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Edward Thomas (locomotive)
Edward Thomas is a narrow-gauge saddle tank steam locomotive built in 1921 for the Corris Railway and running since 1952 on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales.
Edward Thorndike
Edward Lee Thorndike (1874-1949), American psychologist and founder of educational psychology, known for the puzzle box experiments, the law of effect from Animal Intelligence (1911), classical test theory, and a documented eugenicist legacy.
Edward Tingatinga
Edward Saidi Tingatinga (1932–1972) was a Tanzanian self-taught painter who founded the Tingatinga style, painting animals in bright enamel on board from 1968 to 1972.
Edward Tuckerman
Edward Tuckerman (1817–1886) was an American botanist and lichen expert, professor of botany at Amherst College, so dominant that 1847–1888 is called the Tuckermanian Period; Tuckerman's Ravine on Mount Washington is named for him.
Edward Tudor-Pole
Edward Tudor-Pole (Eddie Tenpole), English punk musician, actor and TV presenter born 1954; fronted Tenpole Tudor (Stiff Records, "Swords of a Thousand Men", UK No. 6), sang "Who Killed Bambi?" for the Sex Pistols, and hosted The Crystal Maze 1993-1995.
Edward V
Edward V (1470–1483) was the uncrowned king of England, eldest son of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville. Deposed by his uncle Richard III and one of the Princes in the Tower, he disappeared in 1483; murder and survival claims remain contested.
Edward V. Appleton
Edward V. Appleton, also known as Sir Edward Victor Appleton, was a British physicist who proved the ionosphere's existence and won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Edward V. Prochownik
Edward V. Prochownik is an American physician-scientist and molecular biologist who directs oncology research at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, known for showing that deregulated c-myc blocks blood-cell differentiation.
Edward Vermilye Huntington
Edward Vermilye Huntington (1874–1952) was an American Harvard mathematician, a central figure in American postulate theory, whose Huntington–Hill method has apportioned US House seats since 1941.
Edward Vernon
Edward Vernon (1684–1757), 'Old Grog,' Royal Navy admiral who captured Porto Bello in 1739, failed at Cartagena de Indias in 1741, and gave his nickname to grog by ordering the sailors' rum ration diluted with water.
Edward VI
Edward VI (1537–1553), only son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, king of England 1547–1553. Protestant boy king whose reign produced the 1549 and 1552 Books of Common Prayer; his Devise for the Succession briefly made Lady Jane Grey queen before Mary I.
Edward VII
Edward VII (1841–1910), Bertie, King of the United Kingdom and Emperor of India 1901–1910, eldest son of Victoria; accessed at 59, promoted the Entente Cordiale, died during the 1909 Lords crisis, succeeded by George V.
Edward VIII
Edward VIII (1894–1972), also Duke of Windsor, was King of the United Kingdom and Emperor of India for 325 days in 1936. He abdicated on 11 December 1936 to marry twice-divorced American Wallis Simpson, was never crowned, and later drew scrutiny for Nazi sympathies.
Edward W. Gregg
Edward W. Gregg is an American diabetes epidemiologist who led CDC diabetes surveillance, then joined Imperial College London, and now heads the RCSI School of Population Health.
Edward W. Holmes
Edward W. Holmes is an American physician-scientist known for research on AMP deaminase deficiency, service as dean of Duke's medical school, and leadership of Singapore's biomedical research councils.
Edward W. Hook
Edward W. Hook III is an American infectious-diseases physician and researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham who specializes in syphilis, gonorrhea, and other sexually transmitted infections.
Edward W. Morley
Edward Williams Morley was an American chemist and physicist best known for the 1887 Michelson–Morley experiment, which found no motion of Earth through the ether.
Edward W. Price
Edward Warren Price (1920–2012) was an American aerospace engineer best known for developing the T-burner, the standard laboratory method for measuring solid propellant combustion response.
Edward Washburn
Edward Wight Washburn (1881–1934) was an American physical chemist remembered for defining standard states for bomb calorimetry, producing heavy water by electrolysis, and editing the seven-volume International Critical Tables.
Edward Wenk Jr.
Edward Wenk Jr. (1920–2012) was an American civil and ocean engineer, professor at the University of Washington, and science-policy adviser to Congress and three presidents.
Edward Wennerholm
Edward Wennerholm (Oskar Edward Wennerholm, 1890-1943), Swedish gymnast of Stockholms GF and career officer, won gold in the men's team Swedish system event at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics with a 24-man Swedish team.
Edward Weston
Edward Weston (1886–1958), American modernist photographer of sharp-focus black-and-white still lifes, nudes, and Western landscapes; Group f/64 cofounder, first photographer to win a Guggenheim Fellowship, subject of MoMA retrospectives.
Edward Weston (American electrical engineer and inventor)
Edward Weston was an American electrical engineer and inventor, born in England in 1850, who held 334 U.S. patents and founded the AIEE, predecessor of the IEEE.
Edward White Benson
Edward White Benson was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1883 to 1896, whose Lincoln Judgment of 1890 resolved the Church of England's long dispute over worship; he earlier devised Nine Lessons and Carols.
Edward Wilber Berry
Edward Wilber Berry (1875–1945) was an American paleobotanist at Johns Hopkins University who reconstructed the Eocene floras of southeastern North America and later served as the university's provost.
Edward Wilmot Blyden
Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832–1912) was a West Indian-born Liberian educator, diplomat, and writer, a founding figure of pan-Africanism who served as Liberia's secretary of state and president of Liberia College.
Edward Wilson Merrill
Edward Wilson Merrill (1923–2020) was an American chemical engineer and rheologist at MIT who helped found biomaterials and bioengineering, proposing polyethylene oxide as a biomaterial.
Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick
Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick (Edward Edmund Maximilian George Windsor, Eddy Downpatrick), born 1988, is a British travel consultant and fashion designer, only son of the Earl of St Andrews, second in line to the Dukedom of Kent, and excluded from the throne as a Roman Catholic convert.
Edward Winslow
Edward Winslow (1595–1655), Mayflower Pilgrim and three-time governor of Plymouth Colony, was the colonists' chief diplomat with Massasoit's Wampanoag, author of Good Newes from New England (1624), and Plymouth's agent in England.
Edward Winter (actor)
Edward Dean Winter (1937-2001), American character actor born in Ventura, California; twice Tony-nominated for Cabaret and Promises, Promises, and best known as paranoid Colonel Flagg on M*A*S*H (1973-1979); died of Parkinson's disease at 63.