Famous People with Name Edwin

Edwin Thompson Jaynes            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Edwin Thompson Jaynes: was Wayman Crow Distinguished Professor of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis. He wrote extensively on statistical mechanics and on foundations of probability and statistical inference, initiating in 1957 the MaxEnt interpretation of thermodynamics[1][2], as being a particular application of more general Bayesian/information theory techniques (although he argued this was already implicit in the works of Gibbs). He was one of the first to interpret probability theory as an extension of Aristotelian logic.In 1963, together with Fred Cummings, he modelized the evolution of a two-level atom in an electromagnetic field, in a fully quantized way. This model is known as the Jaynes-Cummings model.

Edwin Crawford Kemble            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Edwin Crawford Kemble: was an American physicist who made contributions to the theory of quantum mechanics and molecular structure and spectroscopy. During World War II, he was a consultant to the Navy on acoustic detection of submarines and to the Army on Operation Alsos.After Kemble received his doctorate, with World War I in progress, he spent a short time doing work which contributed to the war effort developing aircraft engines at Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company. As the War ended, he was laid off. While he did want to return to Harvard, a position could not immediately be found, so he spent a half semester teaching at Williams College, in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Bridgman had a plan to build up theory at Harvard, which consisted of restructuring from the emphasis on electromagnetism (radiotelegraphy, optics, and wave propagation) to radiation theory, quantum theory, photo-electricity, specific heats, X-ray crystal structure

Edwin Bissell Holt            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Edwin Bissell Holt: 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.Holt was born in Winchester, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard in 1896 and received his Ph.D., also from Harvard, in 1901. Holt did research on the psychology of vision. In 1910 he helped inaugurate the philosophic school called new realism.

Edwin Harris Colbert            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Edwin Harris Colbert: was a distinguished vertebrate paleontologist and prolific researcher and author. He received his A.B. from the University of Nebraska and his Masters and Ph.D. from Columbia University.

Edwin Arlington Robinson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Edwin Arlington Robinson: was an American poet, who won three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.In the fall of 1891, at the age of 21, Edwin entered Harvard University as a special student. He took classes on English, French, and Shakespeare, as well as one on Anglo-Saxon that he later

Randy Edwini-Bonsu            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Randy Edwini-Bonsu: is a Ghanaian-born Canadian soccer player currently playing for Vancouver Whitecaps in the USSF Division 2 Professional League. Edwini-Bonsu started playing soccer when his family immigrated from Ghana to Edmonton, Canada in 2002. On November 12, 2008 he was called to a Canada U-20 training camp in Switzerland. Edwini-Bonsu represented Canada at the 2007 CONCACAF U17 Tournament in Kingston, Jamaica; Canada finished fourth in Group B. Edwini-Bonsu was later called up to a U-20 camp for Canada in November 2008 which included an exhibition match against U-21 from Young Boys Bern on November 24 in Bern and then an international friendly match against Switzerland on November 26, 2008 in Solothurn.