ernst
- n painter (born in Germany, resident of France and the United States) who was a cofounder of dadaism; developed the technique of collage (1891-1976)
ernst boris chain
- n British biochemist (born in Germany) who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1906-1979)
ernst cassirer
- n German philosopher concerned with concept formation in the human mind and with symbolic forms in human culture generally (1874-1945)
ernst heinrich haeckel
- n German biologist and philosopher; advocated Darwinism and formulated the theory of recapitulation; was an exponent of materialistic monism (1834-1919)
ernst heinrich weber
- n German physiologist who studied sensory responses to stimuli and is considered the father of psychophysics (1795-1878)
ernst lubitsch
- n German filmmaker of sophisticated comedies (1892-1947)