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Gerhard Heer

Gerhard Heer (born 1955, Tauberbischofsheim) is a German former épée fencer who won team épée gold for West Germany at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and later ran a photo shop.

Gerhard Herzberg

Gerhard Herzberg was a German-Canadian physical chemist at the National Research Council of Canada who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on free radicals.

Gerhard Hessenberg

Gerhard Hessenberg was a German mathematician who proved in 1905 that Pappus' theorem implies Desargues' theorem, and introduced the natural sum of ordinals in set theory.

Gerhard Hetz

Gerhard Hetz (1942–2012), West German swimmer and coach, set two 400 m individual medley world records (4:53.8 in 1962, 4:50.2 in 1963), won 1964 Olympic silver and bronze, and coached Rainer Henkel.

Gerhard Hochschild

Gerhard Hochschild (1915–2010) was a German-American mathematician who created Hochschild cohomology, did foundational work on Lie and algebraic groups, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1979.

Gerhard Hummer

Gerhard Hummer (born 1966) is an Austrian theoretical biophysicist who has directed the Department of Theoretical Biophysics at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt since 2013.

Gerhard Klebe

Gerhard Klebe is a German chemist and structural biologist, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at the Philipps-Universität Marburg from 1996 to 2020, known for structure-based drug design and co-founding BioSolveIT.

Gerhard Klopfer

Gerhard Klopfer (1905–1987), German jurist, SS-Gruppenführer, and Party Chancellery official under Martin Bormann; Wannsee Conference participant who represented the NSDAP Party Chancellery and never faced conviction.

Gerhard L. Closs

Gerhard L. Closs, born Gerhard Ludwig Closs, was a German-born American physical organic chemist at the University of Chicago known for carbene chemistry and the radical-pair interpretation of CIDNP.

Gerhard Levy

Gerhard Levy (1928–2017) was a German-born American pharmaceutics scientist and pioneer of pharmacokinetics who taught at the University at Buffalo from 1958 to 2000.

Gerhard Ludwig Müller

Gerhard Ludwig Müller is a German cardinal who served as Bishop of Regensburg and as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 2012 to 2017.

Gerhard M. Sessler

Gerhard M. Sessler, born 1931 in Rosenfeld, Germany, is a German physicist who co-invented the foil electret microphone with James West at Bell Labs in 1962.

Gerhard Meissner

Gerhard Meissner (1937–2021) was a German-born biochemist and biophysicist at UNC Chapel Hill known for purifying and reconstituting the ryanodine receptor, the skeletal muscle calcium release channel.

Gerhard Neumann

Gerhard Neumann (1917–1997) was a German-American aviation engineer and General Electric executive who invented the variable stator compressor behind the J79 turbojet and led GE's aircraft engine business from 1961 to 1978.

Gerhard Opelz

Gerhard Opelz is an Austrian transplantation immunologist who led transplantation immunology at the University of Heidelberg from 1981 to 2015 and founded the Collaborative Transplant Study in 1982.

Gerhard Rauschen

Gerhard Rauschen (1854–1917) was a German Catholic priest and church historian at the University of Bonn, founder of the Florilegium Patristicum and author of the Grundriss der Patrologie.

Gerhard Rempe

Gerhard Rempe, born 1956 in Bottrop, is a German physicist who pioneered cavity quantum electrodynamics with single atoms and led the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics from 1999.

Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter is a German painter born in 1932. He is known for his blurred photo-paintings and squeegee abstractions, and received the Golden Lion in 1997.

Gerhard Ringel

Gerhard Ringel (October 28, 1919 – 2008) was an Austrian-born mathematician at UC Santa Cruz, a leader in graph theory best known for proving the Heawood map-coloring conjecture with Youngs in 1968.

Gerhard Schiller

Gerhard Schiller (born 1949, Stuttgart), German freestyle swimmer for SSF Bonn; 1972 Munich Olympian, 1970 and 1974 European relay medalist, West German 100 m record holder, later record-setting masters swimmer.

Gerhard Schmidt (biochemist)

Gerhard Schmidt (1901–1981) was a German-born American biochemist who spent over forty years at Tufts University School of Medicine, known for the Schmidt–Thannhauser method for measuring DNA and RNA.

Gerhard Schramm

Gerhard Schramm (1910–1969) was a German biochemist at the Max Planck Institute for Virus Research in Tübingen who showed in 1956 that RNA is tobacco mosaic virus's genetic material.

Gerhard Schröder

Gerhard Schröder (born 1944, Mossenberg), SPD politician, seventh German chancellor 1998–2005 and Lower Saxony premier 1990–1998; known for Agenda 2010/Hartz reforms, Iraq War refusal, and post-office Russian energy roles.

Gerhard Schüler

Gerhard Schüler, also spelled Gerhard Schuler, is a German cardiologist and long-serving clinic director at the Herzzentrum Leipzig, known for the IABP-SHOCK II cardiogenic shock trial.

Gerhard Steinbeck

Gerhard Steinbeck, born 1946 in Göttingen, is a German cardiologist known for trials on arrhythmias and risk stratification after myocardial infarction, including the IRIS trial.

Gerhard Stock

Gerhard Stock (born 1962) is a German theoretical physicist who holds the Chair of Theoretical Physics at the University of Freiburg and leads its Biomolecular Dynamics group.

Gerhard Sturm

Gerhard Sturm (born 1934) is a German industrialist who co-founded Elektrobau Mulfingen in 1963 and led it for over 40 years as it grew into ebm-papst, a leading fan and motor maker.

Gerhard Tersteegen

Gerhard Tersteegen (1697–1769) was a German Reformed lay theologian, hymn writer, and translator of the Pietist Quiet in the Land, based in Mülheim, who wrote 111 hymns still sung today.

Gerhard Thomsen

Gerhard Thomsen (1899–1934) was a German differential geometer, born in Hamburg and professor at Rostock, known for the (9₃) configuration named after him and a noted 1933 lecture on mathematics under the Nazi regime.

Gerhard von Zezschwitz

Karl Adolf Gerhard von Zezschwitz (1825–1886) was a German Lutheran theologian and professor of practical theology at Erlangen, remembered as one of the three great Erlangen practical theologians of his century.