council of Economic Advisers.

Heng-fu Zou

Heng-fu Zou (邹恒甫) is a Chinese economist at the Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing, ranked 3rd among China-based economists, known for work on fiscal decentralization and growth.

Henri Piéron

Henri Piéron (1881–1964) was a French psychologist and psychophysiologist who led experimental psychology in France and formulated Piéron's law relating reaction time to stimulus intensity.

Henri Sterdyniak

Henri Sterdyniak is a French economist trained at the École polytechnique, long associated with the OFCE at Sciences Po, who works on monetary economics, taxation, pensions, and family policy.

Henri Theil

Henri Theil (1924–2000) was a Dutch econometrician who devised two-stage least squares and the Theil index, founded Rotterdam's Econometric Institute, and taught at Chicago and Florida.

Henry Aaron

Henry J. Aaron is an American economist and Brookings Institution senior fellow emeritus who studied Social Security, Medicare, and health-care financing and served as Assistant Secretary at HEW.

Henry B. Gardner

Henry B. Gardner (Henry Brayton Gardner) was an American economist at Brown University who founded its economics department and led the American Economic Association in 1919.

Henry C. Adams

Henry C. Adams, also known as Henry Carter Adams, was an American economist who co-founded the American Economic Association and built the ICC's uniform railroad accounting system.

Henry H. Goddard

Henry Herbert Goddard (1866–1957) was the American psychologist who brought the Binet-Simon test to the US, coined "moron," and wrote the discredited 1912 eugenic study The Kallikak Family.

Henry R. Seager

Henry R. Seager, also known as Henry Rogers Seager, was an American labor economist at Columbia University whose 1910 book Social Insurance helped found the US social insurance movement.

Henry W. Farnam

Henry Walcott Farnam (1853–1933) was an American economist at Yale University, Professor of Political Economy, president of the American Economic Association in 1911, and a founder of the American Association for Labor Legislation.

Herbert J. Davenport

Herbert J. Davenport (1861–1931) was an American economist who taught at Cornell, led the American Economic Association in 1920, and built a theory of price around opportunity cost.

Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979), German-American Frankfurt School philosopher, author of Eros and Civilization and One-Dimensional Man, Heidegger's assistant, OSS analyst, Brandeis and UCSD professor, and intellectual figure of the 1960s New Left.

Herbert Scarf

Herbert Scarf (1930–2015) was an American mathematical economist at Yale for over 50 years, known for the Scarf algorithm for computing economic equilibria, the Debreu–Scarf theorem, and optimal inventory policies.

Herman M. Somers

Herman M. Somers (1911–1991) was an American political scientist and health policy scholar at Princeton who, with his wife Anne R. Somers, helped shape Medicare.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850–1909), German psychologist, founder of experimental memory research; author of Über das Gedächtnis (1885); invented nonsense syllables and the savings method, described the forgetting curve, spaced practice, and remote associations.

Hermann Paasche

Hermann Paasche (1851–1925) was a German economist, statistician, and Reichstag politician known for the Paasche price index, developed in 1874 from Hamburg prices, which weights goods by current-period quantities.

Hilary Boudet

Hilary Boudet is a sociologist and professor at Oregon State University who studies public perceptions of energy technologies, including shale gas, offshore wind, and microgrids.

Hilary Hoynes

Hilary Hoynes is an American economist at UC Berkeley who studies poverty and the social safety net, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.

Hilary Rose (sociologist)

Hilary Rose is a British sociologist of science and feminist theorist, Emerita Professor at the University of Bradford, known for her feminist epistemology of the natural sciences.

Hirofumi Uzawa

Hirofumi Uzawa (宇沢弘文) was a Japanese mathematical economist whose two-sector growth model, the Meade–Uzawa model, shaped optimal capital accumulation, and who later developed social common capital theory applied to climate change.