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Earl Young
Earl Verdelle Young (born 1941, San Fernando, California), American quarter-miler and Abilene Christian alumnus; 1960 Rome Olympic gold medalist in the 4x400 m relay with a 3:02.2 world record, sixth in the 400 m, and two 1963 Pan American Games relay golds.
Earle Hyman
Earle Hyman (George Earle Hyman, 1926–2017), American stage and screen actor; first African American to play all four major Shakespearean leads; Grandpa Huxtable on The Cosby Show; voice of Panthro; honored in Norway.
Earle M. Chapman
Earle M. Chapman was an American endocrinologist and physician at Massachusetts General Hospital who, as director of its Thyroid Unit from 1943, helped establish radioactive iodine as a definitive treatment for hyperthyroidism.
Earle Meadows
Earle Meadows (1913-1992), American pole vaulter, 1936 Berlin Olympic gold medalist at 4.35 m; shared 1937 world records of 4.48 and 4.54 m with USC teammate Bill Sefton, the "Heavenly Twins."
Earle Nelson
Earle Leonard Nelson (Virgil Wilson), the "Gorilla Strangler" (1897/1898–1928), an American serial killer who murdered at least 22 women across North America in 1925–1927 and was hanged in Winnipeg after Canada's largest manhunt.
Earle Page
Earle Christmas Grafton Page (1880–1961), Australian surgeon and Country Party co-founder; 11th Prime Minister for 20 days in April 1939, long-serving Treasurer and deputy prime minister, and Health Minister 1949–56.
Earle W. Wilkins
Earle W. Wilkins (1919–2020) was an American thoracic and esophageal surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard faculty member, known for his 1968 review "Surgery of the Esophagus".
Earle Wells
Earle Leonard Wells (1933–2021), New Zealand sailor and Olympian No 205; with Danish-born skipper Helmer Pedersen won Flying Dutchman gold in Pandora at Tokyo 1964, New Zealand's second Olympic sailing gold.
Earlens
Earlens Corp is a Menlo Park, California medical-device company, founded in 2005, that developed the FDA-cleared Earlens Light-Driven Hearing Aid using light to vibrate the eardrum directly.
Earless seal
Earless seals (Phocidae, true seals): 18 pinniped species lacking external ear flaps, moving on land by belly-bouncing and swimming with hind flippers; descended from weasel-like ancestors, originating in the North Atlantic or Paratethys 19–14 million years ago.
Earlham College
Earlham College is a private Quaker-founded liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana, opened in 1847, renamed Earlham in 1859, the first coeducational Quaker college, with the Earlham School of Religion seminary and Epic Advantage funded off-campus study.
Earliella
Earliella Murrill is a monotypic genus of Polyporales (Polyporaceae) bracket fungi whose single species, Earliella scabrosa, is pantropical, shows high haplotype diversity (Hd 0.88) across five geographic populations, and yields antifungal compounds active against rubberwood decay fungi.
EARLIER study
EARLIER (DR230226, NCT06235645), full title dEtection of rheumAtoid aRthritis - Interstitial Lung dIseasE by Thoracic ultRasound, is an observational University Hospital, Tours study validating thoracic ultrasound sensitivity and specificity against chest CT in 280 risk-factor-selected RA patients.
Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the Slopes of Popocatepetl
Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the Slopes of Popocatepetl (Primeros monasterios del siglo XVI en las laderas del Popocatépetl): UNESCO World Heritage serial site of 15 Franciscan, Dominican and Augustinian monasteries in Morelos, Puebla and Tlaxcala, inscribed 1994, extended 2021, criteria (ii) and (iv).
Earliest deadline first scheduling
Earliest deadline first scheduling (EDF) is a dynamic-priority algorithm for real-time operating systems that runs the job with the earliest deadline, allowing full processor use.
Earliest known life forms
Earliest known life forms: microscopic organisms recorded by ~3.5 Ga microfossils, stromatolites, and carbon isotopes, with disputed 3.7 Ga Greenland traces and a LUCA dated 4.33–4.09 Ga.
Earlimart pesticide poisoning
Earlimart pesticide poisoning: November 13, 1999 metam sodium (MITC) drift from a sprinkler-fumigated potato field into Earlimart, Tulare County, California; evacuations, hospitalizations, DPR citations, and Teresa de Anda's El Comite advocacy.
Earll family murders
The Earll family murders were the 1902 killings of six family members on a farm in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. Farmhand Albert Edwin Batson was convicted and hanged in 1903.
Earll M. Murman
Earll M. Murman, born in 1942, is an American aerospace engineer and MIT emeritus professor known for the Murman-Cole transonic flow scheme and for co-directing MIT's Lean Aerospace Initiative.
Earlobe
Earlobe (lobule): the soft, cartilage-free lower part of the external ear made of fibrofatty tissue; pierced commonly, elongates with age, polygenic attached-versus-free attachment, site of Frank's sign.
Earls Court Exhibition Centre
Earls Court Exhibition Centre was a pair of linked exhibition and concert halls in west London, opened in 1937, which hosted 2012 Olympic volleyball and was demolished by 2017.
Early 1980s recession
The early 1980s recession, also known as the Reagan recession, was a double-dip downturn caused chiefly by Federal Reserve tightening against high inflation, with unemployment peaking at 10.8 percent.
Early 1990s recession
The early 1990s recession was a downturn across the industrial world beginning in 1990, hitting the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Nordic countries.
Early 1990s recession in the United States
The early 1990s recession in the United States was an eight-month contraction from July 1990 to March 1991, followed by a slow jobless recovery as unemployment rose to 7.8 percent.
Early 2000s recession
The early 2000s recession was a US contraction from March to November 2001 that ended a ten-year expansion, driven by monetary tightening, falling stock prices, and an investment collapse.
Early access
Early access: a video game funding model where consumers buy and play alpha or beta builds while developers use funds and feedback to finish the game. Formalized by Steam's Early Access program, launched March 20, 2013 with twelve titles; known for abandonment risk and Steam's 12-month no-update note.
Early age-related macular degeneration
Early age-related macular degeneration (early AMD, ICD-11 9B75.00, AREDS category 2) is the AMD stage defined by medium drusen 63–125 µm without pigmentary abnormalities, asymptomatic, low progression risk, no treatment.
Early Ambulation
Early ambulation (early mobilization, early mobility) is the practice of getting patients walking or out of bed sooner than usual, after surgery, in the ICU, after stroke, and after delivery; MeSH-defined since 1976, with trial evidence on weakness, length of stay, and function.
Early American currency
Early American currency is the paper money and coinage of British North America and the early United States, from 1690 colonial bills of credit to the 1792 dollar standard.
Early American printers and publishers
Early American printers and publishers were artisans who ran colonial printing houses and produced newspapers from 1690 onward, typically combining printer, bookseller, and publisher in one person.