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Edward I. Solomon
Edward I. Solomon is an American inorganic chemist, the Monroe E. Spaght Professor Emeritus at Stanford, known for spectroscopic studies of metal active sites in enzymes and catalysts.
Edward J. Brook
Edward J. Brook is an American paleoclimatologist and geochemist at Oregon State University who reconstructs past greenhouse gas levels from air trapped in polar ice cores.
Edward J. Garnero
Edward J. Garnero is an American seismologist and Arizona State University professor who studies Earth's deep interior, known for work on the core–mantle boundary and ultra-low velocity zones.
Edward J. Kennelly
Edward J. Kennelly is an astronomer credited in the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics background as a member of the team that confirmed 51 Pegasi b in 1995.
Edward J. McShane
Edward James McShane (1904–1989) was an American mathematician at the University of Virginia, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1948 and known for the McShane–Whitney extension theorem.
Edward K. Conklin
Edward K. Conklin is a radio astronomer who, as a 27-year-old Stanford astronomer in 1969, reported the first claimed detection of the cosmic microwave background dipole.
Edward Kasner
Edward Kasner (1878–1955) was an American mathematician at Columbia University who worked in differential geometry, gave general relativity the Kasner metric, and popularized the word "googol" in his 1940 book Mathematics and the Imagination.
Edward Kolb
Edward W. "Rocky" Kolb (born 1951) is an American cosmologist at the University of Chicago who helped found particle astrophysics and co-wrote The Early Universe.
Edward L. Kaplan (American mathematician)
Edward L. Kaplan, also known as Edward Lynn Kaplan, was an American mathematician (1920–2006) whose 1958 paper with Paul Meier introduced the Kaplan–Meier estimator, the most-cited statistics publication.
Edward L. Miles
Edward L. Miles (1939–2016) was a Trinidad-born American social scientist at the University of Washington who founded its Climate Impacts Group and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2003.
Edward L. Wright
Edward L. (Ned) Wright is an American infrared astronomer and observational cosmologist at UCLA, a COBE and WMAP team member and principal investigator of WISE.
Edward Leamington Nichols
Edward Leamington Nichols was an American physicist who headed Cornell's physics department from 1887, founded the journal Physical Review in 1893, and won the first Frederic Ives Medal.
Edward Lindsay Ince
Edward Lindsay Ince (1891–1941) was a British mathematician who worked on ordinary differential equations, the Mathieu and Lamé functions, and published the 1932 tables of Mathieu's equation.
Edward Linfoot
Edward Hubert Linfoot was a British mathematician and astronomer known for a 1934 paper with Hans Heilbronn on imaginary quadratic fields and for applying information theory to optics.
Edward M. Sion
Edward M. Sion, born 1946 in Wichita, Kansas, is an American astrophysicist at Villanova University known for the 1983 white dwarf spectral classification system and the McCook-Sion catalog.
Edward M. Stolper
Edward M. Stolper, born 1952, is an American igneous petrologist and geochemist at Caltech, provost from 2007 to 2017, known for recognizing shergottite meteorites as martian basalts.
Edward Nelson
Edward Nelson (1932–2014) was an American mathematician on the Princeton University faculty from 1959 to 2013, known for stochastic quantum mechanics, constructive quantum field theory, and internal set theory.
Edward Norton Lorenz
Edward Norton Lorenz (1917–2008) was an American meteorologist at MIT, widely regarded as the founder of modern chaos theory and known for the butterfly effect.
Edward Oscar Ulrich
Edward Oscar Ulrich (1857–1944) was an American invertebrate paleontologist with the US Geological Survey from 1897, whose classification of Paleozoic Bryozoa remained standard long after his death.
Edward Ott
Edward Ott is an American physicist and engineer at the University of Maryland known for chaos theory, complex systems, and the OGY method of controlling chaos.
Edward Purdy Ney
Edward Purdy Ney (1920–1996) was an American physicist and astronomer at the University of Minnesota, noted for co-discovering heavy cosmic rays and the source of zodiacal light.
Edward R. Cook
Edward R. Cook is a climate scientist and dendrochronologist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, known for tree-ring drought atlases covering North America and monsoon Asia.
Edward R. Grant
Edward R. Grant, also published as E. R. Grant, is a physical chemist known for ZEKE spectroscopy, a professor at the University of British Columbia since 2005.
Edward R. Sholkovitz
Edward R. Sholkovitz is an aquatic geochemist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution known for research on trace elements, rare earth elements, and plutonium in natural waters.
Edward Routh
Edward John Routh (1831–1907) was a Canadian-born mathematician who beat Maxwell as Senior Wrangler at Cambridge in 1854, became its greatest mathematical coach, and created the Routh–Hurwitz stability criterion.
Edward S. Holden
Edward Singleton Holden (1846–1914) was an American astronomer, first Director of the Lick Observatory, founder of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and President of the University of California.
Edward S. Yeung
Edward S. Yeung (E.S. Yeung) is an analytical chemist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Iowa State University and senior scientist at Ames Laboratory, known for single-molecule spectroscopy.
Edward T. Baker
Edward T. Baker is an American marine geophysicist who spent 37 years in NOAA's hydrothermal research program in Seattle, developing plume-based methods for finding seafloor vents.
Edward Teller
Edward Teller (Teller Ede) was a Hungarian-born American theoretical physicist who played the central role in developing the hydrogen bomb and co-created the Teller–Ulam design.
Edward V. Appleton
Edward V. Appleton, also known as Sir Edward Victor Appleton, was a British physicist who proved the ionosphere's existence and won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physics.