All articles starting with E

Edward J. Benz

Edward J. Benz, born 1946, is an American hematologist and geneticist who first showed a beta-globin mRNA defect underlies beta thalassemia and led Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Edward J. Brook

Edward J. Brook is an American paleoclimatologist and geochemist at Oregon State University who reconstructs past greenhouse gas levels from air trapped in polar ice cores.

Edward J. Connors

Edward J. Connors was an American health-system executive who led Mercy Health Services in Michigan from 1976 to 1993 and chaired the American Hospital Association board in 1989.

Edward J. Cording is an American geotechnical engineer and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988 for underground construction research.

Sep 27, 2026

Edward J. Davila

Edward John Davila is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the Northern District of California, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2011.

Edward J. DeBartolo Jr.

Edward J. DeBartolo Jr. (Eddie DeBartolo, "Mr. D"), born 1946 in Youngstown, Ohio, owned the San Francisco 49ers 1977-2000, winning five Super Bowls, and entered the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2016.

Edward J. Garnero

Edward J. Garnero is an American seismologist and Arizona State University professor who studies Earth's deep interior, known for work on the core–mantle boundary and ultra-low velocity zones.

Edward J. Goetzl

Edward J. Goetzl is an American physician-scientist in allergy and immunology who moved from Harvard to UCSF and later developed blood tests for predicting Alzheimer's disease.

Edward J. Hackett

Edward J. Hackett is an American sociologist who studies the social organization of scientific research, and professor emeritus at Arizona State University who led the journal Science, Technology & Human Values.

Edward J. Kennelly

Edward J. Kennelly is an astronomer credited in the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics background as a member of the team that confirmed 51 Pegasi b in 1995.

Edward J. King

Edward J. King (1925–2006), Massachusetts governor 1979–1983, Democrat who beat Dukakis in the 1978 primary, lost the 1982 rematch, and joined the GOP in 1985.

Sep 27, 2026

Edward J. Lodge

Edward J. Lodge, born in 1933, is a senior United States district judge for the District of Idaho, appointed by George H.W. Bush in 1989.

Edward J. McCluskey

Edward J. McCluskey (1929–2016) was an American computer engineer and Stanford professor who created the Quine–McCluskey algorithm and served as the first president of the IEEE Computer Society.

Edward J. McShane

Edward James McShane (1904–1989) was an American mathematician at the University of Virginia, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1948 and known for the McShane–Whitney extension theorem.

Edward J. Mills

Edward J. Mills is a clinical epidemiologist and part-time professor at McMaster University, known for large HIV meta-analyses and for leading the TOGETHER trial of repurposed drugs for early COVID-19.

Edward J. Pearce

Edward J. Pearce, also known as Edward Pearce, is a British-born immunologist and parasitologist known for immunometabolism and type 2 immunity research; he joined Johns Hopkins University in 2020.

Edward J. Stemmler

Edward J. Stemmler (1929–2023) was an American physician and dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine who led national medical education and physician assessment.

Edward James Olmos

Edward James Olmos (born 1947), American actor, director, and activist; Emmy winner for Miami Vice's Lt. Castillo, Oscar-nominated for Stand and Deliver, Admiral Adama in Battlestar Galactica, and Latino-visibility advocate.

Edward James Salisbury

Sir Edward James Salisbury (1886–1978) was a British botanist and ecologist who pioneered the quantitative study of plant reproduction and directed the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, from 1943 to 1956.

Edward Jenner

Edward Jenner (1749–1823), English physician of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, introduced vaccination against smallpox using cowpox; his 1796 Phipps experiment and 1798 Inquiry founded immunology, leading to smallpox eradication in 1980.

Edward John Eyre

Edward John Eyre (1815–1901), English explorer and colonial governor, crossed Australia from Adelaide to Albany in 1840–41 with his Aboriginal companion Wylie, then as Governor of Jamaica suppressed the 1865 Morant Bay rebellion, was recalled, and survived three failed prosecutions.

Sep 19, 2026

Edward John Noble

Edward John Noble (1882–1958) was an American advertising executive who bought the Life Savers candy business for $2,900 in 1913, built it into a national company, and founded ABC.

Oct 22, 2026

Edward Johnston

Edward Johnston was a British calligrapher and lettering designer whose 1906 textbook established the modern calligraphy movement, and whose 1916 sans-serif typeface for London's transport remains in use.

Edward Jones Investments

Edward Jones Investments, formally Edward D. Jones & Co., L.P., is a private brokerage firm founded in St. Louis in 1922, serving individual investors in the United States and Canada.

Edward Joseph Davison

Edward Joseph Davison is a Canadian control systems engineer at the University of Toronto known for decentralized and robust control, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2010.

Edward K. Conklin

Edward K. Conklin is a radio astronomer who, as a 27-year-old Stanford astronomer in 1969, reported the first claimed detection of the cosmic microwave background dipole.

Edward K. Wakeland

Edward K. Wakeland, born in 1949, is an immunologist and immunogeneticist at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas known for work on MHC diversity and lupus genetics.

Edward Karl August Riehm

Edward Karl August Riehm (Eduard Riehm, 1830–1888) was a German Protestant Old Testament scholar and theologian who taught at the University of Halle from 1862 until his death.

Edward Kasner

Edward Kasner (1878–1955) was an American mathematician at Columbia University who worked in differential geometry, gave general relativity the Kasner metric, and popularized the word "googol" in his 1940 book Mathematics and the Imagination.