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Ernst Pascual Jordan
Ernst Pascual Jordan (1902–1980) was a German theoretical physicist in Hamburg who co-founded quantum mechanics, supplying the mathematics of matrix mechanics and launching quantum field theory.
Ernst Pringsheim (physicist)
Ernst Pringsheim (1859–1917) was a German experimental physicist who, with Otto Lummer at the Reichsanstalt, measured blackbody radiation and showed Wien's law failed, setting the stage for Planck's quantum theory.
Ernst Ruska
Ernst Ruska was a German physicist and electrical engineer who built the first electron microscope in 1931 and shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics for it.
Ernst Stückelberg
Ernst Stückelberg (Ernst Carl Gerlach Stueckelberg, 1905–1984) was a Swiss theoretical physicist at Geneva and Lausanne who, with André Petermann, discovered the renormalization group in the early 1950s.
Ernst Stueckelberg
Ernst Stueckelberg (1905–1984) was a Swiss theoretical physicist who made foundational contributions to quantum field theory, including covariant perturbation theory and the first renormalization group.
Erwin Frey
Erwin Frey, born 1960, is a German theoretical physicist at LMU Munich who studies nonequilibrium statistical physics and received the Max Planck Medal in 2023.
Erwin Hahn
Erwin Hahn (1921–2016) was an American physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, whose 1950 discovery of the spin echo in nuclear magnetic resonance underlies medical MRI.
Erwin Madelung
Erwin Madelung (1881–1972) was a German theoretical physicist, professor at Frankfurt from 1921, known for the Madelung constant of ionic crystals, the Madelung orbital-filling rule, and a hydrodynamical interpretation of quantum mechanics.
Erwin Schrödinger
Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961) was an Austrian theoretical physicist who formulated wave mechanics, shared the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics, and coined the term quantum entanglement.
Erwin Wilhelm Müller
Erwin Wilhelm Müller (1911–1977) was a German-born physicist at Penn State who invented the field ion microscope and became the first person to see an atom.
Esther M. Conwell
Esther M. Conwell (1922–2014) was an American condensed matter physicist known for the Conwell–Weisskopf impurity-scattering theory, who in 1997 became the first woman to receive the IEEE Edison Medal.
Etienne Brasselet
Etienne Brasselet is a French physicist and CNRS research director at LOMA near Bordeaux, known for generating optical vortices from liquid crystal droplets and winning the 2019 Prix Louis Ancel.
Ettore Pancini
Ettore Pancini (1915–1981) was an Italian experimental physicist who, with Conversi and Piccioni, showed in Rome that the muon decays spontaneously, disproving its identification as Yukawa's nuclear-force meson.
Eugen Goldstein
Eugen Goldstein (1850–1930) was a German physicist who worked on electrical discharges in gases, named cathode rays in 1876, and discovered canal rays in 1886, from which mass spectrometry later grew.
Eugene Bogomolny
Eugene Bogomolny (Evgeny Borisovich Bogomolny, Евгений Борисович Богомольный) is a theoretical physicist at LPTMS near Paris, known for the 1976 Bogomolny bound underlying BPS states and for work on quantum chaos.
Eugene Commins
Eugene Commins (1932–2015) was an American experimental atomic physicist at UC Berkeley known for precision measurements of parity nonconservation and the electron's electric dipole moment.
Eugène Cosserat
Eugène Cosserat (1866–1931) was a French astronomer and mathematician, professor and director at the Toulouse Observatory, remembered as co-founder with his brother François of the Cosserat theory of elasticity.
Eugene Demler
Eugene Demler is a theoretical condensed matter physicist who spent twenty years as a Harvard professor before joining ETH Zurich in 2021, known for the theory behind cold-atom quantum simulators.
Eugene Feenberg
Eugene Feenberg (1906–1977) was an American theoretical physicist and Wayman Crow Professor at Washington University in St. Louis who founded the correlated basis functions theory of quantum fluids.
Eugene Gardner
Eugene Gardner was an American nuclear physicist at Berkeley's Radiation Laboratory who, with César Lattes, recorded the first photographs of artificially produced pions in 1948.
Eugene Gregoryanz
Eugene Gregoryanz is a professor of high-pressure physics at the University of Edinburgh whose diamond anvil cell experiments produced evidence for a new dense phase of hydrogen above 325 GPa in 2016.
Eugene I. Gordon
Eugene I. Gordon (1930–2014) was an American physicist at Bell Laboratories who led gas-laser development, directed the Lightwave Devices Laboratory, and received the 1984 IEEE Edison Medal.
Eugene J. Mele
Eugene J. Mele is an American condensed matter physicist at the University of Pennsylvania, known for predicting the quantum spin Hall effect and three-dimensional topological insulators.
Eugene Mele
Eugene Mele is an American condensed matter physicist at the University of Pennsylvania who, with Charles Kane, predicted the quantum spin Hall effect in 2005.
Eugene Merle Shoemaker
Eugene Merle Shoemaker (1928–1997) was an American geologist who founded astrogeology, proved Meteor Crater was formed by a meteorite impact, and co-discovered Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9, which struck Jupiter in 1994.
Eugene P. Gross
Eugene P. Gross (1926–1991) was an American theoretical physicist at Brandeis University, co-author of the 1954 BGK model, a widely used simplification of the Boltzmann equation.
Eugene Parker
Eugene Parker (1927–2022) was an American solar physicist at the University of Chicago who predicted the solar wind in 1958 and the Parker spiral of the interplanetary magnetic field.
Eugene S. Polzik
Eugene S. Polzik, also known as Eugene Polzik, is a Danish-based experimental quantum physicist and professor of physics at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen since 2003.
Eugene Terentjev
Eugene Terentjev is a polymer physicist and Professor of Polymer Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, since 2005, known for his work on liquid crystalline elastomers.
Eugene Wigner
Eugene Wigner, born Jenő Wigner, was a Hungarian-born American theoretical physicist who won half of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics for symmetry principles in quantum mechanics.