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Edwardian era
The Edwardian era (1901–1910, extended to 1914) is the British period of Edward VII's reign, marked by labour unrest, suffrage militancy, early welfare reforms, suburban housing, and electrification before the First World War.
Edwards Air Force Base
Edwards Air Force Base, formerly Muroc Air Force Base, is a United States Air Force base in California's Mojave Desert, the Air Force's principal center for flight test and evaluation.
Edwards Aquifer
The Edwards Aquifer is a karst limestone aquifer in south-central Texas, stretching roughly 180 miles and supplying more than two million people in the San Antonio area.
Edwards Lifesciences
Edwards Lifesciences is an American medical device company headquartered in Irvine, California, that treats structural heart disease with transcatheter and surgical heart valves sold in over 100 countries.
Edwards Plateau
The Edwards Plateau is a broad limestone upland in central Texas whose eroded eastern margin forms the Texas Hill Country, underlain by Cretaceous limestone and the Edwards Aquifer.
Edwards v Canada (AG)
Edwards v Canada (AG), the Persons Case, [1930] AC 124: 1929 Privy Council decision holding women are "qualified persons" under BNA Act s. 24, eligible for the Canadian Senate, reversing the Supreme Court of Canada and establishing the living tree doctrine.
Edwardsia
Edwardsia (de Quatrefages, 1842) is a genus of small burrowing sea anemones in the family Edwardsiidae, order Actiniaria, with eight perfect mesenteries, nemathybomes, and roughly forty accepted species worldwide.
Edwardsiella
Edwardsiella (Ewing and McWhorter, 1965) is a genus of gram-negative Enterobacteriaceae rods, now five species including E. tarda, E. piscicida, and E. ictaluri; fish pathogens of aquaculture and rare opportunistic human pathogens causing gastroenteritis and septicemia.
Edwardsiella tarda
Edwardsiella tarda (synonym Edwardsiella anguillimortifera) is a Gram-negative Hafniaceae bacterium of aquatic animals, a fish pathogen and rare human cause of gastroenteritis and bacteremia; type strain ATCC 15947.
Edwardsville Amazon warehouse collapse
The Edwardsville Amazon warehouse collapse: an EF-3 tornado destroyed Amazon's DLI4 delivery facility in Edwardsville, Illinois on December 10, 2021, killing six workers sheltering in a south-side bathroom, prompting OSHA findings, lawsuits, and Illinois's Warehouse Tornado Preparedness Act.
Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat, born 1969 in Port-au-Prince, is a Haitian-American novelist, memoirist, and short-story writer known for Breath, Eyes, Memory and The Dew Breaker; her memoir Brother, I'm Dying won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award.
Edwige Fenech
Edwige Fenech (Edwige Sfenek), born 1948 in Annaba, French Algeria, is an Italian actress and producer, star of 1970s commedia sexy all'italiana and Sergio Martino gialli, later producer of The Merchant of Venice.
Edwin
Edwin is a masculine given name meaning "wealth-friend," derived from Old English ēad and wine. It was borne by the Northumbrian king Edwin of Northumbria and is popular globally.
Edwin A. Bergin
Edwin A. Bergin, known as Ted Bergin, is an American astronomer and astrochemist at the University of Michigan who studies the chemistry of planet formation.
Edwin A. Chandross
Edwin A. Chandross is an American chemist, born in Brooklyn in 1934, who led organic materials research at Bell Labs and discovered the peroxyoxalate chemiluminescence reaction powering glow sticks.
Edwin Albert Link
Edwin Albert Link (1904–1981) was an American inventor who created the Link Trainer flight simulator used to train over 500,000 World War II pilots, then designed deep-sea submersibles.
Edwin Allston Hill
Edwin Allston Hill (1850–1929) was an American chemist, lawyer, and Patent Office official in Washington, D.C., whose 1900 paper described the Hill system for ordering elements in molecular formulas.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson was an American poet from Gardiner, Maine, who won three Pulitzer Prizes for poetry and is known for the ironic portraits "Richard Cory" and "Miniver Cheevy."
Edwin Austin Abbey
Edwin Austin Abbey (1852–1911), American illustrator and painter based in England, known for Shakespearean illustrations for Harper's, the Boston Public Library Holy Grail murals, and Pennsylvania Capitol murals.
Edwin Austin Gee
Edwin Austin Gee, published as Edwin A. Gee, is an American chemical engineer at International Paper elected to the National Academy of Engineering's Chemical section in 1979.
Edwin B. Astwood
Edwin B. Astwood (1909–1976) was a Bermudian-born endocrinologist who showed that drug therapy could control Graves' disease without surgery, developing propylthiouracil and methimazole at Tufts.
Edwin B. Crocker
Edwin Bryant Crocker (1818–1875), California Supreme Court associate justice 1863–64, abolitionist lawyer in Norris v. Crocker (1851), chief counsel of the Central Pacific Railroad, and founder of the Crocker Art Museum collection in Sacramento.
Edwin B. Hart
Edwin B. Hart (1874–1953) was an American biochemist who chaired agricultural chemistry at the University of Wisconsin from 1906 to 1944 and directed the single-grain experiment that helped establish the vitamin concept.
Edwin Bidwell Wilson
Edwin Bidwell Wilson (1879–1964) was an American mathematician and statistician at Yale, MIT, and Harvard who edited Gibbs's Vector Analysis and anticipated the confidence interval in 1927.
Edwin Booth
Edwin Booth, born Edwin Thomas Booth (1833–1893), was an American stage actor and theatrical manager, famed for his Hamlet and for founding the actors' club The Players in New York.
Edwin Boring
Edwin Garrigues Boring (1886–1968) was an American experimental psychologist and historian of psychology at Harvard, known for A History of Experimental Psychology and the "Boring figure".
Edwin Brant Frost
Edwin Brant Frost (1866–1935) was an American astronomer who directed Yerkes Observatory from 1905 to 1932, measured stellar radial velocities with the Bruce spectrograph, and edited the Astrophysical Journal.
Edwin C. Constable
Edwin C. Constable, born 1955, is a British chemist known as a pioneer of metallosupramolecular chemistry, professor at the University of Basel and its Vice-President for Research from 2011 to 2018.
Edwin C. Kan
Edwin C. Kan, also known as Edwin Chihchuan Kan, is an American electrical engineer and Cornell professor who won a PECASE award in 2000 and studies contactless RF biosensing.
Edwin C. Kemble
Edwin C. Kemble (1889–1984) was an American physicist at Harvard University who introduced the quantum study of molecular structure to the United States and wrote a 1937 quantum mechanics textbook.