Famous People with Name Edwin

Edwin Foster Coddington            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Edwin Foster Coddington: was an American astronomer.He co-discovered the comet C/1898 L1 (Coddington-Pauly), also known by the older designation Comet 1898 VII. He also discovered a few asteroids, and the galaxy IC 2574 in Ursa Major, which later became known as the "Coddington Nebula".

Edwin Brant Frost II            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Edwin Brant Frost II: was an American astronomer.Frost graduated from Dartmouth in 1886.[1] He continued his education as a post-graduate student in chemistry and in 1887 became an instructor in physics while only 21 years old.[1] In 1890 Frost went abroad to Europe and ended up researching stellar spectroscopy under Hermann Vogel in Potsdam. He returned to Dartmouth in 1892 as an assistant professor of astronomy.Frost joined the staff of Yerkes Observatory in 1898 and became its director in 1905 when George Hale resigned. Frost kept the position until his retirement in 1932.[1] He was the editor of the Astrophysical Journal from 1902 to 1932, known for his careful attention to details.[3] In 1915 he lost the use of his right eye and in 1921, his left.[1] Despite his blindness he continued working for eleven more years until his retirement in 1932.

Edwin Powell Hubble            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Edwin Powell Hubble: was an American astronomer. He profoundly changed astronomers' understanding of the nature of the universe by demonstrating the existence of other galaxies besides the Milky Way. He also discovered that the degree of redshift observed in light coming from a galaxy increased in proportion to the distance of that galaxy from the Milky Way. This became known as Hubble's law, and would help establish that the universe is expanding.

Edwin Howard Armstrong            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Edwin Howard Armstrong: was an American electrical engineer and inventor. Armstrong was the inventor of frequency modulation (FM) radio.Even as the regenerative-circuit lawsuit continued, Armstrong was working on another momentous invention. While working in the basement laboratory of Columbia's Philosophy Hall, he created wide-band frequency modulation radio (FM). Rather than varying the amplitude of a radio wave to create sound, Armstrong's method varied the frequency of the wave instead. FM radio broadcasts delivered a much clearer sound, free of static, than the AM radio dominant at the time. (Armstrong received a patent on wideband FM on December 26, 1933; his just rewards required much litigation at the end of his life, and beyond it.) [3

Edwin Dickinson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Edwin Dickinson: 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.Dickinson had youthful ambitions for a career in the Navy, but he failed the Navy entrance exam twice (though he later served as a radio operator during World War I). In 1911 he enrolled at the Art Students League of New York, where he studied under William Merritt Chase. In the summers of 1912 and 1913 he stayed in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he took a class taught by Charles W. Hawthorne.[2] After concluding his formal studies in 1913, Dickinson lived and taught in Provincetown for several years.

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.