Edgar Heilbronner (13 May 1921 Р28 August 2006) was a Swiss German chemist. In 1964 he published the concept of M̦bius cyclic annulenes, but the first M̦bius aromatic was not synthesized until 2003.
Edgar Heilbronner was a professor at the ETH Zürich, Switzerland for many years but then was offered a professorship in Basel, Switzerland where he spent the remainder of his career.
In 1998 he co-authored the standard work in the area of chemistry on stamps, A Philatelic Ramble Through Chemistry with Foil A. Miller.