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John Eccles
One of the greatest brain scientists of the 20th century and winner of the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physiology/Medicine. His books on the brain/mind problem range from The Self and its Brain (with Sir Karl Popper) to The Human Psyche.

Albert Einstein
Einstein (1879-1955) is generally considered the greatest scientist of the 20th century. After studies at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, he worked in the Bern Patent Office. His initial work was in Brownian movement, statistical mechanics and the photoelectric effect. He is best-known for single-handedly formulating the theories of relativity, Special Relativity in 1905 and General Relativity in 1916. The formula most commonly associated with him is e=mc2. He was appointed a professor at the University of Berlin in 1913 but joined the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton in 1933 after the rise of Hitler. He won the Nobel Prize in 1921 for his work on the photoelectric effect.

Loren Eisely (1907-77)
Paleontologist whose works include The Immense Journey, The Firmament of Time and A Star Thrower. One of his areas of interest was the evolution of consciousness.

Niles Eldredge
Curator in the Department of Invertebrates at the American Museum of Natural History, and Adjunct Professor at the City University of New York. With Stephen Jay Gould, he introduced the punctuated equilibrium model of evolution. His books include Life in the Balance: Humanity and the Biodiversity Crisis.

Mircea Eliade
Eliade (born in Romania in 1907, died 1986) was Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago and one of the best-known commentators on the history of the religions of the world. His books include Patterns of Comparative Religion, The Sacred and the Profane and A History of Religious Ideas. He highlighted the element of the sacred as an irreducible component of religion.

George Ellis
President of the International Society of General Relativity and Gravitation, author of numerous works on the evolution and density of the universe and co-author with Stephen Hawking of The Large-Scale Structure of Space-Time.

Epicurus
Epicurus (341-270 B.C.), like Democritus, believed that the only things that existed were matter and void. He denied the existence of God and an after-life. Epicurean ethics holds that everything is permitted.

Hugh Everett
Quantum physicist who originated the Many Worlds hypothesis according to which there is no collapse of the wavefunction so that all quantum states are equally real. Every particle is in every possible place in other universes.