Biographies
Life accounts of notable scientists and engineers
Biographies
Life accounts of notable scientists and engineers
Haber, Fritz (1868–1934)
Haberle, John (1853–1933)
Hadamard, Jacques Salomon (1865–1963)
Haddon, Alfred Court (1855–1940)
Hadfield, Robert Abbott (1858–1940)
Hadid, Zaha (1950–2016)
Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp Auguste (1834–1919)
Hahn, Otto (1879–1968)
Haldane, Frederick Duncan Michael (1951– )
Haldane, J(ohn) B(urdon) S(anderson) (1892–1964)
Haldane, John Scott (1860–1936)
Hale, George Ellery (1868–1938)
Hales, Stephen (1677–1761)
Haley, Jay (1923–2007)
Hall and Héroult, Charles Martin Hall (1863–1914) and Paul Louis Toussaint Héroult(1863–1914) (1863–1914)
Hall, (Granville) Stanley (1846–1924)
Hall, Asaph (1829–1907)
Hall, Edward Twitchell, Jr (1914–2009)
Hall, James (1761–1832)
Hall, James, Jr (1811–1898)
Hall, Jeffrey (Connor) (1945– )
Hall, John (Lewis) (1934– )
Hall, John Lewis “Jan” (1934– )
Hall, Philip (1904–1982)
Haller, Albrecht von (1708–1777)
Halley, Edmond (1656–1742)
Hallowell, Alfred Irving (1892–1974)
Halprin, Lawrence (1916–2009)
Hamburg, David Alan (1925– )
Hamilton, Alice (1869–1970)
Hamilton, William Rowan (1805–1865)
Hamlin, Talbot (Faulkner) (1889–1956)
Hammarskjöld, Dag (Hjalmar Agne Carl) (1905–1961)
Hammick, Dalziel Llewellyn (1887–1966)
Hammond, Norman (1944– )
Hamsun, Knut (1859–1952)
Hancock, Thomas (1786–1865)
Handley Page, Frederick (1885–1962)
Hanfmann, George M(axim) A(nossov) (1911–1988)
Hankel, Hermann (1839–1873)
Hänsch, Theodor (Wolfgang) (1941– )
Hänsch, Theodor W(olfgang) (1941– )
Hansen, Lars Peter (1952– )
Hansom, Joseph Aloysius (1803–1882)
Harden, Arthur (1865–1940)
Hardouin-Mansart, Jules (1646–1708)
Hardy, Alister Clavering (1896–1985)
Hardy, Godfrey Harold (1877–1947)
Hargreaves, James (1720–1778)
Harkness, Sarah Pillsbury (1914–2013)
Haroche, Serge (1944– )
Harrington, John Peabody (1884–1961)
Harrington, Roger F.
Harris, Marvin (1927–2001)
Harrison, John (1693–1776)
Harrison, Peter (1716–1775)
Harrison, Wallace Kirkman (1895–1981)
Harrisson, Tom (Thomas Harnett) (1911–1976)
Harsanyi, John C(harles) (1920–2000)
Hart, Oliver (1948– )
Hartline, Haldan Keffer (1903–1983)
Hartmann, Heinz (1894–1970)
Hartt, C(harles) Fred(erick) (1840–1878)
Hartwell, Leland H (1939– )
Harvey, Ethel Browne (1885–1965)
Harvey, William (1578–1657)
Hashin, Zvi
Hassel, Odd (1897–1981)
Hastings, Thomas (1860–1929)
Hatcher, John Bell (1861–1904)
Hauptman, Herbert A (1917–2011)
Hauptmann, Gerhart Johann Robert (1862–1946)
Hausdorff, Felix (1868–1942)
Haussmann, Georges Eugène (1809–1891)
Haüy, René-Just (1743–1822)
Haviland, John (1792–1852)
Hawes, Harriet (Ann) Boyd (1871–1945)
Hawking, Stephen William (1942–2018)
Hawksmoor, Nicholas (1661–1736)
Hawley, Christine (1949– )
Haworth, (Walter) Norman (1883–1950)
Hayashi, Chushiro (1920–2010)
Hayden, Sophia (c. 1868–1953)
Hayek, Friedrich August von (1899–1992)
Heaney, Seamus (Justin) (1939–2013)
Heath, Thomas Little (1861–1940)
Heathcoat, John (1783–1861)
Heaviside, Oliver (1850–1925)
Heck, Richard (Fredrick) (1931–2015)
Heckman, James J (1944– )
Heeger, Alan J (1936– )
Heidenstam, Verner von (1859–1940)
Heilprin, Angelo (1853–1907)
Heine, Heinrich Eduard (1812–1881)
Heisenberg, Werner (Karl) (1901–1976)
Heizer, Robert F(leming) (1915–1979)
Hell, Stefan Walter (1962– )
Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von (1821–1894)
Helmont, Jan Baptist van (1579–1644)
Hemingway, Ernest (Miller) (1899–1961)
Hench, Philip Showalter (1896–1965)
Henderson, Arthur (1863–1935)
Henderson, Richard (1945– )
Heninger, George Robert (1934– )
Henry, Joseph (1797–1878)
Henry, William (1774–1836)
Heraklides of Pontus (388–315 BC)
Herbig, George Howard (1920–2013)
Herbrand, Jacques (1908–1931)
Hermite, Charles (1822–1901)
Hero of Alexandria (lived c. AD 60)
Héroult, Paul Louis Toussaint (Héroult, Paul Louis Toussaint)
Herrera, Juan de (c. 1530–1597)
Herron, Ron(ald James) (1930–1994)
Herschbach, Dudley R (1932– )
Herschel, (Frederick) William (1738–1822)
Herschel, Caroline (Lucretia) (1750–1848)
Herschel, John Frederick William (1792–1871)
Hershey, Alfred Day (1908–1997)
Hershko, Avram (1937– )
Herskovits, Melville J(ean) (1895–1963)
Hertz, Gustav (1887–1975)
Hertz, Heinrich Rudolf (1857–1894)
Hertzberger, Herman (1932– )
Hertzsprung, Ejnar (1873–1967)
Herzberg, Fred(erick) (1923–2000)
Herzberg, Gerhard (1904–1999)
Herzog, Bertram (1929–2008)
Hess, Germain Henri (1802–1850)
Hess, Harry Hammond (1906–1969)
Hess, Victor Francis (1883–1964)
Hess, Walter R(udolf) (1881–1973)
Hesse, Hermann (1877–1962)
Hevelius, Johannes (1611–1687)
Hevesy, Georg Karl von (1885–1966)
Hewish, Antony (1924– )
Hey, James Stanley (1909–2000)
Heyerdahl, Thor (1914–2002)
Heymans, Corneille J(ean) F(rançois) (1892–1968)
Heyrovský, Jaroslav (1890–1967)
Heyse, Paul von (1830–1914)
Hicks, John Richard (1904–1989)
Higgs, Peter (Ware) (1929– )
Hilbert, David (1862–1943)
Hildebrandt, Johann Lucas von (1668–1745)
Hill, Archibald Vivian (1886–1977)
Hill, Robert (1899–1991)
Hilprecht, H(erman) V(olrath) (1859–1925)
Hinshelwood, Cyril Norman (1897–1967)
Hinton, William Augustus (1883–1959)
Hipparchus (c. 190–c. 120 BC)
Hippocrates (c. 460–c. 377 BC)
Hippodamus (lived 5th century BC)
Hitchcock, Edward (1793–1864)
Hitchcock, Henry-Russell (1903–1987)
Hitchings, George Herbert (1905–1998)
Hoagland, Mahlon Bush (1921–2009)
Hoban, James (1762–1831)
Hodgkin and Huxley, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (1914–1998) and Andrew Fielding Huxley (1917–2012) (1917–2012)
Hodgkin, Alan Lloyd (1914–1998)
Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot (1910–1994)
Hodgkin, Thomas (1798–1866)
Hodgkinson, Eaton (1789–1861)
Hoe, Richard March (1812–1886)
Hoffmann, Josef (1870–1956)
Hoffmann, Jules A(lphonse) (1941– )
Hoffmann, Roald (1937– )
Hofmann, August Wilhelm von (1818–1892)
Hofstadter, Robert (1915–1990)
Hogben, Lancelot Thomas (1895–1975)
Holden, Charles Henry (1875–1960)
Holford, William Graham, Baron Holford (1907–1975)
Holl, Elias (1573–1646)
Holland, Henry (1745–1806)
Hollerith, Herman (1860–1929)
Holley and Nirenberg, Robert William Holley (1922–1993) and Marshall Warren Nirenberg (1927–2010) (1927–2010)
Holley, Robert William (1922–1993)
Holmes, Arthur (1890–1965)
Holmström, Bengt (1949– )
Holonyak, Jr., Nick
Holt, Edwin Bissell (1873–1946)
Hood, Raymond Mathewson (1881–1934)
Hooke, Robert (1635–1703)
Hooker, Joseph Dalton (1817–1911)
Hooker, Philip (1766–1836)
Hooker, Stanley George (1907–1984)
Hooten, Earnest (Albert) (1887–1954)
Hopkins, Frederick Gowland (1861–1947)
Hopkins, Patty (1942– )
Hopper, Grace (1906–1992)
Horney, Karen (1885–1952)
Horrocks, Jeremiah (c.1617–1641)
Horta, Victor, Baron Horta (1861–1947)
Horvath, Philippe
Horvitz, H(oward) Robert (1947– )
Hounsfield, Godfrey Newbold (1919–2004)
Houssay, Bernardo Alberto (1887–1971)
Howard, Ebenezer (1850–1928)
Howe, Elias (1819–1867)
Howe, George (1886–1955)
Howell, F(rancis) Clark (1925–2007)
Howells, William W(hite) (1908–2005)
Hoyle, Fred(erick) (1915–2001)
Hrdlička, Ales (1869–1943)
Hrdy, Sarah (C) Blaffer (1946– )
Hubble, Edwin (Powell) (1889–1953)
Hubel, David Hunter (1926–2013)
Huber, Robert (1937– )
Hückel, Erich Armand Arthur Joseph (1896–1980)
Huggins, Charles Brenton (1901–1997)
Huggins, William (1824–1910)
Hull, Clark L(eonard) (1884–1952)
Hull, Cordell (1871–1955)
Hulse, Russell (1950– )
Humason, Milton Lasell (1891–1972)
Humboldt, (Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich) Alexander (1769–1859)
Hume, John (1937– )
Hume-Rothery, William (1899–1968)
Hunt, John Horbury (1838–1904)
Hunt, R Timothy (1943– )
Hunt, Richard Morris (1827–1895)
Hunter, John (surgeon) (1728–1793)
Hurwicz, Leonid (1917–2008)
Hussey, Obed (1792–1860)
Hutton, James (1726–1797)
Huxley, Andrew Fielding (Huxley, Andrew Fielding)
Huxley, Hugh Esmor (1924–2013)
Huxley, T(homas) H(enry) (1825–1895)
Huxtable, Ada Louise (1921–2013)
Huygens, Christiaan (1629–1695)
Hyatt, John Wesley (1837–1920)
Hyman, Libbie Henrietta (1888–1969)
Hypatia (c. 370–415)
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