Engineers and materials scientists

Henry Townley Heald

Henry Townley Heald (1904–1975) was an American civil engineer and academic administrator, first president of Illinois Institute of Technology and president of the Ford Foundation.

Herbert A. Mang

Herbert A. Mang, born 1942 in Vienna, is an Austrian civil engineer and computational mechanist, Professor Emeritus at TU Wien and a professor at Tongji University in Shanghai.

Herbert G. MacPherson (1911–1993) was an American nuclear engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory who developed boron-free graphite for Manhattan Project reactors and led the molten-salt reactor program.

Herbert H. Johnson

Herbert H. Johnson (1931–1989) was an American materials scientist and engineer at Cornell University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1987, known for his work on hydrogen embrittlement of steels.

Herbert H. Richardson

Herbert H. Richardson is an American mechanical engineer in dynamic systems, measurement, and control who led the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M until 2006.

Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover, also known as Herbert Clark Hoover, was an American mining engineer and the 31st President of the United States, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1922.

Herbert Paul Maruska

Herbert Paul Maruska is an American engineer who, as a young scientist at RCA Laboratories in Princeton, New Jersey, created the first gallium nitride blue-violet LED, reported in 1972.

Herbert S. Cheng

Herbert S. Cheng, also known as Herbert SuYuen Cheng, was a Chinese-born American mechanical engineer at Northwestern University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1987.

Herbert Saffir

Herbert Saffir (1917–2007) was an American civil engineer in South Florida who created the hurricane damage scale that, adapted by Robert Simpson, became the Saffir-Simpson scale.

Herbert Shea

Herbert R. Shea is a physicist and professor at EPFL in Switzerland who heads the Soft Transducers Laboratory, working on soft robotics, wearable haptics, and stretchable pumps.

Herbert Woodson

Herbert Woodson (1925–2018) was an American electrical engineer at MIT and the University of Texas at Austin, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1975.

Herman E. Sheets

Herman E. Sheets (Herman Ernst Sheets, 1908–2006) was a German-born American engineer who led research at Electric Boat and invented the slotted-blade axial-flow blower installed in Navy submarines.

Herman P. Schwan

Herman P. Schwan (1915–2005) was a German-born American biophysicist and electrical engineer, a founding father of biomedical engineering who measured the electrical properties of cells and tissues.

Hermann A. Haus

Hermann A. Haus (1925–2003) was an Austrian-American electrical engineer and physicist at MIT known for work on noise in quantum electronics, optical fiber communications, and ultrashort-pulse optics, receiving the National Medal of Science in 1995.

Hermann Frahm

Hermann Frahm (1867–1939) was a German shipbuilding engineer, technical director of the Hamburg yard Blohm & Voß from 1904 to 1936, and inventor of the Schlingertank.

Hermann Glauert

Hermann Glauert (1892–1934) was a British aerodynamicist at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, who established the Prandtl–Glauert compressibility rule, rebuilt propeller theory, and wrote a still-in-print textbook.

Sep 19, 2026

Hermann K. Gummel

Hermann K. Gummel, also known as Hermann Gummel, was a German-born physicist at Bell Laboratories who pioneered semiconductor device modeling and won the first Phil Kaufman Award in 1994.

Hermann Klare

Hermann Klare (1909–2003) was a German chemist who helped build the first large-scale Perlon plant and led East Germany's Academy of Sciences from 1968 to 1979.

Sep 20, 2026

Hideo Ohno

Hideo Ohno (大野英男, born 1954) is a Japanese physicist who created ferromagnetic semiconductors and showed electric fields can control semiconductor magnetism, and served as Tohoku University's 22nd president.

Hidesaburō Ueno (上野英三郎)

Hidesaburō Ueno (上野英三郎, 1871–1925) was a Japanese agricultural scientist and professor at Tokyo Imperial University who founded agricultural engineering in Japan and owned Hachikō, the loyal dog.

Hilaire de Chardonnet

Hilaire de Chardonnet (Louis-Marie Hilaire Bernigaud, comte de Chardonnet) was a French engineer who invented artificial silk and built the world's first man-made fiber factory at Besançon.

Hilmi Volkan Demir

Hilmi Volkan Demir, also published as H. V. Demir, is a Turkish electrical engineer at Bilkent University who directs UNAM, Turkey's National Nanotechnology Research Center, and works in nanophotonics.

Hirohide Saito

Hirohide Saito (齊藤博英) is a Japanese bioengineer and professor at Kyoto University's CiRA, known for miRNA-responsive RNA switches and RNA-only logic circuits in mammalian cells.

Hiromichi Kataura

Hiromichi Kataura (片浦弘道) is a Japanese materials scientist known for the Kataura plot and molecular nanovalves, who spent most of his career at Japan's AIST.

Hiroshi Inose

Hiroshi Inose (猪瀬博, 1927–2000) was a Japanese electrical engineer at the University of Tokyo who invented time slot interchange, the switching principle at the heart of digital telephone systems.

Hiroyuki Aoyama (青山博之)

Hiroyuki Aoyama (青山博之) is a Japanese reinforced-concrete structural engineer who researched earthquake-resistant design and high-strength concrete as a professor at the University of Tokyo and later Nihon University.

Hiroyuki Yoshikawa

Hiroyuki Yoshikawa (吉川弘之) is a Japanese engineer who developed general design theory, led the University of Tokyo as president from 1993 to 1997, and won the 1997 Japan Prize.

Sep 20, 2026

Ho Seok Park

Ho Seok Park (박호석) is a South Korean chemical engineer and professor at Sungkyunkwan University, working since 2014 on nanomaterials and electrolytes for lithium-ion and zinc batteries.

Ho Won Jang

Ho Won Jang (장호원) is a South Korean materials scientist and professor at Seoul National University since 2012, working on oxide thin films, chemical sensors, and photoelectrochemical water splitting.