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Ernest Nagel
Ernest Nagel (1901–1985) was an American philosopher of science who taught at Columbia University and wrote The Structure of Science (1961), a systematic account of scientific explanation.
Ernest Nathan Morial
Ernest Nathan "Dutch" Morial (1929-1989), first African American mayor of New Orleans (1978-1986), also first Black LSU law graduate, Louisiana assistant U.S. attorney, and Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal judge; father of mayor Marc Morial.
Ernest Nys
Ernest Nys (1851–1920) was a Belgian lawyer, judge, and legal historian, called the first professional historian of public international law and a professor at Brussels.
Ernest O. Wollan
Ernest O. Wollan (died 1984) was an American physicist who established neutron diffraction as a practical crystal-analysis method at Oak Ridge, after developing the film-badge dosimeter for the Manhattan Project.
Ernest Oppenheimer
Sir Ernest Oppenheimer (1880–1957) was a German-born South African diamond and gold mining entrepreneur who founded Anglo American in 1917 and became chairman of De Beers in 1929.
Ernest Ouandié
Ernest Ouandié (1924–1971) was a Cameroonian nationalist, vice-president of the UPC, who led its armed resistance until his execution by firing squad at Bafoussam in 1971.
Ernest P. Worrell
Ernest P. Worrell (Ernest Powertools Worrell), Jim Varney's dim-witted know-it-all neighbor character, created by Nashville's Carden & Cherry ad agency in 1980-1981, starred in thousands of regional commercials, nine films, and Hey Vern, It's Ernest!
Ernest R. Davidson
Ernest R. Davidson, born 1936, is an American theoretical and computational quantum chemist known for the Davidson correction and Davidson method, who received the National Medal of Science in 2001.
Ernest R. Sears
Ernest R. Sears (1910–1991) was an American wheat cytogeneticist and USDA geneticist at the University of Missouri, known for wheat's complete aneuploid series and the first chromosome engineering experiment.
Ernest Ranglin
Ernest Ranglin (Ernie Ranglin, born June 19, 1932, Manchester, Jamaica) is the Jamaican guitarist who created ska's off-beat guitar strum at Studio One, played on 'Simmer Down' and 'My Boy Lollipop', and shaped reggae through the Jimmy Cliff and Island Records era.
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford, also known as Lord Rutherford, was a New Zealand-born physicist who discovered the atomic nucleus and won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Ernest S. Kuh
Ernest Shiu-Jen Kuh (1928–2015) was a Chinese-born American electrical engineer, professor, and dean of engineering at UC Berkeley, and a founding figure of the electronic design automation industry.
Ernest Saves Christmas
Ernest Saves Christmas is a 1988 American comedy starring Jim Varney as Ernest P. Worrell. The film was directed by John R. Cherry III and produced for Touchstone Pictures.
Ernest Scared Stupid
Ernest Scared Stupid (1991) is a Touchstone comedy-horror film directed by John R. Cherry III, starring Jim Varney as Ernest P. Worrell, who unleashes the troll Trantor in Briarville, Missouri; grossed $14.1M.
Ernest Shackleton
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874–1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer of the Heroic Age, best known for the Endurance expedition of 1914–1917, when all 28 of his men survived.
Ernest Shonekan
Ernest Adegunle Oladeinde Shonekan (1936–2022), Nigerian lawyer and UAC chairman, headed Nigeria's Interim National Government as interim head of state from 26 August to 17 November 1993, between Babangida and Abacha.
Ernest Starling
Ernest Henry Starling was a British physiologist who held the Jodrell chair at University College London, discovered secretin in 1902, coined hormone, and formulated the law of the heart.
Ernest T. Bass
Ernest T. Bass is a fictional wild mountain man on The Andy Griffith Show, played by Howard Morris in five of 249 episodes starting with 1963's "Mountain Wedding," known for rock-throwing and the catchphrase "It's me, it's me, it's Ernest T."
Ernest T. Smerdon
Ernest T. Smerdon (1930–2014) was an American water-resources engineer and dean of engineering at the University of Arizona, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1986.
Ernest T.S. Walton
Ernest T.S. Walton (Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton) was an Irish physicist who split the atomic nucleus with John Cockcroft, winning the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Ernest the Iron
Ernest the Iron (Ernst der Eiserne; 1377–1424) was a Habsburg duke of Inner Austria who in 1414 became the first Habsburg to adopt the archduke title, later borne until 1918.
Ernest Thiele
Ernest Thiele (1895–1993) was an American chemical engineer who spent 35 years at Standard Oil of Indiana and is remembered for the Thiele modulus and the McCabe–Thiele method for designing distillation columns.
Ernest Thorne
Ernest Arthur Thorne (1887–1968), British tug-of-war athlete and City of London Police officer; won gold in men's tug-of-war for Great Britain at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, beating the USA, Belgium, and the Netherlands 2–0 each.
Ernest Tubb
Ernest Tubb (1914-1984), the Texas Troubadour, was a pioneer of honky-tonk country music, famed for "Walking the Floor Over You," his Texas Troubadours band, the Ernest Tubb Record Shop, and Grand Ole Opry stardom.
Ernest Urtasun Domènech
Ernest Urtasun is a Spanish politician of Sumar and spokesperson for Comuns, born in Barcelona in 1982, serving as Spain's Minister for Culture since November 2023.
Ernest William Brown
Ernest William Brown (1866–1938) was a British-born mathematician and astronomer who spent his career in the United States and became the leading authority on the Moon's motion.
Ernest William Goodpasture
Ernest William Goodpasture was an American pathologist and virologist at Vanderbilt University whose 1931 technique for growing viruses in chicken eggs made mass vaccine production possible; Goodpasture syndrome bears his name.
Ernest William Hobson
Ernest William Hobson (1856–1933) was a British mathematician who held the Sadleirian Professorship at Cambridge from 1910 to 1931 and, with W. H. Young, brought Borel–Lebesgue measure theory to English readers.
Ernest Xue
Ernest Xue is a venture capital investor who serves as Managing Director of Venture Future Industries at Eurazeo, a graduate of Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.
Ernestine Johnson Morrison
Ernestine Johnson Morrison is an American actress, spoken word poet, and producer, best known for her viral poem "Average Black Girl" on The Arsenio Hall Show.