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Eckankar

Eckankar is a new religious movement founded by Paul Twitchell in 1965, teaching that the soul journeys through spiritual planes toward God realization under a living ECK Master.

Eckard Münck

Eckard Münck is a bioinorganic chemist and emeritus Professor of Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University, known for applying Mössbauer spectroscopy to iron-sulfur clusters and high-valent iron intermediates in metalloenzymes.

Eckard Wimmer

Eckard Wimmer is a virologist and Stony Brook University professor known for poliovirus research and for leading the first chemical synthesis of an infectious virus in 2002.

Eckardt Suhl

Eckardt Suhl (born 1943, Hamburg) is a German field hockey player who won Olympic gold with West Germany at Munich 1972, finished fourth at Mexico City 1968, and won the 1970 European title with Uhlenhorster HC Hamburg as his club.

Eckart Diesch

Eckart Diesch (born 1954, Friedrichshafen) is a German sailor who won Flying Dutchman Olympic gold with brother Jörg at Montreal 1976, was fifth at Los Angeles 1984, and later a Friedrichshafen dentist and yacht-club president.

Eckehard Schöll

Eckehard Schöll (born 1951 in Stuttgart) is a German theoretical physicist known for nonlinear dynamics and chimera states, and a professor at TU Berlin from 1989 to 2019.

Eckerd Corporation

Eckerd Corporation, also known as Eckerd Drugs, was an American drugstore chain bought by J.C. Penney in 1996 and sold to CVS and Jean Coutu in 2004.

Eckhard Jankowsky

Eckhard Jankowsky is an RNA biochemist known for his work on RNA helicases, enzymes that use ATP to remodel RNA and RNA-protein complexes; he was a professor at Case Western Reserve University until 2022.

Eckhard Lammert

Eckhard Lammert is a German biochemist and metabolic physiologist who studies blood vessel signaling to the pancreas and liver, directing the Institute for Vascular and Islet Cell Biology in Düsseldorf.

Eckhardt Schultz

Eckhardt (Eckhard) Schultz, born 1964 in Wolfsburg, is a German rower who won Olympic gold in the men's eight for West Germany at Seoul 1988 (5:46.05) and later became CFO of LEG Immobilien.

Eckhart Tolle

Eckhart Tolle, born Ulrich Tolle, is a spiritual teacher and author whose 1997 book The Power of Now made him one of the most popular spiritual authors in the United States.

Eclairion

Eclairion is a French operator of high-density colocation data centers for AI, based in Bruyères-le-Châtel near Paris and known for hosting Mistral AI's training cluster.

Eclampsia

Eclampsia in pregnancy: new-onset unexplained seizures in a woman with pre-eclampsia, occurring before, during, or after delivery. Treated with magnesium sulfate plus antihypertensives; prevented by low-dose aspirin and calcium.

Eclampsia in the puerperium

Eclampsia in the puerperium (postpartum eclampsia, ICD-11 JA25.2): grand mal seizures from hypertensive disorder of pregnancy after delivery, up to 6 weeks postpartum; treated with magnesium sulfate; 21-40% of eclampsia cases.

Eclectic Chronicle

The Eclectic Chronicle, numbered ABC 24, is a Babylonian chronicle on tablet BM 27859 in the British Museum, summarizing Babylonian history from about 1080 BC onward.

Eclecticism

Eclecticism: philosophical method of selecting and combining elements from different systems of thought, from Greek eklegein. Potamo of Alexandria was the only self-declared ancient eclectic; later Victor Cousin's French eclecticism and Sil and Katzenstein's analytic eclecticism.

Eclectus

Eclectus (Eclectus Wagler, 1832), eclectus parrots: a parrot genus of Oceania with four extant species (Moluccan, Sumba, Tanimbar, Papuan) plus extinct E. infectus; green males, red females, cooperative breeding, male-biased sex ratio.

eCLIP

eCLIP, or enhanced crosslinking and immunoprecipitation, is a molecular biology method mapping RNA-binding protein contacts transcriptome-wide at single-nucleotide resolution, introduced by Van Nostrand in 2016.

Eclipse

An eclipse occurs when the Sun, Moon, and Earth line up: a solar eclipse at new moon, and a lunar eclipse when the full Moon enters Earth's shadow.

Eclipse (Meyer novel)

Eclipse (2007) is Stephenie Meyer's third Twilight saga novel, in which Bella Swan's love triangle with Edward Cullen and Jacob Black collides with Victoria's vampire army.

Eclipse (site)

Eclipse Casino, an online gambling site at eclipsecasino.com established 2017 under a Curacao license with Rival games; blacklisted by AskGamblers over slow payouts. Distinct from the unrelated Eclipse Casino Batumi in Georgia.

Eclipse (software)

Eclipse, also known as Eclipse IDE, is a free, open-source integrated development environment created by IBM in 2001, now governed by the Eclipse Foundation and best known for Java development.

Eclipse (Xandria album)

Eclipse is the ninth studio album by German symphonic metal band Xandria, released August 7, 2026 on Napalm Records. Second album with vocalist Ambre Vourvahis; 11 tracks, 57:33, four singles including the title track.

Eclipse (yacht)

Eclipse, also known as M/Y Eclipse, is a 162.5-meter motor yacht built by Blohm+Voss in Hamburg and delivered in 2010 to Roman Abramovich; she was then the world's largest private yacht.

Eclipse 500

The Eclipse 500 is an American six-seat very light jet built by Eclipse Aviation of Albuquerque, powered by two Pratt & Whitney turbofans and FAA certified in 2006.

Eclipse chasing

Eclipse chasing, also called umbraphilia, is traveling to the narrow path of totality of a solar eclipse, which crosses any given spot on Earth only about every 375 years.

Eclipse Continuity

Eclipse Continuity Fund I is a $125 million Delaware venture capital fund formed in 2016, controlled by Lior Susan alongside Eclipse Ventures and known for its stake in Owlet.

Eclipse Cyclone DDS

Eclipse Cyclone DDS is an open-source implementation of the OMG DDS specification and DDSI-RTPS wire protocol, hosted by the Eclipse Foundation and widely used in ROS 2.

Eclipse Foundation

The Eclipse Foundation is a vendor-neutral nonprofit that hosts open source software projects, best known as the home of the Eclipse Platform and Jakarta EE.

Eclipse mapping

Eclipse mapping is an exoplanet astronomy technique that uses the changing shape of a secondary eclipse to reconstruct a two-dimensional map of a planet's dayside brightness or temperature.