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Edison screw
The Edison screw, also known as the Edison base, is the threaded lamp cap and socket system, introduced by Thomas Edison in 1880, used to secure light bulbs.
Edison T. Liu
Edison T. Liu, born Edison Tak-Bun Liu in 1952, is a cancer geneticist known for breast cancer genomics and the tandem duplicator phenotype, who led the Genome Institute of Singapore.
Edison, New Jersey
Edison, New Jersey: Middlesex County township incorporated as Raritan Township in 1870 and renamed for Thomas Edison in 1954. Population 107,588 (2020); Faulkner Act Plan E mayor-council government; Menlo Park laboratory site; major warehousing hub.
Edisto Island Serpentarium
Edisto Island Serpentarium, a reptile zoo on Highway 174, Edisto Island, SC, opened July 1999 by brothers Ted and Heyward Clamp; South Carolina's first true serpentarium, with 20+ alligators, hundreds of snakes, and low-walled outdoor exhibits.
edIT
edIT is the stage name of Edward Ma, an American electronic music producer who co-founded The Glitch Mob and released the 2004 glitch-hop debut Crying Over Pros for No Reason.
Edit distance
Edit distance, also called Levenshtein distance, measures how different two strings are through the minimum number of character insertions, deletions, and substitutions needed to transform one into the other.
Edita Piekha
Edita Piekha (Эдита Пьеха), born in France in 1937, is a Soviet and Russian estrada singer of Polish descent who built her career in Leningrad.
Editas Medicine
Editas Medicine is a Cambridge, Massachusetts gene editing company developing CRISPR-based medicines, founded in 2013 by Feng Zhang, George Church, David Liu, and J. Keith Joung.
Edith A. Perez
Edith A. Perez is an American oncologist and breast cancer researcher who led the NCCTG N9831 adjuvant trastuzumab trial and spent two decades at Mayo Clinic in Florida.
Edith Alauze
Édith Alauze (1908–1995) was a French athlete and footballer who set world records in three discontinued women's events in the mid-1920s, including the 83 meters hurdles.
Edith B. Clement
Edith B. Clement, born Edith Brown Clement in 1948, is an American judge on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2001.
Edith Bouvier Beale
Edith Bouvier Beale ("Little Edie", 1917–2002), American socialite, model, and first cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, lived in seclusion with her mother "Big Edie" in the decaying East Hampton mansion Grey Gardens, subject of the 1975 Maysles documentary and later a fashion icon.
Edith Bowman
Edith Bowman (born 1974) is a Scottish broadcaster from Anstruther, Fife, known for MTV UK, BBC Radio 1's Colin and Edith, Virgin Radio, the Soundtracking podcast, and BBC's Coast to Coast Food Festival.
Edith Bunker
Edith Bunker is the fictional wife of Archie Bunker on All in the Family (CBS 1971-1979), played by Jean Stapleton, a three-Emmy 'dingbat' homemaker whose character died offscreen in Archie Bunker's Place.
Édith Butler
Édith Butler is an Acadian singer-songwriter and folklorist born in Paquetville, New Brunswick, in 1942, who has recorded about 300 songs and sold more than two million records.
Edith Cavell
Edith Cavell (1865-1915), British nurse and matron of Belgium's first nursing school in Brussels; helped over 200 Allied soldiers escape occupied Belgium, was court-martialled and executed by German firing squad on 12 October 1915.
Edith Cowan University
Edith Cowan University (ECU) is a public Western Australian university, teaching since 1991 under the 1984 Act and named after Edith Dircksey Cowan, the first woman elected to an Australian parliament, with 31,000+ students and campuses including Joondalup, Bunbury, Colombo, and the new ECU City opening 2026.
Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale
"Big Edie" Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale was an American socialite and amateur singer, aunt of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who lived in seclusion at Grey Gardens in East Hampton.
Edith Flagg
Edith Flagg (born Edith Feuerstein, 1919-2014) was a Romanian-born American fashion designer and Holocaust survivor who founded Edith Flagg, Inc. in Los Angeles, pioneered polyester (Crimplene) fashion imports, and later appeared as "Granny Edith" on Million Dollar Listing.
Edith Frank
Edith Frank (Edith Holländer, 1900-1945), mother of Anne and Margot Frank, German-born Jewish woman who emigrated to Amsterdam in 1933, hid in the Secret Annex from 1942, and died in Auschwitz-Birkenau on 6 January 1945.
Edith González
Edith González (Edith González Fuentes, 1964–2019), Mexican actress from Monterrey, Nuevo León, star of the telenovelas Los ricos también lloran, Corazón salvaje, Salomé, and Doña Bárbara; worked at Televisa over 30 years, then TV Azteca; died of ovarian cancer on 13 June 2019, aged 54.
Edith H. Jones
Edith Hollan Jones, born 1949, is an American judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1985.
Edith Hannam
Edith Hannam (1878–1951), British tennis player, won two gold medals at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics in covered court women's singles and mixed doubles with Charles Dixon.
Edith Head
Edith Head, born Edith Claire Posener (1897–1981), was an American costume designer who worked on more than 1,000 films and won a record eight Academy Awards.
Edith Heard
Edith Heard, born 1965 in London, is a geneticist known for her work on X-chromosome inactivation, formerly EMBL Director General and now Director of the Francis Crick Institute.
Edith Howes
Edith Howes was a New Zealand teacher and children's writer who wrote about 30 books, pioneered Montessori-influenced infant teaching at Gore, and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928.
Edith Louise Potter
Edith Louise Potter (1901–1993) was an American pathologist who founded perinatal pathology at the Chicago Lying-in Hospital, performing over 10,000 perinatal autopsies and describing Potter sequence in 1946.
Edith M. Flanigen
Edith M. Flanigen (1929–2026) was an American industrial chemist who pioneered molecular sieves, invented zeolite Y manufacture, and was the first woman to win the Perkin Medal.
Edith Mayne
Edith Mayne (Edith May Mayne-Peacock, 1905-1953), English freestyle swimmer for Torquay Leander; 1928 Olympic 400 m finalist-stage swimmer and 1,500 m world record holder (24:00.2, 1926).
Édith Mourier
Édith Mourier (1920–2017) was a French probabilist whose work on random elements in Banach spaces shaped probability in metric spaces; her name survives in the Fortet–Mourier distance.