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Eduardo Ruiz‐Hitzky

Eduardo Ruiz-Hitzky is a Spanish materials chemist at the Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, CSIC, known for introducing bionanocomposites, hybrid materials combining natural polymers with inorganic solids.

Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón

Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón, born in Logroño in 1972, is a Spanish mathematician at the University of La Rioja who created the YouTube channel Derivando.

Edward A. Anderson

Edward A. Anderson is an organic chemist who is Professor and Head of Organic Chemistry at the University of Oxford, working on total synthesis and small strained rings.

Edward A. Boyle

Edward A. Boyle is an American marine geochemist, professor emeritus at MIT, and National Academy of Sciences member known for tracing industrial lead through the ocean.

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 A. Irving

Edward A. Irving, known as Ted, was a Canadian geophysicist (1927–2014) who used paleomagnetism to prove continental drift, earning the Wollaston Medal and the Order of Canada.

Edward Anders

Edward Anders (1926–2025) was a Latvian-born American cosmochemist at the University of Chicago who determined the solar system's chemical composition from meteorites and isolated presolar stardust grains.

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 Arnett

Edward Arnett was an American physical organic chemist at the University of Pittsburgh and Duke University, known for measuring the energy changes of organic reaction mechanisms through solution calorimetry.

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 B. Curtis

Edward B. Curtis (1933–2024) was a University of Washington mathematician who won the 1972 Steele Prize for Simplicial Homotopy Theory and later studied inverse problems for electrical networks.

Edward Battersby Bailey

Edward Battersby Bailey (1881–1965) was a British geologist, Professor of Geology at Glasgow and Director of the Geological Survey, known for his work on Highland tectonics.

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 Bullard

Sir Edward Bullard (1907–1980) was a British geophysicist whose work on the Earth's magnetic field, heat flow, and the 1965 computer fit of Atlantic continents helped establish plate tectonics.

Edward Burr Van Vleck

Edward Burr Van Vleck (1863–1943) was an American mathematician at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who worked on continued fractions and the Van Vleck polynomials, and led the American Mathematical Society.

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 Charles Titchmarsh

Edward Charles Titchmarsh (1899–1963) was a British mathematician who worked entirely in analysis, held Oxford's Savilian chair of geometry from 1931, and proved the Titchmarsh convolution theorem.

Edward Condon

Edward Condon (1902–1974) was an American theoretical physicist, born in Alamogordo, New Mexico, known for the Franck–Condon principle, the Slater–Condon rules, and directing the 1968 Air Force UFO study.

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 Curtis Franklin

Edward Curtis Franklin (1862–1937) was an American chemist at Stanford University, a pioneer in liquid-ammonia solvent chemistry and president of the American Chemical Society in 1923.

Edward D. Goldberg

Edward D. Goldberg (1921–2008) was an American marine chemist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, a founder of marine pollution science who initiated the Mussel Watch monitoring program.

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 Frankland

Edward Frankland, known as Sir Edward Frankland, was an English chemist who founded organometallic chemistry, introduced valency, and led the analysis of London's water supplies.

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 H. Sargent

Edward H. (Ted) Sargent is a scientist at Northwestern University working on colloidal quantum dots, perovskite solar cells, and CO2 electroreduction, after a long career at the University of Toronto.

Edward H. Simpson

Edward H. Simpson (1922–2019) was a British statistician and civil servant who gave his name to Simpson's index of diversity and Simpson's paradox, then worked in the UK Civil Service until 1982.

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 Hitchcock

Edward Hitchcock (1793–1864) was an American geologist, paleontologist, and Congregational clergyman who served as third president of Amherst College and pioneered the study of fossil footprints.

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.