Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter H

A German philosopher best known for his 1960 magnum opus, Truth and Method (Wahrheit und Methode).

A German philosopher best known for his 1960 magnum opus, Truth and Method (Wahrheit und Methode).

Is a mathematical physicist at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen who works on operator algebr

Is a mathematical physicist at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen who works on operator algebras and quantum field theory. He introduced Borchers algebras and the Borchers commutation relations and Borchers classes in quantum field theory. He was awar

Is a German philosopher and neurosurgeon. Bothe is founder of the recent field of research on Neurob

Is a German philosopher and neurosurgeon. Bothe is founder of the recent field of research on Neurobionics. Bothe studied Philosophy and Medicine from 1973 until 1981 in Tübingen und Mainz, graduated 1978 in Philosophy with Magister Artium, later working

Was a Danish mathematician and football player. As a student, his footballing skill meant he was cal

Was a Danish mathematician and football player. As a student, his footballing skill meant he was called up to the Danish national team for the 1908 Summer Olympics, where he won a silver medal. After receiving his doctorate in 1910, Bohr became an eminent mathematician, founding the field of almost periodic functions. His brother was the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr.

Was a Swedish mathematician, actuary, and statistician, specializing in mathematical statistics and

Was a Swedish mathematician, actuary, and statistician, specializing in mathematical statistics and probabilistic number theory. He was described by John Kingman as “one of the giants of statistical theory.

A German linguist and cultural scientist who lives and works in Finland. Haarmann studied general li

A German linguist and cultural scientist who lives and works in Finland. Haarmann studied general linguistics, various philological disciplines and prehistory at the universities of Hamburg, Bonn, Coimbra and Bangor. He obtained his PhD in Bonn (1970) and his habilitation (qualification at professorship level) in Trier (1979). He taught and conducted research at a number of German and Japanese universities and is a member of the Research Centre on Multilingualism in Brussels. Since 2003, he has been Vice-President of the Institute of Archaeomythology (headquartered in Sebastopol, California) and director of its European branch (based in Luumäki, Finland).

Was a Danish philosopher.His best-known work is perhaps his Den nyere Filosofis Historie (1894), tra

Was a Danish philosopher.His best-known work is perhaps his Den nyere Filosofis Historie (1894), translated into English from the German edition (1895) by B.E. Meyer as History of Modern Philosophy (2 vols., 1900), a work intended by him to supplement and correct that of Hans Brøchner, to whom it is dedicated. His Psychology, the Problems of Philosophy (1905) and Philosophy of Religion (1906) also have appeared in English.

Danish statistician and economist known for his work in demography and the history of statistics.Har

Danish statistician and economist known for his work in demography and the history of statistics.Harald Westergaard was born in Copenhagen and apart from a period studying in England and Germany in 1877-78 he lived there all his life. His subject at the U

An Indian-American molecular biologist. He was awarded the Nobel prize (shared with Robert W. Holley

An Indian-American molecular biologist. He was awarded the Nobel prize (shared with Robert W. Holley and Marshall Warren Nirenberg) in 1968 for his work on the interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis. Khorana and Nirenberg were also awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in the same year. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1966. He currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States serving as MIT's Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Biology and Chemistry, Emeritus.

Also known as Sir Hari Singh Gour and Dr. Hari Singh Gour, was a distinguished lawyer, jurist, educa

Also known as Sir Hari Singh Gour and Dr. Hari Singh Gour, was a distinguished lawyer, jurist, educationist, social reformer, poet, and novelist. He was one of the greatest visionaries of education of this century on the Indian subcontinent and even on a

Also known as Sir Hari Singh Gour and Dr. Hari Singh Gour, was a distinguished lawyer, jurist, educa

Also known as Sir Hari Singh Gour and Dr. Hari Singh Gour, was a distinguished lawyer, jurist, educationist, social reformer, poet, and novelist. He was one of the greatest visionaries of education of this century on the Indian subcontinent and even on a global scale. Gour was the Founder Vice Chancellor of the University of Delhi and Nagpur University, founder and Vice Chancellor of the University of Sagar, Deputy President of the Indian Legislative Assembly, an Indian Delegate to the Joint Parliamentary Committee, a Member of the Royal Commission on the Indian Constitution (popularly known as the Simon Commission), and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. [

Was an American astronomer.In 1907, at the age of 22, Harlow Shapley went to study journalism at Uni

Was an American astronomer.In 1907, at the age of 22, Harlow Shapley went to study journalism at University of Missouri. When he learned that the opening of the School of Journalism had been postponed for a year, he decided to study the first subject he came across in the course directory. Rejecting Archeology, which Harlow later explained he couldn't pronounce, Harlow chose the next subject, Astronomy.Post-graduation, Shapley received a fellowship to Princeton University for graduate work, where he studied under Henry Norris Russell and used the period-luminosity relation for Cepheid variable stars (discovered by Henrietta Swan Leavitt) to determine distances to globular clusters. He was the first to realize that the Milky Way Galaxy was much larger than previously believed, and that the Sun's place in the galaxy was in a nondescript location.

Was an American astronomer, and the father of Horace W. Babcock, of English and German ancestry.[1]

Was an American astronomer, and the father of Horace W. Babcock, of English and German ancestry.[1] Educated at the University of California, Berkeley, he worked at the Mount Wilson Observatory from 1907 until 1948. He specialized in solar spectroscopy and mapped the distribution of magnetic fields over the Sun's surface. With his son he revealed the existence of strong magnetic fields in certain stars. In 1953 he won the Bruce Medal[2].

A professor emeritus of economics at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).Demsetz grew

A professor emeritus of economics at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).Demsetz grew up on the west side of Chicago, the grandchild of immigrants from central and eastern Europe. He studied engineering, forestry, and philosophy at four universities before being awarded a B.A. (1953) in economics from the University of Illinois, and an MBA (1954) and a Ph.D. (1959) from Northwestern University. While a graduate student, he published an article in each of Econometrica and the Journal of Political Economy.He taught at the University of Michigan (1958-60), UCLA, 1960-63, and the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago, 1963-71. In 1971, he returned permanently to UCLA's Economics Department

An eminent botanist and an entomologist.Dr. Robinson's systematic knowledge encompasses many groups

An eminent botanist and an entomologist.Dr. Robinson's systematic knowledge encompasses many groups of plants and even some insects. But his real specialty is the sunflower family (Asteraceae) and the bryophytes. He has named or described over 2,800 new species and subtribes, that is more than one tenth of the number of species in the Asteraceae. This figure is also about one quarter of the number of flowering plants, described by Linnaeus. Few taxonomists have ever done better.He has written over 650 publications, mainly on the Asteraceae, mosses and liverworts (Bryophyta), the long-legged fly family Dolichopodidae (describing over 200 new species and 6 new genera, such as Harmstonia and Nanomyina) and many other subjects.

Affectionately known as "The World's Greatest Weatherman" and "The Dean of TV Meteorologists", was t

Affectionately known as "The World's Greatest Weatherman" and "The Dean of TV Meteorologists", was the first television meteorologist west of the Mississippi and, at the time of his death, the world's longest-serving TV meteorologist.In 1949, Taft and two fellow American Airlines meteorologists, Bob Denney and Walter Porter, proposed a nightly weather program to WBAP-TV (now KXAS). “We told them we would present a three-dimensional look at the weather, and we would call it Weather Telefacts, because we wanted to explain the weather to people,” he later said.

Was an American ophthalmologist and geneticist. He helped found one of the first genetics clinic in

Was an American ophthalmologist and geneticist. He helped found one of the first genetics clinic in US. The Nettleship-Falls syndrome, the most common type of ocular albinism, is named after him and English ophthalmologist Edward Nettleship.

Was a mathematical statistician and an influential economic theorist. His name is known to all stati

Was a mathematical statistician and an influential economic theorist. His name is known to all statisticians because of Hotelling's T-square distribution and its use in statistical hypothesis testing and confidence regions. He also introduced canonical co

Was an American astronomer.He received a BA from Wheaton College in 1912, and went on to receive his

Was an American astronomer.He received a BA from Wheaton College in 1912, and went on to receive his Master's degree from the University of Chicago in 1913. He served as an assistant in photographic photometry program of the Yerkes Observatory 1912-1914. He studied at the University of Virginia under Samuel Alfred Mitchell, receiving his Ph.D. in 1917 (title: Observations of long period variable stars at the Leander McCormick Observatory). He became an associate professor at Virginia in 1924, but left the following year to become the director of Yale University's newly established (by Frank Schlesinger) southern station in Johannesburg, South Africa. Alden spent twenty years at the Yale Observatory working on the long-focus refractor to determine parallaxes of southern stars. He also concerned himself with a study of the probable errors in the parallax plates taken in Johannesburg.

Was an English entomologist. He was a Professor of Entomology at Imperial College London.In 1903, Le

Was an English entomologist. He was a Professor of Entomology at Imperial College London.In 1903, Lefroy was appointed entomologist to the Government of India (succeeding Lionel de Niceville, who was the first entomologist, appointed in 1901). Then in 1905 he was involved in the creation of the Imperial Agricultural Research Institute in Pusa, in the Indian state of Bihar, and he was appointed the first Imperial Entomologist.Lefroy convened a series of meetings on an all-India basis, to bring together all the entomologists of the country. From 1915, five such meetings were held at the Imperial Agricultural Research Institute, and these formed the foundation of entomological knowledge in India. He was succeeded in the position of Imperial Entomologist by Thomas Fletcher.

Was an English entomologist. He was a Professor of Entomology at Imperial College London.In 1903, Le

Was an English entomologist. He was a Professor of Entomology at Imperial College London.In 1903, Lefroy was appointed entomologist to the Government of India (succeeding Lionel de Niceville, who was the first entomologist, appointed in 1901). Then in 1905 he was involved in the creation of the Imperial Agricultural Research Institute in Pusa, in the Indian state of Bihar, and he was appointed the first Imperial Entomologist.Lefroy convened a series of meetings on an all-India basis, to bring together all the entomologists of the country. From 1915, five such meetings were held at the Imperial Agricultural Research Institute, and these formed the foundation of entomological knowledge in India. He was succeeded in the position of Imperial Entomologist by Thomas Fletcher.

Was an English university lecturer and dialectologist, best remembered as co-founder of the Survey o

Was an English university lecturer and dialectologist, best remembered as co-founder of the Survey of English Dialects. Orton developed the questionnaire for the survey together with Eugen Dieth.During World War I, Orton served as lieutenant in the Durham Light Infantry, where he was wounded severely in 1918, never regaining full use of his right arm. He worked as lecturer at Uppsala (1924-28), as lecturer at Armstrong College, Newcastle (now the University of Newcastle) (1928-39) and as lecturer in charge of the department of English language, University of Sheffield (1939-46). In 1947 received a chair at the University of Leeds, where he taught until his retirement in 1964. He was visiting professor at Kansas (1965, 1967, 1968), Iowa (1966), Tennessee (1970, 1972, 1973) and Belmont College, Nashville (1971).

Is one of the premier field geologists in the history of geology and the foremost expert on the Appa

Is one of the premier field geologists in the history of geology and the foremost expert on the Appalachian Mountains of North America. An expert on the evolution and tectonic development of mountain belts, Williams advanced the theory of colliding super-

Was a French volcanologist and geologist. He was a famous cinematographer of volcanic eruptions and

Was a French volcanologist and geologist. He was a famous cinematographer of volcanic eruptions and lava flows, and the author of several books about volcanoes. Born in Warsaw, Russian Empire, his father was a Tatar Muslim doctor, and his mother a Polish chemist and doctor in political sciences. He lived in Brussels, Belgium, starting in 1917.

A Brazilian agronomic engineer, author on trees of the Atlantic Mata and a collaborating agronomist

A Brazilian agronomic engineer, author on trees of the Atlantic Mata and a collaborating agronomist of the garden of Fazenda Cresciumal, Ruy De Souza Queiroz. Between his workmanships, he published four books in the end of the 1990s, they are: Brazilian palms, Brazilian Trees (1 and 2, also in English), Tropical Plants of Burle Marx and Brazilian Ornamental Plants.