Engineers and materials scientists

Harold Rosen (electrical engineer)

Harold Rosen (1926–2017) was an American electrical engineer at Hughes Aircraft who conceived and led Syncom, the first geosynchronous communications satellite, earning the Draper Prize.

Harold W. Paxton

Harold W. Paxton, also known as Harold William Paxton, was a British-born American physical metallurgist and Carnegie Mellon professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1978.

Harris J. Ryan

Harris J. Ryan (1866–1934) was an American electrical engineer who studied high-voltage power transmission at Cornell and from 1905 at Stanford, receiving the Edison Medal in 1925.

Harris Wang

Harris Wang is an American synthetic biologist at Columbia University who works on genome engineering and microbial communities, and received the Presidential Early Career Award in 2017.

Harry Bolton Seed

Harry Bolton Seed (1922–1989) was an English-born American civil engineer at UC Berkeley, known as the father of geotechnical earthquake engineering for his work on soil behavior in earthquakes.

Harry C. Gatos

Harry C. Gatos, full name Harry Constantine Gatos (1921–2015), was an American materials scientist at MIT who developed the science of electronic materials, especially gallium arsenide.

Harry Coover

Harry Coover (1917–2011) was an American chemist at Eastman Kodak who invented Super Glue, the cyanoacrylate adhesive patented in 1954, and received the National Medal of Technology in 2010.

Harry E. Cook

Harry E. Cook is an American engineer and University of Illinois professor, elected to the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to phase transition theory and automotive materials.

Harry F. Olson was an American acoustical engineer who directed acoustical research at RCA for nearly forty years and invented the velocity microphone, the cardioid microphone, and the air-suspension loudspeaker.

Harry George Drickamer

Harry George Drickamer, born Harold George Weidenthal, was an American chemical engineer who spent 56 years at the University of Illinois and pioneered pressure tuning spectroscopy.

Harry J. Dankowicz

Harry J. Dankowicz is a mechanical engineer and applied dynamicist who received a 2003 Presidential Early Career Award for research on nonsmooth dynamical systems and instability control.

Harry L. Tuller

Harry L. Tuller is an American materials scientist at MIT working in electroceramics and solid-state ionics; he joined MIT in 1975 and co-founded Boston MicroSystems, a silicon carbide MEMS company.

Harry L. Van Trees

Harry L. Van Trees (1930–2022) was an American engineer and educator known as a founder of detection and estimation theory, the statistical basis of communications, radar, and sonar.

Harry Nyquist

Harry Nyquist, born Harry Theodor Nyqvist (1889–1976), was a Swedish-American electrical engineer at AT&T and Bell Labs known for the Nyquist rate, Johnson–Nyquist noise, and the Nyquist stability criterion.

Harry Ricardo

Harry Ralph Ricardo (1885–1974) was a British engine designer remembered for the 1917 British tank engine, the turbulent head for side-valve petrol engines, and Ricardo & Co. at Shoreham-by-Sea.

Harry W. Mergler

Harry Winston Mergler (born 1924) was an American electrical engineer at Case Western Reserve University who first linked a computer to a remote machine tool.

Harvard Lomax

Harvard Lomax was an American aerodynamicist who spent fifty years at NASA's Ames Research Center and became a central figure in building computational fluid dynamics.

Harvey O. Banks

Harvey O. Banks (Harvey Oren Banks) was an American civil engineer who, as the first director of the California Department of Water Resources, planned the State Water Project.

Harvey Oren Banks

Harvey Oren Banks (1910–1996) was an American water resources engineer who, as first Director of the California Department of Water Resources, shaped the State Water Project.

Harvey W. Schadler

Harvey W. Schadler (1931–2014) was an American metallurgist at General Electric's research center in New York, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1991.

Hassan K. Khalil

Hassan K. Khalil is a control theorist and University Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Michigan State University, known for nonlinear control theory, high-gain observers, and the graduate textbook Nonlinear Systems.

Hedi Mattoussi

Hedi Mattoussi is a materials and nanoscience chemist known for quantum dot bioconjugates, now Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State University after twelve years at the Naval Research Laboratory.

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Hee‐Tae Jung

Hee-Tae Jung (정희태) is a South Korean materials chemist and KAIST Chair Professor known for liquid-crystal lithography, graphene imaging, and active-learning catalyst design for water splitting.

Hee‐Tak Kim

Hee-Tak Kim (김희탁) is a South Korean electrochemical energy researcher and professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at KAIST, working on fuel cells, water electrolysis, and lithium and aqueous batteries.

Heemin Kang

Heemin Kang (강희민) is a South Korean biomedical and biomaterials engineer and associate professor at Korea University in Seoul, known for dynamic ligand nanoassembly that regulates stem cell and macrophage behavior.

Heiko O. Jacobs

Heiko O. Jacobs, also known as Heiko Jacobs, is a nanotechnology researcher and professor at Technische Universität Ilmenau who studies charge patterning and self-assembly at the nanometer scale.

Heinrich Müller-Breslau

Heinrich Müller-Breslau (1851–1925) was a German civil engineer and professor of structural statics in Berlin, regarded as the creator of classical Baustatik, the German theory of structures.

Heinz Erzberger

Heinz Erzberger is an aerospace researcher at NASA Ames who designed the air traffic automation algorithms adopted by the FAA, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2010.

Heinz Neuber

Heinz August Paul Neuber (1906–1989) was a German engineer of technical mechanics whose notch stress work, the Neuber rule and Kerbspannungslehre (1937), founded modern fracture mechanics.