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Eudocimus ruber

Eudocimus ruber, the scarlet ibis (guará, corocoro rojo), is a scarlet-plumaged Threskiornithidae wader of northern South America and the Caribbean; its species rank versus the white ibis is disputed, its color comes from dietary carotenoids, and it is Trinidad and Tobago's national bird.

Eudragit

Eudragit is a brand name for polymethacrylate copolymers used as pharmaceutical excipients, best known for film coatings that control where and when a drug is released in the body.

Eudyptula

Eudyptula (Bonaparte, 1856) is the penguin genus holding the Little Penguin, Eudyptula minor (kororā), the smallest and only nocturnal penguin, endemic to southern Australia and New Zealand; debated split into E. minor and E. novaehollandiae.

Euell Gibbons

Euell Gibbons (1911–1975), American naturalist and author of Stalking the Wild Asparagus (1962), who revived foraging interest and starred in Grape-Nuts commercials, including the line about eating a pine tree.

Eugen Bleuler

Eugen Bleuler (1857–1939) was a Swiss psychiatrist, professor at the University of Zürich, and Burghölzli director from 1898 to 1927 who introduced the term schizophrenia in 1908, replacing dementia praecox.

Eugen Sandow

Eugen Sandow (Friedrich Wilhelm Müller, 1867–1925), Prussian-born Victorian strongman and father of modern bodybuilding; staged the 1901 Great Competition, ran the Sandow Institute, magazine, and equipment empire, and inspired the Mr. Olympia Sandow trophy.

Eugen Steinach

Eugen Steinach was an Austrian physiologist who identified the testicular Leydig cells as a source of male sex hormones and originated the 1920s "Steinach operation" rejuvenation craze.

Eugene A. Bauer

Eugene A. Bauer is an American dermatologist and physician-scientist at Stanford University School of Medicine, known for the biochemistry of matrix metalloproteinases and international epidermolysis bullosa classifications.

Eugene A. Hildreth

Eugene A. Hildreth, known as "Pat", was an American internist and emeritus professor at the University of Pennsylvania who chaired the American Board of Internal Medicine.

Eugene B. Chang

Eugene B. Chang, also known as Eugene Chang, is a gastroenterologist and microbiome researcher at the University of Chicago, known for linking diet, gut microbes, and inflammatory bowel disease.

Eugene Braunwald

Eugene Braunwald (1929–2026) was a Vienna-born American cardiologist at Harvard who founded the TIMI Study Group and edited Braunwald's Heart Disease, called the father of modern cardiology.

Eugene C. Butcher

Eugene C. Butcher is an immunologist and physician, Klaus Bensch Professor of Pathology at Stanford, who pioneered the multistep paradigm of white blood cell recruitment and won the 2004 Crafoord Prize.

Eugene D. Kwon

Eugene D. Kwon is a urologic oncologist and tumor immunologist at Mayo Clinic whose 1997 prostate cancer immunotherapy study was cited by the Nobel Committee.

Eugene D. Robin

Eugene D. Robin (1919–2000) was an American pulmonary physician-scientist and Stanford professor whose work on pulmonary embolism and edema was matched by advocacy of patients' rights.

Eugene D. Shapiro

Eugene D. Shapiro is an American pediatric infectious diseases physician and epidemiologist at Yale School of Medicine since 1983, known for vaccine effectiveness studies and Lyme disease research.

Eugene Floyd DuBois

Eugene Floyd DuBois (1882–1959) was an American physician and clinical physiologist at Cornell who standardized basal metabolic rate measurement and devised the 1916 DuBois body-surface-area formula still used in medicine.

Eugène Gley

Eugène Gley (1857–1930) was a French physiologist, professor at the Collège de France, who first assigned the parathyroid glands a vital role and became a cofounder of organotherapy and endocrinology.

Eugene H. Blackstone

Eugene H. Blackstone is an American physician-investigator at the Cleveland Clinic who works in cardiothoracic surgery outcomes research and received the American Association for Thoracic Surgery's 2013 Scientific Achievement Award.

Eugene J. Van Scott

Eugene J. Van Scott (1922–2025) was an American dermatologist who founded the National Cancer Institute's dermatology branch and developed the first effective drug treatment for cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.

Eugene Lindsay Opie

Eugene Lindsay Opie (1873–1971) was an American pathologist who first linked the pancreatic islets of Langerhans to diabetes and spent more than 70 years in research.

Eugene M. Johnson

Eugene M. Johnson Jr., known as Gene Johnson, is an American neuroscientist and professor at Washington University School of Medicine who studies neuronal cell death and neurotrophic factors.

Eugene Odum

Eugene Odum (1913–2002) was an American ecosystem ecologist at the University of Georgia, widely called the father of modern ecology for his 1953 textbook Fundamentals of Ecology.

Eugene P. Cronkite

Eugene P. Cronkite (1914–2001) was an American hematologist and radiation biologist at Brookhaven National Laboratory who pioneered blood cell kinetics, studied radiation injury, and led the American Society of Hematology in 1971.

Eugene P. DiMagno

Eugene P. DiMagno (1937–2025) was an American gastroenterologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, whose research defined pancreatic enzyme replacement dosing and introduced endoscopic ultrasound to medicine.

Eugene P. Kennedy

Eugene Patrick Kennedy (1919–2011) was an American biochemist at Harvard Medical School known for the Kennedy pathway, the main route of membrane phospholipid synthesis in mammalian cells.

Eugene P. Rhee

Eugene P. Rhee is an American nephrologist and physician-scientist who serves as Chief of the Nephrology Division at Massachusetts General Hospital and is a Harvard professor.

Eugene R. Passamani

Eugene R. Passamani, also known as Eugene Passamani, was an American cardiologist and clinical trialist who spent about 20 years at NIH in Bethesda, Maryland.

Eugene Roberts (neurobiochemist)

Eugene Roberts, born Evgeny Rabinowitch (1920–2016), was an American neurobiochemist at City of Hope in California whose 1949 discovery of GABA in the brain established it as the major inhibitory neurotransmitter.

Eugene V. Koonin

Eugene V. Koonin is a computational evolutionary biologist who leads the Evolutionary Genomics Research Group at the NIH's NCBI in Bethesda, Maryland, known for the COGs database and CRISPR-Cas classification.

Eugene W. Nester

Eugene W. Nester is an American microbiologist and University of Washington professor emeritus whose laboratory showed that Agrobacterium causes crown gall disease by transferring DNA into plant cells.