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Edetate calcium disodium anhydrous
Edetate calcium disodium anhydrous (calcium disodium EDTA, CaNa2EDTA, CAS 62-33-9) is a chelating drug approved in 1953 for lead poisoning, distinct from edetate disodium, and also a food and cosmetic sequestrant.
EDF Energy
EDF Energy is the United Kingdom business of the French state-owned utility Électricité de France, operating five nuclear power stations and serving about five million customers.
EDF Renewables
EDF Renewables is the international renewable energy subsidiary of the French utility EDF Group, which developed and operated wind, solar, and storage plants, merging into EDF power solutions in June 2025.
Edfu
Edfu, also Behdet or Apollinopolis Magna, is an ancient Egyptian town on the Nile between Luxor and Aswan, with the settlement mound Tell Edfu and the Temple of Horus.
Edfu Facula
Edfu Facula is a 184-km-wide bright palimpsest impact feature on Jupiter's moon Ganymede, at 25.7N, 147.1W, IAU-named in 1985 for the Egyptian town where Horus was worshipped.
Edfu South pyramid
The Edfu South pyramid is a small sandstone step pyramid near Edfu in Upper Egypt, one of seven provincial pyramids built around 2600 BCE for the royal cult, not burial.
Edfu Temple
The Edfu Temple, also known as the Temple of Horus at Edfu, is a large Ptolemaic temple on the Nile at Edfu, built between 237 and 57 BC.
Edfu-Project
Edfu-Project (Edfu-Projekt): German Egyptological long-term project founded by Dieter Kurth at Hamburg in 1986, producing a complete reliable translation of all inscriptions of the Ptolemaic Temple of Horus at Edfu; since 2002 under the Göttingen Academy.
EDGAR
EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, is the SEC's free public database of company filings, handling about 4,700 filings daily since electronic filing began in 1993.
Edgar A. Newell
Edgar A. Newell (1851–1920) was an American businessman who took over a bankrupt Ogdensburg, New York curtain-rod maker in 1903 and built it into Newell Brands.
Edgar A. Starke Jr.
Edgar A. Starke Jr. is an American metallurgist and University Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia, known for research on the physical metallurgy of aerospace aluminum alloys.
Edgar Aabye
Edgar Aabye (Edgar Lindenau Aabye, 1865-1941), Danish journalist and tug-of-war player; Denmark's first sports journalist at Politiken; won 1900 Paris Olympic gold in the mixed Danish-Swedish tug-of-war team after replacing an injured puller.
Edgar Adrian
Edgar Adrian, also Edgar Douglas Adrian, was a British electrophysiologist who showed that nerves encode stimulus strength by firing frequency, sharing the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Edgar Ætheling
Edgar Ætheling, also known as Edgar the Atheling or Edgar II, was an Anglo-Saxon prince proclaimed king of England in October 1066 after Harold II died at Hastings, but he was never crowned.
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), American poet, critic, and short-story writer; inventor of detective fiction through the Dupin tales and author of "The Raven"; born Boston, died Baltimore.
Edgar Allan Poe bibliography
The Edgar Allan Poe bibliography covers Poe's published books, beginning with Tamerlane and Other Poems in 1827, the posthumous collections, and the reference bibliographies cataloging them.
Edgar Allen
Edgar Allen (1892–1943) was a reproductive physiologist at Washington University School of Medicine who, with Edward A. Doisy, isolated estrogen in 1923.
Edgar Amador Zamora
Edgar Amador Zamora is a Mexican economist and public official who serves as Secretary of Finance and Public Credit, appointed in March 2025 under President Claudia Sheinbaum.
Edgar Anderson
Edgar Anderson (1897–1969) was an American botanist and geneticist at the Missouri Botanical Garden, best known for naming introgressive hybridization, the transfer of genes between species.
Edgar Awards
The Edgar Awards, formally the Edgar Allan Poe Awards, are annual prizes from Mystery Writers of America honoring the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction, and television.
Edgar B. Jackson Jr.
Edgar B. Jackson Jr. was an American internist who became the first African American chief of staff at a major academic medical center, at Cleveland's University Hospitals in 1997.
Edgar B. Saavedra
Edgar B. Saavedra is a Filipino civil engineer and construction tycoon who cofounded Megawide Construction with Michael Cosiquien in 1997 and serves as its chairman, president, and CEO.
Edgar Bain
Edgar Collins Bain (1891–1971) was an American physical metallurgist who pioneered X-ray diffraction studies of steel and gave his name to bainite, the microstructure named for him in 1934.
Edgar Bergen
Edgar Bergen (Edgar John Berggren, 1903-1978), American ventriloquist whose dummy Charlie McCarthy made him a radio superstar on The Chase and Sanborn Hour from 1937; honorary wooden Oscar 1938, three Walk of Fame stars.
Edgar Berlanga
Edgar Luis Berlanga Jr., "El Elegido" (born 1997), Brooklyn-born Puerto Rican super middleweight boxer who opened his pro career with 16 first-round knockouts, won the WBO NABO title, lost to Canelo Alvarez in 2024 and to Hamzah Sheeraz in 2025.
Edgar Brandt
Edgar Brandt (1880–1960) was a French wrought-iron craftsman and designer, a defining figure of Art Deco ironwork, known for the Louvre's Escalier Mollien railing and the Arc de Triomphe's Eternal Flame vessel.
Edgar Brenchley
Edgar 'Chirp' Brenchley (1912-1975), British ice hockey right winger; 1936 Olympic gold medallist who scored the winning goal against Canada, 1937 World silver, later EAHL player, coach, and NHL scout.
Edgar Bright Wilson
Edgar Bright Wilson Jr., known professionally as E. Bright Wilson, was an American physical chemist at Harvard whose theoretical work shaped molecular spectroscopy from the late 1930s.
Edgar Bronfman Jr.
Edgar Bronfman Jr. (born 1955), American media executive and Seagram heir; led Seagram into entertainment, sold it to Vivendi for $24 billion in 2000, led Warner Music Group 2004–2012, co-founded Waverley Capital, and made a withdrawn 2024 Paramount bid.
Edgar Bronfman Sr.
Edgar Bronfman Sr. (1929-2013), Montreal-born Canadian-American executive, led Seagram and was World Jewish Congress president 1971-2007, securing $1.25 billion in Swiss bank Holocaust restitution.