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Edward Witten
Edward Witten, also known as Ed Witten, is an American theoretical physicist best known for superstring theory and M-theory, and the only physicist to win the Fields Medal, in 1990.
Edward Woll
Edward Woll (1914–2010) was an American jet-engine engineer and executive at General Electric who pioneered US aircraft gas turbines, led engines from the J47 to the CFM56, and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1977.
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, the 'Holy Fox' (1881–1959): British Conservative statesman, Viceroy of India 1926–31, Foreign Secretary 1938–40 and appeasement architect who declined the premiership in May 1940 in favor of Churchill, then ambassador to Washington 1941–46.
Edward Woodward
Edward Woodward (1930–2009), English actor and singer; star of Callan (1967–72), The Wicker Man (1973), Breaker Morant (1980), and The Equalizer (1985–89); BAFTA 1970, Golden Globe 1986, OBE 1978.
Edward Wright
Edward Gordon Dundas Wright (1884-1947), English amateur outside left; Hull City captain and first capped player; won football gold for Great Britain at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, playing only the 4-0 semifinal win over Finland; later a South African mining engineer.
Edward Youde
Sir Edward Youde (尤德, 1924–1986), 26th Governor of Hong Kong from May 1982, career diplomat and former Ambassador to China, led the territory through the Sino-British negotiations, championed tertiary education, and died in Beijing in office.
Edward Young
Edward D. Young is a UCLA geochemist known for the CO self-shielding explanation of oxygen isotope anomalies and for tracing Earth's water to primordial hydrogen atmospheres.
Edward Yu
Edward Yu is an American structural biologist at Case Western Reserve University known for determining the crystal structures of the E. coli CusA heavy-metal efflux pump.
Edward Zwick
Edward Zwick, Chicago-born American director, producer, and screenwriter; AFI Conservatory 1975; co-created thirtysomething with Marshall Herskovitz (Bedford Falls Company); directed Glory, Legends of the Fall, The Last Samurai, Blood Diamond; produced Shakespeare in Love; 2024 memoir Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions.
Edwardian by-election wave (1906–1914)
The Edwardian by-election wave was the period between the Liberal landslide of 1906 and the First World War in 1914, when British by-elections were read as verdicts on the government.
Edwardian era
The Edwardian era (1901–1910, extended to 1914) is the British period of Edward VII's reign, marked by labour unrest, suffrage militancy, early welfare reforms, suburban housing, and electrification before the First World War.
Edwards Air Force Base
Edwards Air Force Base, formerly Muroc Air Force Base, is a United States Air Force base in California's Mojave Desert, the Air Force's principal center for flight test and evaluation.
Edwards Aquifer
The Edwards Aquifer is a karst limestone aquifer in south-central Texas, stretching roughly 180 miles and supplying more than two million people in the San Antonio area.
Edwards Lifesciences
Edwards Lifesciences is an American medical device company headquartered in Irvine, California, that treats structural heart disease with transcatheter and surgical heart valves sold in over 100 countries.
Edwards Plateau
The Edwards Plateau is a broad limestone upland in central Texas whose eroded eastern margin forms the Texas Hill Country, underlain by Cretaceous limestone and the Edwards Aquifer.
Edwards v Canada (AG)
Edwards v Canada (AG), the Persons Case, [1930] AC 124: 1929 Privy Council decision holding women are "qualified persons" under BNA Act s. 24, eligible for the Canadian Senate, reversing the Supreme Court of Canada and establishing the living tree doctrine.
Edwardsia
Edwardsia (de Quatrefages, 1842) is a genus of small burrowing sea anemones in the family Edwardsiidae, order Actiniaria, with eight perfect mesenteries, nemathybomes, and roughly forty accepted species worldwide.
Edwardsiella
Edwardsiella (Ewing and McWhorter, 1965) is a genus of gram-negative Enterobacteriaceae rods, now five species including E. tarda, E. piscicida, and E. ictaluri; fish pathogens of aquaculture and rare opportunistic human pathogens causing gastroenteritis and septicemia.
Edwardsiella tarda
Edwardsiella tarda (synonym Edwardsiella anguillimortifera) is a Gram-negative Hafniaceae bacterium of aquatic animals, a fish pathogen and rare human cause of gastroenteritis and bacteremia; type strain ATCC 15947.
Edwardsville Amazon warehouse collapse
The Edwardsville Amazon warehouse collapse: an EF-3 tornado destroyed Amazon's DLI4 delivery facility in Edwardsville, Illinois on December 10, 2021, killing six workers sheltering in a south-side bathroom, prompting OSHA findings, lawsuits, and Illinois's Warehouse Tornado Preparedness Act.
Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat, born 1969 in Port-au-Prince, is a Haitian-American novelist, memoirist, and short-story writer known for Breath, Eyes, Memory and The Dew Breaker; her memoir Brother, I'm Dying won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award.
Edwige Fenech
Edwige Fenech (Edwige Sfenek), born 1948 in Annaba, French Algeria, is an Italian actress and producer, star of 1970s commedia sexy all'italiana and Sergio Martino gialli, later producer of The Merchant of Venice.
Edwin
Edwin is a masculine given name meaning "wealth-friend," derived from Old English ēad and wine. It was borne by the Northumbrian king Edwin of Northumbria and is popular globally.
Edwin A. Bergin
Edwin A. Bergin, known as Ted Bergin, is an American astronomer and astrochemist at the University of Michigan who studies the chemistry of planet formation.
Edwin A. Chandross
Edwin A. Chandross is an American chemist, born in Brooklyn in 1934, who led organic materials research at Bell Labs and discovered the peroxyoxalate chemiluminescence reaction powering glow sticks.
Edwin Albert Link
Edwin Albert Link (1904–1981) was an American inventor who created the Link Trainer flight simulator used to train over 500,000 World War II pilots, then designed deep-sea submersibles.
Edwin Allston Hill
Edwin Allston Hill (1850–1929) was an American chemist, lawyer, and Patent Office official in Washington, D.C., whose 1900 paper described the Hill system for ordering elements in molecular formulas.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson was an American poet from Gardiner, Maine, who won three Pulitzer Prizes for poetry and is known for the ironic portraits "Richard Cory" and "Miniver Cheevy."
Edwin Austin Abbey
Edwin Austin Abbey (1852–1911), American illustrator and painter based in England, known for Shakespearean illustrations for Harper's, the Boston Public Library Holy Grail murals, and Pennsylvania Capitol murals.
Edwin Austin Gee
Edwin Austin Gee, published as Edwin A. Gee, is an American chemical engineer at International Paper elected to the National Academy of Engineering's Chemical section in 1979.