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Edith Wetzel

Edith "Eadie" Wetzel, American swimmer; held the women's 200 m freestyle long course world record (2:08.8, Lincoln, 2 August 1968) and ranked in world top ten at 400, 800, and 1500 m freestyle; Illinois Swimming Hall of Fame.

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton (1862–1937), born Edith Newbold Jones, was an American novelist of Gilded Age New York society; author of The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, and The Age of Innocence, and the first woman to win the Pulitzer Novel Prize (1921).

Edith Widder

Edith Widder is an oceanographer and deep-sea explorer specializing in bioluminescence who invented stealth camera systems that produced the first video of a live giant squid in 2012.

Edith Wilson

Edith Bolling Galt Wilson (1872–1961), second wife of Woodrow Wilson and first lady 1915–1921; after his October 1919 stroke she controlled access and screened state papers for 17 months, her self-described "stewardship" of the presidency.

Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands

The Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands are a pair of wetlands in Melbourne's south-eastern suburbs, the last remnants of Carrum Carrum Swamp and a Ramsar site since 2001.

Editing

Editing: the process of improving a text for publication, spanning developmental editing (structure, plot), line editing (sentence-level style), copyediting (grammar, consistency), and proofreading, with costs, standards, and AI-era changes.

Editing and modification of viral RNA

Editing and modification of viral RNA is the process by which host enzymes such as ADAR and APOBEC edit viral genomes and add chemical marks like m6A.

Editing and proofreading by aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases

Editing and proofreading by aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases are hydrolytic quality-control reactions that remove wrong amino acids and mischarged tRNAs, maintaining the accuracy of the genetic code.

Edition (book)

Edition (book): the set of all copies printed from one setting of type; distinct from printing (impression), issue, and state. Covers first-edition identification, book club editions, MARC 250/ISBN cataloging, and collecting value.

Éditions de Minuit

Les Éditions de Minuit is a French publishing house founded clandestinely in 1941 under the occupation, later publisher of Samuel Beckett and the Nouveau Roman.

Editions of Dungeons & Dragons

Editions of Dungeons & Dragons: the game's versions since 1974, from Gygax and Arneson's original white box through AD&D 1e/2e, d20 3e/3.5, tactical 4e, and 5e (2014) with its 2024 revision, called 5.5e on D&D Beyond.

Editor war

The editor war, also known as Emacs vs. vi, is the long-running, mostly humorous dispute among programmers over whether vi or Emacs is the better Unix text editor.

Editorial

Editorial (leader, leading article): an unsigned opinion article expressing the editor's or editorial board's collective view on news or issues, distinct from signed op-eds and from neutral news reporting.

Editorial Costa Rica

Editorial Costa Rica is the state publishing house of Costa Rica, created by law in 1959 to publish literary, artistic, and scientific works by Costa Rican authors.

Editorial independence

Editorial independence: the principle that publication decisions are made solely on merit by editors, insulated from owners, advertisers, sponsors, and funders, per COPE, WAME, ICMJE, and media law.

Editorial Losada

Editorial Losada is an Argentine publishing house founded in Buenos Aires in 1938 by the Spanish publisher Gonzalo Losada, central to the golden age of Argentine publishing and the Spanish republican exile.

Editorial Sudamericana

Editorial Sudamericana is an Argentine publishing house founded in Buenos Aires in 1939, known for publishing the Latin American Boom, including García Márquez's Cien años de soledad.

Editors (band)

Editors are an English rock band formed in 2002 in Stafford (earlier names Pilot, The Pride, Snowfield), based in Birmingham; a post-punk revival band behind The Back Room, two UK No. 1 albums, and the 2026 record Surface, Echo & Sound.

Edits (app)

Edits is a free mobile video-editing app from Meta for short-form video creators, announced in January 2025 and released globally for iOS and Android in April 2025.

Edivoxetine

Edivoxetine (LY2216684) is Eli Lilly's investigational selective norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor for depression and ADHD. Three Phase 3 adjunctive MDD trials failed their primary endpoint in 2013, ending development; it was no better than placebo for ADHD.

EDM (elucidating diffusion models)

EDM (elucidating diffusion models) is a 2022 framework by Karras et al. of NVIDIA that reorganizes diffusion model sampling, training, and preconditioning into a clearly separated design space.

EDM Awards

The EDM Awards, formally the Electronic Dance Music Awards (EDMAs), are a fan-voted American awards show for electronic dance music, founded by Sean "Hollywood" Hamilton in 2022.

Edman degradation

Edman degradation is a protein chemistry method that sequentially removes and identifies the N-terminal amino acid of a peptide or protein, one residue per cycle, to determine its sequence.

Edmand Lara

Edmand Lara Montaño (also spelled Edman Lara), "Capitán Lara", Bolivian lawyer, ex-police captain, and TikTok anti-corruption figure; Vice President of Bolivia since 8 November 2025 under Rodrigo Paz, later in open opposition to him.

Edme Bouchardon

Edme Bouchardon (1698–1762) was a French sculptor and draftsman, regarded in his lifetime as the greatest sculptor of his time, and best known for the Four Seasons Fountain in Paris.

Edmen Shahbazyan (Էդմեն Շահբազյան)

Edmen Shahbazyan (Էդմեն Շահբազյան), "The Golden Boy," American UFC middleweight born 1997, 17-6 pro record, Contender Series signee, former top-10 prospect who rebuilt after a three-fight skid.

Edmodo

Edmodo.com was a free social learning network and learning management system for K-12 schools, founded in 2008, known as "Facebook for schools," and shut down in 2022.

Edmond Amran El Maleh

Edmond Amran El Maleh (إدمون عمران المالح, 1917–2010) was a Moroccan Jewish writer, journalist, and Communist activist who wrote in French, publishing his first novel at about age 60.

Edmond Barrett

Edmond (Edward, Ned) Barrett, Irish-born athlete, wrestler, and hurler; won 1908 Olympic gold in tug-of-war with City of London Police and bronze in heavyweight freestyle wrestling, plus the 1901 All-Ireland hurling title with London.

Edmond Blaise

Edmond Blaise (1872–1939) was a French organic chemist known for the Blaise reaction, first reported in 1901, who held chairs at Nancy and the Sorbonne and led research at Rhône-Poulenc.