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Geordie lamp
The Geordie lamp is a miners' safety lamp invented by George Stephenson in 1815, in which air enters through fine holes and gauze so firedamp cannot ignite.
Geordie Shore
Geordie Shore is a British constructed-reality MTV series, the UK adaptation of Jersey Shore, set in Newcastle upon Tyne. First aired May 2011, it has run 26 seasons and 242 episodes, with reunion and holiday formats in later years.
Geordie Shore series 26
Geordie Shore series 26 (Geordie Shore, season 26) is the 2026 Paramount+ season of the MTV reality show: 10 episodes from 13 January 2026, with Chloe Ferry's 30th birthday in Lisbon, Gary Beadle's return after a decade, and Kyle and Vicky's wedding.
Geordie Williamson
Geordie Williamson, born 1981, is an Australian mathematician and University of Sydney professor who found counterexamples to Lusztig's 1980 character formula conjecture and won the 2017 New Horizons Prize.
Georeferencing
Georeferencing is the process of assigning real-world Earth coordinates to spatial data, such as a scanned map or aerial photograph, so it can be overlaid and analyzed in a GIS.
Georg Albertsen
Georg Albertsen (Georg Albert Christian Albertsen), Danish gymnast, 1889 Frederiksberg to 1961 Gentofte; won gold for Denmark in the men's team free system at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics with club KSG Copenhagen.
Georg Alexander Pick
Georg Alexander Pick (1859–1942) was an Austrian mathematician who spent his career at the German University in Prague, proved Pick's theorem in 1899, and was Albert Einstein's close friend and colleague during Einstein's Prague years.
Georg Amberger
Georg Wilhelm Amberger (1890-1949), German middle-distance runner for Berliner SC; 1912 Stockholm Olympian in 1500 m and 3000 m team race, 500 m world record holder (1:06.0, 1920), two-time German 800 m champion, author of Der Lauf (1923).
Georg Apollo Buchwald
Georg Apollo Buchwald (1859–1947) was a German Lutheran pastor, superintendent in Rochlitz, and church historian whom Heinrich Bornkamm called the greatest Luther philologist of his time.
Georg Arnold
Georg Arnold is the name of several unrelated people and places: a German volleyball player born in 2010, landscape painter Georg Arnold-Graboné, swimmer George Arnold, and Georg Arnold Jacobi.
Georg August Schweinfurth
Georg August Schweinfurth (1836–1925) was a German botanist and explorer of the Nile–Congo region who discovered the Uele River and gave science its first authoritative account of the Congo Pygmies.
Georg August Wilhelm Runze
Georg August Wilhelm Runze (1852–1938) was a German Evangelical theologian and philosopher who taught Protestant theology in Berlin and developed a glottological philosophy holding that language shapes thought, set against Fritz Mauthner's skepticism.
Georg Bonne
Georg Bonne (1859–1945) was a German country doctor in Klein-Flottbek and Nienstedten on the Elbe, known as the "Engel von Nienstedten" and a lifelong campaigner for the river's cleanliness.
Georg Brandes
Georg Brandes (1842–1927) was a Danish literary and cultural critic whose 1871 University of Copenhagen lectures, published as Main Currents in 19th Century Literature, launched the Modern Breakthrough.
Georg Bredig
Georg Bredig (1868–1944) was a German physical chemist regarded as the founder of catalysis research, known for Bredig's arc method, zwitterions, and asymmetric catalysis; driven from Karlsruhe by the Nazis, he died in New York.
Georg Büchner
Georg Büchner (1813 to 1837) was a German dramatist and natural scientist of the Vormärz whose plays Dantons Tod, Leonce und Lena, and Woyzeck founded modern drama.
Georg Büchner Prize
The Georg Büchner Prize (Georg-Büchner-Preis) is a German literary award, generally regarded as the most important in the German-speaking world, awarded by the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung in Darmstadt.
Georg Calixtus
Georg Calixtus (1586–1656) was a German Lutheran theologian, professor at the University of Helmstedt from 1614, who sought to reunite Lutherans, Reformed, and Catholics, sparking the Syncretistic Controversy.
Georg Cantor
Georg Cantor, in full Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor (1845–1918), was a German mathematician at the University of Halle who created set theory as a mathematical discipline.
Georg Daniel Teutsch
Georg Daniel Teutsch (1817–1893) was a Transylvanian Saxon Lutheran bishop, historian, and school reformer who led the Evangelical Landeskirche of Transylvania from 1867 to 1893.
Georg Danzer
Georg Danzer, known as Gipsy Danzer, was an Austrian singer-songwriter in Viennese dialect, a founding figure of Austropop whose 1975 hit 'Jö schau' was his only number one.
Georg Dascher
Georg Dascher (1911–1944), German field handball player; won gold with Germany at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the only time field handball was Olympic; later a Wehrmacht lieutenant killed near Hürtgen.
Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse
Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse (1906-1937), son of Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig, husband of Princess Cecilie of Greece, died with his family in the 1937 Ostend plane crash en route to his brother Louis's wedding.
Georg E. Schulz
Georg E. Schulz (1939–2026) was a structural biochemist at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg and the University of Freiburg who solved enzyme and membrane protein structures by X-ray crystallography.
Georg Eduard Steitz
Georg Eduard Steitz (1810–1879) was a German Protestant theologian, pastor, and church historian who spent his career in Frankfurt am Main, rising to Senior of the Lutheran clergy.
Georg Elser
Johann Georg Elser (1903–1945), German carpenter, sole perpetrator of the 8 November 1939 Bürgerbräukeller bomb attack on Hitler in Munich; Hitler left 13 minutes early; Elser was murdered in Dachau in April 1945.
Georg Faber
Georg Faber was a German mathematician (1877–1966), professor at the Technische Hochschule in Munich, known for Faber polynomials, the Faber–Schauder basis, and the Faber–Krahn inequality.
Georg Felix
Georg Felix is a German-based plant scientist at the University of Basel and the ZMBP in Tübingen who identified the receptor EFR that perceives bacterial EF-Tu in plants.
Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz
Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz (1904–1973), German shipping attaché in occupied Copenhagen and later Brandt's State Secretary, warned Danish leaders of the October 1943 Jewish deportation, enabling about 7,200 Jews to escape to Sweden; Righteous Among the Nations 1971.
Georg Fischer
Georg Fischer AG, known as GF, is a Swiss industrial company founded in Schaffhausen in 1802 that makes piping systems and valves for water, gases, and other fluids.