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Edward L. Wilson

Edward L. Wilson is an American structural engineer and Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, known for developing the finite element method and creating the SAP and ETABS structural analysis software.

Edward L. Wright

Edward L. (Ned) Wright is an American infrared astronomer and observational cosmologist at UCLA, a COBE and WMAP team member and principal investigator of WISE.

Edward Laurens Mark

Edward Laurens Mark (1847–1946) was an American zoologist and embryologist at Harvard who built its Zoological Laboratories, co-founded the Bermuda Biological Station, and trained many biologists.

Edward Lawry Norton

Edward Lawry Norton (1898–1983) was an American electrical engineer at Bell Telephone Laboratories known for Norton's theorem, which he stated in a 1926 internal memorandum and never published.

Edward Paul Lazear (1948–2020) was an American labor economist who founded personnel economics, showed piece-rate pay raised Safelite's productivity 44 percent, and chaired the Council of Economic Advisers under George W. Bush.

Edward Leamington Nichols

Edward Leamington Nichols was an American physicist who headed Cornell's physics department from 1887, founded the journal Physical Review in 1893, and won the first Frederic Ives Medal.

Edward Lear

Edward Lear (1812–1888), English artist, travel writer, and poet, popularized the limerick with A Book of Nonsense (1846), pseudonym Derry Down Derry, and wrote The Owl and the Pussycat; also a landscape painter.

Edward Lee (chef)

Edward Lee (Lee Kyun), Korean-American chef from Brooklyn, chef-owner of 610 Magnolia in Louisville; author of Smoke & Pickles; 2019 James Beard writing winner; Culinary Class Wars runner-up.

Edward Leedskalnin

Edward Leedskalnin, also known as Edvards Lēdskalniņš, was a Latvian-American stonemason who single-handedly built Coral Castle, over 1,100 tons of quarried limestone, near Homestead, Florida, between 1923 and 1951.

Oct 21, 2026

Edward Lessimore

Edward John Lessimore (1881-1960), British sport shooter from Bristol, won team gold in 50m small-bore rifle prone at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics (team 762, his score 195) and placed fourth individually with 192.

Edward Lindsay Ince

Edward Lindsay Ince (1891–1941) was a British mathematician who worked on ordinary differential equations, the Mathieu and Lamé functions, and published the 1932 tables of Mathieu's equation.

Edward Linfoot

Edward Hubert Linfoot was a British mathematician and astronomer known for a 1934 paper with Hans Heilbronn on imaginary quadratic fields and for applying information theory to optics.

Edward Lloyd (coffee house owner)

Edward Lloyd (c. 1648 to 1713) was a London coffee house keeper whose Lombard Street shop gave its name to Lloyd's of London, the marine insurance market.

Oct 22, 2026

Edward Long

Edward Long (1734–1813) was a British colonial administrator, slave owner, and judge who spent twelve years in Jamaica and wrote The History of Jamaica, published in 1774.

Edward Low

Edward "Ned" Low (c. 1690 Westminster – fate unknown) was an English pirate active 1721–1724 in the Caribbean and eastern Atlantic, notorious for documented torture of captives, defeated by HMS Greyhound in 1723, and marooned by his own crew in 1724.

Edward M. Brown

Edward M. Brown, fully Edward Meigs Brown, is an American endocrinologist and emeritus Harvard professor whose laboratory identified and cloned the calcium-sensing receptor, earning the Endocrine Society's highest award in 2019.

Sep 20, 2026

Edward M. Callaway

Edward M. Callaway is an American systems neuroscientist at the Salk Institute, known for developing monosynaptic rabies virus tracing and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.

Sep 27, 2026

Edward M. Chen

Edward Milton Chen (born 1953) is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the Northern District of California since 2022.

Sep 20, 2026

Edward M. De Robertis

Edward M. De Robertis is a Uruguayan-born developmental biologist, professor at UCLA since 1985, known for the first vertebrate Hox gene and the Chordin/BMP gradient.

Edward M. Hedgecock

Edward M. Hedgecock is a biologist and professor at Johns Hopkins University who studies the developmental genetics of the nematode worm C. elegans, identifying nearly 30 genes affecting cell migrations or axon outgrowth.

Edward M. Johnson

Edward M. Johnson is a molecular biologist who studied nuclear acidic protein phosphorylation in lymphocytes and mapped the termini of Physarum ribosomal DNA in Cell papers from 1980 and 1983.

Edward M. Kennedy Jr.

Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy Jr. (born 1961) is an American health care attorney, disability rights advocate, AAPD board chair, and former Connecticut State Senator (12th District, 2015-2019), eldest son of Senator Ted Kennedy; distinct from Massachusetts Senator Edward J. Kennedy of Lowell.