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Edward Curtis Franklin
Edward Curtis Franklin (1862–1937) was an American chemist at Stanford University, a pioneer in liquid-ammonia solvent chemistry and president of the American Chemical Society in 1923.
Edward Curtis Wells
Edward Curtis Wells (1910–1986) was an American aeronautical engineer and Boeing executive, chief engineer and senior vice president, who helped design the B-17, B-29, B-47, 707, and 747 airliners and bombers.
Edward Cussler
Edward Cussler, born 1940, is an American chemical engineer at the University of Minnesota known for diffusion and membrane separations and for the textbook Diffusion: Mass Transfer in Fluid Systems.
Edward D. Freis
Edward D. Freis (1912–2005) was an American cardiologist at the Veterans Administration and Georgetown University who led the landmark VA trial proving antihypertensive drug treatment saves lives.
Edward D. Fröhlich
Edward D. Fröhlich (published as Edward D. Frohlich) was an American physician-scientist in hypertension who spent over 40 years at the Ochsner Clinic Foundation in New Orleans.
Edward D. Goldberg
Edward D. Goldberg (1921–2008) was an American marine chemist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, a founder of marine pollution science who initiated the Mussel Watch monitoring program.
Edward D. Harris
Edward D. Harris Jr., known as Ted Harris (1937–2010), was an American rheumatologist who established collagenase's role in rheumatoid arthritis joint destruction and led medicine at Stanford.
Edward D. Hess
Edward D. Hess is an American business academic, Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia's Darden School, known for research on organic growth and learning organizations.
Edward D. Lazowska
Edward D. Lazowska is an American computer scientist who joined the University of Washington in 1977, led its computer science school, and worked on high-performance computing and data science.
Edward D. Salmon
Edward D. Salmon, known as Ted Salmon, is an American cell biologist and microscopist who pioneered video microscopy of mitosis and spent 42 years at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Edward D'Oyley
Edward D'Oyley (1617–1675), also spelled Doyley or Doyly, was an English parliamentarian soldier who commanded Jamaica's forces after the 1655 conquest, defeating every Spanish attempt at reconquest in 1657 and 1658.
Edward de Bono
Edward de Bono (1933-2021), Maltese physician and author, coined "lateral thinking" and created the Six Thinking Hats parallel-thinking method; wrote over 60 books including The Use of Lateral Thinking (1967).
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550–1604), Elizabethan courtier, poet, and playwright-patron; since 1920 the leading authorship candidate in the Oxfordian theory that he wrote the works attributed to William Shakespeare.
Edward Douglass White
Edward Douglass White (1845-1921), Louisiana Democrat, Confederate veteran, and U.S. senator, was the first Associate Justice elevated to Chief Justice, serving 1894-1921; known for the rule of reason, Guinn v. United States, and the Insular Cases.
Edward Dowden
Edward Dowden (1843–1913) was an Irish critic and poet who held the first chair of English literature at Trinity College Dublin and wrote the influential Shakspere (1875).
Edward Drinker Cope
Edward Drinker Cope (1840–1897) was an American paleontologist and comparative anatomist who described more than 1,000 extinct vertebrate species and fought the Bone Wars rivalry with Othniel Marsh.
Edward Drummond
Edward Drummond (1792-1843), British Treasury civil servant and private secretary to Canning, Wellington, and Peel, shot in Whitehall by Daniel M'Naghten who mistook him for Robert Peel; trial created the M'Naghten Rules.
Edward E. Carnes
Edward E. Carnes, born 1950 in Albertville, Alabama, is a senior judge of the Eleventh Circuit who served as its chief judge from 2013 to 2020.
Edward E. David Jr.
Edward E. David Jr. was an American electrical engineer who served as President Nixon's Science Adviser from 1970 to 1973 and led Bell Labs research.
Edward E. Farmer
Edward E. Farmer is a Swiss-based plant biologist who spent his career at the University of Lausanne studying wound signaling in plants, retiring in 2023 as Honorary Professor.
Edward E. Hagenlocker
Edward E. Hagenlocker, born in 1939, is an American engineer who rose from Ford research physicist to vice chairman, leading development of the Explorer, Expedition, and F-Series trucks.
Edward E. Horton
Edward E. Horton (1927–2015) was an American offshore structures engineer who invented the tension leg platform and the spar, the dominant deepwater oil production platforms.
Edward E. Leamer
Edward E. Leamer (1944–2025) was an American economist at UCLA who argued that fragile econometric results are not believable, and directed the UCLA Anderson Forecast.
Edward E. Max
Edward E. Max is a molecular biologist who studied immunoglobulin gene recombination at NIH and later the FDA, known for his essay arguing shared pseudogenes are strong evidence for evolution.
Edward E. Morrisey
Edward E. Morrisey is an American molecular biologist at the University of Pennsylvania who directs the Penn Center for Pulmonary Biology and studies lung development and regeneration.
Edward E. Rieck
Edward E. Rieck (1864–1944) was an American dairy entrepreneur who founded the Edward E. Rieck Co. in Pittsburgh in 1886, later a founding component of National Dairy Products.
Edward E. Wallach
Edward E. Wallach, born 1933, is an American reproductive endocrinologist and Johns Hopkins professor emeritus who led research on the mechanism of ovulation and assisted reproduction.
Edward E. Walsh
Edward E. Walsh is an American infectious-diseases physician and Professor of Medicine at the University of Rochester whose research since 1980 has centered on respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).
Edward Edwards (serial killer)
Edward Wayne Edwards (1933–2011), born Charles Wayne Murray, was an American serial killer who confessed to five murders in Ohio and Wisconsin (1977–1996) after once appearing on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list; unproven theories link him to the Zodiac, JonBenét Ramsey, and Teresa Halbach cases.
Edward Eisler
Edward Eisler is an Austrian-born former Goldman Sachs partner who founded the London-based hedge fund Eisler Capital in 2015, which grew to $4 billion before its 2025 wind-down.