Physical world and mathematics

Edward R. Grant

Edward R. Grant, also published as E. R. Grant, is a physical chemist known for ZEKE spectroscopy, a professor at the University of British Columbia since 2005.

Edward R. Sholkovitz

Edward R. Sholkovitz is an aquatic geochemist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution known for research on trace elements, rare earth elements, and plutonium in natural waters.

Edward John Routh (1831–1907) was a Canadian-born mathematician who beat Maxwell as Senior Wrangler at Cambridge in 1854, became its greatest mathematical coach, and created the Routh–Hurwitz stability criterion.

Edward S. Holden

Edward Singleton Holden (1846–1914) was an American astronomer, first Director of the Lick Observatory, founder of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and President of the University of California.

Sep 20, 2026

Edward S. Yeung

Edward S. Yeung (E.S. Yeung) is an analytical chemist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Iowa State University and senior scientist at Ames Laboratory, known for single-molecule spectroscopy.

Edward T. Baker

Edward T. Baker is an American marine geophysicist who spent 37 years in NOAA's hydrothermal research program in Seattle, developing plume-based methods for finding seafloor vents.

Edward Teller

Edward Teller (Teller Ede) was a Hungarian-born American theoretical physicist who played the central role in developing the hydrogen bomb and co-created the Teller–Ulam design.

Edward V. Appleton

Edward V. Appleton, also known as Sir Edward Victor Appleton, was a British physicist who proved the ionosphere's existence and won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Edward Vermilye Huntington

Edward Vermilye Huntington (1874–1952) was an American Harvard mathematician, a central figure in American postulate theory, whose Huntington–Hill method has apportioned US House seats since 1941.

Edward W. Morley

Edward Williams Morley was an American chemist and physicist best known for the 1887 Michelson–Morley experiment, which found no motion of Earth through the ether.

Edward Washburn

Edward Wight Washburn (1881–1934) was an American physical chemist remembered for defining standard states for bomb calorimetry, producing heavy water by electrolysis, and editing the seven-volume International Critical Tables.

Edward Wilber Berry

Edward Wilber Berry (1875–1945) was an American paleobotanist at Johns Hopkins University who reconstructed the Eocene floras of southeastern North America and later served as the university's provost.

Edward Witten

Edward Witten, also known as Ed Witten, is an American theoretical physicist best known for superstring theory and M-theory, and the only physicist to win the Fields Medal, in 1990.

Edward Young

Edward D. Young is a UCLA geochemist known for the CO self-shielding explanation of oxygen isotope anomalies and for tracing Earth's water to primordial hydrogen atmospheres.

Oct 15, 2026

Edwards Aquifer

The Edwards Aquifer is a karst limestone aquifer in south-central Texas, stretching roughly 180 miles and supplying more than two million people in the San Antonio area.

Edwin A. Bergin

Edwin A. Bergin, known as Ted Bergin, is an American astronomer and astrochemist at the University of Michigan who studies the chemistry of planet formation.

Edwin A. Chandross

Edwin A. Chandross is an American chemist, born in Brooklyn in 1934, who led organic materials research at Bell Labs and discovered the peroxyoxalate chemiluminescence reaction powering glow sticks.

Edwin Allston Hill

Edwin Allston Hill (1850–1929) was an American chemist, lawyer, and Patent Office official in Washington, D.C., whose 1900 paper described the Hill system for ordering elements in molecular formulas.

Edwin B. Hart

Edwin B. Hart (1874–1953) was an American biochemist who chaired agricultural chemistry at the University of Wisconsin from 1906 to 1944 and directed the single-grain experiment that helped establish the vitamin concept.

Edwin Bidwell Wilson

Edwin Bidwell Wilson (1879–1964) was an American mathematician and statistician at Yale, MIT, and Harvard who edited Gibbs's Vector Analysis and anticipated the confidence interval in 1927.

Edwin Brant Frost

Edwin Brant Frost (1866–1935) was an American astronomer who directed Yerkes Observatory from 1905 to 1932, measured stellar radial velocities with the Bruce spectrograph, and edited the Astrophysical Journal.

Edwin C. Constable

Edwin C. Constable, born 1955, is a British chemist known as a pioneer of metallosupramolecular chemistry, professor at the University of Basel and its Vice-President for Research from 2011 to 2018.

Edwin C. Kemble

Edwin C. Kemble (1889–1984) was an American physicist at Harvard University who introduced the quantum study of molecular structure to the United States and wrote a 1937 quantum mechanics textbook.

Edwin E. Salpeter

Edwin E. Salpeter (1924–2008) was an Austrian-born Australian-American astrophysicist at Cornell University who explained how stars make carbon, proposed black-hole accretion as quasars' power source, and derived the Salpeter initial mass function.

Edwin F. Taylor

Edwin F. Taylor, or Edwin Floriman Taylor, was an American physicist and physics educator who coauthored Spacetime Physics with John Archibald Wheeler and won the 1998 Oersted Medal.

Edwin H. Colbert

Edwin H. Colbert (1905–2001) was an American vertebrate paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History who wrote the popular books that introduced mid-century America to dinosaurs.

Edwin H. Land

Edwin H. Land (1909–1991) was an American physicist and inventor who founded Polaroid, invented instant photography and the synthetic sheet polarizer, and held 537 patents, second only to Edison.

Edwin Hall

Edwin Hall (1855–1938) was an American physicist who discovered the Hall effect in 1879 as a Johns Hopkins graduate student, then taught physics at Harvard until 1921.

Edwin Hewitt

Edwin Hewitt (1920–1999) was an American mathematician at the University of Washington, known for the Hewitt–Savage zero-one law, realcompact spaces, and the monograph Abstract Harmonic Analysis with Kenneth Ross.