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Ernst Kuppers
Ernst Küppers (Ernst Kuppers), German backstroke swimmer (1904-1976), fifth in the 100 m backstroke at the 1928 and 1932 Olympics, 1934 European silver medalist, holder of five European records, father and coach of 1964 Olympic relay silver medalist Ernst-Joachim Küppers.
Ernst Kyburz
Ernst Kyburz (1898–1983) was a Swiss freestyle wrestler, Olympic middleweight (≤79 kg) gold medalist at Amsterdam 1928 and 1931 European champion in Budapest; also a noted Schwingen competitor and Bern police officer.
Ernst Laqueur
Ernst Laqueur (1880–1947) was a German-born Dutch pharmacologist and Amsterdam professor who became the first in Europe to produce insulin and co-founded Organon.
Ernst Laur
Ernst Laur (1871–1964) was a Swiss agronomist, professor at ETH Zurich, and longtime director of the Swiss Farmers' Association, called the Father of Swiss agriculture.
Ernst Leitz
Ernst Leitz, also E. Leitz, is a German optical company in Wetzlar, renamed by Ernst Leitz in 1869, a leading microscope maker and origin of the Leica camera.
Ernst Lengyel
Ernst Lengyel is a gynecologic oncologist and ovarian cancer researcher who chairs Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Chicago, where he studies how ovarian cancer spreads in the abdominal cavity.
Ernst Leonard Lindelöf
Ernst Leonard Lindelöf (1870–1946) was a Finnish mathematician at the University of Helsinki who founded the Finnish school of function theory and named the Lindelöf hypothesis.
Ernst Leopold Salkowski
Ernst Leopold Salkowski (1844–1923) was a German physiological chemist who spent his career at the Charité in Berlin under Rudolf Virchow, discovered autolysis and pentosuria, and left his name on biochemical color reactions still taught today.
Ernst Linder
Ernst Linder (1868-1943), Swedish equestrian born in Pohja, Finland; won 1924 Paris Olympic individual dressage gold on Piccolomini with 276.4 points, narrowly beating Bertil Sandström; his only Olympic appearance.
Ernst Litfaß
Ernst Litfaß, full name Ernst Theodor Amandus Litfaß (1816–1874), was a German printer and publisher in Berlin who introduced the Litfaßsäule, the cylindrical advertising pillar, in 1855.
Ernst Lubitsch
Ernst Lubitsch (1892–1947), German-American film director, first German director in Hollywood; creator of the 'Lubitsch Touch' style of suggestion; directed Madame Dubarry, Trouble in Paradise, Ninotchka, To Be or Not to Be.
Ernst Ludwig Alfred Hegar
Ernst Ludwig Alfred Hegar (1830–1914) was a German gynecologist and obstetrician, professor at Freiburg from 1864 to 1904, regarded as the founder of operative gynecology.
Ernst Ludwig Enders
Ernst Ludwig Enders (1833–1906) was a German Lutheran theologian and pastor in Frankfurt am Main, best known as the scholarly editor of Martin Luther's letters.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938), German Expressionist painter and printmaker, founder of Die Brücke in Dresden in 1905; known for Berlin street scenes, Alpine works, Nazi 'degenerate art' persecution, and 1938 suicide in Davos.
Ernst Luhrsen
Ernst Luhrsen (Heinrich Ernst Franz Lührsen, 1880-1926), German swimmer from Altona; won gold in the one-off 200 m team swimming event at the 1900 Paris Olympics for Deutscher Schwimm Verband Berlin; also entered 200 m freestyle but did not start.
Ernst Mach
Ernst Mach (1838–1916) was an Austrian physicist and philosopher who first systematically studied supersonic motion, photographing shock waves, and whose critique of Newtonian absolute space helped shape Einstein's relativity.
Ernst Mally
Ernst Mally (1879–1944) was an Austrian philosopher at the University of Graz, a pupil of Alexius Meinong, who proposed the first formal system of deontic logic in 1926.
Ernst Mayr
Ernst Mayr (1904–2005), German-born American ornithologist and evolutionary biologist at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology; architect of the Modern Synthesis, biological species concept, and allopatric speciation; author of Systematics and the Origin of Species.
Ernst Meyer (Swiss physicist)
Ernst Meyer is a Swiss experimental physicist at the University of Basel who works in scanning probe microscopy and nanotribology, demonstrating superlubricity of graphene nanoribbons on gold.
Ernst Moritz Arndt
Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860) was a German nationalist historian, writer, and poet born on Rügen whose patriotic songs and pamphlets made him a leading voice against Napoleonic rule.
Ernst Navratil
Ernst Navratil (1902–1979) was an Austrian physician and gynecologist who led the Graz university women's clinic from 1946 to 1973 and pioneered cervical cancer early detection in Austria.
Ernst Öpik
Ernst Öpik (1893–1985) was an Estonian astronomer who predicted the Oort comet cloud in 1932, 18 years before Jan Oort, and spent 1948 to 1981 at Armagh Observatory.
Ernst Otto Adalbert Merx
Ernst Otto Adalbert Merx (1838–1909) was a German Protestant theologian and Orientalist who held chairs at Tübingen, Giessen, and Heidelberg and wrote a major commentary on the Syriac palimpsest Gospels found at Sinai in 1892.
Ernst Otto Fischer
Ernst Otto Fischer (1918–2007) was a German inorganic chemist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Geoffrey Wilkinson for work on organometallic sandwich compounds.
Ernst Pascual Jordan
Ernst Pascual Jordan (1902–1980) was a German theoretical physicist in Hamburg who co-founded quantum mechanics, supplying the mathematics of matrix mechanics and launching quantum field theory.
Ernst Peter Pick
Ernst Peter Pick was an Austrian pharmacologist who led the University of Vienna's pharmacology institute until his 1938 Nazi expulsion, then taught at Columbia University in New York.
Ernst Põdder
Ernst Põdder (1879–1932) was an Estonian major general who led the Defence League, won the Battle of Cēsis in 1919, and crushed the 1924 communist coup attempt.
Ernst Pringsheim (physicist)
Ernst Pringsheim (1859–1917) was a German experimental physicist who, with Otto Lummer at the Reichsanstalt, measured blackbody radiation and showed Wien's law failed, setting the stage for Planck's quantum theory.
Ernst Reckeweg
Ernst Reckeweg was a German-born gymnast, born in Ovenstädt, who competed for the United States at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics and won team gold with the Philadelphia Turngemeinde.
Ernst Robert Curtius
Ernst Robert Curtius (1886–1956) was a German Romance philologist and literary scholar who promoted French literature in the 1920s and wrote the influential European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages (1948).