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E. O. Wilson
Edward Osborne Wilson, known as E. O. Wilson (1929–2021), was an American Harvard biologist, the world's leading authority on ants, founder of sociobiology, and advocate for biodiversity conservation.
E. Peter Geiduschek
E. Peter Geiduschek (1928–2022) was an Austrian-born American molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor at UC San Diego, known for work on DNA structure and transcription.
E. Peter Greenberg
E. Peter Greenberg is an American microbiologist at the University of Washington, widely credited with founding quorum sensing, the study of how bacteria coordinate gene expression by population density.
E. Richard Moxon
E. Richard Moxon, Edward Richard Moxon, born 1941, is a British microbiologist and pediatrician, Emeritus Professor of Paediatrics at Oxford, known for Hib meningitis vaccine research.
E. Roy John
E. Roy John (Erwin Roy John, 1924–2009) was an American neuroscientist who pioneered neurometrics, a quantitative EEG method, co-discovered the P300 evoked potential, and founded NYU's Brain Research Laboratories.
E. Yvonne Jones
E. Yvonne Jones is a British structural biologist at Oxford who determines cell-surface signaling structures and has been a Fellow of the Royal Society since 2017.
E.B. Keverne
E.B. Keverne, also known as Eric B. Keverne, is a British behavioral neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge, known for work on pheromones and genomic imprinting in brain development.
E.C. Slater
E.C. Slater, born Edward Charles Slater, was an Australian-born biochemist (1917–2016) who spent 1955–1985 at the University of Amsterdam, known for the chemical theory of oxidative phosphorylation.
E.F. Pai
Emil F. Pai is a German-born structural biologist and X-ray crystallographer who moved to the University of Toronto in 1991 and solved the first flavoenzyme and oncoprotein structures.
E.H. Eylar
E.H. Eylar, also known as Edwin H. Eylar, is a biochemist known for sequencing myelin basic protein and mapping the nine-residue site that induces experimental allergic encephalomyelitis.
Earl K. Miller
Earl K. Miller, also known as Earl Miller, is the Picower Professor of Neuroscience at MIT, known for recording single neurons in monkeys and for his synaptic theory of working memory.
Earl R. Stadtman
Earl R. Stadtman (1919–2008) was an American biochemist who spent 57 years at the National Institutes of Health, known for work on coenzyme A, glutamine synthetase regulation, and protein oxidation in aging.
Ebbe Nielsen
Ebbe Schmidt Nielsen (1950–2001) was a Danish-born Australian entomologist who led CSIRO's Australian National Insect Collection and was a leading authority on ghost moth taxonomy.
Eberhard E. Fetz
Eberhard E. Fetz, also known as E. E. Fetz, is an American neuroscientist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington, a pioneer of brain–computer interfaces.
Eckhard Jankowsky
Eckhard Jankowsky is an RNA biochemist known for his work on RNA helicases, enzymes that use ATP to remodel RNA and RNA-protein complexes; he was a professor at Case Western Reserve University until 2022.
Ed Diener
Ed Diener, known as "Dr. Happiness," was an American psychologist (1946–2021) who founded the scientific study of subjective well-being, working mostly at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Ed Harlow
Ed Harlow is an American molecular biologist at Harvard Medical School whose 1988 Nature paper showed the adenovirus E1A protein physically binds the retinoblastoma gene product.
Ed Hurt
Ed Hurt (Eduard Christian Hurt, born 1955) is a molecular biologist and professor at Heidelberg University's Biochemistry Center, known for work on ribosome assembly and mRNA export.
Ed Palmer
Ed Palmer is a Swiss-based immunologist and emeritus professor at the University of Basel, known for work on how the T cell receptor selects self-reactive T cells in the thymus.
Ed S. Lein
Ed S. Lein is a neuroscientist at the Allen Institute in Seattle who builds cellular and gene-expression atlases of the mammalian brain and co-leads the NIH BICAN human brain atlas project.
Edgar Adrian
Edgar Adrian, also Edgar Douglas Adrian, was a British electrophysiologist who showed that nerves encode stimulus strength by firing frequency, sharing the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Edgar Anderson
Edgar Anderson (1897–1969) was an American botanist and geneticist at the Missouri Botanical Garden, best known for naming introgressive hybridization, the transfer of genes between species.
Edgar G. Engleman
Edgar G. Engleman is an American immunologist and Stanford professor of pathology and medicine who founded the Stanford Blood Center and pioneered human dendritic-cell cancer immunotherapy.
Edgar Lederer
Edgar Lederer (1908–1988) was a French biochemist of Austrian origin who revived chromatography in 1931 and spent decades studying carotenoids and mycobacterial lipids, including mycolic acids.
Edison T. Liu
Edison T. Liu, born Edison Tak-Bun Liu in 1952, is a cancer geneticist known for breast cancer genomics and the tandem duplicator phenotype, who led the Genome Institute of Singapore.
Edith Heard
Edith Heard, born 1965 in London, is a geneticist known for her work on X-chromosome inactivation, formerly EMBL Director General and now Director of the Francis Crick Institute.
Edmond H. Fischer
Edmond H. Fischer was a Swiss-American biochemist who shared the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edwin G. Krebs for discovering reversible protein phosphorylation.
Edmond J. Yunis
Edmond J. Yunis (1929–2023) was a Colombian-born immunologist and immunogeneticist who led immunogenetics at Harvard and Dana-Farber, known for MHC extended haplotypes, vaccine response genetics, and tetragametic chimerism.
Edmond Nocard
Edmond Nocard (1850-1903), French veterinarian and Pasteur disciple, founder of veterinary microbiology; discovered Nocardia farcinica (1888), first mycoplasma (1898), and advanced tuberculosis and glanders control.
Edmund Beecher Wilson
Edmund Beecher Wilson (1856–1939) was an American zoologist and cytologist at Columbia University whose 1905 studies of insect chromosomes established the chromosomal mechanism of sex determination.