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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.

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.

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 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 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.

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 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 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."

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.

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.

Edmund Ware Sinnott

Edmund Ware Sinnott (1888–1968) was an American botanist and geneticist at Yale University who studied how genes control plant shape and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

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 Hannezo

Édouard Hannezo is a French theoretical biophysicist and professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria since 2022, known for a unifying theory of branching morphogenesis.

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.

Edouard Van Beneden

Edouard Van Beneden (1846–1910) was a Belgian embryologist and cytologist at the University of Liège who discovered chromosome reduction in germ cells, the basis of meiosis.

Edred John Henry Corner

Edred John Henry Corner (1906–1996) was an English botanist and mycologist, Assistant Director of the Singapore Botanic Gardens from 1929 to 1946 and later Cambridge's Professor of Tropical Botany.

Edson Lobato

Edson Lobato is a Brazilian agronomist and soil fertility researcher who spent three decades at Embrapa Cerrados and shared the 2006 World Food Prize for opening the Cerrado to farming.

Eduard Batlle

Eduard Batlle is a Spanish cancer biologist and ICREA Research Professor who heads the Colorectal Cancer Laboratory at IRB Barcelona, studying intestinal stem cells and metastasis.

Eduard C. Hurt

Eduard C. Hurt, born 1955, is a German molecular biologist and professor at Heidelberg University's Biochemistry Center, known for his 1990s Cell papers on fibrillarin, nucleoporins, and mRNA export.

Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger

Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger (1829–1910) was a German physiologist who held the chair of physiology at Bonn from 1859 and founded the journal Pflügers Archiv in 1868.

Eduard Glanzmann

Eduard Glanzmann (1887–1959) was a Swiss pediatrician at the University of Bern who in 1918 described hereditary hemorrhagic thrombasthenia, the platelet disorder now known as Glanzmann thrombasthenia.