Physical and mathematical scientists

Eric J. Schelter

Eric J. Schelter is an American inorganic chemist and Hirschmann-Makineni Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, known for coordination-chemistry approaches to rare-earth element separations and director of the Center for Sustainable Separations of Metals.

Eric J. Steig

Eric J. Steig, who also publishes as E. J. Steig, is an American glaciologist and isotope geochemist at the University of Washington known for reconstructing Antarctic climate from ice cores.

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Eric L. Shirley

Eric L. Shirley is an American theoretical physicist at NIST in Gaithersburg, Maryland, since 1994, who works on optical properties of solids and diffraction corrections in radiometry.

Eric M. Rogers

Eric M. Rogers (1902–1990) was a British-born physicist and Princeton professor known for his lecture demonstrations and the 1960 textbook Physics for the Inquiring Mind.

Eric Mazur

Eric Mazur is a Dutch-born physicist and Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard, known for black silicon, femtosecond laser micromachining, and Peer Instruction, and served as President of Optica in 2017.

Eric Meggers

Eric Meggers, born 1968 in Bonn, Germany, is a German organic chemist and professor at the University of Marburg known for asymmetric catalysis with chiral-at-metal complexes.

Eric N. Jacobsen

Eric N. Jacobsen, born 1960, is an American organic chemist and Harvard professor known for asymmetric catalysis, including the Jacobsen epoxidation and hydrolytic kinetic resolution.

Eric Ogilvie Hall

Eric Ogilvie Hall was a physical metallurgist whose 1951 measurement of yield stress against grain size in steel is the first half of the Hall–Petch relation.

Eric Priest

Eric Priest (born 1943) is a British mathematician at the University of St Andrews known for pioneering the study of magnetic reconnection in solar flares.

Eric Rideal

Eric Rideal, fully Eric Keightley Rideal, was a British physical chemist who founded the Cambridge Colloid Science Laboratory and gave his name to the Rideal mechanism of heterogeneous catalysis.

Eric Rignot

Eric Rignot is an American glaciologist at UC Irvine and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who uses satellite radar to measure how fast Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice.

Sep 17, 2026

Eric Stefan Garrido Shaqfeh

Eric Stefan Garrido Shaqfeh is an American chemical engineer at Stanford University who studies complex fluids, combining single-molecule DNA experiments with simulations of polymer, blood, and suspension flows.

Eric Temple Bell

Eric Temple Bell (1883–1960) was a Scottish-born American mathematician at Caltech who worked in number theory, gave his name to Bell numbers, and wrote Men of Mathematics.

Sep 17, 2026

Eric Tkaczyk

Eric Tkaczyk is a physician-scientist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the Nashville VA who won the 2025 PECASE for optical skin disease diagnosis research.

Eric V. Anslyn

Eric V. Anslyn, born 1960 in California, is an American supramolecular chemist who holds the Welch Regents Chair at UT Austin and pioneered differential sensing and single-molecule peptide sequencing.

Eric Wolff

Eric Wolff, also known as Eric W. Wolff, is a British ice core and climate scientist at Cambridge who chaired EPICA and proposed using sea salt in ice cores to estimate past sea ice.

Eric Wood

Eric F. Wood (1947–2021) was a Canadian-born American hydrologist, the Susan Dod Brown Professor at Princeton University, known for the VIC hydrologic model and drought prediction.

Eric Zaslow

Eric Zaslow is an American mathematician at Northwestern University working on mirror symmetry and symplectic topology, best known as the Z of the 1996 Strominger–Yau–Zaslow conjecture.

Erich Clar

Erich Clar, a chemist from Czech-Sudetenland who died in 1987, is considered the father of modern polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon chemistry; his aromatic π-sextet rule still guides nanographene research.

Erich Fischer

Erich M. Fischer is a climate scientist and professor at ETH Zurich's Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, known for event attribution and record-shattering heatwave research.

Erich Hecke

Erich Hecke (1887–1947) was a German mathematician who studied under Hilbert at Göttingen and taught at Hamburg, creating Hecke operators, Hecke algebras, and Hecke characters central to number theory.

Erich Hückel

Erich Hückel (1896–1980) was a German theoretical physicist who created the Debye–Hückel theory of strong electrolytes and the Hückel molecular orbital method, including the 4n+2 rule for aromaticity.

Erich Kähler

Erich Kähler (1906–2000) was a German mathematician whose 1932 introduction of Kähler metrics founded Kähler geometry, later central to string theory; his name also attaches to the Cartan–Kähler theorem.

Erich Leo Lehmann

Erich Leo Lehmann (1917–2009), born in Strasbourg, was a mathematical statistician at the University of California, Berkeley, known for the Lehmann–Scheffé theorem and textbooks that defined graduate statistics education.

Erich Müller

Erich Müller (1870–1948) was a German electrochemist who created the theory of chrome plating and developed a potentiometric titration method for determining several ions side by side.

Erich P. Ippen

Erich P. Ippen is an American physicist and electrical engineer at MIT, a founder of femtosecond optics who produced the first subpicosecond light pulses at Bell Laboratories in 1974.

Erich Regener

Erich Regener (1881–1955) was a German experimental physicist who measured the elementary charge and probed cosmic rays in deep lakes and the stratosphere, finding the atmosphere's ion-production maximum.

Erich Runge

Erich Runge is a German theoretical physicist and professor at TU Ilmenau, best known as co-author with Eberhard K. U. Gross of the 1984 paper founding time-dependent density-functional theory.

Erich Schönhardt

Erich Schönhardt (1891–1979), born in Stuttgart, was a German mathematician and university teacher in Tübingen and Stuttgart, known for the 1928 Schönhardt polyhedron, a twisted triangular prism that cannot be tetrahedralized.