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Eelco Rohling

Eelco J. Rohling is a Dutch paleoceanographer who reconstructs past sea level from Red Sea records, and professor of Ocean and Climate Change at Utrecht University.

Efim Fradkin

Efim Samoilovich Fradkin (Ефим Самойлович Фрадкин; 1924–1999) was a Soviet theoretical physicist at the Lebedev Physics Institute who helped discover the Landau pole and co-founded higher-spin field theory.

Efim Zelmanov

Efim Zelmanov is a Russian-born mathematician, born in 1955 in Khabarovsk, who won the 1994 Fields Medal for solving the restricted Burnside problem in group theory.

Efthimios Kaxiras

Efthimios Kaxiras, known as Tim Kaxiras, is a condensed matter physicist who joined Harvard in 1991, holds the Van Vleck professorship, and introduced the term twistronics in 2017.

Egbert Brieskorn

Egbert Brieskorn (1936–2013) was a German mathematician, a founder of singularity theory of complex hypersurfaces, whose Brieskorn manifolds gave all 28 differentiable structures on the 7-sphere.

Egbert van Kampen

Egbert van Kampen (Egbert Rudolf van Kampen) was a Dutch mathematician, known for the van Kampen theorem, who worked at Johns Hopkins and died in 1942.

Egon Balas

Egon Balas, born Egon Blatt, was a Romanian-American operations researcher at Carnegie Mellon University who pioneered integer programming, founded disjunctive programming, and won the 1995 John von Neumann Theory Prize.

Egon Orowan

Egon Orowan (Orován Egon, 1902–1989) was a Hungarian-born physicist and metallurgist who, with Taylor and Polanyi, introduced the crystal dislocation in 1934 and later taught at MIT.

Egon Pearson

Egon Sharpe Pearson (1895–1980) was a British statistician who, with Jerzy Neyman, founded modern hypothesis testing theory, succeeded his father Karl Pearson at University College London, and edited Biometrika for thirty years.

Egon T. Degens

Egon Theodor Degens (1928–1989) was a German geologist and geochemist who led the 1965 Red Sea expedition that discovered the first sea-floor hydrothermal ore deposits and made the first detailed study of the anoxic Black Sea.

Egon Wiberg

Egon Wiberg (1901–1976) was a German inorganic chemist who held the chair of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Munich from 1951 and co-edited Holleman-Wiberg, the standard German inorganic chemistry textbook.

Ehud Gazit

Ehud Gazit (אהוד גזית) is an Israeli biochemist and nanotechnologist, a professor at Tel Aviv University known for research on peptide self-assembly and metabolite amyloids.

Ehud Hrushovski

Ehud Hrushovski (born 1959 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli model theorist whose 1996 proof of the geometric Mordell–Lang conjecture turned logic into a tool of algebra and geometry.

Ehud Keinan

Ehud Keinan is an Israeli organic chemist, professor at the Technion, known for catalytic-antibody chemistry including a 1995 Nature paper, and IUPAC's president since 2024.

Ei-ichi Negishi

Ei-ichi Negishi (根岸英一) was a Japanese chemist at Purdue University who won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings, a reaction used in drug synthesis.

Eiichi Nakamura (chemist)

Eiichi Nakamura (中村栄一, born 1951 in Tokyo) is a Japanese organic and organometallic chemist at the University of Tokyo, known for iron-catalyzed C–H activation and functionalized fullerenes.

Eiji Ohtani

Eiji Ohtani (大谷 栄治) is a Japanese high-pressure geophysicist and emeritus professor at Tohoku University, known for pioneering melting experiments on mantle minerals and rocks.

Eiji Saitoh

Eiji Saitoh (齊藤英治) is a Japanese condensed matter physicist and University of Tokyo professor who discovered the inverse spin Hall effect in 2006 and the spin Seebeck effect in 2008.

Eiji Yashima

Eiji Yashima (八島 栄次), born in Kyoto in 1958, is a Japanese supramolecular polymer chemist known for artificial helical polymers and the memory of macromolecular helicity.

Eiko Ohtsuka

Eiko Ohtsuka (大塚榮子) is a Japanese nucleic acids chemist, professor emerita at Hokkaido University, known for synthesizing RNA and DNA and for work underlying today's nucleic acid medicines.

Eileen Martin

Eileen Martin is a computational geophysicist and associate professor at Colorado School of Mines who develops fiber-optic seismic sensing algorithms and won a 2025 PECASE.

Einar Hille

Einar Hille (1894–1980) was an American mathematician, born in New York and raised in Stockholm, who created the abstract theory of semigroups of operators and proved the Hille–Yosida theorem with Kōsaku Yosida.

Eitan Tadmor

Eitan Tadmor, born 1954 in Jerusalem, is an applied mathematician at the University of Maryland known for central schemes for conservation laws and entropy stability.

Eizi Hirota

Eizi Hirota (廣田榮治) is a Japanese spectroscopist known for detecting about 100 transient molecules and free radicals by microwave and infrared laser spectroscopy, and for winning the Japan Academy Prize.

Ejnar Hertzsprung

Ejnar Hertzsprung (1873–1967) was a Danish chemist-turned-astronomer who discovered that stars divide into giants and dwarfs, first calibrated Cepheid distances, and pioneered the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

Elad Harel

Elad Harel is a physical chemist and assistant professor at Northwestern University who works on multidimensional ultrafast spectroscopy and halide perovskites, and received the 2016 PECASE award.

Elbio Dagotto

Elbio Dagotto is a condensed matter physicist known for proposing that phase separation explains colossal magnetoresistance in manganites, holding a split University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge appointment since 2004.

Elena Aprile

Elena Aprile, born 1954, is an Italian experimental physicist at Columbia University who founded the XENON dark matter search in 2002 and leads it as spokesperson.

Elena Shevchenko

Elena V. Shevchenko is a nanoscientist, a staff scientist at Argonne National Laboratory since 2007, known for her 2006 Nature paper on binary nanoparticle superlattices.

Eli Pollak

Eli Pollak, born 1950 in Haifa, Israel, is an Israeli chemical physicist and professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for solving the Kramers turnover problem in 1989.