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Edwin Furshpan

Edwin Furshpan, known as Ed Furshpan, was an American neurobiologist and Harvard Medical School professor who discovered electrical synaptic transmission and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1982.

Edwin G. Abel

Edwin G. Abel, known as Ted Abel, is an American neuroscientist studying the molecular mechanisms of memory storage; he directs the Iowa Neuroscience Institute and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2019.

Edwin G. Krebs

Edwin G. Krebs (1918–2009) was an American biochemist who shared the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that cells regulate proteins by phosphorylation.

Edwin G. Nourse

Edwin G. Nourse (Edwin Griswold Nourse) was an American agricultural economist who became the first Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Truman, 1946 to 1949.

Edwin Gale

Edwin A.M. Gale is a British diabetologist, Professor of Diabetic Medicine at the University of Bristol from 1997, known for the ENDIT type 1 diabetes prevention trial.

Edwin Grant Conklin

Edwin Grant Conklin was an American embryologist known for tracing cell lineages in marine eggs and arguing that the egg's cytoplasm, not only its nucleus, directs early development.

Edwin H. Colbert

Edwin H. Colbert (1905–2001) was an American vertebrate paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History who wrote the popular books that introduced mid-century America to dinosaurs.

Edwin H. Land

Edwin H. Land (1909–1991) was an American physicist and inventor who founded Polaroid, invented instant photography and the synthetic sheet polarizer, and held 537 patents, second only to Edison.

Edwin Hall

Edwin Hall (1855–1938) was an American physicist who discovered the Hall effect in 1879 as a Johns Hopkins graduate student, then taught physics at Harvard until 1921.

Edwin Hewitt

Edwin Hewitt (1920–1999) was an American mathematician at the University of Washington, known for the Hewitt–Savage zero-one law, realcompact spaces, and the monograph Abstract Harmonic Analysis with Kenneth Ross.

Edwin Howard Armstrong

Edwin Howard Armstrong (Edwin H. Armstrong) was an American electrical engineer at Columbia University who invented FM broadcasting and the regenerative, superregenerative, and superheterodyne circuits, holding 42 patents.

Edwin Hubble

Edwin Hubble was an American astronomer at Mount Wilson Observatory who proved galaxies lie beyond the Milky Way and discovered the velocity–distance relation showing the universe expands.

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Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Power Plant

The Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Power Plant, known as Plant Hatch, is a two-unit nuclear power plant near Baxley, Georgia, and the first nuclear generating station in the state.

Edwin J. Vandenberg

Edwin J. Vandenberg (1918–2005) was an American industrial polymer chemist who spent 43 years at Hercules Powder Company, independently discovered isotactic polypropylene, and received the Priestley Medal in 2003.

Edwin James George Pitman

Edwin James George Pitman (1897–1993) was an Australian mathematician and statistician, professor at the University of Tasmania from 1926 to 1962, known for the Pitman estimator and efficiency.

Edwin Jarvis

Edwin Jarvis, Marvel Comics butler to the Stark family and caretaker of Avengers Mansion; debuted in Tales of Suspense #59 (1964) by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby; namesake of the MCU's J.A.R.V.I.S. AI and played by James D'Arcy in Agent Carter and Avengers: Endgame.

Edwin John Butler

Sir Edwin John Butler (1874–1943), Irish mycologist and plant pathologist; first Imperial Mycologist at Pusa, India, and first Director of the Imperial Bureau of Mycology, Kew; called Father of Indian Plant Pathology.

Edwin Joseph Cohn

Edwin Joseph Cohn (1892–1953) was an American protein biochemist at Harvard Medical School whose cold ethanol fractionation supplied albumin and gamma globulin to the armed forces in World War II.

Edwin Klebs

Edwin Klebs (1834–1913) was a Prussian pathologist and bacteriologist who formulated the causal criteria for microbial disease years before Robert Koch and described the diphtheria bacillus in 1883.

Edwin L. Alderman

Edwin L. Alderman was an American cardiologist and Stanford professor of cardiovascular medicine who led randomized trials of coronary bypass surgery and angioplasty, including the Coronary Artery Surgery Study.

Edwin L. Bierman

Edwin L. Bierman (1930–1995) was an American endocrinologist and lipid researcher at the University of Washington who pioneered using cultured human cells to study atherosclerosis and co-discovered combined hyperlipidemia.

Edwin L. Carstensen

Edwin L. Carstensen (1919–2016) was an American biophysicist at the University of Rochester who founded ultrasound contrast science and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Edwin L. Ferguson

Edwin L. Ferguson is an American molecular geneticist and University of Chicago professor known for showing that Dpp acts as a morphogen patterning the fruit fly embryo.

Edwin L. Harder

Edwin L. Harder, born in Buffalo, New York, in 1905, was an American power engineer at Westinghouse known for protective relays and the Anacom analog computer.

Edwin L. Thomas

Edwin L. Thomas, also known as Ned Thomas, is an American polymer materials scientist who determined block copolymer morphology, including the gyroid, and holds a chair at Texas A&M.

Edwin L. Zebroski

Edwin L. Zebroski, also known as Edwin Leopold Zebroski, is an American nuclear reactor engineer who led reactor development at General Electric and research at EPRI.

Edwin Landseer

Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802–1873), Victorian Britain's foremost animal painter, portraitist of Queen Victoria, and designer of the Trafalgar Square lions; known for The Monarch of the Glen and The Old Shepherd's Chief Mourner.

Edwin Lee Gibson

Edwin Lee Gibson (born 1964, Houston) is an American actor and playwright, Obie winner for The Seven, known as Ebraheim on The Bear, Dick Gregory in Turn Me Loose, and roles in Fargo, Winning Time, and Fallout.