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Edwin Howard Armstrong
Edwin Howard Armstrong (Edwin H. Armstrong) was an American electrical engineer at Columbia University who invented FM broadcasting and the regenerative, superregenerative, and superheterodyne circuits, holding 42 patents.
Edwin Hubble
Edwin Hubble was an American astronomer at Mount Wilson Observatory who proved galaxies lie beyond the Milky Way and discovered the velocity–distance relation showing the universe expands.
Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Power Plant
The Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Power Plant, known as Plant Hatch, is a two-unit nuclear power plant near Baxley, Georgia, and the first nuclear generating station in the state.
Edwin J. Vandenberg
Edwin J. Vandenberg (1918–2005) was an American industrial polymer chemist who spent 43 years at Hercules Powder Company, independently discovered isotactic polypropylene, and received the Priestley Medal in 2003.
Edwin James George Pitman
Edwin James George Pitman (1897–1993) was an Australian mathematician and statistician, professor at the University of Tasmania from 1926 to 1962, known for the Pitman estimator and efficiency.
Edwin Jarvis
Edwin Jarvis, Marvel Comics butler to the Stark family and caretaker of Avengers Mansion; debuted in Tales of Suspense #59 (1964) by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby; namesake of the MCU's J.A.R.V.I.S. AI and played by James D'Arcy in Agent Carter and Avengers: Endgame.
Edwin John Butler
Sir Edwin John Butler (1874–1943), Irish mycologist and plant pathologist; first Imperial Mycologist at Pusa, India, and first Director of the Imperial Bureau of Mycology, Kew; called Father of Indian Plant Pathology.
Edwin Joseph Cohn
Edwin Joseph Cohn (1892–1953) was an American protein biochemist at Harvard Medical School whose cold ethanol fractionation supplied albumin and gamma globulin to the armed forces in World War II.
Edwin Klebs
Edwin Klebs (1834–1913) was a Prussian pathologist and bacteriologist who formulated the causal criteria for microbial disease years before Robert Koch and described the diphtheria bacillus in 1883.
Edwin L. Alderman
Edwin L. Alderman was an American cardiologist and Stanford professor of cardiovascular medicine who led randomized trials of coronary bypass surgery and angioplasty, including the Coronary Artery Surgery Study.
Edwin L. Bierman
Edwin L. Bierman (1930–1995) was an American endocrinologist and lipid researcher at the University of Washington who pioneered using cultured human cells to study atherosclerosis and co-discovered combined hyperlipidemia.
Edwin L. Carstensen
Edwin L. Carstensen (1919–2016) was an American biophysicist at the University of Rochester who founded ultrasound contrast science and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Edwin L. Ferguson
Edwin L. Ferguson is an American molecular geneticist and University of Chicago professor known for showing that Dpp acts as a morphogen patterning the fruit fly embryo.
Edwin L. Harder
Edwin L. Harder, born in Buffalo, New York, in 1905, was an American power engineer at Westinghouse known for protective relays and the Anacom analog computer.
Edwin L. Thomas
Edwin L. Thomas, also known as Ned Thomas, is an American polymer materials scientist who determined block copolymer morphology, including the gyroid, and holds a chair at Texas A&M.
Edwin L. Zebroski
Edwin L. Zebroski, also known as Edwin Leopold Zebroski, is an American nuclear reactor engineer who led reactor development at General Electric and research at EPRI.
Edwin Landseer
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802–1873), Victorian Britain's foremost animal painter, portraitist of Queen Victoria, and designer of the Trafalgar Square lions; known for The Monarch of the Glen and The Old Shepherd's Chief Mourner.
Edwin Lee Gibson
Edwin Lee Gibson (born 1964, Houston) is an American actor and playwright, Obie winner for The Seven, known as Ebraheim on The Bear, Dick Gregory in Turn Me Loose, and roles in Fargo, Winning Time, and Fallout.
Edwin Leopold Zebroski
Edwin Leopold Zebroski, born 1921 in Chicago, is an American nuclear reactor engineer and National Academy of Engineering member who led reactor development at General Electric and later EPRI.
Edwin Luna y La Trakalosa de Monterrey
Edwin Luna y La Trakalosa de Monterrey, also known as La Trakalosa de Monterrey, is a regional Mexican band from Monterrey, Mexico, founded in 2010 and led by vocalist Edwin Luna.
Edwin Lutyens
Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens (1869–1944) was an English architect known for Arts and Crafts country houses, the planning of New Delhi, and war memorials led by the Cenotaph in Whitehall.
Edwin M. McMillan
Edwin M. McMillan, also known as Edwin Mattison McMillan, was an American physicist who co-discovered neptunium in 1940 and won half of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Edwin M. Stone
Edwin M. Stone is an American physician-scientist at the University of Iowa who identified the first human glaucoma gene and genes behind macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa.
Edwin McCain
Edwin McCain (born 1970, Charleston, SC) is an American singer-songwriter whose ballads "I'll Be" (Hot 100 No. 5, 1998) and "I Could Not Ask for More" became wedding standards; 11 albums through 2025's Lucky, frequent Hootie & the Blowfish tourmate.
Edwin Meese
Edwin Meese III (born 1931), 75th U.S. Attorney General under Ronald Reagan (1985–1988) and former White House counselor; launched the originalism movement with his 1985 ABA speech, disclosed the Iran-contra diversion in November 1986, and was investigated three times by independent counsels without prosecution.
Edwin Mercado
Edwin Mercado (Edwin M. Mercado), Filipino physician and orthopedic surgeon, appointed Philippine Department of Health Secretary in August 2026; previously acting PhilHealth president and CEO from February 2025 and hospital executive.
Edwin Milgröm
Edwin Milgröm is a French molecular endocrinologist whose laboratory at Inserm and Bicêtre Hospital defined how steroid hormone receptors act in the cell and how RU 486 blocks progesterone.
Edwin Mills
Edwin Archer Mills (1878–1946), British tug-of-war competitor; won Olympic gold 1908 (City of London Police), silver 1912, gold 1920; one of three men with three tug-of-war medals.
Edwin Montagu
Edwin Montagu (एडविन मॉन्टेगू) was a British Liberal politician who served as Secretary of State for India from 1917 to 1922 and championed the Government of India Act, 1919.
Edwin Morgan
Edwin George Morgan (1920–2010) was a Scottish poet and translator based in Glasgow, considered the foremost Scottish poet of the twentieth century and Scotland's first national poet, appointed Scots Makar in 2004.