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Ernest Jawetz
Ernest Jawetz was an Austrian-born American physician and microbiologist at UCSF, born in Vienna in 1916, known for antibiotic combination testing and a long-running microbiology textbook.
Ernest Kennaway
Sir Ernest Laurence Kennaway (1881–1958) was a British experimental pathologist in London who identified the first pure chemical carcinogens, including benzo(a)pyrene, isolated from coal tar in 1933.
Ernest L. Wynder
Ernest L. Wynder (1922–1999) was a German-born American epidemiologist who co-authored the landmark 1950 JAMA study linking cigarette smoking to lung cancer and founded the American Health Foundation.
Ernest M. Wright
Ernest M. Wright (Ernest Marshall Wright, born 1940) is a Belfast-born physiologist at UCLA whose laboratory cloned the sodium-glucose cotransporters, foundation for SGLT2 diabetes drugs.
Ernest McCulloch
Ernest Armstrong McCulloch (1926–2011) was a Canadian cellular biologist who, with James Till, created the 1961 spleen colony assay, the first quantitative method for identifying stem cells.
Ernest R. Sears
Ernest R. Sears (1910–1991) was an American wheat cytogeneticist and USDA geneticist at the University of Missouri, known for wheat's complete aneuploid series and the first chromosome engineering experiment.
Ernest Starling
Ernest Henry Starling was a British physiologist who held the Jodrell chair at University College London, discovered secretin in 1902, coined hormone, and formulated the law of the heart.
Ernest William Goodpasture
Ernest William Goodpasture was an American pathologist and virologist at Vanderbilt University whose 1931 technique for growing viruses in chicken eggs made mass vaccine production possible; Goodpasture syndrome bears his name.
Ernesto Canalis
Ernesto Canalis is a Peruvian-trained American physician-scientist in endocrinology and bone biology, known for discovering skeletal growth factors and for work on anabolic osteoporosis therapies.
Ernesto Carafoli
Ernesto Carafoli (born 1932) is an Italian biochemist known for his work on calcium signaling and calcium transport, at ETH Zurich and then the University of Padua.
Ernesto Guccione
Ernesto Guccione is a molecular biologist studying epigenetics and RNA splicing in cancer, a professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York since 2019.
Ernesto Medina
Ernesto Medina is a Venezuelan tropical plant ecophysiologist based at IVIC in Caracas, known for research on photosynthesis and nutrient availability, elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 1992.
Ernő Jendrassik
Ernő Jendrassik (1858–1921) was a Hungarian internist and neurologist, professor, and Academy member who described in 1885 the Jendrassik maneuver, a reflex-reinforcement technique still used in neurological examination.
Ernst Alexander Homén
Ernst Alexander Homén (1851–1926) was a Finnish physician and pathologist, professor at Helsinki, who founded clinical neurology in Finland and first described Wilson's disease in 1890.
Ernst Bamberg
Ernst Bamberg is a German biophysicist regarded as a founder of optogenetics, honored with the 2013 Brain Prize and the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Ernst Chain
Ernst Chain, also known as Sir Ernst Boris Chain, was a German-born British biochemist who shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the Oxford work proving penicillin's therapeutic power.
Ernst Fuchs (ophthalmologist)
Ernst Fuchs (1851–1930) was an Austrian ophthalmologist who founded the pathological anatomy of the eye and gave his name to roughly thirty diseases, including Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy.
Ernst Gräfenberg
Ernst Gräfenberg (1881–1957) was a German gynecologist whose 1928 intrauterine ring became the first scientifically grounded IUD, and whose 1950 paper on an erogenous zone in the vagina gave the G-spot its name.
Ernst H. K. Stelzer
Ernst H. K. Stelzer is a German physicist who pioneered light sheet fluorescence microscopy and has been Professor of Physical Biology at Goethe University Frankfurt since 2011.
Ernst Hadorn
Ernst Hadorn (1902–1976) was a Swiss developmental biologist and geneticist, professor of zoology and rector at the University of Zurich, known for discovering transdetermination in Drosophila imaginal discs.
Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Haeckel, born 1834 in Potsdam, was a German zoologist at the University of Jena who championed Darwin, coined ecology, founded phylogenetics, and proposed that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.
Ernst Hafen
Ernst Hafen (born 1956) is a Swiss developmental geneticist who showed how fruit flies control cell and organ size, and served as President of ETH Zurich from 2005.
Ernst J. Kuipers
Ernst J. Kuipers is a Dutch gastroenterologist who served as Netherlands Minister of Health from 2022 to 2024 and led Erasmus MC in Rotterdam as CEO.
Ernst J. Schaefer
Ernst J. Schaefer (E. J. Schaefer) is an American physician and lipid metabolism researcher at Tufts University, known for defining HDL metabolism and the defect in Tangier disease.
Ernst Klenk
Ernst Klenk (1896–1971) was a German biochemist who discovered the gangliosides of nerve cells and isolated neuraminic acid, and defined the lipid storage diseases Niemann-Pick and Gaucher.
Ernst Knobil
Ernst Knobil (1926–2000) was an American physiologist and endocrinologist, a National Academy of Sciences member known for discovering growth hormone's species specificity and that the hypothalamus drives reproduction through pulsatile GnRH secretion.
Ernst Laqueur
Ernst Laqueur (1880–1947) was a German-born Dutch pharmacologist and Amsterdam professor who became the first in Europe to produce insulin and co-founded Organon.
Ernst Lengyel
Ernst Lengyel is a gynecologic oncologist and ovarian cancer researcher who chairs Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Chicago, where he studies how ovarian cancer spreads in the abdominal cavity.
Ernst Leopold Salkowski
Ernst Leopold Salkowski (1844–1923) was a German physiological chemist who spent his career at the Charité in Berlin under Rudolf Virchow, discovered autolysis and pentosuria, and left his name on biochemical color reactions still taught today.
Ernst Ludwig Alfred Hegar
Ernst Ludwig Alfred Hegar (1830–1914) was a German gynecologist and obstetrician, professor at Freiburg from 1864 to 1904, regarded as the founder of operative gynecology.