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Henry, Joseph
Personne · 1797-1878

Joseph Henry was an American scientist who served as the first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He was the secretary for the National Institute for the Promotion of Science, a precursor of the Smithsonian Institution. He also served as president of the National Academy of Sciences from 1868 to 1878
Herkomer, Hubert von, Sir
Personne · 1849-1914

Sir Hubert von Herkomer was a Bavarian-born British painter, pioneering film director and composes
Hilgendorf, Franz Martin 
Hilgendorf, Franz Martin 
Personne · 1839-1904

Franz Martin Hilgendorf was a German zoologist and palaeontologist. Hilgendorf's research on fossil snails from the Steinheim crater in the early 1860s became a palaeontological evidence for the theory of evolution published by Charles Darwin in 1859. Darwin acknowledged the findings of Hilgendorf and referred to his research in the sixth edition of On the Origin of Species, 1872.