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Edward A. Mason

Edward A. Mason (1924–2010) was an American chemical and nuclear engineer who headed MIT's Department of Nuclear Engineering, served on the first Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and led research at Amoco.

Edward A. Miller

Edward A. Miller was an American mechanical engineer who led General Electric's Corona project, producing the first object recovered from orbit, and won the 2005 Draper Prize.

Edward A. Murphy, Jr.

Edward A. Murphy, Jr. (1918–1989) was an American Air Force engineer whose name is traditionally tied to Murphy's Law through a 1949 rocket-sled test at Edwards Air Force Base.

Edward A. Neuwelt

Edward A. Neuwelt (died 2026) was an American neurosurgeon and neuro-oncologist at Oregon Health & Science University who pioneered osmotic blood-brain barrier disruption to deliver chemotherapy to brain tumors.

Edward Abbey

Edward Abbey (1927–1989), American writer and self-described agrarian anarchist of the Southwest desert; author of Desert Solitaire (1968) and The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975), whose eco-sabotage novel inspired Earth First!.

Edward Abraham

Edward Abraham is an American pulmonary and critical care physician-scientist known for sepsis research, who led the 2005 ADDRESS trial and served as a medical school dean.

Edward Abraham (English biochemist)

Sir Edward Penley Abraham (1913–1999) was an English biochemist at Oxford who purified penicillin, proposed its beta-lactam structure, and led the discovery of cephalosporin C, giving his royalties to charity.

Oct 22, 2026

Edward Akufo-Addo

Edward Akufo-Addo was a Ghanaian lawyer, jurist, and statesman who served as Chief Justice of Ghana and as President of the Second Republic from 1970 until the 1972 coup.

Edward Albee

Edward Albee (1928–2016), American playwright, author of The Zoo Story and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; three Pulitzer Prizes (A Delicate Balance, Seascape, Three Tall Women), Tony Awards, and founder of the Edward F. Albee Foundation artists' residency in Montauk.

Edward Albert

Edward Albert (Edward Laurence Albert, 1951–2006), American actor, son of Eddie Albert and Margo; Golden Globe-winning star of Butterflies Are Free (1972), later Guarding Tess, Beauty and the Beast, Port Charles, and a California environmental and Native American rights activist.

Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer

Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer (1850–1935) was an English physiologist who, with George Oliver, discovered the pressor action of adrenal extract in 1894 and proposed the name "insuline".

Oct 20, 2026

Edward Amoore

Edward John Amoore (Peepo, 1877–1955), British sport shooter of Southfields Rifle Club; at the 1908 London Olympics won small-bore rifle team gold and disappearing target bronze, placed fifth prone and last in moving target.

Sep 20, 2026

Edward Anders

Edward Anders (1926–2025) was a Latvian-born American cosmochemist at the University of Chicago who determined the solar system's chemical composition from meteorites and isolated presolar stardust grains.

Edward Andrade

Edward Neville da Costa Andrade (1887–1971) was an English physicist who measured radium gamma rays with Rutherford, founded the study of metal creep, and led the Royal Institution.

Edward Andrews

Edward Andrews (Edward Bryan Andrews Jr., 1914–1985), American character actor of stage, film, and TV; Broadway from 1935, films from 1955; known for The Phenix City Story, Elmer Gantry, Sixteen Candles, and Gremlins.

Edward Arnett

Edward Arnett was an American physical organic chemist at the University of Pittsburgh and Duke University, known for measuring the energy changes of organic reaction mechanisms through solution calorimetry.

Edward Arnold (actor)

Edward Arnold, born Gunther Edward Arnold Schneider (1890–1956), American character actor in over 100 films, star of Diamond Jim and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Screen Actors Guild president 1940–1942.

Edward Arthur Milne

Edward Arthur Milne (1896–1950) was a British astrophysicist and mathematician, the first Rouse Ball Professor at Oxford, known for stellar atmosphere theory and his kinematic relativity cosmology.

Edward Arthur Steinhaus

Edward Arthur Steinhaus (1914–1969) was an American insect pathologist and microbiologist who founded modern insect pathology, establishing its first laboratory, journal, and society, and becoming the first dean at UC Irvine.

Edward B Ziff

Edward B Ziff, also known as Edward Benjamin Ziff, is an American molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at NYU, known for work on cancer genes and AMPA receptor trafficking.

Edward B. Benedict

Edward B. Benedict (c. 1896/1897–1974) was an American surgeon and endoscopist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard, known for his reviews of endoscopy and studies of benign esophageal disease.

Edward B. Curtis

Edward B. Curtis (1933–2024) was a University of Washington mathematician who won the 1972 Steele Prize for Simplicial Homotopy Theory and later studied inverse problems for electrical networks.

Edward B. Garon

Edward B. Garon is an American medical oncologist at UCLA, where he directs the Thoracic Oncology Program and led the pivotal pembrolizumab trials in non-small-cell lung cancer.

Edward B. Hayes

Edward B. Hayes was an American medical epidemiologist and pediatrician who spent twenty years at the CDC studying vector-borne diseases before moving to Barcelona in 2008.

Edward B. Lewis

Edward B. Lewis (Edward Butts Lewis) was an American geneticist at Caltech who shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries on the genetic control of embryonic development.

Edward B. Perrin

Edward B. Perrin is an American biostatistician, first chair of the University of Washington's Department of Biostatistics and a former director of the National Center for Health Statistics.

Edward B. Stinson

Edward B. Stinson, born 1938, is an American cardiothoracic surgeon at Stanford University who assisted in the first adult heart transplant in the United States in 1968.

Edward Bagnall Poulton

Edward Bagnall Poulton (1856–1943) was an English entomologist and evolutionary zoologist who held Oxford's Hope Professorship for fifty years and championed natural selection when most biologists had abandoned it.

Edward Baker (entomologist)

Edward Baker, known professionally as Ed Baker, is an entomologist and bioacoustics researcher at the Natural History Museum, London, studying insect sounds, especially grasshoppers, crickets, and stick insects.