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Georg Wenker
Georg Wenker (1852–1911), German linguist and Marburg librarian, founder of the Sprachatlas des Deutschen Reichs; his 40 Wenkersätze postal survey of ~45,000 localities founded German dialect geography and coined the Benrather Linie and Rheinischer Fächer.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831), German idealist philosopher of Stuttgart and Berlin, author of Phenomenology of Spirit, Science of Logic, and Philosophy of Right; known for dialectic, teleological philosophy of history, and Marx's materialist inversion of it.
Georg Wittig
Georg Wittig (1897–1987) was a German organic chemist who won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing phosphorus reagents, including the Wittig reaction for making alkenes.
Georg Witzel
Georg Witzel, also known as Georgius Wicelius, was a German theologian and Hebraist who returned to Catholicism around 1532 and devoted his life to reuniting Catholics and Lutherans.
Georg Wobbermin
Georg Wobbermin was a German Protestant theologian who developed the 'religio-psychological circle' to study the psychology of religion. He also translated William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience.
Georg Zacharias
Georg Zacharias (Georg Albert Zacharias, 1884–1953), German swimmer, 1904 Olympic gold medalist in 440 yd breaststroke (7:23.6) and bronze in 100 yd backstroke; breaststroke world record holder 1904–10; ISHOF inductee 2002.
George "Gabby" Hayes
George "Gabby" Hayes (George Francis Hayes, 1885–1969), American character actor, the best-known B-western sidekick of the 1930s–40s: Windy Halliday opposite Hopalong Cassidy, then Gabby Whitaker in over 30 Roy Rogers films, later host of The Gabby Hayes Show.
George (given name)
George is a masculine given name from Greek Georgios (georgos, "farmer"), spread by Saint George and common in England after the 1714 Hanoverian succession; six British kings bore it, and it peaked in the US in 1921.
George (magazine)
George was a US political and pop-culture magazine founded by John F. Kennedy Jr. in September 1995 under Hachette, tagline "Not Just Politics as Usual," Cindy Crawford cover debut; it closed in March 2001; a separate publication revived the name in 2022 under Gene Ho.
George & Tammy
George & Tammy is a 2022 Showtime six-episode limited series, created by Abe Sylvia and directed by John Hillcoat, starring Jessica Chastain and Michael Shannon as Tammy Wynette and George Jones, based on Georgette Jones's memoir.
George A Lemieux
George A. Lemieux is an American researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, known for chemical biology work with Carolyn Bertozzi and C. elegans fat-metabolism and aging research with Kaveh Ashrafi.
George A. Archer
George A. Archer (1850–1932) was an American linseed-oil businessman from Dayton, Ohio, who co-founded with John W. Daniels the Minneapolis flaxseed-crushing firm that became Archer-Daniels-Midland Company (ADM).
George A. Bartholomew
George A. Bartholomew (1919–2006) was an American zoologist at UCLA who helped found comparative physiological ecology, the study of how wild animals' physiology fits their environments.
George A. Calin
George A. Calin is a molecular pathologist and cancer researcher at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center whose work established that microRNAs are involved in human cancer.
George A. Harter
George A. Harter was an American aerospace engineer who led the Atlas ICBM reentry vehicle work and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1981.
George A. Hulett
George A. Hulett was an American physical chemist and Princeton's first professor of physical chemistry, from 1909 to 1935, known for osmotic pressure and stable standard cells.
George A. Kaplan
George A. Kaplan is an American social epidemiologist, Thomas Francis Collegiate Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan, known for research on how socioeconomic conditions shape health inequalities.
George A. Kassavetis
George A. Kassavetis is a molecular biologist at the University of California, San Diego, known for work on the enzymology of transcription initiation in phage T4 and yeast.
George A. Kaysen
George Alan Kaysen was an American nephrologist and physician-scientist at UC Davis and the VA, known for reframing low albumin in dialysis patients as inflammation rather than malnutrition.
George A. Macones
George A. Macones is an American maternal-fetal medicine specialist who chairs the Department of Women's Health at Dell Medical School and serves as president of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
George A. Maneatis
George A. Maneatis was a utility executive who served as president of Pacific Gas and Electric Company and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988.
George A. O'Toole, Jr.
George A. O'Toole, Jr. (born 1947) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Massachusetts since 1995, appointed by Bill Clinton.
George A. Olah
George A. Olah (1927–2017) was a Hungarian-born American chemist at the University of Southern California who won the 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on carbocations in superacids.
George A. Roberts
George A. Roberts (1919–2013) was an American metallurgist and executive who developed Vasco Supreme, the first super-hard high-speed steel, and led Teledyne, Inc., a Fortune 500 conglomerate.
George A. Romero
George A. Romero (1940-2017), American horror director and Father of the Zombie Film, whose low-budget Pittsburgh debut Night of the Living Dead (1968) created the modern flesh-eating zombie and the Dead series.
George A. Romero filmography
George A. Romero filmography: the Bronx-born, Pittsburgh-based director's credits from Night of the Living Dead (1968) through Survival of the Dead (2010), six Living Dead zombie films, non-zombie features such as Martin and Monkey Shines, Tales from the Darkside, Creepshow with Stephen King, and unmade Resident Evil drafts.
George A. Samara
George A. Samara (1936–2006) was an American physicist who spent his 45-year career at Sandia National Laboratories, pioneering high-pressure studies of ferroelectric and dielectric materials.
George A. Thompson
George A. Thompson (1919–2017) was an American geologist and geophysicist at Stanford University whose research explained how the stretched crust of the western United States formed the Basin and Range Province.
George A. Wells
George A. Wells is a Canadian biostatistician and clinical epidemiologist at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, directing its Cardiovascular Research Methods Centre and leading major cardiology trials.
George A. Zentmyer
George A. Zentmyer was an American plant pathologist at UC Riverside who identified the avocado rootstock Duke 7 and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1979.