Academic/intellectual Famous Names Starting with Letter H

Was a renowned scholar, philanthropist of Pakistan and former Governor of Sindh. He established Hamd

Was a renowned scholar, philanthropist of Pakistan and former Governor of Sindh. He established Hamdard Foundation in 1948. Within few years, the herbal medical products of Hamdard became household names. Hakim Mohammed Said wrote or compiled about 200 books. These include books on religion, tibb (natural medicine), health & sciences, books on literary, social and scientific topics and travelogues.

An Iranian-American intellectual historian, cultural critic and literary theorist who has made impor

An Iranian-American intellectual historian, cultural critic and literary theorist who has made important contributions to the study of Iran, world cinema and Shi'a Islam from a postcolonial perspective. He is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York City, the oldest and most prestigious Chair in Iranian Studies.[1]

A Professor in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Irvine's

A Professor in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Irvine's Henry Samueli School of Engineering. His research focuses on communications theory, particularly coding and wireless communications and networks.Prior to studying at the University of Tehran, he was ranked first in the nationwide entrance examination of Iranian universities in 1984. After receiving his B.S. degree in 1989, he studied at the University of Maryland College Park and obtained his M.S. degree in 1994 followed by his Ph.D. in 1997. After graduating, Jafarkhani joined AT&T Laboratories-Research in August 1997 before moving to Broadcom in July 2000 and to the University of California, Irvine in September 2001.

Is a prominent politician and medical scientist of the People's Republic of China.Han is current Cha

Is a prominent politician and medical scientist of the People's Republic of China.Han is current Chairman of the Jiusan Society, the President of the Chinese Society for Science and Technology, the Vice-president of the National People's Congress of P.R.China. [2]Han then worked as a medical staff and clinic physician in many hospitals in Shaanxi Province from 1968 to 1979. Han did his postgraduate study at the Xi'an Medical College (later merged into Xi'an Jiao Tong University and became its medical school). After graduation, Han taught at Beijing Medical College (later merged into Peking University and became its medical college) as a lecturer.

Is a Romanian-born German neurobiologist and, since 1999,[1] she has been Director of the Department

Is a Romanian-born German neurobiologist and, since 1999,[1] she has been Director of the Department of Clinical Neurology at the University Hospital in Heidelberg.[2] In 2004 she was awarded the 1.55 million euro Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize.[3] She received the Philip Morris Research Prize—described by Bio-pro as "one of the most prestigious science awards in Germany"—in 2006.[4] In 2010, the European Research Council awarded her a total of 1.87 million euros for her research.[5]

Was a German lyric poet, essayist, and literary scholar. Holthusen was a member of the SS (since 193

Was a German lyric poet, essayist, and literary scholar. Holthusen was a member of the SS (since 1933) and of the Nazi Party (since 1937). During the Second World War, between 1939 and 1944, he served in the German army. In the early 1960s Holthusen worked at the Goethe-Institut in New York City, subsequently obtaining a professorship at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, a post which he held until 1981. In 1960, Mascha Kaléko refused the Berlin Theodor Fontane Price because Holthusen was a jury member.

Is a German university professor for mathematics and scientific computing. He is managing director o

Is a German university professor for mathematics and scientific computing. He is managing director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing of the University of Heidelberg since 2005, and has been vice managing director from 1993 to 2004. Hans Georg Bock is a member of the European Mathematical Society's committee for developing countries (CDC-EMS) and responsible member for the region of Asia therein.

Was a German academic, notable for his work in reception theory and medieval and modern French liter

Was a German academic, notable for his work in reception theory and medieval and modern French literature. In 1944, he was able to begin his studies and complete his first semester in Prague. In November 1948 at Heidelberg, the twenty-seven year old Jauss, after postwar imprisonment, began studies in Romance Philology, Philosophy, History and Germanistik (history and culture of the Germanic peoples). Teachers at that time who made an impact on his thought included Martin Heidegger and Hans Georg Gadamer. He was to remain there until 1954. In these years he made study trips to Paris and Perugia.

Is a German choral conductor, conducting the Thomanerchor from 1972 until 1991 as the fifteenth Thom

Is a German choral conductor, conducting the Thomanerchor from 1972 until 1991 as the fifteenth Thomaskantor since Johann Sebastian Bach. He is also a tenor and an academic. Hans-Joachim Rotzsch was educated from 1940 to 1945 at the Musisches Gymnasium Frankfurt, directed by Kurt Thomas. In 1949 he began to study church music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater „Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy“ Leipzig, organ with Günther Ramin.[1]

Is a German scientist and current President of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. The mechanical engineer

Is a German scientist and current President of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. The mechanical engineer with a doctoral degree was the Director of the Fraunhofer IAO (since its foundation), besides he is also Professor of Industrial Science and Technology Management at the University of Stuttgart. Since October 1, 2002 he is the President of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. He is also a member of the Scientific Board of AutoUni Wolfsburg.

Is a German classical scholar, scholar of Romance philology and philosopher, known for the breadth o

Is a German classical scholar, scholar of Romance philology and philosopher, known for the breadth of his writings. He is emeritus professor of the Collège de France, and held the chair of Romance literature from 1992 to 1998.[1] His doctorate and Habilitation were from the University of Münster. He took a founding chair at the new University of Bielefeld in 1968. From 1978 to 1992 he was at the University of Munich in a chair of German as Foreign Language.

Is an Australian academic, who has been a tenured Professor of Japanese History at Harvard Universit

Is an Australian academic, who has been a tenured Professor of Japanese History at Harvard University since 1985.

Was a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is largel

Was a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is largely credited with transforming the stroboscope from an obscure laboratory instrument into a common device. For example; today, the electronic flash is completely associated with the field of photography.

He is professor in history of technology at Eindhoven University of Technology, in The Netherlands.[

He is professor in history of technology at Eindhoven University of Technology, in The Netherlands.[1] Lintsen has devoted his career to the development and institutionalisation of history of technology in the Netherlands. One of the highlights has been the establishment of the Foundation for the History of Technology – at Lintsen’s initiative – by the Koninklijk Instituut van Ingenieurs (KIvI) in 1988, which to this day remains the most important organization for domestic and international research programmes on the history of technology.

Was a German theologian with interest in the New Testament and specialized in Dead Sea Scrolls resea

Was a German theologian with interest in the New Testament and specialized in Dead Sea Scrolls research. He was responsible for developing standard methods for reconstructing scrolls. Stegemann began working of the scrolls in 1957 at the Qumran Research Center in Heidelberg. (He later became director of the Center.) In 1963 he was awarded a Ph.D. Semitic Studies and Religious Studies from the University of Heidelberg. This was also the year that he finished his reconstruction of the Thanksgiving Hymns scroll. Stegemann obtained his doctorate in Theology from Bonn in 1971. From 1971 to 1979 he held the post of professor at Philipps-Universität in Marburg, after which he took over from Hans Conzelmann at the Georg-August University in Göttingen, where he taught until the end of the summer 2005, when he retired. On his 65th birthday he was presented with a festschrift: Antikes Judentum und Fruhes Christentum.

Has been a Professor of Media Studies, Media Theory and Media Arts at the University of Paderborn in

Has been a Professor of Media Studies, Media Theory and Media Arts at the University of Paderborn in Germany since April 1999. Winkler is influential in the field of digital media. His works include Switching/Zapping[1] (1991), Film Theory, Der Filmsche Raumund der Zushchauer (1992) and Computers and Media Theory, Docuverse (1997). Another one of his works is "Search Engines: Metamedia on the Internet?"[2] (1998), where he attempts to explain how a search engine is a black box, that is, he tries to show that the system of input and output many viewers use is not a legitimate neutral source. He also discusses the position of power that search engines have over their users, the structural format that search engines are based on, and how language changes the perspective of the engines. He talks about how users do not actually understand how a search engine works and how it is structured, yet we make assumptions about its workings, not truly caring how or why it does what it does, as long as it delivers the information we seek.

Was a Chinese chemist born in Panyu County, Guangdong Province in China. He studied chemistry in the

Was a Chinese chemist born in Panyu County, Guangdong Province in China. He studied chemistry in the Southwestern Associated University (Chinese: ??????)[1] (Nankai University) in Kunming, and graduated in 1942 before he went to the University of Indiana, where he obtained his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1952. He returned to China and became a professor in Nankai University [2] in Tianjin, where he set up the Polymer Chemistry Division in 1958. A variety of polymeric ion exchange resins, including strongly and weakly cationic and anionic exchangers, were developed in the research laboratories at Nankai and he also set up a factory administered by the university to produce a series of ion-exchangers for various applications. He is regarded as the founder of China's industry for ion exchange resins.[3] In 1983, he became the founding director of the Institute of Polymer Chemistry at Nankai University. He authored several books on polymer chemistry and polymer materials and co-authored over 580 scientific articles.[4] He was also elected to be a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences of China in 1980.[5] He received more than 30 awards for his research work.

Was a Chinese scholar and official during the Qing Dynasty from Changsha, Hunan. In 1808, he obtaine

Was a Chinese scholar and official during the Qing Dynasty from Changsha, Hunan. In 1808, he obtained the highest degree in the Imperial examinations and the following year he entered the prestigious Hanlin Academy in Beijing

Was a professor at Beijing University Department of Chinese and is an expert on historical Chinese p

Was a professor at Beijing University Department of Chinese and is an expert on historical Chinese phonology. His son is He Li.Professor He is a leading expert on ancient Chinese language.[2] His published books include Gu Hanyu Yinyunxue Shuyao (????????), Shanggu Yin (???), and Zhongguo Gudai Yuyanxue Shi (????????).

Was a German mathematician notable for his work on minimal surfaces and the distribution of prime nu

Was a German mathematician notable for his work on minimal surfaces and the distribution of prime numbers. He is also notable as the doctoral advisor of Ernst Kummer.

Was a German classical scholar. He wrote also on Armenian mythology.[1] He was the son of the Swiss

Was a German classical scholar. He wrote also on Armenian mythology.[1] He was the son of the Swiss historian Johann Heinrich Gelzer (1813–1889). He became Professor of Classical Philology and Ancient History at the University of Jena, in 1878. He wrote a still-standard work on Julius Africanus.[2] He worked out the chronology of Gyges, from cuneiform evidence, in an 1875 article.[3]

Was a Germanist, contributor to and then editor of the Grimm brothers' Deutsches Wörterbuch. He wro

Was a Germanist, contributor to and then editor of the Grimm brothers' Deutsches Wörterbuch. He wrote also on the history of German folksongs, and on the teaching of the German language in schools. He was professor at the University of Leipzig from 1868.

Was a German theatre critic and theorist. Rötscher was born in Mittenwalde, and studied philology a

Was a German theatre critic and theorist. Rötscher was born in Mittenwalde, and studied philology and philosophy at the University of Berlin. From 1828 he was a gymnasium teacher in Bromberg (modern-day Bydgoszcz, Poland). In 1842 he moved back to Berlin and dedicated himself to writing and theorizing about theatre. In Berlin, he was the dramatic critic for the Spenersche Zeitung.

Is a German sociologist and a political analyst residing in Mexico. He is better known for his lefti

Is a German sociologist and a political analyst residing in Mexico. He is better known for his leftist ideals. He contributes to several journals and has published more than 30 books about conflict in Latin America, global society and the ideological controversies that characterised the 20th century, among other philosophical and social scientific topics.

Was a German choral conductor and an academic, known for founding the Knabenchor Hannover in 1950 an

Was a German choral conductor and an academic, known for founding the Knabenchor Hannover in 1950 and leading it until 2001.[1] In 1950 he founded the Knabenchor Hannover. In 1961 he cofounded the youth orchestra "Junges Sinfonieorchester Hannover" (JSO).[2] He prepared the boys choir for the recording of Bach cantatas in a collaboration with Gustav Leonhardt, published as "Das Kantatenwerk" by Teldec. Hennig belonged to the first conductors pursuing historically informed performance and revived neglected works of Heinrich Schütz and Andreas Hammerschmidt, among others. He conducted the choir in five Schütz recordings between 1982 and 1999, four of them won prizes such as the Deutscher Schallplattenpreis.[3] He also premiered works of composers such as Alfred Koerppen, who wrote in 1951 a youth opera Virgilius, der Magier von Rom that the choir performed successfully at the "Sängerfest" in Frankfurt.[4]