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Ehud Shabtai

Ehud Shabtai is an Israeli software engineer who founded the community mapping project FreeMap Israel in 2006 and co-founded Waze, the crowdsourced traffic and navigation app Google bought in 2013.

Ehud Y. Isacoff

Ehud Y. Isacoff is a neuroscientist at UC Berkeley who studies ion channels, synapse assembly, and chemical optogenetics, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018.

Ehursag

Ehursag, Sumerian for 'house of the mountain', is a royal building at Ur in Iraq attributed to King Shulgi, whether palace, temple, or cult residence is debated.

Ehursagtila

Ehursagtila, also written Eḫursagtila, was a temple of the god Ninurta at Babylon, rebuilt by King Nabopolassar early in his reign (625–605 BC) and known from his clay-cylinder inscriptions.

Ei Hirai

Ei Hirai (平井瑛) is a Japanese technology founder and CEO of estie, a Tokyo commercial real estate data company he founded in 2018 after five years at Mitsubishi Estate.

Sep 21, 2026

Ei-ichi Negishi

Ei-ichi Negishi (根岸英一) was a Japanese chemist at Purdue University who won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings, a reaction used in drug synthesis.

Eicher Motors

Eicher Motors Limited is an Indian automobile company headquartered in Chennai, known for Royal Enfield motorcycles and its majority stake in the truck maker VE Commercial Vehicles.

Eichhornia crassipes, water hyacinth, now Pontederia crassipes, is a South American floating aquatic plant, one of the world's worst invasive weeds, controlled by Neochetina weevils and used for bioenergy and bioremediation.

Eichmann in Jerusalem

Hannah Arendt's 1963 book Eichmann in Jerusalem, from her New Yorker reporting on the 1961 Jerusalem trial of Adolf Eichmann, coined 'the banality of evil' and sparked decades of controversy over her portrait of Eichmann and her criticism of the Jewish Councils.

Eichstätt

Eichstätt, Große Kreisstadt in Upper Bavaria on the Altmühl, seat of the Diocese of Eichstätt founded around 740 by Willibald and home to the only Catholic university in the German-speaking area; former prince-bishopric, about 14,000 inhabitants.

Sep 21, 2026

Eicke Latz

Eicke Latz, born 1970 in Wiesbaden, is a German immunologist known for NLRP3 inflammasome research; since 2023 he has led the German Rheumatism Research Centre Berlin.

Oct 15, 2026

Eicosane

Eicosane, also called icosane or n-eicosane, is a straight-chain alkane with 20 carbon atoms and formula C₂₀H₄₂, a white crystalline solid used in thermal energy storage as a phase change material.

Eicosanoids

Eicosanoids: lipid signaling molecules made from 20-carbon polyunsaturated fatty acids, chiefly arachidonic acid, via COX, lipoxygenase, and cytochrome P450 pathways; includes prostaglandins, thromboxanes, and leukotrienes.

Eicosapentaenoic acid

Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA, 20:5n-3) is a long-chain omega-3 fatty acid from fish oil, precursor of prostaglandin-3 and resolvins; as icosapent ethyl it lowers triglycerides and reduces cardiovascular mortality, unlike mixed EPA/DHA.

Eid al-Adha (عيد الأضحى)

Eid al-Adha (عيد الأضحى), also called Kurban Bayram, is the Islamic festival of sacrifice on 10 Dhul-Hijjah, commemorating Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son through the slaughter of livestock.

Eid al-Fitr (عيد الفطر)

Eid al-Fitr (عيد الفطر), also called Eid ul Fitr, is the Islamic holiday marking the end of the Ramadan fast, on the first day of Shawwal.

Eid Mubarak (عيد مبارك)

Eid Mubarak (عيد مبارك) is an Arabic greeting meaning "blessed Eid," exchanged by Muslims at Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha; it is a supplication, not a holiday name.

EID Parry

EID Parry is a Chennai-headquartered sugar, biofuel, and consumer products company founded by Thomas Parry in 1788, which set up India's first sugar plant and operates as part of the Murugappa Group.

Eida Al Menhali

Eida Al Menhali (عيضة المنهالي) is an Emirati singer and composer known as "The Voice of the Emirates" and for the unaccompanied sung-poetry style Al Shallat.

EIDAS

eIDAS, short for Electronic Identification, Authentication and Trust Services, is the 2014 EU regulation making electronic identification, signatures, and other trust services work across borders within the EU.

Eidetic memory

Eidetic memory, or eidetic imagery, is a short-lived vivid visual recall found mainly in about 8% of children aged 6-12, absent in adults, distinct from undocumented photographic memory and from hyperthymesia.

Eido Gal

Eido Gal is an Israeli technology entrepreneur who co-founded Riskified, an e-commerce fraud prevention company, and serves as its Chairman and CEO, leading it to a $3.3 billion IPO in 2021.

Eidolon

Eidolon (Rafinesque, 1815) is a genus of two large Old World fruit bats, E. helvum and E. dupreanum, sole genus of subfamily Eidolinae, long phylogenetically unstable and now placed as sister to Rousettinae.

Eidos Interactive

Eidos Interactive, British video game publisher (London), publishing arm of Eidos plc; known for Tomb Raider, Hitman, Deus Ex, Thief, Legacy of Kain; acquired by Square Enix in 2009, label retired, studios sold to Embracer in 2022.

Eidsberg

Eidsberg, former municipality in Østfold, Norway, centered on Mysen; merged into Indre Østfold in 2020. Known for Eidsberg kirke (Østfolddomen), Håkon Håkonsson's birthplace, and grain farming.

Eiður Guðjohnsen

Eiður Guðjohnsen (Eiður Smári Guðjohnsen), Icelandic forward born 1978 in Reykjavik; Bolton, Chelsea (two Premier League titles), Barcelona (2009 treble); Iceland's record scorer with 26 goals in 88 caps.

Oct 15, 2026

Eielson Air Force Base

Eielson Air Force Base is a United States Air Force installation about 25 miles south of Fairbanks, Alaska, and home of the 354th Fighter Wing, which flies F-35s.

Eielson Peninsula

Eielson Peninsula (Eielson, península) is a rugged, mainly snow-covered peninsula, about 20 mi long, between Smith Inlet and Lehrke Inlet on the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica, named for pilot Carl Ben Eielson of Wilkins' 1928 Antarctic flights.

EIF2

EIF2 (eukaryotic initiation factor 2) is a heterotrimeric GTP-binding protein, subunits alpha, beta, gamma, that delivers initiator Met-tRNA to the 40S ribosomal subunit; its alpha subunit phosphorylation by HRI, PKR, PERK, GCN2 drives the integrated stress response.