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Elliott Waters Montroll
Elliott Waters Montroll (1916–1983) was an American mathematical physicist who introduced the continuous-time random walk in 1965 and applied transfer-matrix methods to the Ising model.
Elsa M. Garmire
Elsa M. Garmire, born 1939, is an American physicist known for nonlinear optics and semiconductor lasers, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989.
Elspeth Garman
Elspeth Garman, born 1954, is a British molecular biophysicist and Oxford professor known for the "Garman limit" radiation dose limit and for making cryo-cooling of protein crystals routine.
Emanuel R. Piore
Emanuel R. Piore (1908–2000) was an American physicist and research administrator who led science at the Office of Naval Research and then IBM, helping develop digital computers.
Emanuil Aizikovich Kaner
Emanuil Aizikovich Kaner (Еммануїл Айзикович Канер; 1931–1986) was a Soviet and Ukrainian theoretical physicist in Kharkiv who co-predicted cyclotron resonance in metals and founded the theory of acoustic cyclotron resonance.
Emil Konopinski
Emil Konopinski (1911–1990) was an American theoretical physicist who worked on beta decay, the Manhattan Project, and calculations showing a nuclear explosion would not ignite the atmosphere.
Emil Pfender
Emil Pfender (1925–2016) was a German-born engineer at the University of Minnesota and a leading researcher in thermal plasma science, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1986.
Emil Warburg
Emil Gabriel Warburg (1846–1931) was a German experimental physicist who discovered magnetic hysteresis and the cathode fall, and was president of the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt from 1905 to 1922.
Émile Amagat
Émile Amagat (1841–1915) was a French physicist who measured the compressibility of gases and liquids at extreme pressures, inventing the free-piston manometer; the amagat unit, Amagat diagram, and Amagat's law bear his name.
Émile Hilaire Amagat
Émile Hilaire Amagat (1841–1915) was a French physicist who measured the compressibility of gases, liquids, and solids at pressures up to about 3,000 atmospheres, a record that stood until 1905.
Emiliano Cortés
Emiliano R. Cortés is an Argentine experimental physicist and professor at LMU Munich whose research uses light-activated metal nanostructures to drive chemical reactions for energy conversion.
Emilio Picasso
Emilio Picasso (1927–2014) was an Italian experimental physicist who led the CERN muon storage-ring experiments and directed the construction and early operation of the LEP collider.
Emilio Segrè
Emilio Segrè (1905–1989) was an Italian-American experimental physicist at Berkeley who co-discovered the antiproton, technetium, and astatine, sharing the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics with Owen Chamberlain.
Emily Levesque
Emily Levesque is an astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at the University of Washington known for her work on red supergiants and her 2020 book The Last Stargazers.
Emily Rice
Emily Rice is an American astrophysicist who studies brown dwarfs, low-mass stars, and directly imaged exoplanets, and is Associate Professor of Astrophysics at CUNY's Macaulay Honors College.
Emmanuel Desurvire
Emmanuel Desurvire is a French physicist who led development of the erbium-doped fiber amplifier at AT&T Bell Laboratories, a device that transformed long-haul and submarine optical communications.
Emmanuel Rashba
Emmanuel Rashba (1927–2025) was a Soviet-born American theoretical physicist at the Landau Institute and Harvard whose 1959 spin–orbit work underlies spintronics, earning him the title Father of Spintronics.
Emmett Leith
Emmett Leith (1927–2005) was an American electrical engineer and physicist at the University of Michigan who, with Juris Upatnieks, developed practical holography in the early 1960s using laser light and an off-axis reference beam.
Emory Leon Chaffee
Emory Leon Chaffee (1885–1975) was an American physicist and electronics pioneer at Harvard whose 1911 dissertation established the Chaffee gap, a method of producing continuous electrical oscillations for radiotelephony.
Enrico Costa (astrophysicist)
Enrico Costa (born 1944) is an Italian astrophysicist known for the 1997 discovery of gamma-ray burst afterglows with the BeppoSAX satellite and for co-inventing the Gas Pixel Detector.
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi (1901–1954) was an Italian-born physicist who created the world's first nuclear reactor, developed Fermi statistics and beta-decay theory, and won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz is a Mexican-born theoretical astrophysicist, professor and chair of astronomy at UC Santa Cruz, known for interpreting the 2017 gravitational-wave event GW170817 as a kilonova that forged heavy r-process elements.
Enrique Marcatili
Enrique Marcatili was an Argentine-educated physicist at Bell Laboratories whose 1969 and 1973 papers on optical waveguides became standard references cited into the silicon photonics era.
Eran Sharon
Eran Sharon is an Israeli experimental physicist and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known for experiments on dynamic brittle fracture and the shaping of elastic sheets.
Erasto B. Mpemba
Erasto B. Mpemba (1950–2023) was a Tanzanian game warden and scientist who, as a schoolboy in 1963, discovered the Mpemba effect: hot water can freeze faster than cold.
Erez Hasman
Erez Hasman (born 1960) is an Israeli optical physicist, the Schlesinger chaired Professor at the Technion in Haifa, known for developing spinoptics and early optical metasurfaces.
Eric Cornell
Eric Cornell is an American physicist at NIST and JILA in Boulder who created the first Bose-Einstein condensate in a gas, winning the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Eric D. Bauer
Eric D. Bauer is a condensed matter physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory who studies unconventional superconductors and f-electron materials, and received a 2009 PECASE award.
Eric Dufresne
Eric R. Dufresne is a soft matter physicist, professor at Cornell University since 2023 after chairs at ETH Zurich and Yale, known for holographic optical tweezer arrays.
Eric G. Adelberger
Eric G. Adelberger is an American experimental physicist at the University of Washington, co-founder of the Eöt-Wash Group, known for precision torsion-balance tests of gravity and a National Academy of Sciences member since 1994.