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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 Reiser

Hans Reiser is an American programmer who created ReiserFS, the first journaled filesystem in the standard Linux kernel, and was convicted of murdering his wife in 2008.

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-Joachim Marseille

Hans-Joachim Marseille (1919-1942), the 'Star of Africa', was a Luftwaffe Bf 109 ace of JG 27 credited with 158 victories in North Africa, including 17 in one day, killed in a bailout accident on 30 September 1942.

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.

Hans-Ulrich Rudel

Hans-Ulrich Rudel was a German Luftwaffe ground-attack pilot of World War II who flew 2,530 missions on the Eastern Front and was Germany's most heavily decorated serviceman.

Hansaviertel

The Hansaviertel is a residential district in Berlin's Tiergarten, rebuilt from 1955 to the early 1960s for the Interbau 1957 exhibition by more than 50 international architects.

Hanseong Electric Tram

The Hanseong Electric Tram (한성 전차) was the electric streetcar service opened in Seoul, then Hanseong, in 1899, the first railway on the Korean Peninsula, which ran for nearly seventy years until its closure in 1968.

Hanshin Expressway

The Hanshin Expressway (阪神高速道路) is a 258.1-km network of tolled urban expressways serving Osaka and Kobe in Japan, carrying about 700,000 vehicles a day since 1964.

Hanson Robotics

Hanson Robotics is a Hong Kong robotics company founded in 2003 by former Disney Imagineer David Hanson, best known for Sophia, the robot Saudi Arabia granted citizenship in 2017.

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.

Hanul nuclear power plant

Hanul nuclear power plant is a nuclear power station in Ulchin County, South Korea, and the country's largest single nuclear site with eight operating reactors.

Hanuman temple, Salangpur

The Kashtabhanjandev Hanuman temple in Salangpur, also spelled Sarangpur, is a Swaminarayan Hindu temple in Gujarat, India, dedicated to Hanuman as the crusher of sorrows.

Hanwha Qcells

Hanwha Qcells is a solar cell and module manufacturer headquartered in Seoul and Thalheim, Germany, founded in 1999 and acquired by the Hanwha Group in 2012.

Hanz Oil and Gas Field

Hanz is a small oil and gas field in the Norwegian North Sea, operated by Aker BP and tied back to the Ivar Aasen platform, producing since April 2024.

Hanzōmon Line (半蔵門線)

The Hanzōmon Line (半蔵門線), operated by Tokyo Metro, is a 16.8 km underground subway line in Tokyo from Shibuya to Oshiage, with through service onto the Tokyu Den-en-toshi and Tobu Isesaki lines.

Hao Huang (electrical engineer)

Hao Huang is an electrical power engineer and Distinguished Adjunct Professor at the University of Houston, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021 for aerospace electrical systems work.

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.

Haoudh El Hamra-Arzew Oil Pipeline

The Haoudh El Hamra-Arzew oil pipeline is a Sonatrach crude oil pipeline in Algeria, in service since 1965, running 801 km from Haoud El Hamra to the Arzew export port.

Haoudh El Hamra-Bejaia Oil Pipeline

The Haoudh El Hamra-Bejaia Oil Pipeline, designated OB1, is an Algerian crude oil pipeline running 668 km from the Sahara to the port of Bejaia.

Haoudh El Hamra-Skikda Oil Pipeline

The Haoudh El Hamra-Skikda Oil Pipeline (STC OK1) is a 646 km crude oil pipeline in Algeria, opened in 1972 and owned and operated by Sonatrach.

Hapag-Lloyd

Hapag-Lloyd AG is a German container liner shipping company headquartered in Hamburg, formed in 1970 and ranking among the five largest container shipping companies in the world.

Hapcheon Dam

Hapcheon Dam (합천댐), formally the Hapcheon Multi-purpose Dam, is a 96 m concrete gravity dam on the Hwang River in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea, completed in 1988.

Hapi (web framework)

Hapi, whose npm package is @hapi/hapi, is an open-source web framework for Node.js created in 2011 by Eran Hammer at WalmartLabs, designed around configuration over code.