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E.C. HUSKISSON

E.C. Huskisson was a British rheumatologist at St Bartholomew's Hospital whose 1974 Lancet paper "Measurement of Pain" established how pain should be measured in clinical trials.

Earl Frieden

Earl Frieden is an American biochemist at Florida State University known for his 1963 Nature paper on product inhibition of enzymes and tadpole thyroid research.

Earl H. Wood

Earl H. Wood (1912–2009) was an American cardiovascular physiologist and physician-scientist at the Mayo Clinic who helped invent the G-suit and pioneered three-dimensional X-ray imaging of the heart.

Earl P. Benditt

Earl P. Benditt (1916–1996) was an American experimental pathologist who chaired pathology at the University of Washington from 1957 to 1981, known for the monoclonal hypothesis of atherosclerosis.

Earl P. Steinberg

Earl P. Steinberg is an American physician and health services researcher who spent twelve years on the Johns Hopkins faculty and later led Geisinger's startup xG Health Solutions.

Earl S. Ford

Earl S. Ford is an American epidemiologist at the CDC known for landmark metabolic syndrome estimates and a 2007 analysis explaining the decline in US coronary heart disease deaths.

Earl W. Davie

Earl W. Davie (1927–2020) was an American biochemist at the University of Washington who proposed the 1964 waterfall sequence model of blood coagulation and co-founded ZymoGenetics.

Earl W. Sutherland

Earl W. Sutherland Jr. (1915–1974) was an American pharmacologist who discovered cyclic AMP, the second messenger of hormone action, winning the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Earle M. Chapman

Earle M. Chapman was an American endocrinologist and physician at Massachusetts General Hospital who, as director of its Thyroid Unit from 1943, helped establish radioactive iodine as a definitive treatment for hyperthyroidism.

Earle W. Wilkins

Earle W. Wilkins (1919–2020) was an American thoracic and esophageal surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard faculty member, known for his 1968 review "Surgery of the Esophagus".

Eberhard Ritz

Eberhard Ritz (1938–2023) was a German nephrologist and professor at Heidelberg University, known for research on cardiovascular disease in chronic kidney disease and diabetic nephropathy.

Ebrahim M. Samba

Ebrahim Malick Samba (1928–2016) was a Gambian physician who led the WHO river blindness program in West Africa and was WHO Regional Director for Africa from 1995 to 2005.

Eckard Wimmer

Eckard Wimmer is a virologist and Stony Brook University professor known for poliovirus research and for leading the first chemical synthesis of an infectious virus in 2002.

Eckhard Lammert

Eckhard Lammert is a German biochemist and metabolic physiologist who studies blood vessel signaling to the pancreas and liver, directing the Institute for Vascular and Islet Cell Biology in Düsseldorf.

Edgar Allen

Edgar Allen (1892–1943) was a reproductive physiologist at Washington University School of Medicine who, with Edward A. Doisy, isolated estrogen in 1923.

Edgar Haber

Edgar Haber (1932–1997) was a German-born research physician who led the Cardiac Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1964 to 1988 and developed a worldwide digoxin diagnostic test.

Edgar S. Cathcart

Edgar S. Cathcart (died 2008) was a rheumatologist known internationally for his amyloid protein research, and professor of medicine at Boston University from 1977 to 2003.

Edith A. Perez

Edith A. Perez is an American oncologist and breast cancer researcher who led the NCCTG N9831 adjuvant trastuzumab trial and spent two decades at Mayo Clinic in Florida.

Edith Louise Potter

Edith Louise Potter (1901–1993) was an American pathologist who founded perinatal pathology at the Chicago Lying-in Hospital, performing over 10,000 perinatal autopsies and describing Potter sequence in 1946.

Edmond Locard

Edmond Locard (1877–1966) was a French forensic scientist who founded the first French police laboratory in Lyon in 1910 and formulated the exchange principle, "every contact leaves a trace."

Edmund G. Lowrie

Edmund G. Lowrie is an American nephrology researcher at Harvard and Fresenius Medical Care known for landmark studies on dialysis survival and quality of life.

Edmund H. Sonnenblick

Edmund H. Sonnenblick (1932–2007) was an American cardiologist and researcher who defined the mechanics of heart muscle contraction, laying the basis for modern heart-failure treatment.

Edmund J. Lewis

Edmund J. Lewis (1936–2023) was an American nephrologist who directed nephrology at Rush in Chicago and led the Collaborative Study Group's defining diabetic kidney disease trials.

Edmund Klein

Edmund Klein (1922–1999) was an American dermatologist at Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo who pioneered topical chemotherapy of skin tumors with 5-fluorouracil, winning the 1975 Lasker Award.

Edna Mozes

Edna Mozes is an Israeli immunologist, emeritus professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, known for work on T-cell immunology and lupus treatment.

Edoardo Bassini

Edoardo Bassini (1844–1924) was an Italian surgeon, born in Pavia and professor at the University of Padua, whose 1884 inguinal hernia operation transformed hernia surgery.

Edoardo Maragliano

Edoardo Maragliano (1849–1940) was an Italian physician and professor at the University of Genoa who founded Italy's first tuberculosis dispensary, pioneered anti-tuberculosis vaccination, and published 2,453 scientific works.

Edoardo Perroncito

Edoardo Perroncito, also known as Edoardo Bellarmino Perroncito, was an Italian veterinarian and parasitologist who showed that hookworm caused the fatal anemia of Saint Gotthard tunnel workers.

Édouard Brissaud

Édouard Brissaud (1852–1909) was a French neurologist, a pupil of Charcot at the Salpêtrière, who first proposed in 1894 that the substantia nigra is the anatomical seat of Parkinson's disease.

Édouard Laguesse

Édouard Laguesse (1861–1927) was a French histologist and pathologist who named the islets of Langerhans in 1893 and proposed they produce an internal secretion, opening the path to insulin.