Engineers and computer scientists

Han Wang (semiconductor physicist)

Han Wang is a semiconductor device physicist working on 2D materials for electronics, a USC professor from 2014 to 2023, now a full professor at the University of Hong Kong.

Hanadi Sleiman

Hanadi F. Sleiman is a Canadian chemist at McGill University known for the first DNA cages and nanotubes that release drug cargo on biological stimuli.

Hanna M. Breunig is a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory whose technoeconomic and life-cycle analyses evaluate hydrogen storage, bioenergy, and carbon removal; she became HyMARC co-director in 2022.

Hannah Dailey

Hannah Dailey is an American mechanical engineer at Lehigh University who builds patient-specific computer models of broken bones from CT scans and received a 2025 PECASE award.

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Hannes Mühleisen

Hannes Mühleisen is the German-born computer scientist who co-created DuckDB with Mark Raasveldt at CWI Amsterdam and co-founded DuckLabs (formerly DuckDB Labs), which joined AWS in 2026.

Hannskarl Bandel

Hannskarl Bandel (1925–1993) was a German-American structural engineer known for long-span and tensile structures, including the Gateway Arch with Eero Saarinen and Chicago's Marina City.

Hannu Häkkinen

Hannu Häkkinen, born in 1962, is a Finnish computational nanoscientist and professor at the University of Jyväskylä, known for the superatom theory of ligand-protected gold clusters.

Hanqing Jiang

Hanqing Jiang (姜汉卿) is a Chinese-born mechanical engineer, Chair Professor at Westlake University since 2021 after fifteen years at Arizona State University, known for work on lithium dendrites and origami metamaterials.

Hans Albert Einstein

Hans Albert Einstein (1904–1973) was a Swiss-born American hydraulic engineer, son of physicist Albert Einstein, whose 1950 bed-load function became a standard method for predicting sediment transport in rivers.

Hans Bleich

Hans Bleich (1909–1985) was an Austrian-born civil engineer and applied mechanician who first applied shakedown theory in 1932 and spent his career as professor of civil engineering at Columbia University.

Hans Görges

Hans (Johannes) Görges (1859–1946) was a German electrical engineer who led the three-phase system at Siemens & Halske and held the first electrical engineering chair at TH Dresden.

Hans J. Briegel

Hans J. Briegel, also known as Hans Briegel, is a German theoretical physicist and professor at the University of Innsbruck, known for co-creating the one-way quantum computer and quantum machine learning.

Hans K. Fauske

Hans Kare Fauske (1935–2021) was a Norwegian-born American chemical engineer who founded Fauske & Associates in 1980 and was an authority on fast breeder reactor safety.

Hans List

Hans List (1896–1996) was an Austrian engineer who built his career on the internal combustion engine, founding the Graz firm that became AVL and editing a 14-volume engine reference series.

Hans Mark

Hans Mark (1929–2021) was a German-born American aerospace engineer who directed NASA Ames, served as Secretary of the Air Force, and led the University of Texas System.

Hans Mauch

Hans Adolph Mauch was a German-born American engineer who led V-1 rocket development, moved to the United States in 1946, and created the S-N-S hydraulic prosthetic knee.

Hans Peter Luhn

Hans Peter Luhn was an IBM researcher who created the Luhn algorithm still used to validate credit card numbers, and pioneered KWIC indexing and automatic abstracting.

Hans Reissner

Hans Reissner (Hans Jacob Reissner) was a German engineer and mathematician who in 1916 published the first solution for a charged black hole, the Reissner–Nordström metric.

Hans Vogt (German inventor)

Hans Vogt (1890–1979) was a German inventor and sound-film technician who, with Josef Engl and Joseph Massolle, created the Tri-Ergon sound-on-film process, ancestor of optical cinema soundtracks.

Hans von Ohain

Hans von Ohain (1911–1998) was a German aerospace engineer who invented the turbojet that made the world's first jet-powered flight, in the Heinkel He 178, in 1939.

Hans W. Liepmann

Hans W. Liepmann (1914–2009) was a German-born American fluid dynamicist, the von Kármán Professor at Caltech and director of its aeronautics laboratory, GALCIT, from 1972 to 1985.

Hans-Juergen Warnecke

Hans-Jürgen Warnecke (1934–2019) was a German production engineer, professor at the University of Stuttgart, head of Fraunhofer IPA, and president of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft from 1993 to 2002.

Hans-Jürgen Warnecke

Hans-Jürgen Warnecke (1934–2019) was a German production engineer who held a Stuttgart chair, led Fraunhofer IPA, presided over the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, and introduced the fractal factory concept.

Hanul Min

Hanul Min (민한울) is a South Korean researcher on perovskite solar cells, an assistant professor at Korea University in Seoul known for a 2021 Nature paper reporting 25.5 percent certified efficiency.

Hao Yan

Hao Yan (颜灏) is a chemist working in structural DNA nanotechnology, Regents Professor at Arizona State University and director of its Center for Molecular Design and Biomimetics.

Haoshen Zhou

Haoshen Zhou (周豪慎) is a Chinese electrochemist known for high-energy lithium batteries, including a 2009 lithium-air cell and lithium–sulfur work in Nature Energy, at AIST and Nanjing University.

Haotian Wang

Haotian Wang is a chemical and biomolecular engineer at Rice University whose research on electrochemical CO2 reduction and carbon capture produced solid-electrolyte reactors making pure liquid fuels.

Haraden Pratt

Haraden Pratt (1891–1969) was an American radio engineer, chief of wartime NDRC communications research, and IRE president who won the Institute's Medal of Honor in 1944.

Harald Fuchs

Harald Fuchs is a German physicist and nanoscientist, professor emeritus at the University of Münster, who co-founded its Center for Nanotechnology and researches scanning probe microscopy.