Physical and mathematical scientists

E. Bruce Watson

E. Bruce Watson is an American experimental geochemist and Institute Professor Emeritus at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, known for the Ti-in-zircon thermometer and studies of element diffusion in the Earth's crust and mantle.

E. C. George Sudarshan

E. C. George Sudarshan (Ennackal Chandy George Sudarshan, 1931–2018) was an Indian-American theoretical physicist who made foundational contributions to weak interactions, quantum optics, and the quantum Zeno effect.

E. J. Putzer

E. J. Putzer (Eugene James Putzer, 1929–2006) was an American mathematician and physicist whose 1966 paper introduced the Putzer algorithm, an eigenvalue-based formula for the matrix exponential still taught today.

E. M. Purcell

E. M. Purcell, or Edward Mills Purcell, was an American Harvard physicist who co-discovered nuclear magnetic resonance and shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics.

E. Norval Fortson

E. Norval Fortson, born 1936 in Atlanta, Georgia, is an American atomic physicist at the University of Washington known for precision measurements with lasers and atoms.

E. P. J. van den Heuvel

E. P. J. van den Heuvel, born 1940, is a Dutch astronomer known for his work on the formation and evolution of neutron stars and black holes in binary systems.

E. T. Whittaker

E. T. Whittaker, fully Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker, was a British mathematician who held the University of Edinburgh mathematics chair for thirty-four years and co-authored A Course of Modern Analysis.

E. Virginia Armbrust

E. Virginia Armbrust, known informally as Ginger Armbrust, is a biological oceanographer who studies marine diatoms; she is the Karl M. Banse Endowed Professor at the University of Washington.

Earl E. Gossard

Earl E. Gossard was an American research meteorologist at NOAA in Boulder, Colorado, known for work on atmospheric gravity waves and clear-air Doppler radar wind profiling.

Earl Muetterties

Earl Muetterties (1927–1984) was an American inorganic chemist, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, known for boron hydrides, fluxional molecules, and metal clusters as catalysis models.

Easan Sivaniah

Easan Sivaniah is a materials scientist and professor at Kyoto University's iCeMS who works on polymer membranes for carbon capture, hydrogen purification, and structural color.

Ebenezer Cunningham

Ebenezer Cunningham (1881–1977) was a British mathematician at St John's College, Cambridge, who in 1909 co-discovered with Harry Bateman the conformal invariance of Maxwell's equations.

Eberhard Bodenschatz

Eberhard Bodenschatz, born 1959, is a German physicist who studies turbulence and biological physics and directs the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen.

Eberhard Grün

Eberhard Grün is a German planetary physicist known for discovering interstellar dust grains passing through the solar system and the Jovian dust streams, and for founding dust astronomy.

Eberhard Hopf

Eberhard Hopf (1902–1983) was an Austrian-American mathematician known for the Hopf bifurcation, the Hopf maximum principle, and the Wiener–Hopf equations, who spent his final decades at Indiana University.

Eberhard K. U. Gross

Eberhard K. U. Gross, known as Hardy Gross, is a German theoretical physicist who invented time-dependent density-functional theory and directed the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle.

Eckard Münck

Eckard Münck is a bioinorganic chemist and emeritus Professor of Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University, known for applying Mössbauer spectroscopy to iron-sulfur clusters and high-valent iron intermediates in metalloenzymes.

Ed Scheinerman

Ed Scheinerman, born 1957, is an American mathematician at Johns Hopkins University known for work in discrete mathematics, especially graph theory, and for inventing random dot product graphs.

Eddy Y. Zeng

Eddy Y. Zeng (曾永平) is a Chinese environmental scientist known for work on microplastics and organic pollutants, a professor at South China University of Technology since 2024.

Edgar Bright Wilson

Edgar Bright Wilson Jr., known professionally as E. Bright Wilson, was an American physical chemist at Harvard whose theoretical work shaped molecular spectroscopy from the late 1930s.

Edgar Buckingham

Edgar Buckingham (1867–1940) was an American physicist at the National Bureau of Standards whose 1914 paper set out the Buckingham pi theorem, and whose soil-water work founded soil physics.

Edgar Fahs Smith

Edgar Fahs Smith (1854–1928) was an American chemist, a pioneer of electrochemistry, and provost of the University of Pennsylvania from 1911 to 1920 who collected chemical memorabilia.

Edgar Gilbert

Edgar Nelson Gilbert (1923–2013) was an American mathematician and coding theorist who spent 48 years at Bell Laboratories, publishing 85 papers on coding theory, random graphs, percolation, and shuffling.

Edgar H. Brown

Edgar H. Brown, born Edgar Henry Brown, Jr. (1926–2021), was an American algebraic topologist at Brandeis University known for the Brown representability theorem and Brown–Peterson spectrum.

Edgar Solomonik

Edgar Solomonik is a computer scientist in numerical parallel computing, an associate professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and a 2025 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Edgar William Richard Steacie

Edgar William Richard Steacie (1900–1962) was a Canadian physical chemist known for free radical kinetics, who led the National Research Council of Canada as president from 1952 until his death.

Edgeworth David

Edgeworth David was a Welsh-born Australian geologist who discovered the South Maitland coalfield, led the first ascent of Mount Erebus, and served as a military geologist in World War I.

Edith M. Flanigen

Edith M. Flanigen (1929–2026) was an American industrial chemist who pioneered molecular sieves, invented zeolite Y manufacture, and was the first woman to win the Perkin Medal.

Édith Mourier

Édith Mourier (1920–2017) was a French probabilist whose work on random elements in Banach spaces shaped probability in metric spaces; her name survives in the Fortet–Mourier distance.