Harry Wiener (October 29, 1924 in Vienna, Austria – November 8, 1998 in New York City, US) was an Austrian-American chemist, physician and psychologist, a pioneer in cheminformatics and chemical graph theory, and a long-time employee at Pfizer.
Wiener attended Long Island College of Medicine and obtained an MD in 1949.
Wiener was appointed to the management team at Pfizer in 1958 and remained at the company until 1995, when he retired.
[1] Wiener made important and fundamental contributions to the study of topological indices and established a correlation between the Wiener index and boiling points (hence viscosity and surface tension) of the paraffins.
The Wiener index plays an important role in sociometry and the theory of social networks which was developed by Christophe Soulé et al.,[3] as well as Gromov-Hyperbolicity Parameters.