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George Z. Singal
George Z. Singal is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge in Maine, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 2000 and chief judge from 2003 to 2009.
George Zachary
George Zachary is an American venture capitalist who spent over 15 years as a General Partner at CRV, best known for leading a $250,000 investment for 1% of Twitter in 2006.
George Zimmerman
George Zimmerman, former Sanford, Florida neighborhood watch volunteer, fatally shot unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin on February 26, 2012, was charged with second-degree murder, and acquitted in July 2013; later defamation suits were dismissed.
George Zografi
George Zografi is a pharmaceutical scientist and former dean of the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Pharmacy, elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1989.
George Zweig
George Zweig is an American physicist and neurobiologist who, at CERN in 1964, independently proposed the quark model, calling its constituents aces; he won the 2015 J. J. Sakurai Prize.
George-Kreis
The George-Kreis, or George Circle, was an aestheticist literary circle around German poet Stefan George from the early 1890s to 1933, bound by the journal Blätter für die Kunst.
George-Marios Angeletos
George-Marios Angeletos is a Greek economic theorist, born in Athens in 1975, known for work on global games, coordination, and the social value of information.
George‐Lucian Moldovan
George-Lucian Moldovan is a Romanian-trained molecular biologist, professor and Vice Chair for Research at Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, Pennsylvania, who studies DNA replication stress and genomic stability.
George, Duke of Saxony
George the Bearded (Georg der Bärtige), Duke of Saxony 1500–1539 of the Albertine Wettins; Catholic opponent of Luther, sponsor of the 1519 Leipzig Disputation, anti-Anabaptist mandates; succeeded by his Lutheran brother Henry in 1539.
George, Western Cape
George, Western Cape: Garden Route city founded 1811, named for King George III; seat of George Local Municipality (294,929 people, 2022), second largest Western Cape municipality after Cape Town; hub of N2, George Airport, tourism, and forestry.
George's Chapel
George's Chapel, or George's Meeting House, is a Grade I listed former Unitarian chapel built in 1760 on South Street, Exeter, Devon, now a JD Wetherspoon pub; NHLE entry 1267126, distinct from St George's Chapel, Windsor.
George's Marvellous Medicine
George's Marvellous Medicine is a 1981 children's novel by Roald Dahl, illustrated by Quentin Blake, in which George Kranky brews a potion that makes his grandmother grow enormous.
Georges A. Deschamps
Georges A. Deschamps (1911–1998) was a French-born electrical engineer who proposed the microstrip antenna in 1953 and later taught electromagnetic theory at the University of Illinois.
Georges Baraton
Georges Baraton (Georges Léon Baraton, 1904-1962), French middle-distance runner and two-time Olympian in the 800 m at Paris 1924 and Amsterdam 1928; personal best 1:54.2 (1926), club Métropolitain Club Colombes.
Georges Barski
Georges Barski (1909–1985) was a Polish-born French biologist who discovered somatic cell hybridization at the Institut Gustave-Roussy in Villejuif, a technique that later enabled gene mapping and monoclonal antibodies.
Georges Bataille
Georges Bataille (Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille, 1897–1962), French novelist, essayist and Bibliothèque nationale librarian; author of Story of the Eye, La Part maudite and L'Érotisme; founder of Documents, Acéphale and Critique.
Georges Belfort
Georges Belfort is a bioengineer and membrane scientist, Institute Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003 for bioseparations advances.
Georges Besse II (enrichment plant)
Georges Besse II, also written GB2, is a commercial uranium enrichment plant at the Tricastin nuclear site in southern France, operated by Orano with gas centrifuge technology since 2010.
Georges Biassou
Georges Biassou, known in Spanish service as Jorge Biassou, led the 1791 slave revolt in Saint-Domingue, fought as a Spanish general, and died in St. Augustine, Florida, in 1801.
Georges Bizet
Georges Bizet (Alexandre-César-Léopold Bizet, 1838–1875), French composer of Carmen, Les pêcheurs de perles, L'Arlésienne, and the Symphony in C; Prix de Rome 1857, died at Bougival three months after Carmen's premiere.
Georges Bouligand
Georges Bouligand (1889–1979) was a French mathematician who worked in analysis, geometry, and topology, taught at the Sorbonne, and introduced the box-counting, or Minkowski–Bouligand, dimension in 1928.
Georges Bourguignon
Georges Bourguignon (1876–1963) was a French physician and neurophysiologist who first applied chronaxie to human subjects, building clinical electrodiagnosis at the Salpêtrière hospital in Paris.
Georges Braque
Georges Braque (13 May 1882 – 31 August 1963), French painter co-founder of Cubism with Pablo Picasso after their 1907 meeting; Fauve painter turned Cubist at L'Estaque, inventor of papier collé in 1912, wounded in World War I, later painted Louvre ceiling Birds.
Georges Canguilhem
Georges Canguilhem (1904-1995), French philosopher and physician, author of The Normal and the Pathological; theorist of vital normativity, historical epistemology, and major influence on Foucault.
Georges Castera
Georges Castera, also known as Georges Castera fils, was a Haitian poet and critic who wrote in Creole and French and won the 2006 Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe.
Georges Charpak
Georges Charpak (1924–2010) was a Polish-born French physicist at CERN and ESPCI Paris who won the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the multiwire proportional particle detector.
Georges Chaudron
Georges Chaudron (Georges Léon Chaudron) was a French chemist who devised the Chaudron diagram for iron-oxide reduction and led the École nationale supérieure de chimie de Paris.
Georges Claude
Georges Claude (1870–1960) was a French chemist-engineer who co-founded Air Liquide in 1902 and created the commercial neon lighting industry, later convicted of collaboration in 1945.
Georges Clemenceau
Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929), 'Le Tigre' and 'Père la Victoire', French radical statesman, journalist, and physician; head of government 1906–1909 and 1917–1920, led France to victory in World War I and negotiated the Treaty of Versailles.
Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier, also known as Baron Cuvier, full name Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier, was a French naturalist (1769–1832) who founded paleontology and comparative anatomy, demonstrated extinction, and proposed catastrophism.