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Ericales
Ericales (Bercht. & J.Presl, 1820) is an asterid order of eudicot flowering plants with 22 families, 346 genera, and about 12,000 species, including tea, blueberry, persimmon, Brazil nut, and rhododendron; it diversified from about 110 Ma.
Ericameria nauseosa
Ericameria nauseosa, rubber rabbitbrush (formerly Chrysothamnus nauseosus), is a widespread western North American Asteraceae shrub with yellow fall flowers, two subspecies and 22 varieties, used for revegetation, wildlife browse, and rubber.
Ericeira
Ericeira is a fishing town and parish in Mafra municipality, Portugal, about 40 km from Lisbon. Dedicated in 2011 as the world's second World Surfing Reserve and first in Europe, with breaks like Ribeira d'Ilhas and Coxos.
Erich A. Nigg
Erich A. Nigg (born 1952) is a Swiss cell biologist known for research on centrosomes and chromosome segregation, and director of the Biozentrum in Basel.
Erich Bloch
Erich Bloch (1925–2016) was a German-born American electrical engineer who managed IBM's Stretch supercomputer and System/360, then directed the National Science Foundation from 1984 to 1990.
Erich Borchmeyer
Erich Borchmeyer (1905-2000), German sprinter nicknamed Erka; Olympic 4x100 m relay silver 1932 and bronze 1936, European relay champion 1934, five-time German champion, tied 10.3 world record.
Erich Buljung
Erich Buljung (born 1944, Yugoslavia) is a Yugoslav American sport shooter, US Army master sergeant, who won silver in 10 m air pistol at the 1988 Seoul Olympics and served as US National Pistol Coach.
Erich Clar
Erich Clar, a chemist from Czech-Sudetenland who died in 1987, is considered the father of modern polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon chemistry; his aromatic π-sextet rule still guides nanographene research.
Erich D. Jarvis
Erich D. Jarvis is an American neuroscientist at Rockefeller University who studies vocal learning in songbirds, parrots, and hummingbirds and chairs the Vertebrate Genomes Project.
Erich E. Wanker
Erich E. Wanker, also known as Erich Wanker, is a professor of molecular medicine at the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin who studies protein misfolding in neurodegenerative disease.
Erich Fischer
Erich M. Fischer is a climate scientist and professor at ETH Zurich's Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, known for event attribution and record-shattering heatwave research.
Erich Franz Eugen Bracht
Erich Franz Eugen Bracht (1882–1969) was a German pathologist and gynecologist remembered for the Bracht maneuver, a 1935 technique for vaginal breech delivery that cut fetal mortality.
Erich Fromm
Erich Fromm (1900–1980), German-American psychoanalyst and social philosopher of the Frankfurt School, author of Escape from Freedom and The Art of Loving, developed social character theory and socialist humanism.
Erich Gliebe
Erich Gliebe, American white supremacist, former boxer ("Aryan Barbarian") and Resistance Records manager, chaired the neo-Nazi National Alliance from William Pierce's 2002 death until its 2013 end as a membership organization.
Erich Gonzales
Erich Gonzales (Erika Chryselle Gonzales Gancayco) is a Filipina actress, born 1990 in Cebu, who won Star Circle Quest Season 2 and starred in Katorse, Maria la del Barrio, Siargao, and The Blood Sisters. Distinct from baseball player Erik Gonzalez and footballer Erick Gonzales.
Erich Grotewold
Erich Grotewold is an Argentine-trained plant molecular biologist at Michigan State University known for his work on how transcription factors control the flavonoid pigmentation pathways of maize.
Erich Gulbins
Erich Gulbins is a molecular biologist and professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen whose laboratory studies ceramide signaling in bacterial defense, cystic fibrosis, and cancer.
Erich Hartmann
Erich Hartmann (Erich Alfred Hartmann, 1922–1993) was a German Luftwaffe fighter pilot credited with 352 aerial victories, the highest total of any pilot, mostly on the Eastern Front.
Erich Hecke
Erich Hecke (1887–1947) was a German mathematician who studied under Hilbert at Göttingen and taught at Hamburg, creating Hecke operators, Hecke algebras, and Hecke characters central to number theory.
Erich Herrmann
Erich Herrmann (1914-1989), German field handball player with Berliner SV 92; won gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and the 1938 inaugural World Championship; eight caps, six Olympic goals. Not the sprinter Bernd Herrmann.
Erich Honecker
Erich Honecker (1912–1994), also Erich Ernst Paul Honecker, led East Germany as SED General Secretary and Council of State chairman 1971–1989, directed Berlin Wall preparations, resisted Gorbachev's reforms, fell in October 1989, and died in Chilean exile.
Erich Hückel
Erich Hückel (1896–1980) was a German theoretical physicist who created the Debye–Hückel theory of strong electrolytes and the Hückel molecular orbital method, including the 4n+2 rule for aromaticity.
Erich Kähler
Erich Kähler (1906–2000) was a German mathematician whose 1932 introduction of Kähler metrics founded Kähler geometry, later central to string theory; his name also attaches to the Cartan–Kähler theorem.
Erich Kästner
Erich Kästner (1899–1974) was a German writer, poet, and satirist whose Emil und die Detektive (1929) founded the realistic children's novel in German; his books were burned by the Nazis in 1933.
Erich Koch
Erich Koch (1896–1986), Nazi Gauleiter of East Prussia and Reichskommissar for Ukraine 1941–1944, Hitler's largest territorial ruler; his brutal occupation rule caused hundreds of thousands of deaths in Poland and up to four million in Ukraine; sentenced to death in Warsaw in 1959, died in Polish prison.
Erich Leo Lehmann
Erich Leo Lehmann (1917–2009), born in Strasbourg, was a mathematical statistician at the University of California, Berkeley, known for the Lehmann–Scheffé theorem and textbooks that defined graduate statistics education.
Erich Lexer
Erich Lexer (1867–1937) was a German surgeon who performed the first human whole-joint transplants, wrote standard works on transplantation, and is regarded as a father of plastic surgery.
Erich Ludendorff
Erich Ludendorff (1865–1937), German general and Erster Generalquartiermeister of the Third OHL, Tannenberg co-victor, de facto leader of Germany's 'silent dictatorship' 1916–18, later Kapp and Munich putsch figure and author of Der totale Krieg.
Erich Maria Remarque
Erich Maria Remarque (born Erich Paul Remark, 1898–1970), German novelist of Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front), a World War I veteran exiled by the Nazis whose anti-war and exile novels sold over 20 million copies.
Erich Mielke
Erich Mielke (1907–2000), German communist and KPD member, Minister for State Security of East Germany 1957–1989, head of the Stasi; convicted 1993 for the 1931 Bülowplatz police killings.