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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.

Héctor García-Molina

Héctor García-Molina (1953–2019) was a Mexican-born computer scientist, a Stanford professor known for distributed databases, replicated data, and the Stanford Digital Libraries Project that produced Google.

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.

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.

Heinz Wolff

Heinz Wolff, full name Heinz Siegfried Wolff, was a German-born British bioengineer who founded the Brunel Institute for Bioengineering and presented The Great Egg Race.

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.

Hendrycks, Dan

Dan Hendrycks is an American AI safety researcher who earned a PhD at UC Berkeley in 2022 and directs the Center for AI Safety, known for GELU and MMLU.

Heng Huang

Heng Huang is an American-based machine learning researcher working on AI, health computing, and precision medicine, and the inaugural Brendan Iribe Endowed Professor at the University of Maryland.

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.