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Hélder A. Santos

Hélder A. Santos is a Portuguese physical chemist and biomedical engineer who heads biomedical engineering at University Medical Center Groningen and researches biodegradable nanoparticle drug delivery.

Helmut E. Sobieczky

Helmut E. Sobieczky is an Austrian aerodynamicist who spent his career at DFVLR, later DLR, in Göttingen, known for shock-free transonic design and the PARSEC parametric airfoil method.

Helmuth Glaser

Helmuth Glaser (1906–1985) was a German refrigeration engineer and professor active in Göttingen and Stuttgart, known for the Glaser method, a graphical procedure for assessing interstitial condensation in buildings standardized in DIN 4108-3.

Hemantha Wickramasinghe

Hemantha Wickramasinghe, known as H. Kumar Wickramasinghe, is an electrical engineer who invented several scanning probe microscopes, became an IBM Fellow, and is a distinguished professor at UC Irvine.

Hendrik Dietz

Hendrik Dietz, born 1977 in Dresden, is a German biophysicist and professor at the Technical University of Munich known for designing and mass-producing DNA origami.

Hendrik Wade Bode

Hendrik Wade Bode (1905–1982) was an American engineer and control theorist at Bell Telephone Laboratories who developed frequency-domain techniques for designing feedback amplifiers and control systems.

Henri Farman

Henri Farman (1874–1958) was a Paris-born pioneer pilot, aircraft designer, and manufacturer who won the Deutsch-Archdeacon prize in 1908 for the first officially observed one-kilometer closed-circuit flight.

Henri G. Busignies

Henri G. Busignies (1905–1981) was a French-born American electronics engineer who spent his career at ITT, inventing the Huff-Duff direction finder that helped defeat German submarines and originating TACAN air navigation.

Henrik Ager-Hanssen

Henrik Ager-Hanssen (1930–2004) was a Norwegian nuclear physicist and energy leader who worked in reactor physics at Halden, led Scandpower, and became a senior Statoil executive.

Henry A. Schade

Henry A. Schade was an American naval architect and U.S. Navy officer who directed the Naval Research Laboratory and founded the naval architecture program at Berkeley.

Henry E. Singleton

Henry E. Singleton, also known as Henry Earl Singleton, was an American electrical engineer who pioneered aircraft inertial navigation and co-founded the Teledyne conglomerate in 1960.

Henry Earl Singleton

Henry Earl Singleton (1916–1999) was an American electrical engineer who pioneered the lightweight inertial navigation system used in military and commercial aircraft and co-founded Teledyne, Inc., leading it for three decades.

Henry Earle Vaughan

Henry Earle Vaughan was an American electrical engineer at Bell Labs who directed the design of No. 1 ESS, the first major electronic telephone switching system.

Henry Herman Hausner

Henry Herman Hausner, born Henry Heinz Hausner, was an Austrian-born engineer who pioneered powder metallurgy in the United States and also wrote a monograph on Süßmayr, who completed Mozart's Requiem.

Henry J. Degenkolb

Henry J. Degenkolb (1913–1989) was an American structural engineer in San Francisco whose seismic design work, carried through the Applied Technology Council, shaped national building codes.

Henry J. Gruy

Henry J. Gruy (1915–2012) was an American petroleum engineer who founded the reserve-evaluation firm H.J. Gruy and Associates and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989.

Henry J. Hatch

Henry J. Hatch, known as Hank Hatch, is a retired United States Army lieutenant general and civil engineer who served as Chief of Engineers from 1988 to 1992.

Henry J. Ongerth

Henry J. Ongerth (1913-2011) was an American sanitary engineer and chief engineer of the California Department of Health Services, known for work on water reuse.

Henry J. Ramey Jr.

Henry Jackson Ramey Jr. (1925–1993) was an American petroleum engineer who led Stanford's geothermal program and pioneered pressure transient well-test analysis, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1981.

Henry J. Snaith

Henry J. Snaith is a physicist at the University of Oxford and a pioneer of perovskite solar cells, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2015.

Henry Kressel

Henry Kressel is an engineer who pioneered the semiconductor heterojunction laser at RCA Laboratories, work that underlies fiber-optic communications, then spent three decades in venture capital at Warburg Pincus.

Henry Larcom Abbot

Henry Larcom Abbot was an American Army engineer, born in 1831 and died in 1927, who co-led a Pacific Railroad survey and developed the U.S. system of submarine mine defense.

Henry Ludwig Michel

Henry Ludwig Michel (1924–2001) was an American civil engineer who chaired Parsons Brinckerhoff from 1975 and founded the Civil Engineering Research Foundation, ASCE's research arm.

Henry Marion Howe

Henry Marion Howe (1848–1922) was an American metallurgist, professor of metallurgy at Columbia University from 1897 to 1913, and author of The Metallurgy of Steel (1891).

Henry McDonald (aeronautical engineer)

Henry "Harry" McDonald (1937–2021) was a Scottish-born aeronautical engineer known for pioneering computational fluid dynamics and for serving as the eighth director of NASA's Ames Research Center.

Henry Paynter

Henry Paynter (1923–2002) was an American mechanical engineer and MIT professor known as the inventor of bond graphs, a graphical language for modeling energetic systems across many domains.

Henry Petroski

Henry Petroski (1942–2023) was an American civil engineer and historian of engineering, a Duke professor best known for To Engineer Is Human (1985) and his argument that form follows failure.

Henry R. Linden

Henry R. Linden (1922–2009) was an Austrian-born American chemical engineer who directed the Institute of Gas Technology in Chicago and served as the first president of the Gas Research Institute.

Henry Rowan

Henry Rowan was an American electrical engineer and industrialist who founded Inductotherm Corp. in 1953 and gave $100 million to Glassboro State College in 1992, which became Rowan University.

Henry Samueli

Henry Samueli, born in 1954 in Buffalo, New York, is an American electrical engineer who co-founded the semiconductor company Broadcom in 1991 and holds more than 75 U.S. patents.