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Edward I. Altman
Edward I. Altman is an American financial economist at NYU Stern best known as the creator of the Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-prediction model published in 1968.
Edward I. Ginns
Edward I. Ginns is an American neurologist who directs the Lysosomal Storage Disorders Treatment and Research Center at UMass Chan Medical School, known for Gaucher disease research.
Edward I. Moses
Edward I. Moses is an American laser plasma physicist who built and directed the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore, winning the 2009 Edward Teller Medal.
Edward I. Solomon
Edward I. Solomon is an American inorganic chemist, the Monroe E. Spaght Professor Emeritus at Stanford, known for spectroscopic studies of metal active sites in enzymes and catalysts.
Edward II (1991 film)
Edward II (1991) is Derek Jarman's modern-dress film adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's play, starring Steven Waddington, Andrew Tiernan, and Tilda Swinton; a New Queer Cinema landmark that won the Teddy Award at Berlin and changed the play's ending.
Edward II of England
Edward II (Edward of Caernarfon, 1284–1327), King of England 1307–1327, fourth son of Edward I; deposed by Isabella of France and Roger Mortimer, murdered at Berkeley Castle; known for Gaveston, the Ordinances of 1311, and defeat at Bannockburn.
Edward III of England
Edward III (Edward of Windsor, 1312–1377), king of England 1327–1377: initiated the Hundred Years' War in 1337, won Sluys, Crécy, and Poitiers, founded the Order of the Garter, and presided over plague-era parliamentary England.
Edward Irving
Edward Irving (1792–1834) was a celebrated Scottish preacher whose London ministry drew huge crowds until his 1832 deposition for unorthodox views of Christ's human nature, a forerunner of the Catholic Apostolic Church.
Edward IV of England
Edward IV (1442–1483), first Yorkist king of England, reigned 1461–70 and 1471–83. Won the throne at Towton, married Elizabeth Woodville, was briefly deposed by Warwick, restored in 1471, and rebuilt royal finances.
Edward J. Barlow
Edward J. Barlow (1920–2010) was an American electrical engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1968, who led air-defense studies at RAND and Titan rocket development at the Aerospace Corporation.
Edward J. Benz
Edward J. Benz, born 1946, is an American hematologist and geneticist who first showed a beta-globin mRNA defect underlies beta thalassemia and led Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Edward J. Brook
Edward J. Brook is an American paleoclimatologist and geochemist at Oregon State University who reconstructs past greenhouse gas levels from air trapped in polar ice cores.
Edward J. Connors
Edward J. Connors was an American health-system executive who led Mercy Health Services in Michigan from 1976 to 1993 and chaired the American Hospital Association board in 1989.
Edward J. Cording
Edward J. Cording is an American geotechnical engineer and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988 for underground construction research.
Edward J. Davila
Edward John Davila is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the Northern District of California, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2011.
Edward J. DeBartolo Jr.
Edward J. DeBartolo Jr. (Eddie DeBartolo, "Mr. D"), born 1946 in Youngstown, Ohio, owned the San Francisco 49ers 1977-2000, winning five Super Bowls, and entered the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2016.
Edward J. Garnero
Edward J. Garnero is an American seismologist and Arizona State University professor who studies Earth's deep interior, known for work on the core–mantle boundary and ultra-low velocity zones.
Edward J. Goetzl
Edward J. Goetzl is an American physician-scientist in allergy and immunology who moved from Harvard to UCSF and later developed blood tests for predicting Alzheimer's disease.
Edward J. Hackett
Edward J. Hackett is an American sociologist who studies the social organization of scientific research, and professor emeritus at Arizona State University who led the journal Science, Technology & Human Values.
Edward J. Kennelly
Edward J. Kennelly is an astronomer credited in the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics background as a member of the team that confirmed 51 Pegasi b in 1995.
Edward J. King
Edward J. King (1925–2006), Massachusetts governor 1979–1983, Democrat who beat Dukakis in the 1978 primary, lost the 1982 rematch, and joined the GOP in 1985.
Edward J. Lodge
Edward J. Lodge, born in 1933, is a senior United States district judge for the District of Idaho, appointed by George H.W. Bush in 1989.
Edward J. McCluskey
Edward J. McCluskey (1929–2016) was an American computer engineer and Stanford professor who created the Quine–McCluskey algorithm and served as the first president of the IEEE Computer Society.
Edward J. McShane
Edward James McShane (1904–1989) was an American mathematician at the University of Virginia, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1948 and known for the McShane–Whitney extension theorem.
Edward J. Mills
Edward J. Mills is a clinical epidemiologist and part-time professor at McMaster University, known for large HIV meta-analyses and for leading the TOGETHER trial of repurposed drugs for early COVID-19.
Edward J. Pearce
Edward J. Pearce, also known as Edward Pearce, is a British-born immunologist and parasitologist known for immunometabolism and type 2 immunity research; he joined Johns Hopkins University in 2020.
Edward J. Stemmler
Edward J. Stemmler (1929–2023) was an American physician and dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine who led national medical education and physician assessment.
Edward James Olmos
Edward James Olmos (born 1947), American actor, director, and activist; Emmy winner for Miami Vice's Lt. Castillo, Oscar-nominated for Stand and Deliver, Admiral Adama in Battlestar Galactica, and Latino-visibility advocate.
Edward James Salisbury
Sir Edward James Salisbury (1886–1978) was a British botanist and ecologist who pioneered the quantitative study of plant reproduction and directed the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, from 1943 to 1956.
Edward Jenner
Edward Jenner (1749–1823), English physician of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, introduced vaccination against smallpox using cowpox; his 1796 Phipps experiment and 1798 Inquiry founded immunology, leading to smallpox eradication in 1980.