Edward Jenner

Edward Jennet (1749-1823) was a English physician who pioneered vaccination. Short Biography: In Jenner's day, smallpox was a major killer. His discovery that inoculation with...

Einstein

Einstein (full name Albert Einstein) was born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Wurttemberg, Germany. was a German-born theoretical physicist. He is best known for his theory of relativity...

Edwin Hubble

Edwin Powell Hubble (1889-1953) was an American astronomer, who discovered the existence of other galaxies outside our own, and classified them according to their shape. His theory...

Eduard Buchner

Eduard Buchner (1860-1917) was a German chemist who researched the process of fermentation. Short Biography: In 1897 Buchner observed that fermentation could be produced mechanically...

Edward Victor Appleton

Edward Victor Appleton (1892-1965) was a British physicist, who worked at Cambridge under Ernest Rutherford from 1920. Short Biography: He proved the existence of the Kennelly-Heaviside...

Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) main research was in the field of radioactivity, and he discovered alpha, beta, and gamma rays. He was the first to recognize tile nuclear nature of the...

Edward Teller

Edward Teller (1908-2003) was born in Hungary and emigrated to the USA in 1935. Short Biography: He was a key witness against Oppenheimer at the security hearings in 1954. He...

Edmund Halley

Edmund Halley (1656-1742) was a English scientist. Short Biography: In 1682 he observed the comet named after him, predicting that it would return in 1759. Halley's other...

Ernest Lawrence

Ernest Orlando Lawrence (1901-1958) invention of the cyclotron pioneered the production of artificial radioisotopes. Short Biography: He was professor of physics at the University...

Eugene Wigner

Eugene Paul Wigner, (1902-1995) applied quantum mechanics to nuclear physics and made many advances. For work on nuclear structure, he shared the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physics with...

Eratosthenes

Eratosthenes (c. 276-194 BC) was a Greek geographer and mathematician, whose map of the ancient world was the first to contain lines of latitude and longitude, and who calculated the...

Erwin Schrodinger

Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961) was born in Vienna, he became senior professor at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies in 1940. He shared (with Dirac) a Nobel prize in 1933. Why...

Ernest Walton

Ernest Walton (1903-1995) as a young doctoral student at the Cavendish laboratory in Cambridge, collaborated with Cockcroft on the structure of the atom. In 1932 they succeeded...

Ernst Boris Chain

Ernst Boris Chain (1906-1979) was a German biochemist who worked on the development of penicillin. Short Biography: Chain was born in Germany but fled to Britain in 1933. After...

Enrico Fermi

Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) was an Italian physicist, who proved the existence of new radioactive elements produced by bornbardment with neutrons, and discovered nuclear reactions produced...

Emil von Behring

Emil von Behring (1854-1917) was an German physician who discovered that the body produces antitoxins, substances able to counteract poisons released by bacteria. Short Biography...

Euclid

Euclid (c.330-c.260 BC) was a Greek mathematician, who lived at Alexandria and wrote the Stoicheial Elements in 13 books, of which nine deal with plane and solid geometry, and four...

Ernst Mach

Ernst Mach (1838-1916) was an Austrian philosopher and physicist. Short Biography: He was an empiricist, believing that science was a record of facts perceived by the senses...

Ernest Starling

Ernest Henry Starling (1866-1927) was a English physiologist who discovered secretin (which produces digestive secretions), and coined the word "hormone" to describe chemicals of this...

Evariste Galois

Evariste Galois (1811-1832) was a French mathematician who orginated the theory of groups. Short Biography: Galois was killed in a duel before he was 21. The night before, he...

Emilie du Chatelet

Emilie de Breteuil Chatelet (1706-1749) was a French scientific writer, mistress of Voltaire, and translator into French of Newton's Principia. Short Biography: Her marriage to...

Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer

Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer (1850-1935) made important discoveries relating to the hormone adrenaline, and to the pituitary and other endocrine or ductless glands. He also devised...

Emilio G. Segre

Emilio Gino Segre (1905-1989) discovered the antiproton in 1955, an atomic particle with the same mass as the proton, but with negative charge. Short Biography: He shared the...

Edward Kendall

Edward Kendall (1886-1972) isolated in 1914 the hormone thyroxin, the active compound of the thyroid gland. Short Biography: He went on to work on secretions from the adrenal...