Physical and mathematical scientists

Erwin Frey

Erwin Frey, born 1960, is a German theoretical physicist at LMU Munich who studies nonequilibrium statistical physics and received the Max Planck Medal in 2023.

Erwin Hahn

Erwin Hahn (1921–2016) was an American physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, whose 1950 discovery of the spin echo in nuclear magnetic resonance underlies medical MRI.

Erwin Madelung (1881–1972) was a German theoretical physicist, professor at Frankfurt from 1921, known for the Madelung constant of ionic crystals, the Madelung orbital-filling rule, and a hydrodynamical interpretation of quantum mechanics.

Erwin Mayer

Erwin Mayer (1937–2011) was an Austrian inorganic chemist at the University of Innsbruck who first vitrified pure liquid water in 1980 and made cubic ice from liquid water in 1987.

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Erwin Reisner

Erwin Reisner (born 1979) is a chemist and Professor of Energy and Sustainability at the University of Cambridge, known for solar fuels and semi-artificial photosynthesis.

Erwin Schrödinger

Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961) was an Austrian theoretical physicist who formulated wave mechanics, shared the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics, and coined the term quantum entanglement.

Erwin Wilhelm Müller

Erwin Wilhelm Müller (1911–1977) was a German-born physicist at Penn State who invented the field ion microscope and became the first person to see an atom.

Esper S. Larsen, Jr.

Esper S. Larsen, Jr. (1879–1961) was an American petrologist at Harvard and the U.S. Geological Survey known for optical mineral determination and the lead-alpha method of dating rocks.

Estella Leopold

Estella Leopold (1927–2024) was an American paleobotanist and conservationist, the youngest child of Aldo Leopold, who reconstructed ancient vegetation from fossil pollen and won the 2010 International Cosmos Prize.

Esther M. Conwell

Esther M. Conwell (1922–2014) was an American condensed matter physicist known for the Conwell–Weisskopf impurity-scattering theory, who in 1997 became the first woman to receive the IEEE Edison Medal.

Etienne Brasselet

Etienne Brasselet is a French physicist and CNRS research director at LOMA near Bordeaux, known for generating optical vortices from liquid crystal droplets and winning the 2019 Prix Louis Ancel.

Ettore Pancini

Ettore Pancini (1915–1981) was an Italian experimental physicist who, with Conversi and Piccioni, showed in Rome that the muon decays spontaneously, disproving its identification as Yukawa's nuclear-force meson.

Eugen Goldstein

Eugen Goldstein (1850–1930) was a German physicist who worked on electrical discharges in gases, named cathode rays in 1876, and discovered canal rays in 1886, from which mass spectrometry later grew.

Eugen Seibold

Eugen Seibold (1918–2013) was a German geologist, called the founder of modern marine geology in Germany, who led the DFG and the European Science Foundation.

Eugene B. Waggoner

Eugene B. Waggoner was an American engineering geologist and National Academy of Engineering member known for dam and reclamation work with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.

Eugene Bogomolny

Eugene Bogomolny (Evgeny Borisovich Bogomolny, Евгений Борисович Богомольный) is a theoretical physicist at LPTMS near Paris, known for the 1976 Bogomolny bound underlying BPS states and for work on quantum chaos.

Eugène Cahen

Eugène Cahen (1865–1941) was a French mathematician who proved Cahen's constant irrational in 1891, wrote a 1894 Paris thesis on the Riemann zeta function, and published about 40 works.

Eugene Commins

Eugene Commins (1932–2015) was an American experimental atomic physicist at UC Berkeley known for precision measurements of parity nonconservation and the electron's electric dipole moment.

Eugène Cosserat

Eugène Cosserat (1866–1931) was a French astronomer and mathematician, professor and director at the Toulouse Observatory, remembered as co-founder with his brother François of the Cosserat theory of elasticity.

Eugene Demler

Eugene Demler is a theoretical condensed matter physicist who spent twenty years as a Harvard professor before joining ETH Zurich in 2021, known for the theory behind cold-atom quantum simulators.

Eugene Dynkin

Eugene Dynkin, born Evgenii Borisovich Dynkin (1924–2014), was a Soviet and American mathematician known for Dynkin diagrams and for foundational work on Markov processes, and a Cornell professor from 1977.

Eugene Feenberg

Eugene Feenberg (1906–1977) was an American theoretical physicist and Wayman Crow Professor at Washington University in St. Louis who founded the correlated basis functions theory of quantum fluids.

Eugene Gardner

Eugene Gardner was an American nuclear physicist at Berkeley's Radiation Laboratory who, with César Lattes, recorded the first photographs of artificially produced pions in 1948.

Eugene Gregoryanz

Eugene Gregoryanz is a professor of high-pressure physics at the University of Edinburgh whose diamond anvil cell experiments produced evidence for a new dense phase of hydrogen above 325 GPa in 2016.

Eugene I. Gordon

Eugene I. Gordon (1930–2014) was an American physicist at Bell Laboratories who led gas-laser development, directed the Lightwave Devices Laboratory, and received the 1984 IEEE Edison Medal.

Eugene J. Mele

Eugene J. Mele is an American condensed matter physicist at the University of Pennsylvania, known for predicting the quantum spin Hall effect and three-dimensional topological insulators.

Eugene Joseph Billiot

Eugene Joseph Billiot is an American analytical chemist and Professor of Chemistry at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi, known for developing amino-acid-based molecular micelles that separate mirror-image drug forms by capillary electrophoresis.

Eugene Lukacs

Eugene Lukacs (1906–1987) was a Hungarian-American statistician known for work on characterizations of probability distributions, stability theory, and characteristic functions, and for his 1960 monograph Characteristic Functions.

Eugene M. Rasmusson

Eugene M. Rasmusson, also known as Eugene Martin Rasmusson (1929–2015), was an American meteorologist whose 1982 composite of El Niño's life cycle founded modern ENSO diagnostics.