All articles starting with G

Gerdarchaeota

Gerdarchaeota is a candidate lineage of Asgard archaea proposed in 2020 from coastal sediment genomes, now treated by GTDB as the order Gerdarchaeales within Heimdallarchaeia.

Oct 15, 2026

Gerdau is a Brazilian steel producer headquartered in Porto Alegre, founded in 1901 as a nail factory, and describes itself as the largest Brazilian steel producer, with operations across the Americas.

Gerdau (Cosigua)

Cosigua, formally the Companhia Siderúrgica da Guanabara, is a scrap-based long-steel plant in Santa Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, owned by Gerdau since 1979 and supplying rebar and wire rod to construction.

Gerding Edlen Green Cities

Gerding Edlen Green Cities is a series of four sustainable urban real estate private equity funds, run from Portland, Oregon, that raised $1.4 billion in equity.

Sep 19, 2026

Geregu Power Plc

Geregu Power Plc is a Nigerian electricity generation company operating a 435 megawatt gas-fired plant in Ajaokuta, Kogi State, listed on the Nigerian Exchange in 2022.

Geremi

Geremi (Geremi Sorele Njitap Fotso), Cameroonian footballer born 1978 in Bafoussam; right-back and midfielder for Real Madrid, Chelsea, Newcastle; 118 Cameroon caps, AFCON 2000 and 2002, Olympic gold 2000; later SYNAFOC and FIFPRO Africa president.

Sep 20, 2026

Geremia B. Bolli

Geremia B. Bolli, born 1947, is an Italian endocrinologist at the University of Perugia known for 1984 New England Journal of Medicine papers on the dawn phenomenon.

Geren Cuo

Geren Cuo (格仁错, Kering Tso, Kyaring Lake) is a 475.9 km2 endorheic lake at 4,650 m in Xainza County, Nagqu, Tibet, part of the Siling Co lake system along the Gyaring Co Fault, a black-necked crane habitat.

Gereon Fink

Gereon R. Fink is a German neurologist and neuroscientist who directs the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine at Forschungszentrum Jülich and the Department of Neurology at University Hospital Cologne.

Oct 22, 2026

Gerewol

Gerewol, also spelled Guérewol or Geerewol, is an annual courtship festival of the Wodaabe, nomadic Fulani herders of Niger and Chad, where young men paint themselves and dance to be chosen by women.

Gergely Csibra

Gergely Csibra is a developmental cognitive neuroscientist who studies how infants understand actions, communication, and mental states, known for the theory of natural pedagogy and elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2017.

Oct 20, 2026

Gergis (Turkey)

Gergis (Γέργις, Gergithus) was an ancient city of the Troad near Karıncalı, Bayramiç District, Turkey; first named in Herodotus as a Teukrian tribe, later a Strabo city in Lampsacus's territory, rich in vines, with its own coinage.

Gergo Kiss

Gergo Kiss (Gergely "Gergő" Kiss), Hungarian water polo player born 1977 in Budapest; won Olympic gold at Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, one of six players with all three titles; also a lawyer.

Gerhard Armauer Hansen

Gerhard Armauer Hansen (1841–1912) was a Norwegian physician in Bergen who discovered the leprosy bacillus in 1873, the first microorganism shown to cause a chronic human disease.

Oct 20, 2026

Gerhard Auer

Gerhard Auer (1943–2019), German rower for West Germany, Ulmer RC Donau; member of the Bullenvierer coxed four, Olympic gold at Munich 1972 in 6:31.85, European champion 1969 and 1971, world champion 1970.

Gerhard Berger

Gerhard Berger, Austrian F1 driver 1984-1997, 210 GPs, 10 wins, 12 poles; Senna's McLaren teammate 1990-92; survived 1989 Imola fire; later BMW motorsport director, Toro Rosso co-owner, DTM head.

Sep 19, 2026

Gerhard Blum

Gerhard Blum, born 1954, is an Austrian family-business executive who led furniture-fittings maker Julius Blum GmbH in Höchst, Vorarlberg, from 1983 to 2019, growing revenue from about €74 million to €1.888 billion.

Gerhard C. Hegerfeldt

Gerhard C. Hegerfeldt is a theoretical physicist at the University of Göttingen best known for his 1974 theorem showing that strictly localized particles immediately develop probability tails arbitrarily far away.

Gerhard Christofori

Gerhard Christofori is a molecular and cancer biologist and professor emeritus at the University of Basel, known for showing that E-cadherin loss drives malignant progression and metastasis.

Gerhard Domagk

Gerhard Domagk was a German pathologist and bacteriologist who discovered the antibacterial effects of the red dye prontosil, opening the sulfonamide era of antibacterial chemotherapy.

Gerhard Dorda

Gerhard Dorda (1932–2025) was a German physicist who researched silicon MOS devices at Siemens in Munich and co-authored the 1980 paper reporting the quantum Hall effect.

Sep 20, 2026

Gerhard Erker

Gerhard Erker (born 1946) is a German organic and organometallic chemist, a long-time professor at the University of Münster known for frustrated Lewis pair chemistry, the metal-free activation of dihydrogen.

Gerhard Ertl

Gerhard Ertl, born 1936, is a German physical chemist at the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin who won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for surface chemistry.

Sep 24, 2026

Gerhard Friedrich Müller

Gerhard Friedrich Müller (Герхард Фридрих Миллер; 1705–1783) was a German-born historian and archivist in Russian service, a founder of Russian historical scholarship and Siberian studies.

Gerhard Gentzen

Gerhard Gentzen (Gerhard Karl Erich Gentzen, 1909–1945) was a German mathematician and logician who created natural deduction and the sequent calculus, the two main logical calculi in proof theory.

Gerhard Giebisch

Gerhard Giebisch (1927–2020) was an Austrian-born cellular physiologist who spent six decades at Yale working out how the kidney handles potassium, becoming Sterling Professor Emeritus.

Gerhard Groote

Gerhard Groote, also known as Geert Grote or Gerardus Magnus, was a Deventer deacon whose vernacular preaching launched the Devotio moderna reform movement; he died of plague in 1384.

Gerhard Grüß

Gerhard Christian Grüß (1902–1950) was a German mathematician who worked in differential geometry and the calculus of variations, and is known for the Grüss inequality of 1935.

Gerhard Gustmann

Gerhard Gustmann (1910–1992), German rower, Olympic gold medalist in coxed pairs at Berlin 1936 with Herbert Adamski and cox Dieter Arend; German champions 1936–39, European champions 1937.