Life scientists

Edward F. Knipling

Edward F. Knipling (1909–2000) was an American entomologist with the USDA who conceived the sterile insect technique, eradicating the screwworm fly from the United States.

Edward G. Jones

Edward G. Jones, known as Ted Jones, was a New Zealand-born American neuroanatomist who established the modern account of thalamic structure and its relationship with the cerebral cortex.

Edward Giniger

Edward Giniger is an American molecular neuroscientist who leads the Axon Guidance and Neural Connectivity Section at NINDS, studying how neurons connect during development and disconnect in disease.

Edward H. Egelman

Edward H. Egelman, born in 1952, is an American biophysicist at the University of Virginia known for cryo-electron microscopy of helical filaments and the IHRSR reconstruction algorithm.

Edward Herbert (American biochemist)

Edward Herbert (1926–1987) was an American molecular biologist who discovered proopiomelanocortin, the precursor of ACTH and beta-endorphin, and founded the Vollum Institute in Portland, Oregon.

Edward A. Hoover (1942–2023) was an American veterinarian and virologist at Colorado State University who developed the first successful feline leukemia virus vaccine and led chronic wasting disease research.

Edward J. Pearce

Edward J. Pearce, also known as Edward Pearce, is a British-born immunologist and parasitologist known for immunometabolism and type 2 immunity research; he joined Johns Hopkins University in 2020.

Edward Korn

Edward Korn was an American biochemist at the National Institutes of Health who discovered actin filaments and myosin I. His work is foundational to understanding how eukaryotic cells move.

Edward Kravitz

Edward Kravitz (1932–2025) was an American neurobiologist at Harvard Medical School known for showing that GABA inhibits neurons and that amines bias aggression in lobsters.

Edward L. Kaplan

Edward L. Kaplan was an American pediatrician and streptococcal researcher, Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota and head of the WHO Collaborating Center for Streptococci in Minneapolis.

Edward L. Kuff

Edward L. Kuff was an American molecular biologist at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, known for showing that intracisternal A particles are repeated, mobile mouse genome elements.

Edward L. Schneider

Edward L. Schneider is an American gerontologist and physician, Dean Emeritus of the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology and former Deputy Director of the National Institute on Aging.

Edward Laurens Mark

Edward Laurens Mark (1847–1946) was an American zoologist and embryologist at Harvard who built its Zoological Laboratories, co-founded the Bermuda Biological Station, and trained many biologists.

Edward M. Callaway

Edward M. Callaway is an American systems neuroscientist at the Salk Institute, known for developing monosynaptic rabies virus tracing and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.

Edward M. De Robertis

Edward M. De Robertis is a Uruguayan-born developmental biologist, professor at UCLA since 1985, known for the first vertebrate Hox gene and the Chordin/BMP gradient.

Edward M. Hedgecock

Edward M. Hedgecock is a biologist and professor at Johns Hopkins University who studies the developmental genetics of the nematode worm C. elegans, identifying nearly 30 genes affecting cell migrations or axon outgrowth.

Edward M. Johnson

Edward M. Johnson is a molecular biologist who studied nuclear acidic protein phosphorylation in lymphocytes and mapped the termini of Physarum ribosomal DNA in Cell papers from 1980 and 1983.

Edward M. Rogers

Edward M. Rogers is an American neuroscientist at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus who studies how fruit flies compute visual motion and detect approaching objects, with publications spanning 2017 to 2025.

Edward M. Rubin

Edward M. Rubin, known as Eddy Rubin, is an American geneticist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who directed the Joint Genome Institute from 2002 to 2016.

Edward M. Scolnick

Edward M. Scolnick is an American scientist known for discovering the RAS oncogenes, leading Merck Research Laboratories, and building psychiatric genetics research at the Broad Institute.

Edward M. Stricker

Edward M. Stricker (1941–2024) was an American behavioral neuroscientist at the University of Pittsburgh who studied how the brain controls feeding, drinking, and salt appetite.

Edward Marcotte

Edward M. Marcotte is a computational biologist and professor at the University of Texas at Austin known for genome-wide protein function prediction and large-scale protein complex maps.

Edward Murray East

Edward Murray East (1879–1938) was an American plant geneticist at Harvard's Bussey Institution who showed continuous variation follows Mendelian inheritance and helped found hybrid corn.

Edward O. Wilson

Edward O. Wilson (1929–2021) was an American biologist and entomologist at Harvard University, a leading authority on ants whose Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975) founded a controversial field.

Edward O'Brien (chemist)

Edward O'Brien, also known as Edward P. O'Brien, is an American computational molecular biophysicist and Penn State chemistry professor known for work on protein folding.

Edward S. Boyden

Edward S. Boyden is an American neuroscientist and biological engineer at MIT known for co-inventing optogenetics and creating expansion microscopy, winning the 2016 Breakthrough Prize.

Edward S. Buckler

Edward S. Buckler is an American plant geneticist at the USDA-ARS and Cornell University known for statistical genetics of maize, the TASSEL software, and the maize NAM population.

Edward S. Mocarski

Edward S. Mocarski is an American virologist who led microbiology at Stanford from 1983 to 2006, then joined Emory's Vaccine Center, studying cytomegalovirus and cell death.

Edward S. Morse

Edward S. Morse was an American zoologist and brachiopod specialist who became the first professor of zoology in Japan and whose 1877 Omori shell mound excavation opened scientific archaeology there.