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Donald G. Saari
Donald G. Saari (Donald Gene Saari) is an American mathematician at UC Irvine known for the n-body problem and a geometric voting theory favoring the Borda count.
Donald G. Truhlar
Donald G. Truhlar, born in 1944, is an American theoretical chemist at the University of Minnesota known for transition state theory, solvation models, and density functionals.
Donald G. York
Donald G. York (1944–2025) was an American astronomer at the University of Chicago who made the first detection of interstellar deuterium and founded the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
Donald Ganem
Donald Ganem, known professionally as Don Ganem, is an American virologist and physician who spent three decades at UCSF, was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, and led infectious-disease research at Novartis.
Donald Geman
Donald Geman, born 1943, is an American applied mathematician at Johns Hopkins University known for the Gibbs sampler, Markov random fields for image processing, and randomized decision trees.
Donald Gibb
Donald Gibb (1954–2026), American character actor, Ogre in Revenge of the Nerds and Ray Jackson in Bloodsport, ex-UNM basketball player and Chargers roster member, died in Texas.
Donald Ginsberg
Donald Maurice Ginsberg was an American experimental physicist at the University of Illinois who became a world authority on superconductivity and shared the 1998 Buckley Prize.
Donald Glaser
Donald Glaser, also known as Don Glaser, was an American physicist who invented the bubble chamber and won the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics at age 34.
Donald Glover
Donald Glover, known musically as Childish Gambino, is an American actor, writer, rapper, and singer. He created and starred in Atlanta, winning two Emmy Awards in 2017.
Donald Goldfarb
Donald Goldfarb is an American applied mathematician and optimization researcher, a Columbia University professor since 1982 whose BFGS, Goldfarb–Idnani, and steepest-edge simplex algorithms underpin most optimization software.
Donald Griffin
Donald Redfield Griffin was an American zoologist who discovered echolocation in bats, coined the term, and founded cognitive ethology, the study of animal consciousness, in 1976.
Donald H. Gilden
Donald H. Gilden (1937–2016) was an American neurovirologist who chaired neurology at the University of Colorado for 24 years and linked varicella-zoster virus to shingles and giant cell arteritis.
Donald H. Levy
Donald H. Levy, born in 1939, is an American physical chemist at the University of Chicago known for laser spectroscopy of molecules cooled in supersonic jets.
Donald Hall
Donald Hall (1928–2018) was an American poet and essayist who served as 14th US Poet Laureate in 2006–2007, writing from his family farm in Wilmot, New Hampshire.
Donald Harvey
Donald Harvey (1952-2017), American hospital orderly nicknamed the Angel of Death, pleaded guilty to 37 patient murders in Ohio and Kentucky hospitals using cyanide, arsenic, suffocation, and respirator sabotage; claimed up to 87 victims; beaten to death in prison in 2017.
Donald Helinski
Donald R. Helinski is an American molecular biologist and emeritus professor at UC San Diego whose laboratory first showed that bacterial plasmids are rings of DNA.
Donald Henry Gaskins
Donald Henry Gaskins, known as "Pee Wee," was an American serial killer from South Carolina who pleaded guilty to eight murders and claimed about one hundred victims.
Donald Hill Perkins
Donald Hill Perkins (1925–2022) was a British experimental particle physicist who first observed meson nuclear capture in 1947 and helped discover weak neutral currents at CERN in 1973.
Donald Hilvert
Donald Hilvert (born 1956) is an organic chemist and enzymologist who taught at The Scripps Research Institute and ETH Zurich, known for catalytic antibodies, chorismate mutase, and designed enzymes.
Donald Hoffman (cognitive psychologist)
Donald Hoffman is an American cognitive psychologist at the University of California, Irvine, known for the interface theory of perception and arguing that consciousness, not spacetime, is fundamental.
Donald Holmes Hyers
Donald Holmes Hyers (1913–1997) was an American mathematician at the University of Southern California whose 1941 paper gave the first significant partial solution to Ulam's stability problem.
Donald Horne
Donald Horne (Donald Richmond Horne, 1921–2005) was an Australian journalist, editor, and social critic, best known as the author of The Lucky Country (1964) and a leading public intellectual.
Donald Howard Menzel
Donald Howard Menzel (1901–1976) was an American theoretical astrophysicist at Harvard who applied quantum mechanics to stellar spectra and directed Harvard College Observatory from 1954 to 1966.
Donald Huffman
Donald Ray Huffman (1935–2025) was an American physicist at the University of Arizona who, with Wolfgang Krätschmer, discovered the 1990 carbon-arc method that first produced fullerenes in bulk.
Donald I. Abrams
Donald I. Abrams is an American integrative oncologist and HIV/AIDS researcher, Professor Emeritus at UCSF, known for AIDS research at San Francisco General and pioneering NIH-funded medical cannabis studies.
Donald J. Blickwede
Donald J. Blickwede, also known as Donald Johnson Blickwede, was an American physical metallurgist who spent 33 years at Bethlehem Steel and co-invented Galvalume coated steel.
Donald J. Cram
Donald J. Cram (1919–2001) was an American organic chemist at UCLA who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for designing highly selective host–guest molecules.
Donald J. D’Amico
Donald J. D'Amico is an American ophthalmologist and vitreoretinal surgeon, chair of ophthalmology at Weill Cornell Medical College since 2006 and Ophthalmologist-in-Chief at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
Donald J. Darensbourg
Donald J. Darensbourg (born 1941) is an American inorganic and organometallic chemist known for metal salen catalysts that turn carbon dioxide into polycarbonates, working at Texas A&M University.
Donald J. DePaolo
Donald J. DePaolo is an American isotope geochemist at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, known for neodymium isotope studies of the crust and mantle.