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Eugene Terentjev
Eugene Terentjev is a polymer physicist and Professor of Polymer Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, since 2005, known for his work on liquid crystalline elastomers.
Eugène Terre'Blanche
Eugène Ney Terre'Blanche (1941–2010), South African white supremacist who founded and led the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), fought apartheid's end, accepted TRC responsibility for bombings killing 21, and was murdered on his Ventersdorp farm in 2010.
Eugene V. Debs
Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926), American labor leader and five-time Socialist Party presidential candidate; led the 1894 Pullman Strike, founded the ARU and helped found the IWW, and ran for president from Atlanta prison in 1920, winning about 919,000 votes.
Eugene V. Koonin
Eugene V. Koonin is a computational evolutionary biologist who leads the Evolutionary Genomics Research Group at the NIH's NCBI in Bethesda, Maryland, known for the COGs database and CRISPR-Cas classification.
Eugene van Roosbroeck
Eugène Van Roosbroeck (Eugeen Van Roosbroeck), Belgian road cyclist (1928–2018); 1948 London Olympic team road race gold medalist, 12th individually; received his gold medal 62 years late, in 2010, from Jacques Rogge.
Eugene van Tamelen
Eugene Earle van Tamelen (1925–2009) was an American organic chemist and Stanford professor, a pioneer of biomimetic synthesis known for synthesizing Dewar benzene and cholesterol and for early work on nitrogen fixation.
Eugene Vindman
Eugene Simon Vindman, born 1975, is an American politician and retired U.S. Army colonel serving as the Democratic representative for Virginia's 7th congressional district since January 2025.
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, 1814–1879) was a French Gothic Revival architect and theorist who led the restorations of Notre-Dame de Paris and the Cité de Carcassonne.
Eugene W. Hilgard
Eugene Woldemar Hilgard (1833–1916) was a German-American agricultural chemist and geologist who taught at UC Berkeley from 1875 to 1904 and is regarded as the father of soil science.
Eugene W. Nester
Eugene W. Nester is an American microbiologist and University of Washington professor emeritus whose laboratory showed that Agrobacterium causes crown gall disease by transferring DNA into plant cells.
Eugene Wigner
Eugene Wigner, born Jenő Wigner, was a Hungarian-born American theoretical physicist who won half of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics for symmetry principles in quantum mechanics.
Eugene Y.‐X. Chen
Eugene Y.-X. Chen is an American polymer chemist and University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University, known for chemically recyclable plastics and compatibilizing mixed plastic waste.
Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé
Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé (1848-1910) was a French diplomat, travel writer, and literary critic who introduced Russian literature to French readers with Le roman russe (1886).
Eugene, Oregon
Eugene, Oregon: Willamette Valley city incorporated 1862, population about 178,600, home of the University of Oregon (1876) and TrackTown USA; major housing growth planning underway.
Eugenes
Eugenes, the magnificent hummingbirds, is a Trochilidae genus with two species: Rivoli's Hummingbird (Eugenes fulgens) and Talamanca Hummingbird (Eugenes spectabilis), large montane hummingbirds of Mexico and Central America.
Eugenia
Eugenia, a large genus of Myrtaceae trees and shrubs published by Linnaeus in 1753, has about 1,000–1,205 pantropical species centered in the Neotropics, 4-merous flowers, fused-cotyledon embryos, and edible fruits like pitanga.
Eugenia Cheng
Eugenia Cheng is an English mathematician and pianist who writes popular math books and is Scientist in Residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Eugenia Cooney
Eugenia Cooney (Eugenia Sullivan Cooney, born 1994) is an American YouTuber and Twitch streamer of fashion and beauty content, known for the 2019 Shane Dawson documentary about her anorexia treatment and ongoing platform-moderation controversy.
Eugenia del Pino
Eugenia del Pino is an Ecuadorian developmental biologist who studied the marsupial frogs of Ecuador for four decades and was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2006.
Eugenia Kalnay
Eugenia Kalnay (1942–2024) was an Argentine-born meteorologist who led the NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis, pioneered ensemble forecasting and data assimilation, and taught at the University of Maryland.
Eugenia Kumacheva
Eugenia Kumacheva is a Canadian chemist and University Professor at the University of Toronto known for soft matter chemistry, nanoparticle self-assembly, and microfluidic synthesis of polymer particles.
Eugenia Kuyda
Eugenia Kuyda is a Russian-born technology entrepreneur who co-founded the AI startup Luka in 2013 and created Replika, an AI companion app with over 30 million users.
Eugenia Maria Roccella
Eugenia Maria Roccella is an Italian politician serving as Minister for Family, Birth Rate, and Equal Opportunities, overseeing family support measures and public debates on demography and women's employment.
Eugenia Russinova
Eugenia Russinova, known as Jenny Russinova, is a Bulgarian plant cell biologist and VIB group leader in Ghent, Belgium, since 2006, known for work on brassinosteroid receptors and endocytosis.
Eugenia uniflora
Eugenia uniflora L., the pitanga or Surinam cherry, is a Myrtaceae shrub or small tree native to E. and S. Brazil to S. South America, grown for ribbed edible fruit, invasive in south Florida, IUCN Least Concern.
Eugenic Abortion
Eugenic abortion, also called selective abortion, is abortion performed because of a prenatal finding that the fetus has or is at risk of a disability or genetic condition.
Eugenics
Eugenics, also called racial hygiene, is the discredited theory of improving humans through selective breeding. Coined by Galton in 1883; drove US sterilization laws and Nazi forced sterilization programs.
Eugenics in the United States
Eugenics in the United States: movement advocating compulsory sterilization, anti-miscegenation, and immigration restriction; ~60,000 sterilized, Buck v. Bell 1927, influenced Nazi Germany, ended with repeals and reparations.
Eugenie Bouchard
Eugenie Bouchard, Canadian tennis player (born 1994, Montreal), 2014 Wimbledon finalist and former world No. 5; won 2014 Nürnberg title and 2012 Wimbledon girls' title; retired 2025, now plays pickleball.
Eugénie de Montijo
Eugénie de Montijo (1826–1920), Spanish-born Empress of the French, wife of Napoleon III, last empress of France 1853–1870; three regencies, exile in England, crown jewels linked to the 2025 Louvre heist.