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Edwin Brant Frost
Edwin Brant Frost (1866–1935) was an American astronomer who directed Yerkes Observatory from 1905 to 1932, measured stellar radial velocities with the Bruce spectrograph, and edited the Astrophysical Journal.
Edwin C. Kemble
Edwin C. Kemble (1889–1984) was an American physicist at Harvard University who introduced the quantum study of molecular structure to the United States and wrote a 1937 quantum mechanics textbook.
Edwin E. Salpeter
Edwin E. Salpeter (1924–2008) was an Austrian-born Australian-American astrophysicist at Cornell University who explained how stars make carbon, proposed black-hole accretion as quasars' power source, and derived the Salpeter initial mass function.
Edwin H. Land
Edwin H. Land (1909–1991) was an American physicist and inventor who founded Polaroid, invented instant photography and the synthetic sheet polarizer, and held 537 patents, second only to Edison.
Edwin Hall
Edwin Hall (1855–1938) was an American physicist who discovered the Hall effect in 1879 as a Johns Hopkins graduate student, then taught physics at Harvard until 1921.
Edwin Hubble
Edwin Hubble was an American astronomer at Mount Wilson Observatory who proved galaxies lie beyond the Milky Way and discovered the velocity–distance relation showing the universe expands.
Edwin Thompson Jaynes
Edwin Thompson Jaynes (1922–1998) was an American physicist at Washington University in St. Louis whose 1957 maximum-entropy papers recast statistical mechanics as inference, and who co-created the Jaynes–Cummings model.
Efim Fradkin
Efim Samoilovich Fradkin (Ефим Самойлович Фрадкин; 1924–1999) was a Soviet theoretical physicist at the Lebedev Physics Institute who helped discover the Landau pole and co-founded higher-spin field theory.
Efthimios Kaxiras
Efthimios Kaxiras, known as Tim Kaxiras, is a condensed matter physicist who joined Harvard in 1991, holds the Van Vleck professorship, and introduced the term twistronics in 2017.
Egon Orowan
Egon Orowan (Orován Egon, 1902–1989) was a Hungarian-born physicist and metallurgist who, with Taylor and Polanyi, introduced the crystal dislocation in 1934 and later taught at MIT.
Eiji Saitoh
Eiji Saitoh (齊藤英治) is a Japanese condensed matter physicist and University of Tokyo professor who discovered the inverse spin Hall effect in 2006 and the spin Seebeck effect in 2008.
Ejnar Hertzsprung
Ejnar Hertzsprung (1873–1967) was a Danish chemist-turned-astronomer who discovered that stars divide into giants and dwarfs, first calibrated Cepheid distances, and pioneered the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.
Elbio Dagotto
Elbio Dagotto is a condensed matter physicist known for proposing that phase separation explains colossal magnetoresistance in manganites, holding a split University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge appointment since 2004.
Elena Aprile
Elena Aprile, born 1954, is an Italian experimental physicist at Columbia University who founded the XENON dark matter search in 2002 and leads it as spokesperson.
Eli Pollak
Eli Pollak, born 1950 in Haifa, Israel, is an Israeli chemical physicist and professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for solving the Kramers turnover problem in 1989.
Eli Rotenberg
Eli Rotenberg is a senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory leading the ARPES program at the Advanced Light Source, studying quantum materials from quasicrystals to graphene.
Eli Waxman
Eli Waxman (born 1965) is an Israeli theoretical astrophysicist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for the Waxman–Bahcall bound and for leading the ULTRASAT ultraviolet satellite.
Eli Yablonovitch
Eli Yablonovitch is an electrical engineer and physicist at UC Berkeley who coined the term "photonic crystal" and created the 4n² light-trapping limit used in solar panels.
Eli Zeldov
Eli Zeldov (אלי זלדוב) is an Israeli condensed matter physicist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for inventing the SQUID-on-tip, a nanoscale probe imaging magnetic and thermal phenomena.
Elias Loomis
Elias Loomis (1811–1889) was an American mathematician, astronomer, and meteorologist who taught at Western Reserve, New York University, and Yale, and published early synoptic weather maps in 1846.
Elias Snitzer
Elias Snitzer (1925–2012) was an American physicist who invented the glass laser, the first optical fiber laser, and the first fiber amplifier, and later the double-clad fiber laser.
Elihu Abrahams
Elihu Abrahams (1927–2018) was an American theoretical physicist who spent most of his career at Rutgers University, known for the 1979 scaling theory of electron localization and work on delta-plutonium.
Elio Fabri
Elio Fabri, born in Rome in 1930, is an Italian theoretical physicist and professor at the University of Pisa, known for the Dalitz–Fabri diagram and work on Italy's first computer.
Eliot Quataert
Eliot Quataert is an American theoretical astrophysicist, the Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy at Princeton University, known for his work on black hole accretion and neutron star mergers.
Elis Strömgren
Svante Elis Strömgren (1870–1947) was a Danish astronomer and Copenhagen professor whose 1914 work showed comets follow elliptical orbits, making them members of the Solar System.
Elisa Riedo
Elisa Riedo is an experimental physicist and nanoscientist, the Herman F. Mark Chair Professor at NYU Tandon, known for pioneering thermal scanning probe lithography and studying graphene and nanoconfined water.
Elizabeth P. Turtle
Elizabeth P. Turtle, known as Zibi Turtle, is a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory who leads NASA's Dragonfly rotorcraft mission to Titan.
Ellen D. Williams
Ellen D. Williams is an American surface physicist, Distinguished University Professor Emerita at the University of Maryland and National Academy member, who served as BP Chief Scientist and ARPA-E director.
Ellen Gould Zweibel
Ellen Gould Zweibel is a theoretical astrophysicist, the William L. Kraushaar Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for work on cosmic rays and astrophysical magnetic fields.
Élliott H. Lieb
Elliott H. Lieb, born 1932 in Boston, is an American mathematical physicist, long at Princeton University, whose rigorous many-body results underpin research in physics, chemistry, and quantum information.