All articles starting with E

Egon Balas

Egon Balas, born Egon Blatt, was a Romanian-American operations researcher at Carnegie Mellon University who pioneered integer programming, founded disjunctive programming, and won the 1995 John von Neumann Theory Prize.

Oct 20, 2026

Egon Franke

Egon Franke (Egon Johann Franke, 1935-2022), Polish foil fencer; first Polish Olympic fencing champion, individual foil gold at Tokyo 1964, plus team silver 1964 and team bronze 1968; later a coach in Italy.

Egon Henninger

Egon Henninger (1940–2025), East German breaststroke swimmer; two Olympic silvers in the 4×100 m medley relay (Tokyo 1964, Mexico City 1968) and 1967 world record 3:56.5.

Egon Jonsson

Egon Jonsson is a Swedish-Canadian health economist and pioneer of health technology assessment who headed Sweden's SBU agency for 16 years before leading the Institute of Health Economics in Edmonton.

Egon Krenz

Egon Krenz (born 1937, Kolberg) was the last General Secretary of the SED and last chairman of the GDR Council of State, October to December 1989, succeeding Honecker; later convicted for Berlin Wall deaths.

Egon Müller

Egon Müller (born 1948, Kiel), German track racer; long track (Sandbahn) world champion 1974, 1975, 1978 and 1983 speedway world champion at Norden, the only German to hold that title; also a Schlager singer.

Egon Orowan

Egon Orowan (Orován Egon, 1902–1989) was a Hungarian-born physicist and metallurgist who, with Taylor and Polanyi, introduced the crystal dislocation in 1934 and later taught at MIT.

Oct 10, 2026

Egon Pearson

Egon Sharpe Pearson (1895–1980) was a British statistician who, with Jerzy Neyman, founded modern hypothesis testing theory, succeeded his father Karl Pearson at University College London, and edited Biometrika for thirty years.

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele (1890–1918), Austrian Expressionist painter and draftsman of Viennese Modernism, protégé and rival heir of Gustav Klimt; known for angular self-portraits, over 2,500 works on paper, 1912 imprisonment, and 1918 Secession breakthrough before dying of Spanish flu at 28.

Egon Spengler

Egon Spengler, also Dr. Egon Spengler, is the fictional scientist of the original Ghostbusters, played and co-written by Harold Ramis; named for a classmate and Oswald Spengler, digitally revived as a ghost in Afterlife (2021).

Egon T. Degens

Egon Theodor Degens (1928–1989) was a German geologist and geochemist who led the 1965 Red Sea expedition that discovered the first sea-floor hydrothermal ore deposits and made the first detailed study of the anoxic Black Sea.

Oct 10, 2026

Egon Wiberg

Egon Wiberg (1901–1976) was a German inorganic chemist who held the chair of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Munich from 1951 and co-edited Holleman-Wiberg, the standard German inorganic chemistry textbook.

Egon Zimmermann

Egon Zimmermann (1939-2019), Austrian alpine skier, Egon Zimmermann II, won the 1964 Innsbruck Olympic downhill in 2:18.16 and the 1962 Chamonix giant slalom world title; later hotelier in Lech.

Egor Dëmin

Egor Dëmin (born 2006, Moscow) is a Russian NBA guard-forward for the Brooklyn Nets, drafted 8th overall in 2025 from BYU after Real Madrid's youth system; rookie record 34 straight games with a three.

Sep 24, 2026

Egor Kankrin

Egor Kankrin (Егор Францевич Канкрин), born Georg Ludwig Daniel von Cancrin, was a Russian statesman of German origin who served as finance minister under Nicholas I from 1823 to 1844.

Sep 27, 2026

Egor Kovalchuk

Egor Viktorovich Kovalchuk, born in 1973 in Chelyabinsk, is a United Russia politician who became Governor of Bryansk Oblast in 2026, winning 67.52 percent of the vote.

Egor Popov

Egor Popov (1913–2001) was a Russian-born American structural and earthquake engineer and UC Berkeley professor, best known for the eccentrically braced frame and the textbook Mechanics of Materials.

Egotism

Egotism: inflated self-importance with excessive self-reference, related to but distinct from egoism, narcissism, and egocentrism; coined 1714 by Joseph Addison; central to the psychological egoism-altruism debate and studied as implicit egotism.

EGR1

EGR1 (early growth response 1; also NGFI-A, Zif268, Krox-24, TIS8) is a human gene at 5q31.2 encoding an immediate-early C2H2 zinc-finger transcription factor regulating differentiation, mitogenesis, memory, and cancer, with dual tumor-suppressive and oncogenic roles.

EGR2

EGR2 (Krox20) is a zinc-finger transcription factor gene on 10q21.3, master regulator of Schwann cell myelination with SOX10 and NAB corepressors, required for hindbrain segmentation, and mutated in CMT1D, CMT4E, Dejerine-Sottas syndrome, and congenital hypomyelinating neuropathy.

Oct 20, 2026

Egra

Egra, ancient Red Sea settlement at modern al-Wajh, Saudi Arabia; Pleiades place 814674, attested 330 BC-AD 300; known from Strabo 16.4.24 as a stop of Aelius Gallus in Nabataean king Obodas' territory.

Egregore

An egregore, from the Greek for "to watch," is an occult thought-form entity a group creates through shared belief and ritual, which then gains autonomy.

Égrégore

Égrégore (egregore) is an esoteric term for a group spirit formed from collective minds. Known through Mylène Farmer's 2026 album Égrégore, several metal bands named Egregore, and Jean Antonin Billard's book on the automatistes.

Sep 19, 2026

EGREM

EGREM (Empresa de Grabaciones y Ediciones Musicales) is Cuba's state-owned record company, founded in 1964 to consolidate nationalized labels. It holds over 85,000 recordings, including Buena Vista Social Club sessions.

Egret

An egret is any of several white wading birds in the heron family Ardeidae, named for their plumage rather than their ancestry, and known for breeding plumes called aigrettes.

Egretta

Egretta, the true egrets, is a genus of medium wading birds in Ardeidae erected by Forster in 1817, including the snowy egret, little egret, little blue heron, tricolored heron, and reddish egret; molecular work shows it paraphyletic as formerly circumscribed.