Edwin Crawford Kemble (born 28.01.1889) is an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1931). He was born in Delaware (Ohio). He graduated from Harvard University (1914), where he worked in 1919-57 (professor from 1930).
His research was in the field of spectroscopy, the study of molecular spectra, statistical mechanics, mathematical physics, quantum theory and the philosophy of science.
He founded a school of physicists (J. Van Vleck, R. Mulliken, J. Slater and others). The H. Ørsted Medal (1969).