This is the Meyer-Overton hypothesis put forward in 1899–1901 by Hans Horst Meyer and Charles Ernest Overton.
In 1899 Hans Horst Meyer published the first experimental evidence of the fact that anaesthetic potency is related to lipid solubility in his article entitled "Zur Theorie der Alkoholnarkose".
Hans Christian Andersen | Hans Holbein the Younger | Hans Zimmer | Russ Meyer | Hans Werner Henze | Meyer Lansky | Meyer Schapiro | Hans Memling | Hans Pfitzner | Hans Küng | Hans Conried | Hans Knappertsbusch | Hans Magnus Enzensberger | Hans-Dietrich Genscher | Hans Blix | Joyce Meyer | Hans Zender | Hans Scholl | Hans Hofmann | Hans Christian Ørsted | Roelf Meyer | Hans Raj Hans | Hans Habe | Hans Baldung | Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza | Urban Meyer | Nicholas Meyer | Hans von Ohain | Hans van Manen | Hans Urs von Balthasar |
The Academy is also a learned society, and its past members have included Christian Doppler, Theodor Billroth, Anton Eiselsberg, Eduard Suess, Ludwig Boltzmann, Paul Kretschmer, Hans Horst Meyer, Roland Scholl, and the Nobel Prize winners Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Victor Hess, Erwin Schrödinger and Konrad Lorenz.