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Ergotamine
Ergotamine, an ergot alkaloid isolated by Arthur Stoll in 1918 and marketed by Sandoz, is a vasoconstrictor drug for acute migraine, now largely superseded by triptans and restricted in the EU in 2013 over fibrosis and ergotism risks.
Ergothioneine
Ergothioneine (EGT) is a diet-derived antioxidant amino acid synthesized only by certain fungi and bacteria, obtained chiefly from mushrooms and studied as a possible micronutrient for healthy aging.
Ergotism
Ergotism, or St Anthony's Fire, is poisoning from ergot alkaloids of Claviceps purpurea in rye, causing vasoconstriction, burning pain, and gangrene; now rare and mostly iatrogenic from ergotamine drugs.
Ergotron Investments, LLC (acquisition vehicle for Ergotron, Inc.)
Ergotron Investments, LLC is the acquisition vehicle through which Houston private equity firm The Sterling Group acquired Ergotron, Inc. for about $650 million in 2022.
Ergotropy
Ergotropy is the maximum work extractable from a quantum system by cyclic unitary processes, introduced in 2004 and now the standard figure of merit for quantum batteries.
Erha/Erha North Oil and Gas Field
The Erha/Erha North oil and gas field is a deepwater field offshore Nigeria in the Gulf of Guinea, operated by Esso, a subsidiary of ExxonMobil, producing since 2006.
Erhai Lake
Erhai Lake (洱海) is China's seventh largest freshwater lake and Yunnan's second largest plateau lake, at Dali. Mesotrophic, phosphorus-limited since 2006, with blooms in 1996, 2003, and 2013 and Grade II–III water quality since 2018.
Erhard Keller
Erhard Keller, born 1944 in Günzburg, is a German speed skater and dentist, the Flying Dentist, who won Olympic 500 m gold at Grenoble 1968 and Sapporo 1972 and set four 500 m world records at Inzell.
Erhard Milch
Erhard Milch (1892–1972), German Generalfeldmarschall, State Secretary of the Reich Air Ministry, Lufthansa director, and Generalluftzeugmeister who ran Luftwaffe aircraft production, used slave labor, and was sentenced to life imprisonment at the 1947 Milch Trial, released 1954.
Erhard Schmidt
Erhard Schmidt (1876–1959) was a German mathematician, a founder of functional analysis, who turned Hilbert's ideas into the explicit concept of a Hilbert space and gave the Gram–Schmidt process.
Erhard Schnepf
Erhard Schnepf, also Schnepff (1495–1558), was a German Lutheran theologian and reformer who co-led the Reformation of Württemberg and taught at Marburg, Tübingen, and Jena.
Erhard Schnepff
Erhard Schnepff (1495–1558) was a German Lutheran reformer and theologian who, with Ambrosius Blarer, led the Reformation in Württemberg from 1534 and later trained clergy at Jena.
Erhard Seminars Training
Erhard Seminars Training (est, also EST), founded by Werner Erhard in San Francisco in 1971, was a 60-hour two-weekend large group awareness training whose course, 'getting it,' and corporate successors The Forum and Landmark define it.
Erhardt+Leimer
Erhardt+Leimer is a German family-owned automation company, founded in Augsburg in 1919, that builds control, measurement, and inspection systems for moving webs of paper, film, and textiles.
Erhu (二胡)
Erhu (二胡, nanhu): Chinese two-string bowed fiddle descended from the Tang xiqin; bow hair runs between strings tuned d1–a1, no fingerboard, python-skin resonator; made a solo instrument by Liu Tianhua.
Eri Baker Hulbert
Eri Baker Hulbert (1841–1907) was an American Baptist pastor and church historian who served as the first dean of the University of Chicago Divinity School, from 1892 until his death.
Eri Fukuda
Eri Fukuda (福田恵里) is a Japanese entrepreneur, born in 1990, who founded Tokyo startup SHE Inc. in 2017, whose SHElikes school has taught over 200,000 women.
Eri Kitamura
Eri Kitamura (喜多村英梨) is a Japanese voice actress and singer born in Tokyo in 1987, known for roles in Madoka Magica and My Hero Academia.
Eri Tosaka
Eri Tosaka (登坂絵莉), Japanese freestyle wrestler, 2016 Rio Olympic gold medalist at women's 48 kg and three-time world champion 2013-2015; retired 2022 after injuries ended her Tokyo 2020 bid.
Eri Yamada
Eri Yamada (山田恵里), born 1984, is a Japanese softball outfielder and two-time Olympic champion (Beijing 2008, Tokyo 2020) and Athens 2004 bronze medalist, Japan team captain, record-holding Japan League hitter, and later coach for China.
Eria
Eria Lindl. (1825), a conserved orchid genus in tribe Podochileae, native from tropical Asia to the Pacific; once about 350 species, now about 45 after molecular studies showed it polyphyletic.
Eriba-Adad I
Eriba-Adad I (Erība-Adad) was king of Assyria from about 1380 to 1354 BC, recorded in the Assyrian King List and succeeded by his son Aššur-uballit I.
Eriba-Adad II
Eriba-Adad II was king of Assyria from about 1055 to 1054 BC, son of Aššur-bēl-kala, deposed after two years by his uncle Šamšī-Adad IV, who came up from Babylonia.
Eriba-Marduk
Eriba-Marduk (Erība-Marduk) was king of Babylon around 769–761 BC, the 13th ruler of Dynasty E, whom later chronicle tradition credited with restoring order in Babylonia before the reign of Nabonassar.
Eribulin
Eribulin (Halaven, eribulin mesylate) is a synthetic halichondrin B analogue microtubule inhibitor chemotherapy. FDA-approved 2010 for pretreated metastatic breast cancer and liposarcoma; EMBRACE trial showed 13.1 vs 10.6 months median survival.
Eric
Eric is the English form of the Scandinavian masculine given name Erik, from Old Norse Eiríkr, meaning roughly "ever/sole ruler". Variants include Eirik, Erich, Erick; peaked in the US in 1970.
Eric (2024 TV series)
Eric is a 2024 Netflix limited drama series by Abi Morgan, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as puppeteer Vincent Anderson searching 1980s New York for his missing son Edgar; six episodes, released May 30, 2024.
Eric A. Appel
Eric A. Appel is an American materials scientist and bioengineer, Associate Professor at Stanford University, known for injectable hydrogels enabling months-long drug release, single-dose subunit vaccines, and wildfire-protective gels.
Eric A. Barnard
Eric A. Barnard, usually cited as E. A. Barnard, was a British molecular neuroscientist elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1981 for work on neurotransmitter receptors.
Eric A. D’Asaro
Eric A. D'Asaro is an American physical oceanographer at the University of Washington's Applied Physics Laboratory who developed the Lagrangian float and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014.