Engineers and computer scientists

Harald T. Friis

Harald T. Friis (1893–1976) was a Danish-born American electrical engineer at Bell Labs known for the Friis transmission equation, the noise figure definition, and his cascade formulas.

Harald Weinfurter is an experimental quantum physicist and professor at LMU Munich since 1999, known for early quantum teleportation, device-independent quantum key distribution, and long-distance entanglement of atoms.

Hardy Cross

Hardy Cross (1885–1959) was an American structural engineer who created the moment distribution method for analyzing statically indeterminate frames and pipe networks, teaching at Illinois and Yale.

Haren S. Gandhi

Haren S. Gandhi (1941–2010) was an Indian-born American chemical engineer who spent 43 years at Ford Motor Company shaping automotive emissions control, winning the 2002 National Medal of Technology.

Harish Bhaskaran

Harish Bhaskaran is a materials scientist and Professor of Applied Nanomaterials at Oxford, known for phase-change photonics and photonic computing, and a Director at Apple since 2025.

Harmer E. Davis

Harmer E. Davis was an American civil engineer and UC Berkeley professor who directed the Institute of Transportation and Traffic Engineering from 1948 to 1973.

Harold A. Peterson

Harold A. Peterson was an American electrical engineer who spent twelve years at General Electric, then chaired the University of Wisconsin–Madison electrical engineering department for twenty years.

Harold A. Thomas

Harold A. Thomas Jr. was an American civil engineer and hydrologist at Harvard who led the Harvard Water Program and co-authored Design of Water-Resource Systems.

Harold Alden Wheeler

Harold Alden Wheeler (1903–1996) was an American radio-frequency engineer who invented automatic volume control, founded Wheeler Laboratories, held 180 patents, and won the 1964 IEEE Medal of Honor.

Harold B. Gotaas

Harold B. Gotaas (1906–1977) was an American sanitary engineer and professor at Berkeley and Northwestern whose research established composting fundamentals and sewage treatment by photosynthetic oxygen in open ponds.

Harold Barlow

Harold Barlow (1899–1989) was a British electrical engineer who held the Pender Professorship at University College London from 1950 to 1967, pioneered surface waves and the TE01 circular waveguide, and supervised Nobel laureate Charles Kao.

Harold Beverage

Harold Beverage (1893–1993) was an American radio engineer who invented the wave antenna, patented in 1921, and became vice president of research and development at RCA.

Harold Edgerton

Harold Edgerton, known as "Doc" Edgerton, was an American electrical engineer at MIT who invented the repeatable electronic stroboscopic flash and made high-speed photographs of events too fast for the eye.

Harold Etherington

Harold Etherington (1900–1994) was an American nuclear engineer who helped develop the first nuclear submarine power plants and early boiling-water reactors, and edited the 1958 Nuclear Engineering Handbook.

Harold G. Sowman

Harold G. Sowman was an American ceramic engineer at 3M who pioneered sol-gel ceramic fibers and abrasives, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1984.

Harold Liebowitz

Harold Liebowitz (1924–2004) was an American aerospace engineer and fracture mechanics specialist who led George Washington University's engineering school and edited the seven-volume Fracture: An Advanced Treatise.

Harold Mirels

Harold Mirels (1924–2023) was an American aerospace researcher at NACA and The Aerospace Corporation known for shock-tube boundary-layer theory and the Mirels test-time correlation, and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1986.

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 Thimbleby

Harold Thimbleby, born 1955, is a British computer scientist and Emeritus Professor at Swansea University, known for founding the UCL Interaction Centre and for showing that poorly designed medical devices cause unnoticed errors that harm patients.

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

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.