Physical world and mathematics

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.

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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.

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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.

Erick M. Carreira

Erick M. Carreira is an American synthetic organic chemist, professor of chemistry at ETH Zurich since 1998, known for asymmetric synthesis and total synthesis of natural products.

Erik Asphaug

Erik Asphaug is a professor of planetary sciences at the University of Arizona who studies giant impacts and small bodies, co-authoring a 2001 Nature paper on the Moon's origin.

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Erik Grumstrup

Erik M. Grumstrup is a physical chemist and Associate Professor at Montana State University who develops time-resolved optical microscopy to study electron movement in solar materials.

Erik Hägglund

Erik Hägglund (1887–1959) was a Swedish chemist and the central figure in Swedish wood, cellulose, and lignin chemistry, who developed an industrial process for converting wood waste into sugar.

Erik Ivar Fredholm

Erik Ivar Fredholm (1866–1927) was a Swedish mathematician whose 1903 memoir on integral equations founded Fredholm theory, the starting point from which Hilbert built the theory leading to Hilbert spaces.

Erik J. Alexanian

Erik J. Alexanian is an American organic chemist and professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, known for functionalizing unactivated C–H bonds in small molecules and polymers.

Erik Stensiö

Erik Stensiö, born Erik Andersson, was a Swedish vertebrate paleontologist at the Swedish Museum of Natural History known for his serial-grinding reconstructions of fossil fish skulls.

Erik Verlinde

Erik Verlinde, born 1962 in Woudenberg, Netherlands, is a Dutch theoretical physicist at the University of Amsterdam known for proposing that gravity is an emergent, entropic phenomenon.