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Georgy Malenkov (Гео́ргий Максимилиа́нович Маленко́в)
Georgy Malenkov (Гео́ргий Максимилиа́нович Маленко́в, 1901–1988), Soviet leader, Stalin's heir apparent, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers March 1953–February 1955; New Course reformer, defeated by Khrushchev, exiled to Kazakhstan plants.
Georgy Mondzolevsky
Georgy Mondzolevsky (Георгий Мондзолевский; 1934 to 2024) was a Soviet volleyball setter who won Olympic gold at Tokyo 1964 and Mexico City 1968 and starred for CSKA Moskva.
Georgy Plekhanov
Georgy Plekhanov (Георгий Валентинович Плеханов) was a Russian Marxist theorist who founded the first Russian Marxist organization, the Emancipation of Labour, in 1883, and later became a leading Menshevik.
Georgy Pogosov
Georgy Pogosov (Георгий Вадимович Погосов, Heorhiy Pohosov), born 1960 in Kyiv, Ukrainian sabre fencer; 1992 Olympic team gold for Unified Team, 1988 silver for USSR, six world team titles, later Stanford co-head coach.
Georgy Prokopenko
Georgy Prokopenko (Георгій Якович Прокопенко), Ukrainian breaststroke swimmer for the USSR; 1964 Olympic 200 m breaststroke silver (2:28.2), double 100 m breaststroke world record holder 1964, European champion 1962 and 1966.
Georgy Sviridenko
Georgy Sviridenko (Георгий Свириденко), born 1962 in Minsk, Belarusian handball player and coach; 1988 Seoul Olympic champion with the USSR, later coached Belarus and MT Melsungen II.
Georgy V. Kurdjumov (Георгий Вячеславович Курдюмов)
Georgy V. Kurdjumov (Георгий Вячеславович Курдюмов) was a Soviet physicist and metallurgist, born in 1902, who discovered the diffusionless martensitic transformation in steels and directed major Soviet research institutes in Moscow and Chernogolovka.
Georgy Voronoy
Georgy Voronoy (1868–1908) was a mathematician of the Russian Empire, born in Ukraine, who created Voronoi diagrams and co-founded the geometry of numbers with Hermann Minkowski.
Georgy Zhukov (Георгий Константинович Жуков)
Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov (Георгий Константинович Жуков, 1896–1974), Marshal of the Soviet Union and four-time Hero, led Leningrad's defense, Moscow, Kursk coordination, Operation Bagration, and Berlin, and accepted Germany's 1945 surrender.
GEOS-Chem
GEOS-Chem is a global 3-D model of atmospheric chemistry that simulates atmospheric composition from local to global scales using NASA GEOS meteorological data, widely used in air quality and climate research.
Geosat
Geosat was a United States Navy satellite launched in 1985 carrying a radar altimeter that measured sea surface height to about 5 cm precision, becoming a milestone oceanography data set.
Geoscience Australia
Geoscience Australia is the Australian Government's national geoscience research and geospatial information agency, created in 2001 by merging AGSO and AUSLIG to support resource exploration, environmental management, and community safety.
Geosiphon
Geosiphon (Geosiphon pyriformis, synonym G. pyriforme) is a rare glomeromycotan soil fungus in Archaeosporales that uniquely hosts the cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme inside bladder-like vesicles instead of forming arbuscular mycorrhiza with plants.
Geosmin
Geosmin is an organic compound, produced mainly by Streptomyces bacteria, that gives moist soil its characteristic earthy smell and causes earthy taste complaints in drinking water.
Geosmin synthase
Geosmin synthase (SCO6073, geoA) is a bifunctional bacterial terpene cyclase from Streptomyces coelicolor that converts farnesyl diphosphate to germacradienol, then to geosmin and acetone, using only Mg2+; the cause of earthy soil and water odors.
Geospiza
Geospiza, the ground finches of the Galápagos established by John Gould in 1837, is a genus of Darwin's finches in Thraupidae, with six traditionally recognized species whose beak evolution is driven by seed diet, the ALX1 locus, and hybridization.
GEOStar
GEOStar is a family of geostationary commercial communications satellite buses developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation and now produced by Northrop Grumman, with more than 50 satellite contracts.
Geostationary Ocean Color Imager
The Geostationary Ocean Color Imager (GOCI) is a South Korean ocean color imaging radiometer on the COMS satellite and the world's first geostationary ocean color sensor, launched in 2010.
Geostationary orbit
A geostationary orbit, also called the Clarke Belt or Clarke orbit, is a circular equatorial orbit at 35,786 km where a satellite stays fixed above one spot on Earth.
Geostationary slot
A geostationary slot is a longitude position on the geostationary arc, about 35,786 km above the equator, that operators hold through the International Telecommunication Union together with assigned frequencies.
Geostationary transfer orbit
The geostationary transfer orbit, also known as the geosynchronous transfer orbit or GTO, is a highly elliptical parking orbit with perigee near low Earth orbit and apogee at geostationary altitude.
Geostatistical inversion
Geostatistical inversion is a stochastic seismic inversion method, introduced in 1993, that generates multiple equiprobable property models conditioned to seismic data and well logs, quantifying uncertainty.
Geosteering
Geosteering, also called real-time well placement, is a drilling technique that uses real-time geological data to keep the wellbore within the target reservoir, mainly in horizontal wells.
Geostorm
Geostorm is a 2017 American science fiction disaster film about satellites that control the weather, directed by Dean Devlin and starring Gerard Butler, Ed Harris, and Andy Garcia.
Geostrophic current
A geostrophic current is an ocean current in which the Coriolis force from Earth's rotation balances the horizontal pressure gradient force, so the water flows along lines of constant pressure.
Geostrophic flow
Geostrophic flow is air or water motion in which the pressure-gradient force and Coriolis force balance, so flow moves parallel to isobars rather than across them.
Geosynchronous orbit
A geosynchronous orbit (GEO) is an Earth orbit with a period of one sidereal day, at about 35,786 km altitude, so satellites stay over a fixed longitude.
Geosynchronous satellite
A geosynchronous satellite is an artificial satellite whose orbital period matches Earth's rotation, circling at about 35,900 km above the surface; a circular equatorial one appears motionless.
Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle
The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) is a three-stage expendable rocket developed by India's ISRO, first flown in 2001 to place communication satellites into geostationary transfer orbit.
Geosynchronous transfer using electric propulsion
Geosynchronous transfer using electric propulsion is the technique of raising a communications satellite to geostationary orbit with low-thrust electric thrusters over months, saving about 40% launch mass.