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Germiyanids
The Germiyanids (Germiyan-oğulları) were an Anatolian Turkmen beylik based at Kutahya in western Anatolia, ruled from about 1300 by Yakub Bey and bequeathed to the Ottomans in 1429.
Germplasm
Germplasm is the genetic material forming the physical basis of heredity, passed down by germ cells; in agriculture it covers plant seeds, tubers, tissue cultures, and DNA used for breeding.
Germs (band)
Germs: Los Angeles punk band (active 1976/1977–1980) of Darby Crash, Pat Smear, Lorna Doom, and Don Bolles, known for the 1979 Joan Jett-produced album (GI) on Slash and chaotic shows.
Gernot Döllner
Gernot Döllner (born 1969) is a German engineer and business executive who has been chairman of the board of management of AUDI AG since September 2023.
Gernot Frenking
Gernot Frenking is a theoretical chemist and professor emeritus at Philipps University of Marburg, known for energy decomposition analysis and bonding studies of unusual molecules.
Gernsheim
Gernsheim (Schöfferstadt), town in Kreis Groß-Gerau, Hesse, Germany, on the Rhine; first recorded 852, town rights 1356, birthplace of Peter Schöffer, and site of a Roman cohort fort (70/80–110/120 AD) and vicus.
Gero
Gero (ゲロ) is a Japanese male vocalist and utaite who rose from posting cover songs on Nico Nico Douga to a major-label career, debuting in 2013 with the BROTHERS CONFLICT opening theme.
Gero Cross
The Gero Cross (Gerokreuz), also called the Gero Crucifix, is a monumental oak crucifix in Cologne Cathedral, carved around 965–970 and probably commissioned by Archbishop Gero of Cologne.
Gero Miesenböck
Gero Miesenböck, born 1965 in Upper Austria, is an Austrian neuroscientist and Waynflete Professor of Physiology at Oxford who established optogenetics, controlling neurons with light.
Geroderma osteodysplastica
Geroderma osteodysplastica (GO, OMIM 231070, Walt Disney dwarfism), a rare autosomal recessive GORAB-related cutis laxa syndrome with wrinkled skin, progeroid face, joint laxity, and severe osteoporosis with fractures.
Gerolamo Cardano
Gerolamo Cardano, also Girolamo Cardano, was an Italian physician, mathematician, and astrologer whose 1545 Ars Magna gave the first published solutions of cubic and quartic equations.
Geroland
Geroland (جيرولاند) is a family theme park in El Obour City, Cairo Governorate, Egypt, opened in the 1990s as a 42-hectare park; known for classic rides, a Boomerang coaster, and later decline.
Gerold Bepler
Gerold Bepler is a German-educated thoracic oncologist specializing in lung cancer, known for research on RRM1 and ERCC1 as biomarkers for non-small-cell lung cancer treatment.
Gerold L. Schiebler
Gerold L. Schiebler (1928–2024) was an American pediatric cardiologist at the University of Florida who chaired its pediatrics department and built Florida's Children's Medical Services program.
Gerold Schubiger
Gerold Schubiger is a developmental biologist and professor at the University of Washington, known for research on cell cycle control and regeneration in the fruit fly Drosophila.
Gerold Schuler
Gerold Schuler is an Austrian-born dermatologist and immunologist known for discovering dendritic cell maturation and for developing dendritic cell vaccines against cancer at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen in Germany.
Gerold Schwarzenbach
Gerold Schwarzenbach (1904–1978) was a Swiss chemist, professor at the University of Zürich and then ETH Zürich, who founded complexometric EDTA titration and defined the chelate effect.
Gerold Stucki
Gerold Stucki, born 1959, is a Swiss physician-scientist, professor at the University of Lucerne and director of Swiss Paraplegic Research, known for proposing functioning as a third health indicator alongside mortality and morbidity.
Gerold Wefer
Gerold Wefer, born 1944, is a German marine geologist and paleoceanographer who became professor at the University of Bremen in 1985, founded MARUM, and won the 2001 Communicator-Preis.
Gerome Ragni
Gerome Ragni (1935 or 1942–1991), Pittsburgh-born American actor and lyricist, co-wrote with James Rado the book and lyrics of Hair (1967), the first Broadway rock musical, with music by Galt MacDermot, playing Berger.
Geronimo
Geronimo (Goyahkla, 'one who yawns', c. 1829–1909) was a Bedonkohe medicine man and war leader of the Chiricahua Apache, not a chief, who led decades of resistance in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and made the final Native American surrender to the U.S. Army in September 1886.
Geronimo (Sheppard song)
"Geronimo" is a 2014 single by Australian indie-pop band Sheppard, written by George and Amy Sheppard with Jason Bovino and produced by Stuart Stuart. It spent three weeks at number one on the ARIA chart, was certified 5× Platinum, and peaked at #53 in the US and #36 in the UK.
Geronimo Campaign
The Geronimo Campaign, the final U.S. Army operation of the Apache Wars, was a pursuit of Geronimo across Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico ending with his 1886 surrender.
Geronimo Pratt
Elmer "Geronimo" ji Jaga Pratt (1947-2011), Black Panther Party leader in Los Angeles, wrongly imprisoned 27 years for a 1968 murder; conviction overturned in 1997 over concealed informant evidence, $4.5 million settlement followed.
Gerónimo Rulli
Gerónimo Rulli (born 1992, La Plata) is an Argentine goalkeeper, 2022 World Cup and 2024 Copa América winner, 2021 Europa League final hero with Villarreal, who joined Manchester City from Marseille in August 2026.
Geronimo Stilton
Geronimo Stilton is an Italian children's book series created by Elisabetta Dami in 2000 about a timid mouse journalist, editor of The Rodent's Gazette in New Mouse City. Over 187 million copies in 52 languages; US publisher Scholastic.
Geronimo: An American Legend
Geronimo: An American Legend is a 1993 American Western drama directed by Walter Hill. It dramatizes the final campaign against the Chiricahua Apache leader Geronimo, starring Wes Studi.
Geronimus Hatt
Geronimus Hatt, also known as Jérôme IV Hatt, was a Strasbourg cooper-brewer who became a master brewer in 1664 and founded the brewery that became Kronenbourg.
Geronisos
Geronisos (Yeronisos, Γερόνησος), "Sacred Island," a small islet off western Cyprus near Agios Georgios Pegeias; a Ptolemaic garrison and Apollo sanctuary under Cleopatra VII, excavated by NYU since 1990.
Gerontion
Gerontion is a 75-line poem by T. S. Eliot, written in 1919 and published in 1920, taking the voice of an old man meditating on history.