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Egan Bernal
Egan Bernal (Egan Arley Bernal Gomez, born 1997), Colombian cyclist for Netcompany Ineos; first Colombian Tour de France winner (2019), 2021 Giro champion, survived a near-fatal 2022 training crash, won a 2025 Vuelta stage.
Egan Inoue
Egan Inoue (born 1965) is a Hawaiian athlete and entrepreneur: two-time racquetball world champion (1986, 1990), first non-Brazilian BJJ world champion, MMA fighter, and founder of E-Force and Egan's Fitness.
EGARCH model
The EGARCH model, introduced by Daniel B. Nelson in Econometrica in 1991, is a time-series model in which negative and positive shocks of equal size affect volatility differently.
Egas Moniz
Egas Moniz (1874–1955) was a Portuguese neurologist and statesman who invented cerebral angiography in 1927 and devised prefrontal leucotomy in 1935, winning the 1949 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Egawa Hidetatsu
Egawa Hidetatsu (1801–1855), known as Egawa Tarozaemon or Tan'an, was a Japanese shogunal magistrate and gunnery expert who directed coastal-defense works, including the Shinagawa battery islands and the Nirayama reverberatory furnace.
Egba United Government
The Egba United Government was the self-governing administration of the Egba, a Yoruba people at Abeokuta in southwestern Nigeria, from 1893 until British annexation in 1914.
Egbe Omo Oduduwa
Egbe Omo Oduduwa (Egbé Ọmọ Odùduwà, Society of the Descendants of Oduduwa) is a pan-Yoruba cultural organization founded in London in 1945 by Obafemi Awolowo and other Yoruba students.
Egbert
Egbert (Old English Ecgberht, c. 639 to 729) was a Northumbrian monk who persuaded the monastery of Iona to adopt the Roman Easter in 716.
Egbert Brieskorn
Egbert Brieskorn (1936–2013) was a German mathematician, a founder of singularity theory of complex hypersurfaces, whose Brieskorn manifolds gave all 28 differentiable structures on the 7-sphere.
Egbert Hirschfelder
Egbert Hirschfelder (Egbert Christoph Hirschfelder), German rower, 1942-2022. West German Olympic champion: coxed four gold, Tokyo 1964; eight gold, Mexico City 1968; European champion 1963 and 1967; 1972 Munich flagbearer.
Egbert of York
Egbert of York (Ecgberht) was Archbishop of York from 735 until his death in 766, a royal kinsman who founded the school and library that trained Alcuin.
Egbert van Kampen
Egbert van Kampen (Egbert Rudolf van Kampen) was a Dutch mathematician, known for the van Kampen theorem, who worked at Johns Hopkins and died in 1942.
Egbert Zojer
Egbert Zojer (born 1972) is an Austrian computational physicist at Graz University of Technology who works on the electrostatic design of materials and atomistic modeling of organic materials.
Egberto Gismonti
Egberto Gismonti is a Brazilian composer, guitarist, and pianist born in 1947 in Carmo, Rio de Janeiro state, known for blending choro with classical training and for ECM albums like Dança das Cabeças.
Ege T. Kavalali
Ege T. Kavalali, also known as Ege Kavalali, is a Turkish-born neuroscientist and Chair of Pharmacology at Vanderbilt University, known for establishing spontaneous neurotransmission as a distinct signaling pathway.
Egebergs ærespris
Egebergs ærespris (Kabinetskammerherre Egebergs ærespris for alsidig idrett), Norway's highest sports honor, founded 1919 by Ferdinand Egeberg; bronze statuette by Magnus Vigrestad for athletes excelling in two or more sports.
Egemin Automation
Egemin Automation was a Belgian warehouse automation company in Zwijndrecht that built automated guided vehicle systems, acquired by the KION Group in 2015 for €72.5 million.
eGenesis
eGenesis is a clinical-stage biotechnology company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 2016 from George Church's Harvard research, that develops gene-edited pig kidneys for transplanting into kidney-failure patients.
Eger V. Murphree
Eger V. Murphree (1898–1962) was an American chemical engineer who co-invented fluid catalytic cracking, the refinery process that still makes much of the world's gasoline, and led Exxon's central research for 15 years.
Egeria
Egeria (ODPi Egeria) is an LF AI & Data open source project, contributed by IBM and ING in 2018, providing an Apache-2.0 open metadata type system, OMAG server platform, cohorts, and integration connectors for cross-tool metadata exchange and governance.
Egeria densa
Egeria densa (Brazilian waterweed, anacharis, Elodea densa), Hydrocharitaceae submerged aquatic plant native to South America, aquarium escape, male-only invasive populations, whorls of 4–8 serrated leaves, clogs waterways.
Egersund
Egersund (Egersunds Idrettsklubb, EIK, Tigrene), Norwegian multi-sports club from Egersund, Rogaland, founded 1919; football side promoted to OBOS-ligaen 2023, 4th in 2024, plays at B&G Parken.
Egerton Capital
Egerton Capital is a London hedge fund founded in 1994 by John Armitage and William Bollinger, a Tiger Management offshoot managing about $20 billion in global equities.
EGF-like domain
EGF-like domain: a 30–50 amino acid extracellular protein module with six conserved cysteines in three disulfide bonds (1–3, 2–4, 5–6), found in growth factors, Notch, coagulation factors, and fibrillin; calcium-binding cbEGF subtype; Pfam PF00008, InterPro IPR000742.
EGFL7
EGFL7 (VE-statin), a secreted 278-amino-acid endothelial protein with two EGF-like domains, regulates vascular tubulogenesis and Notch signaling; its gene hosts miR-126 and it is a biomarker in cancer, stroke, MS, and preeclampsia.
EGFR-AS1
EGFR-AS1 (EGFR antisense RNA 1) is a human long non-coding RNA transcribed opposite the EGFR gene that raises EGFR output and drives tumor proliferation, invasion, and treatment resistance.
EGFR-TKI therapy
EGFR-TKI therapy is drug treatment with tyrosine kinase inhibitors that block the epidermal growth factor receptor, used mainly for EGFR-mutated non-small-cell lung cancer, especially in Asian patients.
EGFR-TKIs trial
EGFR-TKIs trial (NCT02646020): Chinese phase 2 trial comparing aprepitant, an NK1 antagonist, with desloratadine for EGFR-TKI-induced pruritus in NSCLC; aprepitant gave higher, faster response (57.9% vs 28.0% at week 1) with mild adverse events.
Egg
Egg: the female reproductive cell (ovum) of animals, also the shelled reproductive body of birds and reptiles. Amniotic egg, with four extraembryonic membranes, evolved 300-360 million years ago, enabling land reproduction.
Egg Bowl
Egg Bowl: annual Ole Miss vs. Mississippi State football game, officially the Battle for the Golden Egg. First played 1901; trophy created 1927 after a fan brawl; named by the Clarion-Ledger in 1978; Ole Miss leads the series.