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Edoardo Amaldi
Edoardo Amaldi (1908–1989) was an Italian experimental physicist who worked under Enrico Fermi, rebuilt Italian physics after World War II, and helped found CERN, the INFN, and ESA.
Édouard Branly
Édouard Branly was a French physicist and physician, professor at the Institut Catholique de Paris, whose 1890 discovery of radioconduction produced the detector that made wireless telegraphy possible.
Édouard Brézin
Édouard Brézin, born in 1938, is a French theoretical physicist known for statistical field theory, the renormalization group, and random matrix theory, with work important to string theory.
Eduard Grüneisen
Eduard Grüneisen (1877–1949) was a German physicist known for the Grüneisen parameter and the Mie–Grüneisen equation of state for solids, still used in shock physics and planetary science.
Eduard Hagenbach-Bischoff
Eduard Hagenbach-Bischoff (1833–1910) was a Swiss physicist, professor of physics at the University of Basel from 1863 to 1906, who originated the Hagenbach-Bischoff quota used in Swiss electoral law.
Eduardo H. Fradkin
Eduardo H. Fradkin is an Argentine-born American condensed matter theorist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for the quantum Hall effect, high-temperature superconductors, and topological states of matter.
Edward A. Frieman
Edward A. Frieman (1926–2013) was an American plasma physicist who led fusion theory at Princeton, served in the Department of Energy, and directed Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1986 to 1996.
Edward Andrade
Edward Neville da Costa Andrade (1887–1971) was an English physicist who measured radium gamma rays with Rutherford, founded the study of metal creep, and led the Royal Institution.
Edward Arthur Milne
Edward Arthur Milne (1896–1950) was a British astrophysicist and mathematician, the first Rouse Ball Professor at Oxford, known for stellar atmosphere theory and his kinematic relativity cosmology.
Edward Bennett Rosa
Edward Bennett Rosa (1861–1921) was an American physicist who led electrical measurements at the National Bureau of Standards and set the international ohm, volt, and ampere in 1911.
Edward C. Stone
Edward C. Stone (1936–2024) was an American space physicist who served as NASA's Voyager project scientist for 50 years and directed the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Edward Charles Pickering
Edward Charles Pickering was an American astronomer and physicist who directed the Harvard College Observatory from 1877 until his death in 1919, pioneering stellar photometry.
Edward Creutz
Edward Creutz (1913–2009) was an American nuclear physicist who led metallurgical work on the Manhattan Project, headed physics at Carnegie Tech, and directed the Bishop Museum.
Edward Emerson Barnard
Edward Emerson Barnard, known as E. E. Barnard, was an American observational astronomer who discovered Jupiter's moon Amalthea in 1892 and Barnard's Star in 1916.
Edward Ginzton
Edward Ginzton (1915–1998) was an American applied physicist who helped develop the klystron microwave tube, built the Stanford linear accelerators that grew into SLAC, and co-founded Varian Associates.
Edward Hinds
Edward Hinds is a British physicist, Fellow of the Royal Society, who pioneered ultracold-atom physics, made the first Casimir–Polder force measurement, and directed Imperial College London's Centre for Cold Matter.
Edward I. Moses
Edward I. Moses is an American laser plasma physicist who built and directed the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore, winning the 2009 Edward Teller Medal.
Edward J. Kennelly
Edward J. Kennelly is an astronomer credited in the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics background as a member of the team that confirmed 51 Pegasi b in 1995.
Edward K. Conklin
Edward K. Conklin is a radio astronomer who, as a 27-year-old Stanford astronomer in 1969, reported the first claimed detection of the cosmic microwave background dipole.
Edward Kolb
Edward W. "Rocky" Kolb (born 1951) is an American cosmologist at the University of Chicago who helped found particle astrophysics and co-wrote The Early Universe.
Edward L. Wright
Edward L. (Ned) Wright is an American infrared astronomer and observational cosmologist at UCLA, a COBE and WMAP team member and principal investigator of WISE.
Edward Leamington Nichols
Edward Leamington Nichols was an American physicist who headed Cornell's physics department from 1887, founded the journal Physical Review in 1893, and won the first Frederic Ives Medal.
Edward M. Sion
Edward M. Sion, born 1946 in Wichita, Kansas, is an American astrophysicist at Villanova University known for the 1983 white dwarf spectral classification system and the McCook-Sion catalog.
Edward Ott
Edward Ott is an American physicist and engineer at the University of Maryland known for chaos theory, complex systems, and the OGY method of controlling chaos.
Edward Purdy Ney
Edward Purdy Ney (1920–1996) was an American physicist and astronomer at the University of Minnesota, noted for co-discovering heavy cosmic rays and the source of zodiacal light.
Edward S. Holden
Edward Singleton Holden (1846–1914) was an American astronomer, first Director of the Lick Observatory, founder of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and President of the University of California.
Edward Teller
Edward Teller (Teller Ede) was a Hungarian-born American theoretical physicist who played the central role in developing the hydrogen bomb and co-created the Teller–Ulam design.
Edward V. Appleton
Edward V. Appleton, also known as Sir Edward Victor Appleton, was a British physicist who proved the ionosphere's existence and won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Edward Witten
Edward Witten, also known as Ed Witten, is an American theoretical physicist best known for superstring theory and M-theory, and the only physicist to win the Fields Medal, in 1990.
Edwin A. Bergin
Edwin A. Bergin, known as Ted Bergin, is an American astronomer and astrochemist at the University of Michigan who studies the chemistry of planet formation.