All articles starting with G

Gerhard Vossius

Gerhard Vossius, born Gerard Vuskens (1547–1609), was a Catholic humanist and provost of Tongeren who spent most of his life in Rome editing the Church Fathers.

Sep 20, 2026

Gerhard Wagner (biophysicist)

Gerhard Wagner, born 1945, is a Harvard Medical School biophysicist known for protein NMR spectroscopy, where he has been a professor since 1990 and developed triple-resonance NMR methods.

Gerhard Wegner

Gerhard Wegner, born 1940, is a German polymer chemist known for the "hairy-rod" macromolecule design and for founding the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research.

Oct 20, 2026

Gerhard Weidner (1933-2021), West German race walker, three-time Olympian (1968-76), set world records at 20 miles, 30 miles, and 50 km in 1973-74, and was the oldest sport world record breaker at 41 years 71 days.

Gerhardt Attard

Gerhardt Attard is a medical oncologist, Professor at University College London, and Director of the UCL Cancer Institute since 2024, known for circulating tumor DNA research and abiraterone development in advanced prostate cancer.

Gerhart Friedlander

Gerhart Friedlander, born Gerhart Friedländer, was a German-born American nuclear chemist, a Manhattan Project veteran at Los Alamos who later chaired the Chemistry Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Gerhart Hauptmann

Gerhart Hauptmann was a German Naturalist dramatist whose 1889 play Before Dawn broke with nineteenth-century German drama; he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912.

Gerhart Lüders

Gerhart Lüders (1920–1995) was a German theoretical physicist who proved in 1954, and developed with Bruno Zumino in 1957, the CPT theorem, earning the 1966 Max Planck Medal.

Gerhart U. Ryffel

Gerhart U. Ryffel is a molecular and developmental biologist known for the Xenopus vitellogenin gene system as a model of steroid hormone control, and later HNF1 and HNF4.

Gerhoh of Reichersberg

Gerhoh of Reichersberg (Gerhoh von Reichersberg, 1093–1169) was an Austin canon regular and provost of Reichersberg abbey, one of twelfth-century Germany's most prolific theologians and reform polemicists.

Geri and Freki

Geri and Freki (Old Norse Geri ok Freki), Odin's two wolves in Norse mythology, named in Grímnismál 19 and Gylfaginning 38; both names mean 'greedy, ravenous,' and Odin feeds them all his food while living on wine alone.

Geri Halliwell

Geri Halliwell (Geri Halliwell-Horner), born 1972 in Watford, is Ginger Spice of the Spice Girls; after leaving in May 1998 she scored four UK No.1 solo singles and became a New York Times bestselling author with the Rosie Frost series.

Geri Jewell

Geri Jewell (Geraldine Ann Jewell, born 1956, Buffalo, NY) is an American comedian and actress with cerebral palsy, the first person with a visible disability in a recurring primetime TV role, as Cousin Geri on The Facts of Life (1980–84), later Jewel on HBO's Deadwood.

Geri McGee

Geri (Geraldine) McGee (1936-1982) was a Las Vegas showgirl and chip hustler, wife of Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal, and the real-life basis for Sharon Stone's Ginger McKenna in the 1995 film Casino.

Oct 20, 2026

Geriatric Anesthesia

Geriatric anesthesia: perioperative anesthetic care of older adults. Elderly patients need reduced anesthetic doses (about two-thirds at age 80), face 9-44% delirium risk, and randomized trials show spinal and general anesthesia are broadly equivalent for hip fracture surgery.

Sep 29, 2026

Geriatric Depression Scale

The Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) is a self-report questionnaire of yes/no items used to screen for depression in older adults, published in 1982 with a 30-item long form and a 15-item short form.

Geriatricians

Geriatricians: physicians specially trained in care of older adults (geriatric medicine, comprehensive geriatric assessment). Strongest evidence is better medication management; mortality benefit unproven; persistent workforce shortage.

Geriatrics

Geriatrics: medical specialty for older adults, defined by life stage. Founded clinically by Marjory Warren (1935, UK); core method is comprehensive geriatric assessment, shown to raise survival at home and cut nursing home admissions.

Gerim (גרים)

Gerim (גרים; singular ger, גר) are converts to Judaism in rabbinic usage, entering through giyur: acceptance of the commandments, circumcision for men, and mikveh immersion.

Gerin (crater on Iapetus)

Gerin is a 445-km impact crater (basin) on Saturn's moon Iapetus at 45.6°S, 233°W, named after a Twelve Peer from The Song of Roland, partially destroyed by the neighboring Engelier basin.

Geritol

Geritol: American supplement brand launched in 1950 as an iron and B-vitamin tonic for "tired blood"; famous 1950s TV ads, $812,000 FTC fine in 1965, now sold as a liquid and a 27-nutrient multivitamin.

Gerlache Strait

Gerlache Strait, also known as Belgica Strait, is a channel about 200 km long separating the Antarctic Peninsula from the Palmer Archipelago, first charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in 1898.

Gerlachsheim

Gerlachsheim, a village in the Tauber valley, now a district of Lauda-Königshofen, Baden-Württemberg; first recorded 1209 as Gerlagesheim, seat of an Alemannic noble family, and home of a Premonstratensian priory with a Baroque church of 1723-1730.

Germ cell

Germ cell: the cell type that develops into eggs or sperm; its lineage (germline) is set aside early via primordial germ cells, undergoes meiosis and epigenetic reprogramming, and underpins Weismann's germ-plasm theory and fertility research.

Germ cell tumor

Germ cell tumor: a benign or malignant neoplasm arising from sperm- or egg-precursor cells, occurring in the gonads or extragonadal sites. Classified by WHO into GCNIS-derived and non-GCNIS groups; includes seminoma, teratoma, yolk sac tumor, choriocarcinoma.