Physical world and mathematics

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.

Eugene Mele

Eugene Mele is an American condensed matter physicist at the University of Pennsylvania who, with Charles Kane, predicted the quantum spin Hall effect in 2005.

Eugene Merle Shoemaker

Eugene Merle Shoemaker (1928–1997) was an American geologist who founded astrogeology, proved Meteor Crater was formed by a meteorite impact, and co-discovered Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9, which struck Jupiter in 1994.

Eugene P. Gross

Eugene P. Gross (1926–1991) was an American theoretical physicist at Brandeis University, co-author of the 1954 BGK model, a widely used simplification of the Boltzmann equation.

Eugene Parker

Eugene Parker (1927–2022) was an American solar physicist at the University of Chicago who predicted the solar wind in 1958 and the Parker spiral of the interplanetary magnetic field.

Eugène Rouché

Eugène Rouché (1832–1910) was a French mathematician known for Rouché's theorem in complex analysis and the Rouché–Capelli rank criterion for linear systems, and a professor at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers in Paris.

Eugene S. Polzik

Eugene S. Polzik, also known as Eugene Polzik, is a Danish-based experimental quantum physicist and professor of physics at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen since 2003.

Eugene Terentjev

Eugene Terentjev is a polymer physicist and Professor of Polymer Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, since 2005, known for his work on liquid crystalline elastomers.

Eugene van Tamelen

Eugene Earle van Tamelen (1925–2009) was an American organic chemist and Stanford professor, a pioneer of biomimetic synthesis known for synthesizing Dewar benzene and cholesterol and for early work on nitrogen fixation.

Eugene W. Hilgard

Eugene Woldemar Hilgard (1833–1916) was a German-American agricultural chemist and geologist who taught at UC Berkeley from 1875 to 1904 and is regarded as the father of soil science.

Eugene Wigner

Eugene Wigner, born Jenő Wigner, was a Hungarian-born American theoretical physicist who won half of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics for symmetry principles in quantum mechanics.

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Eugene Y.‐X. Chen

Eugene Y.-X. Chen is an American polymer chemist and University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University, known for chemically recyclable plastics and compatibilizing mixed plastic waste.

Eugenia Cheng

Eugenia Cheng is an English mathematician and pianist who writes popular math books and is Scientist in Residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Eugenia Kalnay

Eugenia Kalnay (1942–2024) was an Argentine-born meteorologist who led the NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis, pioneered ensemble forecasting and data assimilation, and taught at the University of Maryland.

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Eugenia Kumacheva

Eugenia Kumacheva is a Canadian chemist and University Professor at the University of Toronto known for soft matter chemistry, nanoparticle self-assembly, and microfluidic synthesis of polymer particles.

Eugenio Bertini

Eugenio Bertini (1846–1933) was an Italian mathematician, Cremona's first student and a master of the Italian school of algebraic geometry, known for two theorems on linear systems.

Eugenio Calabi

Eugenio Calabi (1923–2023) was an Italian-born American differential geometer at the University of Pennsylvania, best known for the Calabi conjecture and the Calabi–Yau manifolds named after him.

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Eugenio Coronado

Eugenio Coronado Miralles, born in Valencia in 1959, is a Spanish materials chemist, professor of inorganic chemistry at the Universitat de València, and director of its Institute of Molecular Science, known for molecular magnetism.

Eugenio Elia Levi

Eugenio Elia Levi (1883–1917) was an Italian mathematician who worked on partial differential equations, several complex variables, and Lie algebras, proving the Levi decomposition in 1905.

Eugenio Giuseppe Togliatti

Eugenio Giuseppe Togliatti (1890–1977) was an Italian algebraic geometer of the Segre school in Turin, known for the Togliatti surface, a quintic with 31 nodes.