Physical and mathematical scientists

Edward Vermilye Huntington

Edward Vermilye Huntington (1874–1952) was an American Harvard mathematician, a central figure in American postulate theory, whose Huntington–Hill method has apportioned US House seats since 1941.

Edward W. Morley

Edward Williams Morley was an American chemist and physicist best known for the 1887 Michelson–Morley experiment, which found no motion of Earth through the ether.

Edward Wight Washburn (1881–1934) was an American physical chemist remembered for defining standard states for bomb calorimetry, producing heavy water by electrolysis, and editing the seven-volume International Critical Tables.

Edward Wilber Berry

Edward Wilber Berry (1875–1945) was an American paleobotanist at Johns Hopkins University who reconstructed the Eocene floras of southeastern North America and later served as the university's provost.

Edward Witten

Edward Witten, also known as Ed Witten, is an American theoretical physicist best known for superstring theory and M-theory, and the only physicist to win the Fields Medal, in 1990.

Edward Young

Edward D. Young is a UCLA geochemist known for the CO self-shielding explanation of oxygen isotope anomalies and for tracing Earth's water to primordial hydrogen atmospheres.

Edwin A. Bergin

Edwin A. Bergin, known as Ted Bergin, is an American astronomer and astrochemist at the University of Michigan who studies the chemistry of planet formation.

Edwin A. Chandross

Edwin A. Chandross is an American chemist, born in Brooklyn in 1934, who led organic materials research at Bell Labs and discovered the peroxyoxalate chemiluminescence reaction powering glow sticks.

Edwin Allston Hill

Edwin Allston Hill (1850–1929) was an American chemist, lawyer, and Patent Office official in Washington, D.C., whose 1900 paper described the Hill system for ordering elements in molecular formulas.

Edwin B. Hart

Edwin B. Hart (1874–1953) was an American biochemist who chaired agricultural chemistry at the University of Wisconsin from 1906 to 1944 and directed the single-grain experiment that helped establish the vitamin concept.

Edwin Bidwell Wilson

Edwin Bidwell Wilson (1879–1964) was an American mathematician and statistician at Yale, MIT, and Harvard who edited Gibbs's Vector Analysis and anticipated the confidence interval in 1927.

Edwin Brant Frost

Edwin Brant Frost (1866–1935) was an American astronomer who directed Yerkes Observatory from 1905 to 1932, measured stellar radial velocities with the Bruce spectrograph, and edited the Astrophysical Journal.

Edwin C. Constable

Edwin C. Constable, born 1955, is a British chemist known as a pioneer of metallosupramolecular chemistry, professor at the University of Basel and its Vice-President for Research from 2011 to 2018.

Edwin C. Kemble

Edwin C. Kemble (1889–1984) was an American physicist at Harvard University who introduced the quantum study of molecular structure to the United States and wrote a 1937 quantum mechanics textbook.

Edwin E. Salpeter

Edwin E. Salpeter (1924–2008) was an Austrian-born Australian-American astrophysicist at Cornell University who explained how stars make carbon, proposed black-hole accretion as quasars' power source, and derived the Salpeter initial mass function.

Edwin H. Colbert

Edwin H. Colbert (1905–2001) was an American vertebrate paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History who wrote the popular books that introduced mid-century America to dinosaurs.

Edwin H. Land

Edwin H. Land (1909–1991) was an American physicist and inventor who founded Polaroid, invented instant photography and the synthetic sheet polarizer, and held 537 patents, second only to Edison.

Edwin Hall

Edwin Hall (1855–1938) was an American physicist who discovered the Hall effect in 1879 as a Johns Hopkins graduate student, then taught physics at Harvard until 1921.

Edwin Hewitt

Edwin Hewitt (1920–1999) was an American mathematician at the University of Washington, known for the Hewitt–Savage zero-one law, realcompact spaces, and the monograph Abstract Harmonic Analysis with Kenneth Ross.

Edwin Hubble

Edwin Hubble was an American astronomer at Mount Wilson Observatory who proved galaxies lie beyond the Milky Way and discovered the velocity–distance relation showing the universe expands.

Edwin J. Vandenberg

Edwin J. Vandenberg (1918–2005) was an American industrial polymer chemist who spent 43 years at Hercules Powder Company, independently discovered isotactic polypropylene, and received the Priestley Medal in 2003.

Edwin James George Pitman

Edwin James George Pitman (1897–1993) was an Australian mathematician and statistician, professor at the University of Tasmania from 1926 to 1962, known for the Pitman estimator and efficiency.

Edwin Joseph Cohn

Edwin Joseph Cohn (1892–1953) was an American protein biochemist at Harvard Medical School whose cold ethanol fractionation supplied albumin and gamma globulin to the armed forces in World War II.

Edwin M. McMillan

Edwin M. McMillan, also known as Edwin Mattison McMillan, was an American physicist who co-discovered neptunium in 1940 and won half of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Edwin Roedder

Edwin Woods Roedder (1919–2006) was an American geochemist at the U.S. Geological Survey who pioneered fluid inclusion research on ore deposits, winning the Roebling and Penrose medals.

Edwin Spanier

Edwin Henry Spanier (1921–1996) was an American algebraic topologist known for Spanier–Whitehead duality and his 1966 textbook Algebraic Topology, and a professor at Berkeley from 1959 to 1991.

Edwin T. Mertz

Edwin T. Mertz (1909–1999) was an American biochemist at Purdue University best known for co-discovering high-lysine maize, the opaque-2 corn rich in the essential amino acid lysine.

Edwin Thompson Jaynes

Edwin Thompson Jaynes (1922–1998) was an American physicist at Washington University in St. Louis whose 1957 maximum-entropy papers recast statistical mechanics as inference, and who co-created the Jaynes–Cummings model.

Edwin Vedējs

Edwin Vedejs (Edvīns Vedējs, 1941–2017) was a Latvian-born American organic chemist at Wisconsin and Michigan known for synthetic methodology, total synthesis, and Wittig reaction studies.