Leadership

• Erwin Rommel (born 1891, died 1944)

  German general known as ''the Desert Fox.''

  • Headed Nazi Germany''s Afrika Korps in WWII (see list of Miscellaneous Military Leaders)

Science and Philosophy

• Erwin Chargaff (born 1905)

  Austrian-American biochemist.

  • 1974 National Medal of Science winner (see list of National Medal of Science Winners)
• Erwin W. Mueller

  Physicist.

  • 1976 National Medal of Science winner (see list of National Medal of Science Winners)
• Erwin Neher

  German physiologist who developed a technique that allows detection of minute electrical currents in ion channels.

  • 1991 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology/Medicine, with Bert Sakmann (see list of Winners of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine)
• Erwin Schrödinger (born 1887, died 1961)

  Austrian physicist known for his contributions to quantum mechanics.

  • 1933 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, with Paul Dirac (see list of Winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics)

The Literary World

• Erwin H. Hagler
  • 1980 Pulitzer Prize winner for Feature Photography (see list of Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography)