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Elliot See
Elliot See was an American NASA astronaut selected in 1962, named command pilot for Gemini IX but killed in a 1966 jet crash before flying in space.
Elliot Stabler
Elliot Stabler is a fictional NYPD detective played by Christopher Meloni, the hot-headed lead of Law & Order: SVU for its first 12 seasons and star of Organized Crime.
Elliott Abrams
Elliott Abrams (born 1948), American foreign policy official and CFR senior fellow; Reagan assistant secretary of state, Bush deputy national security advisor, Trump special representative for Venezuela and Iran; pleaded guilty in 1991 over Iran-Contra and was pardoned.
Elliott Brothers (computers)
Elliott Brothers (London) Ltd was a British instrument-making firm that became one of the UK's earliest computer makers, supplying 50 percent of Britain's 1961 digital computers.
Elliott Erwitt
Elliott Erwitt (1928–2023) was a French-born American documentary and advertising photographer, a Magnum Photos member for 70 years, known for humorous black-and-white images of dogs and celebrities.
Elliott F. Osserman
Elliott F. Osserman was a physician-scientist in hematology and immunology at Columbia University whose 1959 review reframed multiple myeloma as one pattern of a single plasma-cell disease.
Elliott Gould
Elliott Gould (born Elliott Goldstein, 1938, Brooklyn) is an American actor, Oscar-nominated for Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, star of Altman's M*A*S*H and The Long Goodbye, later Jack Geller on Friends and Reuben Tishkoff in Ocean's Eleven.
Élliott H. Lieb
Elliott H. Lieb, born 1932 in Boston, is an American mathematical physicist, long at Princeton University, whose rigorous many-body results underpin research in physics, chemistry, and quantum information.
Elliott Hawkes
Elliott Hawkes is a roboticist and Associate Professor at UC Santa Barbara. His work focuses on bio-inspired robots, such as vine robots and a record-setting jumping robot.
Elliott Hill
Elliott Hill is an American business executive who became President and CEO of Nike in October 2024, returning after a 32-year Nike career that began as an intern in 1988.
Elliott Kieff
Elliott Kieff (1943–2024) was an American virologist who established the molecular biology of Epstein–Barr virus and its role in cancer, leading virology at Harvard and Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Elliott M. Antman
Elliott M. Antman is an American cardiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School whose drug trials reshaped heart-attack treatment; he led the American Heart Association in 2014-15.
Elliott M. Ross
Elliott M. Ross is an American biochemist and pharmacologist who helped discover the first G proteins and spent his faculty career at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas from 1981.
Elliott Management
Elliott Management is an American activist, multi-strategy hedge fund founded by Paul Singer in 1977, managing about $80 billion and known for campaigns at AT&T, BP, and Southwest Airlines.
Elliott S. Fisher
Elliott S. Fisher is an American physician and health services researcher at Dartmouth, known for work on regional Medicare spending differences and accountable care organizations.
Elliott Smith
Elliott Smith (Steven Paul Smith, 1969-2003), American singer-songwriter from Portland, Oregon, formerly of Heatmiser, known for Roman Candle, Either/Or, XO, and the Oscar-nominated "Miss Misery"; died in Los Angeles at 34.
Elliott Smith (album)
Elliott Smith (1995) is the American singer-songwriter's self-titled second solo album, released July 1995 on Kill Rock Stars (KRS246). Recorded DIY on 8-track in friends' Portland homes, ignored by press at release, now a landmark indie-folk record reissued in 2020.
Elliott Taylor
Elliott Taylor is the fictional boy protagonist of Steven Spielberg's 1982 film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, created with screenwriter Melissa Mathison and played by Henry Thomas; a lonely middle child of divorce who shares a psychic bond with the alien.
Elliott Vichinsky
Elliott Vichinsky is an American pediatric hematologist and UCSF professor who built Oakland's comprehensive sickle cell program and led phase 3 trials of voxelotor and l-glutamine.
Elliott Waters Montroll
Elliott Waters Montroll (1916–1983) was an American mathematical physicist who introduced the continuous-time random walk in 1965 and applied transfer-matrix methods to the Ising model.
Elliott wave principle
The Elliott wave principle, also known as Elliott Wave Theory, is a financial market theory proposed by Ralph Nelson Elliott in 1938, holding that prices move in repeating five-wave cycles.
Elliott Yamin
Elliott Yamin (エリオット・ヤミン), born 1978 in Los Angeles, is an American R&B singer who finished third on American Idol season 5; his 2007 debut hit No. 3 on Billboard with the platinum single "Wait for You".
Ellipi
Ellipi was an independent kingdom in the central Zagros mountains of western Iran, attested in Neo-Assyrian records from 866 BC until its mid-7th-century BC annexation by the Medes.
Ellipse
An ellipse is a closed plane curve where the sum of the distances to two fixed points, the foci, is constant; it describes planetary orbits.
Ellipsis
Ellipsis: three-dot punctuation mark marking omissions in quotations, pauses, or trailing speech; also called suspension points, encoded as U+2026 HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS, with style-guide rules on spacing, four-dot forms, and vertical variants.
Ellipsoid
An ellipsoid is a closed quadric surface in three dimensions defined by three semi-axes, the three-dimensional analog of the ellipse, with the sphere as a special case.
Ellipsoid method
The ellipsoid method is an iterative algorithm for convex optimization that shrinks enclosing ellipsoids, used by Khachiyan in 1979 to prove linear programming solvable in polynomial time.
Ellipsometer
An ellipsometer is an optical instrument that measures the change in polarization of light upon specular reflection, used to determine film thicknesses, refractive indices, and other optical properties.
Ellipsometry
Ellipsometry is a nondestructive, contactless optical technique that measures how reflected light's polarization changes, fitting optical models to determine thin-film thickness, refractive index, roughness, and composition.
Elliptic curve
An elliptic curve is a smooth curve of genus one with a group law, given by y² = x³ + ax + b, used in modern cryptography.