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Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff
Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff (1912–1994) was an Austrian-born Colombian anthropologist and archaeologist who founded Colombia's institutional anthropology and became the central figure in the country's archaeology, known for his ethnographies of the Kogi and Amazonian peoples.
Gerardus 't Hooft
Gerardus 't Hooft, also known as Gerard 't Hooft, is a Dutch theoretical physicist at Utrecht University who shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with his advisor Martinus Veltman.
Gerardus Mercator
Gerardus Mercator (Gerard de Kremer, 1512–1594), Flemish cartographer of Duisburg, created the 1569 Mercator projection for navigation, coined the term Atlas for map collections, and founded commercial mapmaking in the Low Countries.
Gerasimos I
Gerasimos I (Γεράσιμος Α´) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1320 to 1321. Born in Philadelphia of Lydia, he was abbot of the Mangana Monastery before his election.
Gerasimos II
Gerasimos II (Γεράσιμος Β΄) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1673 to 1674, holding the throne for about a year and a half before being deposed in December 1674.
Gerasimos III
Gerasimos III (Γεράσιμος Γʹ) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1794 to 1797, between Neophytos VII and Gregory V, best known for a 1795 regulation setting minimum ages for ordination.
Gerasimos Konstantatos
Gerasimos Konstantatos (born 1979) is a Greek materials scientist who leads a group at ICFO in Barcelona, working on quantum dot photodetectors, LEDs, and solar cells.
Gerasimovich (lunar crater)
Gerasimovich, a 90 km Nectarian impact crater on the lunar far side near the Crisium basin antipode, hosts the Moon's strongest crustal magnetic anomaly, associated swirls, a minimagnetosphere, and about 0.8 km of Crisium ejecta fill.
Géraud Sénizergues
Géraud Sénizergues is a French computer scientist, professor of theoretical computer science at the Université de Bordeaux, who proved in 1997 that DPDA equivalence is decidable.
Gerayli
Gerayli (Gəraylı) is a widespread lyric form of Azerbaijani ashiq poetry, built from three, five, or seven eight-syllable quatrains and sung to rhythmic saz melodies.
GERB (Граждани за европейско развитие на България)
GERB (Граждани за европейско развитие на България) is Bulgaria's conservative, pro-European center-right party, EPP member led by Boyko Borisov since 2006; it governed 2009–2021, won 39.7% in 2009, and fell to 13.4% in 2026.
Gerben Karstens
Gerben Karstens, Dutch road cyclist (1942-2022), Olympic 100 km team time trial gold medalist at Tokyo 1964; won stages in all three Grand Tours (6 Tour, 14 Vuelta, 1 Giro) and Paris-Tours 1965; two classic wins stripped over doping-control issues.
Gerber Baby
The Gerber Baby is the 1928 charcoal sketch by Dorothy Hope Smith, adopted as Gerber's trademark in 1931; the baby depicted is Ann Turner Cook, whose identity was revealed in 1978, with annual Photo Search spokesbabies since 2010.
Gerber Catena
Gerber Catena is a roughly 100-143 km long pit and crater chain on dwarf planet Ceres, northwest of Urvara crater, interpreted as a tectonic pit chain, imaged by Dawn in 2015 and named for a Udmurt spring-sowing festival.
Gerber convention
Gerber convention (bridge): a jump to 4 clubs asking for aces over a natural 1NT or 2NT opening, with responses 4D 0/4, 4H 1, 4S 2, 4NT 3; devised by John Gerber's team in 1937, first published 1936 in Europe.
Gerber format
The Gerber format is a human-readable ASCII vector image format that transfers printed circuit board fabrication data from design to manufacturing, with one file per board layer.
Gerber Products Company
Gerber Products Company, founded 1927 in Fremont, Michigan and owned by Nestlé since 2007, is the leading U.S. baby food maker, known for the Gerber Baby image, WIC-approved products, heavy-metal testing controversies, and a 2026 arrowroot biscuit recall.
Gerber Technology
Gerber Technology is an American maker of CAD and CAM software and automated cutting systems for apparel, founded in 1968 and acquired by France's Lectra in 2021.
Gerbera
Gerbera is an Asteraceae genus of stemless perennial daisies named for Traugott Gerber, native from Africa to Indo-China; its hybrids, especially from Gerbera jamesonii, are major cut flowers and a floral genetics model.
Gerbera (drone)
The Gerbera, also known as the Gerbera UAV, is a Russian decoy drone that mimics the Shahed-136 attack drone to drain Ukrainian air defenses, first used in July 2024.
Gerbilling
Gerbilling, also called gerbil stuffing or gerbil shooting, is an urban legend about inserting a live gerbil into the rectum; no documented case or medical report exists, and its best-known variant falsely attaches the practice to Richard Gere.
Gerbillus
Gerbillus (gerbils, Desmarest 1804) is a rodent genus in Muridae: Gerbillinae with about 51 species across North Africa, the Sahel, and the Middle East, divided into four subgenera; type species G. gerbillus.
Gerbrand Adriaensz. Bredero
Gerbrand Adriaensz. Bredero (1585–1618) was an Amsterdam comic playwright and poet of the Dutch Golden Age whose best-known works include Spaanschen Brabander, Moortje, and Klucht van de Koe.
Gerbrand Bakker
Gerbrand Bakker (born 1962 in Wieringerwaard) is a Dutch novelist and professional gardener whose 2006 debut novel, The Twin, won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Gerbrand Ceder
Gerbrand Ceder is a computational materials scientist, professor at UC Berkeley and Senior Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, known for computational materials design, battery cathode discoveries, and co-founding The Materials Project.
Gerchberg–Saxton algorithm
The Gerchberg–Saxton algorithm, published by R. W. Gerchberg and W. O. Saxton in 1972, is an iterative phase retrieval method that recovers phase from two intensity measurements, such as image and diffraction plane pictures.
Gerd (moon)
Gerd (Saturn LVII) is a small, retrograde irregular moon of Saturn's Norse group, about 3.5 kilometers across, first imaged in 2004 and named in 2022.
Gerd A. Blobel
Gerd A. Blobel is a physician-scientist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia who studies red blood cell gene regulation and chromatin looping, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2025.
Gerd Assmann
Gerd Assmann is a German clinical chemist and atherosclerosis researcher, professor at the University of Münster, known for initiating and leading the PROCAM cardiovascular risk study.
Gerd Binnig
Gerd Binnig is a German physicist who co-invented the scanning tunneling microscope at IBM Zurich and won a share of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics.