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Erwin Preuschen
Erwin Preuschen (1867–1920) was a German Protestant theologian, pastor, and Gymnasium teacher who founded the Zeitschrift für die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft in 1900 and compiled a complete Greek–German New Testament lexicon.
Erwin Reisner
Erwin Reisner (born 1979) is a chemist and Professor of Energy and Sustainability at the University of Cambridge, known for solar fuels and semi-artificial photosynthesis.
Erwin Rommel
Erwin Rommel (1891-1944), the "Desert Fox," German field marshal of the Afrika Korps in North Africa and Army Group B in Normandy; forced to commit suicide after the July 20, 1944 plot; subject of a contested chivalry myth.
Erwin Schrödinger
Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961) was an Austrian theoretical physicist who formulated wave mechanics, shared the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics, and coined the term quantum entanglement.
Erwin Sietas
Erwin Sietas (1910-1989), German breaststroke swimmer of Hamburger Schwimmclub 1879; 1936 Berlin Olympic silver in the 200 m breaststroke (2:42.9), 1934 European champion, 1935 world record 2:42.4, ISHOF 1992.
Erwin und Julia
Erwin und Julia is a 1990 Austrian romantic crime drama, the debut feature of Götz Spielmann, about a young couple who talk themselves into a crime.
Erwin von Witzleben
Erwin von Witzleben (Job Wilhelm Georg Erdmann Erwin von Witzleben), German field marshal (1881-1944), Commander in Chief West, highest-ranking officer executed after the failed 20 July 1944 Hitler assassination plot.
Erwin W. Gelfand
Erwin W. Gelfand is an American pediatric immunologist known for research on severe combined immunodeficiency and asthma, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Erwin Wilhelm Müller
Erwin Wilhelm Müller (1911–1977) was a German-born physicist at Penn State who invented the field ion microscope and became the first person to see an atom.
Erwinia
Erwinia, a genus of gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped plant-associated bacteria in the Erwiniaceae; type species E. amylovora causes fire blight, while soft rot species were reclassified into Pectobacterium and Dickeya.
Erwinia amylovora
Erwinia amylovora, Gram-negative Enterobacteriaceae bacterium, causal agent of fire blight of Rosaceae (apple, pear); requires T3SS and amylovoran; streptomycin resistance via Tn5393; EPPO A2 quarantine pest.
Erya
The Erya (尔雅) is an ancient Chinese dictionary that explains classical and dialect words by semantic categories, regarded as China's earliest surviving classified dictionary and compiled over centuries.
Erycina
Erycina Lindl. (syn. Psygmorchis) is a genus of seven miniature neotropical twig-epiphytic orchids in Oncidiinae, native from Mexico to southern tropical America and Trinidad, described by Lindley in 1853.
Erycites
Erycites (Gemmellaro, 1886) is an extinct Aalenian ammonite genus, type species E. fallifax, of the Erycitinae; widespread in the Western Tethys and ancestral to Stephanocerataceae.
Eryk Anders
Eryk Anders "Ya Boi" (born 1987), American retired UFC middleweight and former Alabama linebacker who strip-sacked Garrett Gilbert in the 2010 BCS title game; pro MMA record 18-9, retired 2026.
Eryk Kulm
Eryk Kulm (Eryk Kulm Jr.), Polish actor born 1990, star of Filip (2022), Bokser (2024), and the Chopin biopic Chopin, Chopin! (2025); Eagle-winning best actor who performs his own piano parts.
Erykah Badu
Erykah Badu (Erica Wright) is a Dallas-born singer whose 1997 debut Baduizm defined neo-soul, sold millions, won a Best R&B Album Grammy, and shaped Maxwell, D'Angelo-era soul's legacy.
Erymnoceras
Erymnoceras (Hyatt, 1900) is an extinct Callovian ammonite genus in Pachyceratidae; type species Ammonites coronatus Bruguière 1789, index of the Middle Callovian Coronatum Zone, recorded from Europe, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, and Ethiopia.
Eryngium
Eryngium (sea holly, eryngo) is the largest genus of Apiaceae, about 250 spiny, capitate-flowered species worldwide, split into subgenera Eryngium and Monocotyloidea, used as food, medicine, and ornamentals.
Eryngium campestre
Eryngium campestre, the field eryngo, is a spiny perennial herb of the carrot family native to Europe, North Africa, and the Caucasus, growing up to about 75 cm.
Eryngium maritimum
Eryngium maritimum, sea holly, is a spiny blue-flowered perennial Apiaceae of European coastal dunes and shingle from the Atlantic to the Black Sea, a poor competitor threatened locally by habitat loss and invasive plants.
Eryops
Eryops is a genus of large eryopid temnospondyl amphibians from the Late Pennsylvanian to Early Permian of North America; type species E. megacephalus, named by Cope in 1877, was a semi-aquatic apex predator.
Erysimum
Erysimum (wallflower) is a large, taxonomically complex genus of Brassicaceae with about 150–350 species across temperate Eurasia, Macaronesia, North Africa, and the Americas, combining glucosinolates with cardenolides and radiating rapidly in the Pliocene-Pleistocene.
Erysimum cheiri
Erysimum cheiri, also Erysimum × cheiri or Cheiranthus cheiri, the wallflower or Aegean wallflower, a fragrant Brassicaceae subshrub native to Greece, naturalized widely, grown ornamentally and used for essential oils and folk medicine.
Erysipelas
Erysipelas (Greek erythros + pella, red skin), also historically St. Anthony's fire, is a superficial dermal infection usually caused by group A Streptococcus, sharply demarcated, classically facial but now mostly on the legs, treated with antibiotics.
Erysipelas of face
Erysipelas of face (ICD-11 1B70.00), also called St. Anthony's fire: acute streptococcal infection of facial skin and superficial lymphatics, butterfly rash, treated with penicillin, historically common but now a rare site.
Erysipeloid
Erysipeloid (erysipeloid of Rosenbach, fish handler's disease) is an occupational skin infection caused by Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, entering via cuts, causing a violaceous hand rash 2-7 days after exposure, treated with penicillin.
Erysipelothrix
Erysipelothrix (Rosenbach 1909), erysipelas thread, a genus of Gram-positive rods; type species E. rhusiopathiae causes swine erysipelas and human erysipeloid; vancomycin-resistant, penicillin-susceptible.
Erysiphaceae
Erysiphaceae (powdery mildews) is a family of obligate biotrophic ascomycete fungi in Helotiales, Leotiomycetes, infecting about 10,000 angiosperm species; about 820 species in 19 genera, including Erysiphe, Blumeria, and Podosphaera.
Erysiphales
Erysiphales, the powdery mildews (Erysiphaceae), are obligate biotrophic ascomycete plant pathogens in Leotiomycetes, with about 16-17 genera and 900 species infecting over 9,800 angiosperm hosts; taxonomy was drastically revised in 2002 using DNA data.