Physical and mathematical scientists

Ellen T. Sletten

Ellen T. Sletten, also known as Ellen M. Sletten, is an American chemist and professor at UCLA known for shortwave infrared fluorophores that enable non-invasive imaging in mice.

Elliott H. Lieb, born 1932 in Boston, is an American mathematical physicist, long at Princeton University, whose rigorous many-body results underpin research in physics, chemistry, and quantum information.

Elliott Waters Montroll

Elliott Waters Montroll (1916–1983) was an American mathematical physicist who introduced the continuous-time random walk in 1965 and applied transfer-matrix methods to the Ising model.

Ellis Kolchin

Ellis Kolchin (1916–1991) was an American mathematician at Columbia University, pupil and successor of Joseph Fels Ritt, who shaped differential algebra and created differential algebraic groups.

Ellis L. Johnson

Ellis L. Johnson (1938–2024) was an operations research mathematician known for foundational work in integer programming, who spent 25 years at IBM and later held a chaired professorship at Georgia Tech.

Ellyn Enderlin

Ellyn Enderlin is an American glaciologist and Associate Professor of Geosciences at Boise State University in Idaho, known for measuring how glaciers change using satellite datasets.

Elmar Thoma

Elmar Thoma (1926–2002) was a German mathematician who worked in harmonic analysis and representation theory, known for Thoma's theorem on countable discrete groups of type I.

Elmer Keiser Bolton

Elmer Keiser Bolton (1886–1968) was an American organic chemist who directed DuPont's Chemical Department from 1930 to 1951, directing the research organizations that produced neoprene, nylon, and Teflon.

Elmer McCollum

Elmer McCollum (1879–1967) was an American biochemist who discovered vitamin A, helped establish the alphabetical naming of vitamins, and pioneered rat-based nutrition research at Wisconsin and Johns Hopkins.

Elmer Peter Kohler

Elmer Peter Kohler (1865–1938) was an American organic chemist and Harvard professor known for work on unsaturated compounds, including the first resolution of an allene.

Elon Lindenstrauss

Elon Lindenstrauss, born 1970, is an Israeli mathematician working in ergodic theory, dynamical systems, and number theory, and the first Israeli Fields Medalist, winning in 2010.

Elsa M. Garmire

Elsa M. Garmire, born 1939, is an American physicist known for nonlinear optics and semiconductor lasers, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989.

Elsie M. Sunderland

Elsie M. Sunderland is a Canadian-American environmental chemist, the Fred Kavli Professor at Harvard since 2022, whose research on methylmercury and PFAS has shaped US mercury regulation.

Elso S. Barghoorn

Elso S. Barghoorn (1915–1984) was an American paleobotanist at Harvard University who founded the formal field of Precambrian paleobiology, the study of life recorded in rocks older than the well-preserved fossil record.

Elspeth Garman

Elspeth Garman, born 1954, is a British molecular biophysicist and Oxford professor known for the "Garman limit" radiation dose limit and for making cryo-cooling of protein crystals routine.

Elwyn Berlekamp

Elwyn Ralph Berlekamp (1940–2019) was an American mathematician and electrical engineer at UC Berkeley, known for the Berlekamp–Massey algorithm for decoding Reed–Solomon codes and for combinatorial game theory.

Emanuel R. Piore

Emanuel R. Piore (1908–2000) was an American physicist and research administrator who led science at the Office of Naval Research and then IBM, helping develop digital computers.

Emanuel Sperner

Emanuel Sperner (1905–1980) was a German mathematician who, as a 22-year-old student, proved Sperner's theorem on antichains and Sperner's lemma, the combinatorial backbone of proofs of Brouwer's fixed-point theorem.

Emanuele Paternò

Emanuele Paternò was an Italian chemist and senator from Palermo, successor to Cannizzaro at Palermo and Rome, known for the Paternò–Büchi photochemical reaction first published in 1909.

Emanuels Grīnbergs

Emanuels Grīnbergs (1911–1982) was a Latvian mathematician who created the graph theory school in Latvia, best known for his 1968 theorem giving a necessary condition for a planar graph to have a Hamiltonian cycle.

Emanuil Aizikovich Kaner

Emanuil Aizikovich Kaner (Еммануїл Айзикович Канер; 1931–1986) was a Soviet and Ukrainian theoretical physicist in Kharkiv who co-predicted cyclotron resonance in metals and founded the theory of acoustic cyclotron resonance.

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Emiel Hensen

Emiel J. M. Hensen (born 1971) is a Dutch chemist, full professor of inorganic materials chemistry at Eindhoven University of Technology since 2009, known for zeolite catalysis and CO2 hydrogenation.

Emil Artin

Emil Artin (1898–1962) was an Austrian-born mathematician and one of the major algebraists of the twentieth century, known for the reciprocity law, Artinian rings, and the theory of braids.

Emil Fischer

Emil Fischer, born Hermann Emil Fischer, was a German chemist who won the 1902 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on sugar and purine syntheses.

Emil Grosswald

Emil Grosswald (1912–1989) was a Romanian-born American analytic number theorist known for his work on representations of integers as sums of squares and his books on number theory.

Emil Konopinski

Emil Konopinski (1911–1990) was an American theoretical physicist who worked on beta decay, the Manhattan Project, and calculations showing a nuclear explosion would not ignite the atmosphere.

Emil Leon Post

Emil Leon Post (1897–1954) was a Polish-born American logician who helped found computability theory, formulated a model of computation equivalent to the Turing machine, and opened degree theory.

Emil Pfender

Emil Pfender (1925–2016) was a German-born engineer at the University of Minnesota and a leading researcher in thermal plasma science, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1986.

Emil T. Kaiser

Emil T. Kaiser (1938–1988) was a Hungarian-born American biochemist known for creating semisynthetic enzymes such as flavopapain; he taught at Chicago and Rockefeller University and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1987.