Physical and mathematical scientists

Ennio De Giorgi

Ennio De Giorgi (1928–1996) was an Italian mathematician at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, known for his regularity theorem for elliptic equations and Γ-convergence.

Enrico Bombieri, born 1940 in Milan, is an Italian mathematician and 1974 Fields Medalist known for the Bombieri–Vinogradov theorem, and Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

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Enrico Bonatti

Enrico Bonatti is an Italian marine geologist known for work on mantle rocks exposed on the ocean floor and the start of seafloor spreading in the Red Sea.

Enrico Costa (astrophysicist)

Enrico Costa (born 1944) is an Italian astrophysicist known for the 1997 discovery of gamma-ray burst afterglows with the BeppoSAX satellite and for co-inventing the Gas Pixel Detector.

Enrico Fermi

Enrico Fermi (1901–1954) was an Italian-born physicist who created the world's first nuclear reactor, developed Fermi statistics and beta-decay theory, and won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz is a Mexican-born theoretical astrophysicist, professor and chair of astronomy at UC Santa Cruz, known for interpreting the 2017 gravitational-wave event GW170817 as a kilonova that forged heavy r-process elements.

Enrique Iglesia

Enrique Iglesia, born in Havana, Cuba, in 1954, is a chemical engineer known for heterogeneous catalysis research, long a professor at UC Berkeley and now at Purdue University.

Enrique Marcatili

Enrique Marcatili was an Argentine-educated physicist at Bell Laboratories whose 1969 and 1973 papers on optical waveguides became standard references cited into the silicon photonics era.

Enrique Schisterman

Enrique Fabian Schisterman is an American reproductive epidemiologist and biostatistician who chairs biostatistics, epidemiology, and informatics at the University of Pennsylvania and led the EAGeR low-dose aspirin trial.

Enzo Martinelli

Enzo Martinelli (1911–1999) was an Italian mathematician at the University of Rome, known for the Bochner–Martinelli formula, the first multidimensional analog of Cauchy's integral formula.

Eran Rabani

Eran Rabani (ערן רבני) is an Israeli theoretical and computational chemist known for nanocrystal research and stochastic electronic structure methods; he joined the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2025.

Eran Sharon

Eran Sharon is an Israeli experimental physicist and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known for experiments on dynamic brittle fracture and the shaping of elastic sheets.

Erasto B. Mpemba

Erasto B. Mpemba (1950–2023) was a Tanzanian game warden and scientist who, as a schoolboy in 1963, discovered the Mpemba effect: hot water can freeze faster than cold.

Erdős number

The Erdős number measures collaborative distance to the prolific Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős (1913–1996): he has number 0, direct coauthors 1, their coauthors 2, and so on.

Erez Hasman

Erez Hasman (born 1960) is an Israeli optical physicist, the Schlesinger chaired Professor at the Technion in Haifa, known for developing spinoptics and early optical metasurfaces.

Ergang Wang

Ergang Wang (王二刚) is a Chinese-born Swedish polymer chemist and professor at Chalmers University of Technology, known for isoindigo-based polymers and high-efficiency all-polymer solar cells.

Erhard Schmidt

Erhard Schmidt (1876–1959) was a German mathematician, a founder of functional analysis, who turned Hilbert's ideas into the explicit concept of a Hilbert space and gave the Gram–Schmidt process.

Eric Bakker

Eric Bakker is a Swiss analytical chemist who has held the chair of analytical chemistry at the University of Geneva since 2010, known for ion-selective electrodes and bulk optodes.

Eric Cornell

Eric Cornell is an American physicist at NIST and JILA in Boulder who created the first Bose-Einstein condensate in a gas, winning the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Eric D. Bauer

Eric D. Bauer is a condensed matter physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory who studies unconventional superconductors and f-electron materials, and received a 2009 PECASE award.

Eric D. Galbraith

Eric D. Galbraith is a Canadian Earth and ocean scientist known for paleoceanographic work, including a 2007 Nature study on carbon dioxide released from the deep North Pacific.

Eric Dufresne

Eric R. Dufresne is a soft matter physicist, professor at Cornell University since 2023 after chairs at ETH Zurich and Yale, known for holographic optical tweezer arrays.

Eric Eady

Eric Eady (1915–1966) was a British dynamical meteorologist whose 1949 model of baroclinic instability explained midlatitude weather; his Eady Growth Rate remains a standard climate diagnostic.

Eric F. Lambin

Eric F. Lambin, born in 1962 in Belgium, is a geographer and environmental scientist at UCLouvain and Stanford known for combining satellite data with socio-economic data to study deforestation.

Eric G. Adelberger

Eric G. Adelberger is an American experimental physicist at the University of Washington, co-founder of the Eöt-Wash Group, known for precision torsion-balance tests of gravity and a National Academy of Sciences member since 1994.

Éric H. Oelkers

Éric H. Oelkers is a geochemist who co-directed the CarbFix carbon-storage project from 2006 to 2020 and works on storing carbon dioxide as carbonate minerals in basalt.

Eric Herbst

Eric Herbst is an astrochemist and emeritus professor at the University of Virginia, known for the 1973 Herbst–Klemperer model of ion–molecule chemistry in dense interstellar clouds.

Eric I. Altman

Eric I. Altman is an American chemical engineer and surface scientist at Yale University since 1994, known for atomic-scale studies of oxide surfaces, catalysis, and a 1998 PECASE award.

Eric J. Essene

Eric J. Essene (1939–2010) was an American metamorphic petrologist who spent 40 years at the University of Michigan making geologic thermometry and barometry quantitative and critically evaluated.