henry1 (n) a unit of inductance in which an induced electromotive force of one volt is produced when the current is varied at the rate of one ampere per second
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Henry2 (n) English chemist who studied the quantities of gas absorbed by water at different temperatures and under different pressures (1775-1836)
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Henry3 (n) a leader of the American Revolution and a famous orator who spoke out against British rule of the American colonies (1736-1799)
Hasonló: henry | patrick henry |
Henry4 (n) United States physicist who studied electromagnetic phenomena (1791-1878)
Hasonló: henry | joseph henry |
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Benjamin Henry Latrobe (n) United States architect (born in England) whose works include the chambers of the United States Congress and the Supreme Court; considered the first professional architect in the United States (1764-1820)
Charles Henry Harrod (n) English merchant who took over a shop in London that was expanded by his son into a prestigious department store (1800-1885)
Edward Henry Harriman (n) United States railway tycoon (1848-1909)
Francis Henry Compton Crick (n) English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004)
Henry Alfred Kissinger (n) United States diplomat who served under President Nixon and President Ford (born in 1923)
Henry Beauclerc (n) King of England from 1100 to 1135; youngest son of William the Conqueror; conquered Normandy in 1106 (1068-1135)
Henry Bolingbroke (n) the first Lancastrian king of England from 1399 to 1413; deposed Richard II and suppressed rebellions (1367-1413)
Henry Cavendish (n) British chemist and physicist who established that water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen and who calculated the density of the earth (1731-1810)
Henry Clay (n) United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852)
Henry Clay Frick (n) United States industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry (1849-1919)
Henry David Thoreau (n) United States writer and social critic (1817-1862)
Henry Engelhard Steinway (n) United States piano maker (born in Germany) who founded a famous piano manufacturing firm in New York (1797-1871)
Henry Fielding (n) English novelist and dramatist (1707-1754)
Henry Fonda (n) United States film actor (1905-1982)
Henry Ford (n) United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production (1863-1947)
Henry Ford II (n) grandson of Henry Ford (1917-1987)
Henry Graham Greene (n) English novelist and Catholic (1904-1991)
Henry Hobson Richardson (n) United States architect (1838-1886)
Henry Hubert Turner (n) United States endocrinologist (1892-1970)
Henry Hudson (n) English navigator who discovered the Hudson River; in 1610 he attempted to winter in Hudson Bay but his crew mutinied and set him adrift to die (1565-1611)
Henry I (n) King of England from 1100 to 1135; youngest son of William the Conqueror; conquered Normandy in 1106 (1068-1135)
Henry II (n) king of France from 1547 to 1559; regained Calais from the English; husband of Catherine de Medicis and father of Charles IX (1519-1559)
Henry III (n) son of Henry II of France and the last Valois to be king of France (1551-1589)
Henry IV (n) king of France from 1589 to 1610; although he was leader of the Huguenot armies, when he succeeded the Catholic Henry III and founded the Bourbon dynasty in 1589 he established religious freedom in France
Henry James (n) writer who was born in the United States but lived in England (1843-1916)
Henry John Heinz (n) United States industrialist who manufactured and sold processed foods (1844-1919)
Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell (n) English film director (born in 1927)
Henry Kissinger (n) United States diplomat who served under President Nixon and President Ford (born in 1923)
Henry Laurens (n) leader of the American Revolution and president of the Continental Congress (1724-1792)
Henry le Chatelier (n) French chemist who formulated Le Chatelier's principle (1850-1936)
Henry Lee (n) soldier of the American Revolution (1756-1818)
Henry Louis Aaron (n) United States professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934)
Henry Louis Gehrig (n) baseball player who died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (1903-1941)
Henry Louis Mencken (n) United States journalist and literary critic (1880-1956)
Henry Luce (n) United States publisher of magazines (1898-1967)
Henry M. Robert (n) United States parliamentary authority and author (in 1876) of Robert's Rules of Order (1837-1923)
Henry M. Stanley (n) Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find the source of the Nile River (1841-1904)
Henry Martyn Robert (n) United States parliamentary authority and author (in 1876) of Robert's Rules of Order (1837-1923)
Henry Miller (n) United States novelist whose novels were originally banned as pornographic (1891-1980)
Henry Moore (n) British sculptor whose works are monumental organic forms (1898-1986)
Henry Morgan (n) a Welsh buccaneer who raided Spanish colonies in the West Indies for the English (1635-1688)
Henry Norris Russell (n) United States astronomer who developed a theory of stellar evolution (1877-1957)
Henry of Navarre (n) king of France from 1589 to 1610; although he was leader of the Huguenot armies, when he succeeded the Catholic Henry III and founded the Bourbon dynasty in 1589 he established religious freedom in France
Henry Oscar Houghton (n) United States publisher who founded a printing shop that became an important book publisher (1823-1895)
Henry Purcell (n) English organist at Westminster Abbey and composer of many theatrical pieces (1659-1695)
Henry Robinson Luce (n) United States publisher of magazines (1898-1967)
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (n) United States geologist and ethnologist and explorer who discovered the source of the Mississippi River (1793-1864)
Henry Russell (n) United States astronomer who developed a theory of stellar evolution (1877-1957)
Henry Spencer Moore (n) British sculptor whose works are monumental organic forms (1898-1986)
Henry Steinway (n) United States piano maker (born in Germany) who founded a famous piano manufacturing firm in New York (1797-1871)
Henry Sweet (n) English phonetician; one of the founders of modern phonetics (1845-1912)
Henry the Great (n) king of France from 1589 to 1610; although he was leader of the Huguenot armies, when he succeeded the Catholic Henry III and founded the Bourbon dynasty in 1589 he established religious freedom in France
Henry Tudor (n) first Tudor king of England from 1485 to 1509; head of the house of Lancaster in the War of the Roses; defeated Richard III at Bosworth Field and was proclaimed king; married the daughter of Edward IV and so united the houses of York and Lancaster (1457-1509)
Henry V (n) son of Henry IV and King of England from 1413 to 1422; reopened the Hundred Years' War and defeated the French at Agincourt (1387-1422)
Henry Valentine Miller (n) United States novelist whose novels were originally banned as pornographic (1891-1980)
Henry VI (n) son of Henry V who as an infant succeeded his father and was King of England from 1422 to 1461; he was taken prisoner in 1460 and Edward IV was proclaimed king; he was rescued and regained the throne in 1470 but was recaptured and murdered in the Tower of London (1421-1471)
Henry VII (n) King of the Germans and Holy Roman Emperor (1275-1313)
Henry VIII (n) son of Henry VII and King of England from 1509 to 1547; his divorce from Catherine of Aragon resulted in his break with the Catholic Church in 1534 and his excommunication 1538, leading to the start of the Reformation in England (1491-1547)
Henry Villard (n) United States railroad magnate and businessman (1835-1900)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (n) United States poet remembered for his long narrative poems (1807-1882)
Henry Ward Beecher (n) United States clergyman who was a leader for the abolition of slavery (1813-1887)
Henry Watson Fowler (n) English lexicographer who wrote a well-known book on English usage (1858-1933)
Henry Wheeler Shaw (n) United States humorist who wrote about rural life (1818-1885)
Hooray Henry (n) a lively and ineffectual upper-class young man
James Augustus Henry Murray (n) Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915)
James Henry Leigh Hunt (n) British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)
John Henry (n) hero of American folk tales; portrayed as an enormously strong black man who worked on the railroads and died from exhaustion after winning a contest with a steam drill
John Henry Newman (n) English prelate and theologian who (with John Keble and Edward Pusey) founded the Oxford movement; Newman later turned to Roman Catholicism and became a cardinal (1801-1890)
John Henry O'Hara (n) United States writer (1905-1970)
Joseph Henry (n) United States physicist who studied electromagnetic phenomena (1791-1878)
Lewis Henry Morgan (n) United States anthropologist who studied the Seneca (1818-1881)
Louis Henry Sullivan (n) United States architect known for his steel framed skyscrapers and for coining the phrase `form follows function' (1856-1924)
Mrs. Henry Wood (n) English writer of novels about murders and thefts and forgeries (1814-1887)
O. Henry (n) United States writer of short stories whose pen name was O. Henry (1862-1910)
Patrick Henry (n) a leader of the American Revolution and a famous orator who spoke out against British rule of the American colonies (1736-1799)
President William Henry Harrison (n) 9th President of the United States; caught pneumonia during his inauguration and died shortly after (1773-1841)
Richard Henry Lee (n) leader of the American Revolution who proposed the resolution calling for independence of the American Colonies (1732-1794)
Richard Henry Tawney (n) English economist remembered for his studies of the development of capitalism (1880-1962)
Sir Henry Bessemer (n) British inventor and metallurgist who developed the Bessemer process (1813-1898)
Sir Henry Joseph Wood (n) English conductor (1869-1944)
Sir Henry Maxmilian Beerbohm (n) English writer and caricaturist (1872-1956)
Sir Henry Morgan (n) a Welsh buccaneer who raided Spanish colonies in the West Indies for the English (1635-1688)
Sir Henry Morton Stanley (n) Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find the source of the Nile River (1841-1904)
Sir Henry Percy (n) English soldier killed in a rebellion against Henry IV (1364-1403)
Sir Henry Rider Haggard (n) British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925)
Sir Henry Wood (n) English conductor (1869-1944)
Sir James Augustus Henry Murray (n) Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915)
Thomas Henry Huxley (n) English biologist and a leading exponent of Darwin's theory of evolution (1825-1895)
William Henry (n) English chemist who studied the quantities of gas absorbed by water at different temperatures and under different pressures (1775-1836)
William Henry Beveridge (n) British economist (born in India) whose report on social insurance provided the basis for most of the social legislation on which the welfare state in the United Kingdom is based (1879-1963)
William Henry Fox Talbot (n) English inventor and pioneer in photography who published the first book illustrated with photographs (1800-1877)
William Henry Gates (n) United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955)
William Henry Harrison (n) 9th President of the United States; caught pneumonia during his inauguration and died shortly after (1773-1841)
William Henry Hoover (n) United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932)
William Henry Hudson (n) English naturalist (born in Argentina) (1841-1922)
William Henry Mauldin (n) United States cartoonist noted for his drawings of soldiers in battle (1921-2003)
William Henry Pratt (n) United States film actor (born in England) noted for his performances in horror films (1887-1969)
William Henry Seward (n) United States politician who as Secretary of State in 1867 arranged for the purchase of Alaska from Russia (known at the time as Seward's Folly) (1801-1872)
Henry II (n) first Plantagenet King of England; instituted judicial and financial reforms; quarreled with archbishop Becket concerning the authority of the Crown over the church (1133-1189)
Henry III (n) son of King John and king of England from 1216 to 1272; his incompetence aroused baronial opposition led by Simon de Montfort (1207-1272)
Henry IV (n) King of the Germans and Holy Roman Emperor (1050-1106)
Henry VII (n) first Tudor king of England from 1485 to 1509; head of the house of Lancaster in the War of the Roses; defeated Richard III at Bosworth Field and was proclaimed king; married the daughter of Edward IV and so united the houses of York and Lancaster (1457-1509)
Henry IV (n) the first Lancastrian king of England from 1399 to 1413; deposed Richard II and suppressed rebellions (1367-1413)
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