Engineers and computer scientists

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 (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 Hoffmann

Henry Hoffmann, often called Hank Hoffmann, is an American computer scientist at the University of Chicago known for research on self-aware and adaptive computing systems and for receiving a PECASE award.

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.

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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.

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.

Herald Man'shin

Herald Grigoryevich Man'shin was a Belarusian scientist in technical cybernetics who studied the reliability of human–machine systems, founded ergatic support of automated control systems, and won the USSR State Prize in 1985.

Herb Grosch

Herb Grosch, born Herbert Reuben John Grosch in 1918, was a Canadian-born astronomer who became an early computing pioneer and ACM president from 1976 to 1978.

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 A. Simon

Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001) was an American polymath at Carnegie Mellon who co-founded artificial intelligence and won both the 1975 Turing Award and the 1978 Nobel Prize in Economics.

Herbert G. MacPherson

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.