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Edward VIII Bay Edward VIII Bay () is a bay about 20 miles in extent, entered between Edward VIII Plateau and the Oygarden Group. It was discovered in 1936 by DI personnel on the William Scoresby, and named for King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom.
Edward VIII of the United Kingdom Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David Windsor; later The Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor; 23 June 1894 – 28 May 1972) was King of Great Britain, Ireland, the British Dominions beyond the Seas, and Emperor of India from the death of his father, George V (1910–36), on 20 January 1936 until his abdication on 11 December 1936. He was the second British monarch of the House of Windsor, his father having changed the name of the Royal house from the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in 1917.
Edward W. Berry Edward Wilber Berry (1875 - 1945) was an American paleontologist and botanist, the principal focus of his research was paleobotany. Berry studied North and South American flora and published taxonomic studies with theoretical reconstructions of paleoecology and phytogeography.
Edward W. Bok Edward William Bok, American editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, was born on October 9, 1863, in Den Helder, Netherlands. At the age of six, he immigrated to Brooklyn and became an office boy with the Western Union Telegraph Company in 1876.
Edward Wagenknecht Edward (Charles) Wagenknecht (March 28, 1900—May 24, 2004) was a American literary critic and teacher, who specialized in 19th century American literature. He wrote and edited a large number of books on literature and movies, and taught for many years at various universities, including the University of Chicago and Boston University.
Edward Walter Maunder Edward Walter Maunder (April 12 1851 – March 21 1928) was an English astronomer best remembered for his study of sunspots and the solar magnetic cycle that led to his identification of the period from 1645 to 1715 that is now known as the Maunder Minimum. He was also an esteemed biblical scholar.
Edward Warner Edward Warner (1880 – 1915) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Edward Washburn Edward Payson Washburn (1831-1860) American artist, son of Indian missionary Cephas Washburn. He is best known for painting The Arkansas Traveller which was lithographed by Currier & Ives and became a popular print.
Edward Wellington Backus Edward Wellington Backus (1861 - October 29, 1934) was a timber baron, dam builder, mill owner, financier, developer of the northern reaches of Minnesota, and president of the Ontario & Minnesota Power Company and Minnesota and Ontario Paper Company. He was responsible for the construction, commencing in 1905, of a hydroelectric dam at Koochiching Falls between International Falls, Minnesota, and Fort Frances, Ontario, an outpost of the Hudson's Bay Company, which generated much power for the region.
Edward Wentworth Beatty Sir Edward Wentworth Beatty (October 16, 1877 – March 23, 1943) was a Canadian lawyer, University chancellor and businessman. He was President of the Canadian Pacific Railway from 1918 to 1943, Chancellor of Queen's University from 1919 to 1923, and Chancellor of McGill University from 1920 to 1943.
Edward Weston (chemist) Edward Weston (May 9, 1850 – August 20, 1936) was an English chemist noted for his achievements in electroplating and his development of the battery, named the Weston cell, for the voltage standard. Edward Weston was a competitor of Thomas Edison in the early days of electricity generation and distribution.
Edward Whitehead Edward Whitehead (May 20, 1908 – April 16, 1978) was a British naval officer, a veteran of the South Pacific campaign in His Majesty's Navy, better known as the advertising representative of Schweppes Tonic Water. The first campaign was created by Ogilvy & Mather Agency in 1955 and ran through the 1960s.
Edward Whitley Edward Whitley is a British industrialist, environmentalist and philanthropist. Heir to a large British beer industry, he was the founder of the Whitley Awards in 1994 - presently the biggest environmental awards in Europe.
Edward William Derrington Bell Edward William Derrington Bell (28 August 1824-1 July 1879) was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Edward William Godwin Edward William Godwin (Bristol, May 26, 1833 - October 6, 1886) was a progressive English architect-designer, who began working in the strongly polychromatic "Ruskinian Gothic" style of mid-Victorian Britain, inspired by The Stones of Venice, then moved on to provide designs in the "Anglo-Japanese taste" of the Aesthetic Movement and Whistler's circle in the 1870s. Godwin's influence can be detected in the Arts and Crafts Movement.
Edward Willis Redfield Edward Willis Redfield (December 18, 1869–October 19, 1965) was an American landscape painter and member of the art colony at New Hope, Pennsylvania. He is best known today for his impressionist scenes of the New Hope area, often depicting the snow-covered countryside.
Edward Wilmot Blyden Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832-1912) was an Liberian educator, writer, diplomat, and politician. He was the Liberian Secretary of State (1862-1864) and Minister of the Interior (1880-1882); he also served as professor of classics (1862-1871), then President (1880-1884), of Liberia College (now the University of Liberia).
Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick Edward Edmund Maximilian George Windsor, Lord Downpatrick (born 2 December 1988) is the only son and heir of George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews and his wife, the Countess of St. Andrews (née Sylvana Tomaselli).
Edward Winn Edward Winn (February 12, 1937 — June 25, 1995) was a third-party candidate for President of the United States in the 1984 and 1988 presidential elections, representing the Socialist Equality Party (US). In 1984 his running mate varied from state to state, being either Helen Halyard (e.
Edward Winslow Gifford Edward Winslow Gifford (1887-1959) devoted his life to studying California Indian ethnography as a professor of anthropology and director of the Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Edward Wiskoski Edward Wiskoski (born January 10, 1945) is a former American professional wrestler best known as Colonel DeBeers in the AWA (American Wrestling Association). Also wrestled as Dereck "The Mongoose" Draper (Florida) and Mega Maharishi (Portland).
Edward Witten Edward Witten (born August 26, 1951) is an American mathematical physicist, Fields Medalist, and professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. He is one of the world's leading researchers in string theory (as the founder of M-theory) and quantum field theory.
Edward Wollstonecraft Edward Wollstonecraft (1783-1832) was a successful businessman in early colonial Australia. He was the nephew of the early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and cousin to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the author of Frankenstein.
Edward Woods Edward Woods (July 5, 1903--October 8, 1989) was an American actor who was playing the lead in the screen classic The Public Enemy, with James Cagney portraying his best friend, but director William Wellman switched the actors' roles after viewing Cagney's electric performance in the dailies. In the flashback sequences, the children's appearances are reversed because those scenes were filmed before the switch and the studio opted not to pay to refilm them, which confuses viewers to this day.
Edward Wyndham Tennant Edward Wyndham Tennant (July 1, 1897 – September 22, 1916), was an English war poet, killed at the Battle of the Somme. He was the son of Edward Tennant, who became Lord Glenconner, and Pamela Wyndham, a writer, Lady Glenconner and later wife of Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon.
Edward Wynne Edward Wynne was Proprietary Governor of Ferryland colony from 1621 to 1626. Born in Wales, he was appointed by George Calvert, (later Lord Baltimore) to establish the colony and in August 1621 he landed at Ferryland with 12 men.
Edward Yang Edward Yang (; born November 6, 1947), along with Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Tsai Ming Liang, is one of the leading filmmakers and artists of the Taiwanese New Wave and Taiwanese Cinema. He has won the Best Director Award at Cannes for his 2000 film Yi yi ("A One and a Two"), and has also been honored with many other accolades from other prominent international film festivals.
Edward Youde Sir Edward Youde (尤德) GCMG, GCVO, MBE (19 June, 1924 - 5 December, 1986 in Beijing, China) was a British administrator, diplomat and Sinologist. He served as Governor of Hong Kong between 20 May, 1982 and 5 December, 1986.
Edward Young (Royal Household) Edward Young has been the Assistant Private Secretary to the Queen, in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom from September 2004. He was born on October 24 1966, and was educated as a boarder at Reading School.
Edward Zambara Edward Zambara (born Vancouver, Canada) is a Canadian-American bass-baritone singer and leading music educator. He studied opera with Boris Goldovsky and Sarah Caldwell, as well as lieder with Felix Wolfes, Frederic Popper, Jörg Demus, and Eric Werba.
Edward, the Black Prince Edward of Woodstock, Prince of Wales, KG (June 15 1330 – June 8 1376), popularly known as the Black Prince, was the eldest son of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault, and father to King Richard II of England. Edward was an effective military leader, and very popular during his life.
Edwardes College Edwardes College was established in 1900 with the efforts of Sir Herbert Edwardes Commissioner of Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province. Along with Islamia college it is considered one of the premier educational institutions in the province.
Edwardian period The Edwardian period or Edwardian era in the United Kingdom is the period 1901 to 1910, the reign of King Edward VII. It succeeded the Victorian period and is sometimes extended to include the period up to the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912, the start of World War I in 1914, or even the end of the war in 1918.
Edwards Aquifer The Edwards Aquifer is one of the most prolific artesian aquifers in the world. Located on the eastern edge of Texas' Edwards Plateau, it discharges about 900,000 acre feet of water a year and directly serves about two million people.
Edwards Barham Erle Edwards Barham (born July 10, 1937) is an American farmer and conservationist living in Oak Ridge, Morehouse Parish, Louisiana. He is best known for having been the first Republican elected -- by a 29-vote margin -- to the Louisiana state Senate since the era of Reconstruction.
Edwards Lifesciences Edwards Lifesciences (NYSE: EW) is a global leader in products and technologies to treat advanced cardiovascular disease, the global leader in acute hemodynamic monitoring and the number-one heart valve company in the world. Headquartered in Irvine, California, Edwards has more than 5,300 employees worldwide,
Edwards Micropolitan Statistical Area The Edwards Micropolitan Statistical Area is a United States Census Bureau defined Micropolitan Statistical Area located in the Edwards area of the State of Colorado. The Edwards Micropolitan Statistical Area is defined as Eagle County, Colorado.
Edwards Rail Car Company Edwards Rail Car Company located in Montgomery, Alabama, specializes in the manufacture of self-propelled rail cars patterned after original Edwards designs dating from the mid-1920s. The company also restores trolleys and other rail cars.
Edwards River (Illinois) The Edwards River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, about 75 mi (120 km) longin northwestern Illinois] in the [[United States. It rises 3 mi (5 km) west of Kewanee in southeastern Henry County and flows generally westwardly into Mercer County, where it joins the Mississippi 2 mi (3 km) southeast of New Boston.
Edwards Run Wildlife Management Area The Edwards Run Wildlife Management Area is located on 397 acres two miles north of Capon Bridge on Cold Stream Road (CR 15) near Cold Stream in Hampshire County, West Virginia. Edwards Run WMA is owned by the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources.
Edwards v. California Edwards v. People of State of California, was a United States Supreme Court case where a California law prohibiting the bringing of a non-resident "indigent person" into the state was struck down as unconstitutional.
Edwardsville, Illinois Edwardsville is a city in Madison County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 21,491, it is the county seat of Madison County and is the third oldest city in the State of Illinois.
Edwardsville, Kansas Edwardsville is a city in Wyandotte County, Kansas and is part of the "Unified Government" which contains Kansas City, Kansas, Bonner Springs, Kansas and Edwardsville, Kansas. The population was 4,146 at the 2000 census.
Edwardsville, Pennsylvania Edwardsville is a borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, two miles (3 km) west of Wilkes Barre and also adjacent to the boroughs of Kingston to the north and Larksville to the south. It is strictly a residential place, the population being 5,165 in 1900 and 8,407 in 1910.
Edwin & the Pressure Edwin & the Pressure is the second album by the Canadian alternative rock singer Edwin, released by Sony on April 2, 2002 in Canada. Though technically his sophomore solo album, Edwin himself considered it a debut for his then-new band.
Edwin (clothing brand) Edwin or often capitalized, EDWIN, is a Japanese clothing brand founded in 1969 by Edwin Company mainly focused on jeans manufacture. The company has 365 employees and a revenue of 35 billionyen (as of 2002) according to the official sitePitt] is an official spokesman and model for the brand, and appears in many of its advertisements.
Edwin (musician) Edwin (born Edwin Ghazal) is a Canadian alternative rock singer from Toronto, and former lead vocalist for I Mother Earth. He was on the band's first two albums, and was also on the majority of the songs on Victor, a 1996 side project from Alex Lifeson of Rush.
Edwin Abbott Abbott Edwin Abbott Abbott (December 20, 1838 – 1926), English schoolmaster and theologian, is best known as the author of the mathematical satire and religious allegory Flatland (1884). Abbott was the eldest son of Edwin Abbott (1808–1882), headmaster of the Philological School, Marylebone, and his wife, Jane Abbott (1806–1882).
Edwin Adams Cotto Edwin Adams Cotto (1978 – March 7, 2005) was a Puerto Rican who became infamous in 2002, after he was accused alongside famous reporter Laura Hernandez of drug trafficking from Puerto Rico to the Dominican Republic.
Edwin Albert Link Edwin Albert Link (July 26, 1904 - September 7, 1981) was an aviation pioneer. His "Blue Box" flight trainer, also called "Link Trainer" set the standard in the now multi-billion dollar flight simulation industry.
Edwin Alfred Hervey Alderson Sir Edwin Alfred Hervey Alderson (8 April 1859 – 14 December 1927) was an English officer who served in the British Army during the Second Boer War, and later commanded the Canadian Corps during the First World War.
Edwin Arthur Jones Edwin Arthur Jones, an American composer, was called "one modest man who knows the power of music" by Edward Everett Hale, author of The Man Without a Country. This modest man, from a rural Massachusetts town about 20 miles south of Boston, composed some very significant works.
Edwin Ashby Edwin Ashby (1861-1941) was an Adelaide based Australian property developer and a noted amateur malacologist and ornithologist. He was a founding member of the South Australian Ornithological Association (SAOA) in 1899, and of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU) in 1901 for which he served as President 1926.
Edwin Austin Abbey Edwin Austin Abbey (April 1, 1852 – August 1, 1911) was an American artist, illustrator, and painter. He flourished at the beginning of what is now referred to as the "golden age" of illustration, and is best known for his drawings and paintings of Shakespearean and Victorian subjects.
Edwin B. Forsythe Edwin Bell Forsythe (January 17, 1916, Westtown Township, Pennsylvania – March 29, 1984, Moorestown Township, New Jersey) was an American Republican Party politician, who represented New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives.
Edwin Barker Edwin Barker has performed and recorded with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Chamber Players and with Collage, a Boston-based contemporary music ensemble. He is also a frequent guest performer with the Boston Chamber Music Society in Boston's Jordan Hall.
Edwin Bennett Edwin Howard Bennett (21 December 1893 - 9 July 1929) was an English cricketer, who played four first-class matches, three for Worcestershire in 1925 and one for the Civil Service (playing their only first-class match) in 1927. In the latter game against the touring New Zealanders, themselves making their first tour of England, he made 73 and 60 (by some distance the highest scores of his career).
Edwin Black Edwin Black is an American author and journalist. He has written fifty-one editions in fourteen languages in sixty-one countries, and published a number of newspaper and magazine articles throughout the United States, Europe and Israel, according to Books in Print, Books out of Print, and the author's own websites.
Edwin Blackgaard Edwin Blackgaard is a major character in the Christian-themed drama/comedy radio serial Adventures in Odyssey, voiced by Earl Boen (who also voices Edwin Blackgaard's identical-twin brother Dr. Regis Blackgaard).
Edwin Bollier Edwin Bollier and his partner, Erwin Meister, founded the Meister/Bollier (Mebo) electronics firm in Zürich, Switzerland. Mebo made a range of electronic products – inter alia – sophisticated timing devices and briefcases equipped to radio-detonate improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
Edwin Booth Edwin Thomas Booth (November 13, 1833 – June 7, 1893), born near Bel Air, Maryland into the Booth family, was a famous 19th century American actor. Some theatre historians call him the greatest American actor and Hamlet of the 19th century.
Edwin Bramall, Baron Bramall Field Marshal Edwin Noel Westby Bramall, Baron Bramall KG GCB OBE MC JP (born 18 December 1923) is a British Army officer who served as Chief of the General Staff, the professional head of the British Army, between 1979 and 1982, and as Chief of the Defence Staff, professional head of the British Armed Forces, from 1982 to 1985.
Edwin Brock Edwin Brock (born in 1927 in London, died in 1997) was a British poet. Following two years that he spent in the Royal Navy shortly after the end of the Second World War he wrote Five Ways to Kill a Man, an emotionless poem highlighting stupid deaths, the harshness of war and the increasing loss of humanity, as shown in the distance between the killer and the victim (needing to touch him in the first stanza, and not needing to know who he is in stanzas 4-5)
Edwin C. Johnson Edwin Carl Johnson (January 1 1884 - May 30 1970) was a Democratic Party politician from the state of Colorado. He represented his state for three terms in the United States Senate from 1937 until 1955, and served as governor of Colorado from 1933 until 1937 and from 1955 until 1957.
Edwin C. Nevis Edwin C. Nevis is president and founder of the Gestalt International Study Center and author of five books, including Organizational consulting: A Gestalt Approach and Intentional Revolutions: A Seven-Point Strategy for Transforming Organizations.
Edwin Cameron Edwin Cameron is a Rhodes scholar and Supreme Court of Appeal judge who was the first senior South African official to state publicly that he was living with HIV/AIDS. Cameron was inspired to act by the stoning and stabbing to death of Gugu Dlamini] after she had admitted on a [[IsiZulu|Zulu language radio that she was HIV positive.
Edwin Cooper Edwin Cooper (30 November 1915 – 29 October 1968) was an English cricketer: a right-handed batsman who played 249 first-class matches for Worcestershire (and one for North of England) between 1936 and 1951. His total of 13,304 runs at 31.
Edwin D. Morgan Edwin Dennison Morgan (February 8, 1811 – February 14, 1883) was Governor of New York from 1859 to 1862 and served in the United States Senate from 1863 to 1869. He was the first and longest serving chairman of the Republican National Committee.
Edwin Dickinson Edwin Dickinson (October 11, 1891–December 1, 1978) was an American painter and draftsman known for his psychologically charged self-portraits and landscapes. His art, always grounded in realism, shows connections to symbolism and surrealism.
Edwin Drake Edwin Laurentine Drake (1819-1880), also known as Colonel Drake, was an American oil driller, popularly credited with being the first to drill for oil in the United States. Canada's first oil excavation occurred in 1858 in Ontario.
Edwin Dutton Edwin Dutton ( born April 8 1890; died January 1 1970) is a former footballer and coach who played in both Germany and England. Dutton played as a forward for Britannia Berlin 92, BFC Preussen, Newcastle United and Germany.
Edwin E. Witte Edwin E. Witte (January 4, 1887 - May 20, 1960) is sometimes called the father of social security, because he developed the original plan for social security as the executive director of the President's Committee on Economic Security in 1934, under United States President Franklin D.
Edwin Eden Edwin Eden (21 April 1893 - 25 October 1939) was an English cricketer who played two first-class matches in the early 1920s, one for Gloucestershire in 1921, and the second nearly two years later for Worcestershire (which county he had played against for Gloucestershire). He only once reached double figures, when he made 18 not out in what proved to be the last of his four innings, for Worcestershire against Derbyshire.
Edwin Edwards Edwin Washington Edwards (born August 7, 1927) served as the Democratic governor of Louisiana for four terms (1972 - 1980, 1984 - 1988, and 1992 - 1996), more terms than any other Louisiana governor. He was also Louisiana's first Catholic governor of the twentieth century and perhaps with the exception of Huey P.
Edwin Eisendrath Edwin Eisendrath served as the alderman of the 43rd ward of Chicago, serving the Lincoln Park area. In October 1993, he resigned to become the administrator for the Region V office of the Department of Housing and Urban Development in Chicago, one of HUD's largest and busiest.
Edwin Eugene Bagley Edwin Eugene Bagley (1857-1922) began his music career at the age of nine as a vocalist and comedian with Leavitt’s Bellringers, a company of entertainers that toured many of the larger cities of the United States. He began playing the cornet, traveling for six years with the Swiss Bellringers.
Edwin F. Blair Edwin Foster Blair (15 December 1901, Weatherford, Texas - 6 November 1970, New Haven, Connecticut) His father was a native of Georgia, who had moved to Texas. He had a large interest in the wholesale stock and grocers, Anderson & Blair, and was involved in the local media.
Edwin F. Ladd Edwin Freemont Ladd (December 13, 1859 - June 22, 1925) was a United States Senator from North Dakota. Born in Starks, Maine, he attended the public schools and Somerset Academy (Athens, Maine) and graduated from the University of Maine at Orono in 1884.
Edwin F. Uhl Edwin Fuller Uhl (August 14 1841 – May 17 1901) was a prominent Michigan lawyer and politician. He served as Mayor of Grand Rapids, Michigan, Ambassador to Germany, United States Assistant Secretary of State and, for thirteen days, Acting U.
Edwin Fischer Edwin Fischer (October 6, 1886 – January 24, 1960) was a Swiss classical pianist and conductor. He is widely regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the 20th century, particularly in the traditional Germanic repertoire of such composers as Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert.
Edwin G. Seibels Edwin Grenville Seibels (12 September 1866 - 21 December 1954) was the son of Edwin Whipple Seibels and Marie Jane Smith Seibels. He was inventor of the vertical filing system that has been in extensive use for over a century.
Edwin Gillette Edwin "Ted" Gillette (August 11, 1909, Chicago–September 30, 2003, Los Angeles) was a cameraman and inventor notable for the development of the Syncro-Vox technique of limited animation, which was used in the series Clutch Cargo.
Edwin H. Land Edwin Herbert Land (May 12 1909 – March 1 1991) was an American scientist and inventor. Among other things, he invented inexpensive filters for polarizing light, instant polaroid photography, and his retinex theory of color vision.
Edwin Hatch Edwin Hatch (1835-1889) was an English theologian born on September 4, 1835 in Derby, England. He is best known as the author of the paper Influence of Greek Ideas and Usages Upon the Christian Church, which he presented during the 1888 Hibbert Lectures.
Edwin Hawkins Edwin Hawkins (born August 18, 1943 in Oakland, California) is a Grammy Award-winning American gospel and R&B musician, pianist, choir leader, composer and arranger. He is one of the originators of the Contemporary Gospel sound.
Edwin Helfant Edwin Helfant (April 12, 1926- February 15, 1978) was an Atlantic City lawyer and part-time municipal court judge, he was murdered by Philadelphia mafiosi Nicholas Virgilio in a cocktail lounge for failing to rig a Supreme Court murder trial.
Edwin Hewitt Edwin Hewitt (20 January 1920 – 21 June 1999) was an American mathematician known for his work in abstract harmonic analysis and for his discovery, in collaboration with Leonard Jimmie Savage, of the Hewitt-Savage zero-one law.
Edwin Holgate Edwin Holgate (born in Allandale, Ontario on August 19 1892; died in Montreal, Quebec on May 21 1977), was a Canadian artist, painter and engraver. Holgate played a major role in Montreal's art community, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, where he both studied and taught.
Edwin Holt Edwin Bissell Holt (August 21, 1873–January 25, 1946), was a professor of philosophy and psychology at Harvard from 1901–1918. From 1926–1936 he was a visiting professor of psychology at Princeton University.
Edwin Hubble [Hubble]Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) was an American astronomer, noted for his discovery of galaxies beyond the Milky Way and the cosmological redshift. Edwin Hubble was one of the leading astronomers of modern times and laid down the foundation upon which physical cosmology now rests.
Edwin Hurtado Edwin Hurtado [oor-TAH-doh] (born February 1, 1970 in Barquisimeto, Lara State, Venezuela) is a former Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher who played with the Toronto Blue Jays (1995) and Seattle Mariners (1996-97). He batted and threw right-handed.
Edwin Charles Tubb Edwin Charles Tubb (October 15, 1919 -) is a British author, primarily of science fiction. He has also written under about 20 pseudonyms, including Charles Grey, Volsted Gridban (with John Russell Fearn), Gill Hunt (with John Brunner and Dennis Hughes), Gregory Kern, King Lang (with George Hay and John W Jennison), Mike Lantry, Brian Shaw, Roy Sheldon (with H J Campbell) and Edward Thomson.
Edwin J. Peterson Edwin J. Peterson was the 39th Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, serving from 1983 to 1991, and is currently a Distinguished Jurist in Residence at Willamette University College of Law in Salem, Oregon.
Edwin Jackson Edwin Jackson (born September 9, 1983 in Neu-Ulm, Bavaria, West Germany) is a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers. On January 14, 2006, Jackson and a left-handed pitcher Chuck Tiffany were traded to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays for pitchers Danys Baez and Lance Carter.
Edwin Joseph Cohn Edwin Joseph Cohn (17 December 1892 – 1 October 1953) was an early protein scientist. He made important advances in the physical chemistry of proteins, and was responsible for the blood fractionation project that saved thousands of lives in World War II.
Edwin Keith Thomson Edwin Keith Thomson (February 8, 1919 - December 9, 1960) was a United States Representative from Wyoming. Born in New Castle, Wyoming, he attended the public schools in Beulah, Wyoming and Spearfish, South Dakota.
Edwin Keppel Bennett Edwin Keppel Bennett, nom de plume: Francis Bennett (September 26, 1887 — June 13, 1958), was a British writer, poet, Germanist, and a prominent academic. He served as the president of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge between 1948 and 1956.
Edwin L. Mechem Edwin Leard Mechem (2 July 1912 - 27 November 2002), Republican politician from New Mexico, three-term Governor of New Mexico 1951-1955, 1957-1959, and 1961-1962, United States Senator from New Mexico 1962 to 1964.
Edwin Linkomies Edwin Linkomies (1894–1963, until 1928 Edwin Flinck) was Prime Minister of Finland March 1943 to August 1944, and therefore one of the seven politicians on Soviet demands sentenced to 5½ years in prison as allegedly responsible for the Continuation War. Linkomies was a prominent fennoman academic, pro-rector (administrative head) of the University of Helsinki 1932–43, rector 1956–62, and the government's Chancellor of the University from 1962 until his death.
Edwin Louis Cole Edwin Louis Cole (born Dallas, Texas in 1922, died August 27, 2002) was the founder of the Christian Men's Network, a religious organization devoted to helping Christian men and fathers. He published many books and preached numerous sermons relating to men and religion.
Edward VIII of the United Kingdom Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David Windsor; later The Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor; 23 June 1894 – 28 May 1972) was King of Great Britain, Ireland, the British Dominions beyond the Seas, and Emperor of India from the death of his father, George V (1910–36), on 20 January 1936 until his abdication on 11 December 1936. He was the second British monarch of the House of Windsor, his father having changed the name of the Royal house from the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in 1917.
Edward W. Berry Edward Wilber Berry (1875 - 1945) was an American paleontologist and botanist, the principal focus of his research was paleobotany. Berry studied North and South American flora and published taxonomic studies with theoretical reconstructions of paleoecology and phytogeography.
Edward W. Bok Edward William Bok, American editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, was born on October 9, 1863, in Den Helder, Netherlands. At the age of six, he immigrated to Brooklyn and became an office boy with the Western Union Telegraph Company in 1876.
Edward Wagenknecht Edward (Charles) Wagenknecht (March 28, 1900—May 24, 2004) was a American literary critic and teacher, who specialized in 19th century American literature. He wrote and edited a large number of books on literature and movies, and taught for many years at various universities, including the University of Chicago and Boston University.
Edward Walter Maunder Edward Walter Maunder (April 12 1851 – March 21 1928) was an English astronomer best remembered for his study of sunspots and the solar magnetic cycle that led to his identification of the period from 1645 to 1715 that is now known as the Maunder Minimum. He was also an esteemed biblical scholar.
Edward Warner Edward Warner (1880 – 1915) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Edward Washburn Edward Payson Washburn (1831-1860) American artist, son of Indian missionary Cephas Washburn. He is best known for painting The Arkansas Traveller which was lithographed by Currier & Ives and became a popular print.
Edward Wellington Backus Edward Wellington Backus (1861 - October 29, 1934) was a timber baron, dam builder, mill owner, financier, developer of the northern reaches of Minnesota, and president of the Ontario & Minnesota Power Company and Minnesota and Ontario Paper Company. He was responsible for the construction, commencing in 1905, of a hydroelectric dam at Koochiching Falls between International Falls, Minnesota, and Fort Frances, Ontario, an outpost of the Hudson's Bay Company, which generated much power for the region.
Edward Wentworth Beatty Sir Edward Wentworth Beatty (October 16, 1877 – March 23, 1943) was a Canadian lawyer, University chancellor and businessman. He was President of the Canadian Pacific Railway from 1918 to 1943, Chancellor of Queen's University from 1919 to 1923, and Chancellor of McGill University from 1920 to 1943.
Edward Weston (chemist) Edward Weston (May 9, 1850 – August 20, 1936) was an English chemist noted for his achievements in electroplating and his development of the battery, named the Weston cell, for the voltage standard. Edward Weston was a competitor of Thomas Edison in the early days of electricity generation and distribution.
Edward Whitehead Edward Whitehead (May 20, 1908 – April 16, 1978) was a British naval officer, a veteran of the South Pacific campaign in His Majesty's Navy, better known as the advertising representative of Schweppes Tonic Water. The first campaign was created by Ogilvy & Mather Agency in 1955 and ran through the 1960s.
Edward Whitley Edward Whitley is a British industrialist, environmentalist and philanthropist. Heir to a large British beer industry, he was the founder of the Whitley Awards in 1994 - presently the biggest environmental awards in Europe.
Edward William Derrington Bell Edward William Derrington Bell (28 August 1824-1 July 1879) was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Edward William Godwin Edward William Godwin (Bristol, May 26, 1833 - October 6, 1886) was a progressive English architect-designer, who began working in the strongly polychromatic "Ruskinian Gothic" style of mid-Victorian Britain, inspired by The Stones of Venice, then moved on to provide designs in the "Anglo-Japanese taste" of the Aesthetic Movement and Whistler's circle in the 1870s. Godwin's influence can be detected in the Arts and Crafts Movement.
Edward Willis Redfield Edward Willis Redfield (December 18, 1869–October 19, 1965) was an American landscape painter and member of the art colony at New Hope, Pennsylvania. He is best known today for his impressionist scenes of the New Hope area, often depicting the snow-covered countryside.
Edward Wilmot Blyden Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832-1912) was an Liberian educator, writer, diplomat, and politician. He was the Liberian Secretary of State (1862-1864) and Minister of the Interior (1880-1882); he also served as professor of classics (1862-1871), then President (1880-1884), of Liberia College (now the University of Liberia).
Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick Edward Edmund Maximilian George Windsor, Lord Downpatrick (born 2 December 1988) is the only son and heir of George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews and his wife, the Countess of St. Andrews (née Sylvana Tomaselli).
Edward Winn Edward Winn (February 12, 1937 — June 25, 1995) was a third-party candidate for President of the United States in the 1984 and 1988 presidential elections, representing the Socialist Equality Party (US). In 1984 his running mate varied from state to state, being either Helen Halyard (e.
Edward Winslow Gifford Edward Winslow Gifford (1887-1959) devoted his life to studying California Indian ethnography as a professor of anthropology and director of the Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Edward Wiskoski Edward Wiskoski (born January 10, 1945) is a former American professional wrestler best known as Colonel DeBeers in the AWA (American Wrestling Association). Also wrestled as Dereck "The Mongoose" Draper (Florida) and Mega Maharishi (Portland).
Edward Witten Edward Witten (born August 26, 1951) is an American mathematical physicist, Fields Medalist, and professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. He is one of the world's leading researchers in string theory (as the founder of M-theory) and quantum field theory.
Edward Wollstonecraft Edward Wollstonecraft (1783-1832) was a successful businessman in early colonial Australia. He was the nephew of the early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and cousin to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the author of Frankenstein.
Edward Woods Edward Woods (July 5, 1903--October 8, 1989) was an American actor who was playing the lead in the screen classic The Public Enemy, with James Cagney portraying his best friend, but director William Wellman switched the actors' roles after viewing Cagney's electric performance in the dailies. In the flashback sequences, the children's appearances are reversed because those scenes were filmed before the switch and the studio opted not to pay to refilm them, which confuses viewers to this day.
Edward Wyndham Tennant Edward Wyndham Tennant (July 1, 1897 – September 22, 1916), was an English war poet, killed at the Battle of the Somme. He was the son of Edward Tennant, who became Lord Glenconner, and Pamela Wyndham, a writer, Lady Glenconner and later wife of Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon.
Edward Wynne Edward Wynne was Proprietary Governor of Ferryland colony from 1621 to 1626. Born in Wales, he was appointed by George Calvert, (later Lord Baltimore) to establish the colony and in August 1621 he landed at Ferryland with 12 men.
Edward Yang Edward Yang (; born November 6, 1947), along with Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Tsai Ming Liang, is one of the leading filmmakers and artists of the Taiwanese New Wave and Taiwanese Cinema. He has won the Best Director Award at Cannes for his 2000 film Yi yi ("A One and a Two"), and has also been honored with many other accolades from other prominent international film festivals.
Edward Youde Sir Edward Youde (尤德) GCMG, GCVO, MBE (19 June, 1924 - 5 December, 1986 in Beijing, China) was a British administrator, diplomat and Sinologist. He served as Governor of Hong Kong between 20 May, 1982 and 5 December, 1986.
Edward Young (Royal Household) Edward Young has been the Assistant Private Secretary to the Queen, in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom from September 2004. He was born on October 24 1966, and was educated as a boarder at Reading School.
Edward Zambara Edward Zambara (born Vancouver, Canada) is a Canadian-American bass-baritone singer and leading music educator. He studied opera with Boris Goldovsky and Sarah Caldwell, as well as lieder with Felix Wolfes, Frederic Popper, Jörg Demus, and Eric Werba.
Edward, the Black Prince Edward of Woodstock, Prince of Wales, KG (June 15 1330 – June 8 1376), popularly known as the Black Prince, was the eldest son of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault, and father to King Richard II of England. Edward was an effective military leader, and very popular during his life.
Edwardes College Edwardes College was established in 1900 with the efforts of Sir Herbert Edwardes Commissioner of Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province. Along with Islamia college it is considered one of the premier educational institutions in the province.
Edwardian period The Edwardian period or Edwardian era in the United Kingdom is the period 1901 to 1910, the reign of King Edward VII. It succeeded the Victorian period and is sometimes extended to include the period up to the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912, the start of World War I in 1914, or even the end of the war in 1918.
Edwards Aquifer The Edwards Aquifer is one of the most prolific artesian aquifers in the world. Located on the eastern edge of Texas' Edwards Plateau, it discharges about 900,000 acre feet of water a year and directly serves about two million people.
Edwards Barham Erle Edwards Barham (born July 10, 1937) is an American farmer and conservationist living in Oak Ridge, Morehouse Parish, Louisiana. He is best known for having been the first Republican elected -- by a 29-vote margin -- to the Louisiana state Senate since the era of Reconstruction.
Edwards Lifesciences Edwards Lifesciences (NYSE: EW) is a global leader in products and technologies to treat advanced cardiovascular disease, the global leader in acute hemodynamic monitoring and the number-one heart valve company in the world. Headquartered in Irvine, California, Edwards has more than 5,300 employees worldwide,
Edwards Micropolitan Statistical Area The Edwards Micropolitan Statistical Area is a United States Census Bureau defined Micropolitan Statistical Area located in the Edwards area of the State of Colorado. The Edwards Micropolitan Statistical Area is defined as Eagle County, Colorado.
Edwards Rail Car Company Edwards Rail Car Company located in Montgomery, Alabama, specializes in the manufacture of self-propelled rail cars patterned after original Edwards designs dating from the mid-1920s. The company also restores trolleys and other rail cars.
Edwards River (Illinois) The Edwards River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, about 75 mi (120 km) longin northwestern Illinois] in the [[United States. It rises 3 mi (5 km) west of Kewanee in southeastern Henry County and flows generally westwardly into Mercer County, where it joins the Mississippi 2 mi (3 km) southeast of New Boston.
Edwards Run Wildlife Management Area The Edwards Run Wildlife Management Area is located on 397 acres two miles north of Capon Bridge on Cold Stream Road (CR 15) near Cold Stream in Hampshire County, West Virginia. Edwards Run WMA is owned by the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources.
Edwards v. California Edwards v. People of State of California, was a United States Supreme Court case where a California law prohibiting the bringing of a non-resident "indigent person" into the state was struck down as unconstitutional.
Edwardsville, Illinois Edwardsville is a city in Madison County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 21,491, it is the county seat of Madison County and is the third oldest city in the State of Illinois.
Edwardsville, Kansas Edwardsville is a city in Wyandotte County, Kansas and is part of the "Unified Government" which contains Kansas City, Kansas, Bonner Springs, Kansas and Edwardsville, Kansas. The population was 4,146 at the 2000 census.
Edwardsville, Pennsylvania Edwardsville is a borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, two miles (3 km) west of Wilkes Barre and also adjacent to the boroughs of Kingston to the north and Larksville to the south. It is strictly a residential place, the population being 5,165 in 1900 and 8,407 in 1910.
Edwin & the Pressure Edwin & the Pressure is the second album by the Canadian alternative rock singer Edwin, released by Sony on April 2, 2002 in Canada. Though technically his sophomore solo album, Edwin himself considered it a debut for his then-new band.
Edwin (clothing brand) Edwin or often capitalized, EDWIN, is a Japanese clothing brand founded in 1969 by Edwin Company mainly focused on jeans manufacture. The company has 365 employees and a revenue of 35 billionyen (as of 2002) according to the official sitePitt] is an official spokesman and model for the brand, and appears in many of its advertisements.
Edwin (musician) Edwin (born Edwin Ghazal) is a Canadian alternative rock singer from Toronto, and former lead vocalist for I Mother Earth. He was on the band's first two albums, and was also on the majority of the songs on Victor, a 1996 side project from Alex Lifeson of Rush.
Edwin Abbott Abbott Edwin Abbott Abbott (December 20, 1838 – 1926), English schoolmaster and theologian, is best known as the author of the mathematical satire and religious allegory Flatland (1884). Abbott was the eldest son of Edwin Abbott (1808–1882), headmaster of the Philological School, Marylebone, and his wife, Jane Abbott (1806–1882).
Edwin Adams Cotto Edwin Adams Cotto (1978 – March 7, 2005) was a Puerto Rican who became infamous in 2002, after he was accused alongside famous reporter Laura Hernandez of drug trafficking from Puerto Rico to the Dominican Republic.
Edwin Albert Link Edwin Albert Link (July 26, 1904 - September 7, 1981) was an aviation pioneer. His "Blue Box" flight trainer, also called "Link Trainer" set the standard in the now multi-billion dollar flight simulation industry.
Edwin Alfred Hervey Alderson Sir Edwin Alfred Hervey Alderson (8 April 1859 – 14 December 1927) was an English officer who served in the British Army during the Second Boer War, and later commanded the Canadian Corps during the First World War.
Edwin Arthur Jones Edwin Arthur Jones, an American composer, was called "one modest man who knows the power of music" by Edward Everett Hale, author of The Man Without a Country. This modest man, from a rural Massachusetts town about 20 miles south of Boston, composed some very significant works.
Edwin Ashby Edwin Ashby (1861-1941) was an Adelaide based Australian property developer and a noted amateur malacologist and ornithologist. He was a founding member of the South Australian Ornithological Association (SAOA) in 1899, and of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU) in 1901 for which he served as President 1926.
Edwin Austin Abbey Edwin Austin Abbey (April 1, 1852 – August 1, 1911) was an American artist, illustrator, and painter. He flourished at the beginning of what is now referred to as the "golden age" of illustration, and is best known for his drawings and paintings of Shakespearean and Victorian subjects.
Edwin B. Forsythe Edwin Bell Forsythe (January 17, 1916, Westtown Township, Pennsylvania – March 29, 1984, Moorestown Township, New Jersey) was an American Republican Party politician, who represented New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives.
Edwin Barker Edwin Barker has performed and recorded with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Chamber Players and with Collage, a Boston-based contemporary music ensemble. He is also a frequent guest performer with the Boston Chamber Music Society in Boston's Jordan Hall.
Edwin Bennett Edwin Howard Bennett (21 December 1893 - 9 July 1929) was an English cricketer, who played four first-class matches, three for Worcestershire in 1925 and one for the Civil Service (playing their only first-class match) in 1927. In the latter game against the touring New Zealanders, themselves making their first tour of England, he made 73 and 60 (by some distance the highest scores of his career).
Edwin Black Edwin Black is an American author and journalist. He has written fifty-one editions in fourteen languages in sixty-one countries, and published a number of newspaper and magazine articles throughout the United States, Europe and Israel, according to Books in Print, Books out of Print, and the author's own websites.
Edwin Blackgaard Edwin Blackgaard is a major character in the Christian-themed drama/comedy radio serial Adventures in Odyssey, voiced by Earl Boen (who also voices Edwin Blackgaard's identical-twin brother Dr. Regis Blackgaard).
Edwin Bollier Edwin Bollier and his partner, Erwin Meister, founded the Meister/Bollier (Mebo) electronics firm in Zürich, Switzerland. Mebo made a range of electronic products – inter alia – sophisticated timing devices and briefcases equipped to radio-detonate improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
Edwin Booth Edwin Thomas Booth (November 13, 1833 – June 7, 1893), born near Bel Air, Maryland into the Booth family, was a famous 19th century American actor. Some theatre historians call him the greatest American actor and Hamlet of the 19th century.
Edwin Bramall, Baron Bramall Field Marshal Edwin Noel Westby Bramall, Baron Bramall KG GCB OBE MC JP (born 18 December 1923) is a British Army officer who served as Chief of the General Staff, the professional head of the British Army, between 1979 and 1982, and as Chief of the Defence Staff, professional head of the British Armed Forces, from 1982 to 1985.
Edwin Brock Edwin Brock (born in 1927 in London, died in 1997) was a British poet. Following two years that he spent in the Royal Navy shortly after the end of the Second World War he wrote Five Ways to Kill a Man, an emotionless poem highlighting stupid deaths, the harshness of war and the increasing loss of humanity, as shown in the distance between the killer and the victim (needing to touch him in the first stanza, and not needing to know who he is in stanzas 4-5)
Edwin C. Johnson Edwin Carl Johnson (January 1 1884 - May 30 1970) was a Democratic Party politician from the state of Colorado. He represented his state for three terms in the United States Senate from 1937 until 1955, and served as governor of Colorado from 1933 until 1937 and from 1955 until 1957.
Edwin C. Nevis Edwin C. Nevis is president and founder of the Gestalt International Study Center and author of five books, including Organizational consulting: A Gestalt Approach and Intentional Revolutions: A Seven-Point Strategy for Transforming Organizations.
Edwin Cameron Edwin Cameron is a Rhodes scholar and Supreme Court of Appeal judge who was the first senior South African official to state publicly that he was living with HIV/AIDS. Cameron was inspired to act by the stoning and stabbing to death of Gugu Dlamini] after she had admitted on a [[IsiZulu|Zulu language radio that she was HIV positive.
Edwin Cooper Edwin Cooper (30 November 1915 – 29 October 1968) was an English cricketer: a right-handed batsman who played 249 first-class matches for Worcestershire (and one for North of England) between 1936 and 1951. His total of 13,304 runs at 31.
Edwin D. Morgan Edwin Dennison Morgan (February 8, 1811 – February 14, 1883) was Governor of New York from 1859 to 1862 and served in the United States Senate from 1863 to 1869. He was the first and longest serving chairman of the Republican National Committee.
Edwin Dickinson Edwin Dickinson (October 11, 1891–December 1, 1978) was an American painter and draftsman known for his psychologically charged self-portraits and landscapes. His art, always grounded in realism, shows connections to symbolism and surrealism.
Edwin Drake Edwin Laurentine Drake (1819-1880), also known as Colonel Drake, was an American oil driller, popularly credited with being the first to drill for oil in the United States. Canada's first oil excavation occurred in 1858 in Ontario.
Edwin Dutton Edwin Dutton ( born April 8 1890; died January 1 1970) is a former footballer and coach who played in both Germany and England. Dutton played as a forward for Britannia Berlin 92, BFC Preussen, Newcastle United and Germany.
Edwin E. Witte Edwin E. Witte (January 4, 1887 - May 20, 1960) is sometimes called the father of social security, because he developed the original plan for social security as the executive director of the President's Committee on Economic Security in 1934, under United States President Franklin D.
Edwin Eden Edwin Eden (21 April 1893 - 25 October 1939) was an English cricketer who played two first-class matches in the early 1920s, one for Gloucestershire in 1921, and the second nearly two years later for Worcestershire (which county he had played against for Gloucestershire). He only once reached double figures, when he made 18 not out in what proved to be the last of his four innings, for Worcestershire against Derbyshire.
Edwin Edwards Edwin Washington Edwards (born August 7, 1927) served as the Democratic governor of Louisiana for four terms (1972 - 1980, 1984 - 1988, and 1992 - 1996), more terms than any other Louisiana governor. He was also Louisiana's first Catholic governor of the twentieth century and perhaps with the exception of Huey P.
Edwin Eisendrath Edwin Eisendrath served as the alderman of the 43rd ward of Chicago, serving the Lincoln Park area. In October 1993, he resigned to become the administrator for the Region V office of the Department of Housing and Urban Development in Chicago, one of HUD's largest and busiest.
Edwin Eugene Bagley Edwin Eugene Bagley (1857-1922) began his music career at the age of nine as a vocalist and comedian with Leavitt’s Bellringers, a company of entertainers that toured many of the larger cities of the United States. He began playing the cornet, traveling for six years with the Swiss Bellringers.
Edwin F. Blair Edwin Foster Blair (15 December 1901, Weatherford, Texas - 6 November 1970, New Haven, Connecticut) His father was a native of Georgia, who had moved to Texas. He had a large interest in the wholesale stock and grocers, Anderson & Blair, and was involved in the local media.
Edwin F. Ladd Edwin Freemont Ladd (December 13, 1859 - June 22, 1925) was a United States Senator from North Dakota. Born in Starks, Maine, he attended the public schools and Somerset Academy (Athens, Maine) and graduated from the University of Maine at Orono in 1884.
Edwin F. Uhl Edwin Fuller Uhl (August 14 1841 – May 17 1901) was a prominent Michigan lawyer and politician. He served as Mayor of Grand Rapids, Michigan, Ambassador to Germany, United States Assistant Secretary of State and, for thirteen days, Acting U.
Edwin Fischer Edwin Fischer (October 6, 1886 – January 24, 1960) was a Swiss classical pianist and conductor. He is widely regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the 20th century, particularly in the traditional Germanic repertoire of such composers as Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert.
Edwin G. Seibels Edwin Grenville Seibels (12 September 1866 - 21 December 1954) was the son of Edwin Whipple Seibels and Marie Jane Smith Seibels. He was inventor of the vertical filing system that has been in extensive use for over a century.
Edwin Gillette Edwin "Ted" Gillette (August 11, 1909, Chicago–September 30, 2003, Los Angeles) was a cameraman and inventor notable for the development of the Syncro-Vox technique of limited animation, which was used in the series Clutch Cargo.
Edwin H. Land Edwin Herbert Land (May 12 1909 – March 1 1991) was an American scientist and inventor. Among other things, he invented inexpensive filters for polarizing light, instant polaroid photography, and his retinex theory of color vision.
Edwin Hatch Edwin Hatch (1835-1889) was an English theologian born on September 4, 1835 in Derby, England. He is best known as the author of the paper Influence of Greek Ideas and Usages Upon the Christian Church, which he presented during the 1888 Hibbert Lectures.
Edwin Hawkins Edwin Hawkins (born August 18, 1943 in Oakland, California) is a Grammy Award-winning American gospel and R&B musician, pianist, choir leader, composer and arranger. He is one of the originators of the Contemporary Gospel sound.
Edwin Helfant Edwin Helfant (April 12, 1926- February 15, 1978) was an Atlantic City lawyer and part-time municipal court judge, he was murdered by Philadelphia mafiosi Nicholas Virgilio in a cocktail lounge for failing to rig a Supreme Court murder trial.
Edwin Hewitt Edwin Hewitt (20 January 1920 – 21 June 1999) was an American mathematician known for his work in abstract harmonic analysis and for his discovery, in collaboration with Leonard Jimmie Savage, of the Hewitt-Savage zero-one law.
Edwin Holgate Edwin Holgate (born in Allandale, Ontario on August 19 1892; died in Montreal, Quebec on May 21 1977), was a Canadian artist, painter and engraver. Holgate played a major role in Montreal's art community, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, where he both studied and taught.
Edwin Holt Edwin Bissell Holt (August 21, 1873–January 25, 1946), was a professor of philosophy and psychology at Harvard from 1901–1918. From 1926–1936 he was a visiting professor of psychology at Princeton University.
Edwin Hubble [Hubble]Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) was an American astronomer, noted for his discovery of galaxies beyond the Milky Way and the cosmological redshift. Edwin Hubble was one of the leading astronomers of modern times and laid down the foundation upon which physical cosmology now rests.
Edwin Hurtado Edwin Hurtado [oor-TAH-doh] (born February 1, 1970 in Barquisimeto, Lara State, Venezuela) is a former Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher who played with the Toronto Blue Jays (1995) and Seattle Mariners (1996-97). He batted and threw right-handed.
Edwin Charles Tubb Edwin Charles Tubb (October 15, 1919 -) is a British author, primarily of science fiction. He has also written under about 20 pseudonyms, including Charles Grey, Volsted Gridban (with John Russell Fearn), Gill Hunt (with John Brunner and Dennis Hughes), Gregory Kern, King Lang (with George Hay and John W Jennison), Mike Lantry, Brian Shaw, Roy Sheldon (with H J Campbell) and Edward Thomson.
Edwin J. Peterson Edwin J. Peterson was the 39th Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, serving from 1983 to 1991, and is currently a Distinguished Jurist in Residence at Willamette University College of Law in Salem, Oregon.
Edwin Jackson Edwin Jackson (born September 9, 1983 in Neu-Ulm, Bavaria, West Germany) is a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers. On January 14, 2006, Jackson and a left-handed pitcher Chuck Tiffany were traded to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays for pitchers Danys Baez and Lance Carter.
Edwin Joseph Cohn Edwin Joseph Cohn (17 December 1892 – 1 October 1953) was an early protein scientist. He made important advances in the physical chemistry of proteins, and was responsible for the blood fractionation project that saved thousands of lives in World War II.
Edwin Keith Thomson Edwin Keith Thomson (February 8, 1919 - December 9, 1960) was a United States Representative from Wyoming. Born in New Castle, Wyoming, he attended the public schools in Beulah, Wyoming and Spearfish, South Dakota.
Edwin Keppel Bennett Edwin Keppel Bennett, nom de plume: Francis Bennett (September 26, 1887 — June 13, 1958), was a British writer, poet, Germanist, and a prominent academic. He served as the president of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge between 1948 and 1956.
Edwin L. Mechem Edwin Leard Mechem (2 July 1912 - 27 November 2002), Republican politician from New Mexico, three-term Governor of New Mexico 1951-1955, 1957-1959, and 1961-1962, United States Senator from New Mexico 1962 to 1964.
Edwin Linkomies Edwin Linkomies (1894–1963, until 1928 Edwin Flinck) was Prime Minister of Finland March 1943 to August 1944, and therefore one of the seven politicians on Soviet demands sentenced to 5½ years in prison as allegedly responsible for the Continuation War. Linkomies was a prominent fennoman academic, pro-rector (administrative head) of the University of Helsinki 1932–43, rector 1956–62, and the government's Chancellor of the University from 1962 until his death.
Edwin Louis Cole Edwin Louis Cole (born Dallas, Texas in 1922, died August 27, 2002) was the founder of the Christian Men's Network, a religious organization devoted to helping Christian men and fathers. He published many books and preached numerous sermons relating to men and religion.
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