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Gershom Scholem
Gershom Scholem, born Gerhard Scholem (1897–1982), was a German-born Israeli scholar who founded the academic study of Jewish mysticism, treating Kabbalah as continuous with normative Judaism.
Gershon Kurizki
Gershon Kurizki, born 1952, is an Israeli theoretical quantum physicist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for identifying the anti-Zeno effect and proposing minimal quantum heat machines.
Gershwin A. Drain
Gershwin A. Drain, born 1949, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2012.
Gershwin Theatre
Gershwin Theatre, formerly the Uris Theatre (1972), is a Broadway house at 222 West 51st Street, New York, with 1,933 seats, Broadway's largest capacity; renamed for George and Ira Gershwin in 1983 and home of Wicked since 2003.
Gerson (footballer, born 1997)
Gerson Santos da Silva (born 1997, Belford Roxo), Brazilian left-footed central midfielder; 2019 Libertadores with Flamengo, Marseille, Zenit, then Cruzeiro in 2026 for a South American-record fee.
Gerson Lehrman Group
Gerson Lehrman Group is a privately held expert-network firm founded in New York City in 1998 that created the expert-network industry, connecting clients with experts through paid one-on-one consultations.
Gersonides
Gersonides (Levi ben Gerson, Ralbag, 1288–1344) was a Provençal Jewish philosopher, astronomer, and exegete, author of The War of the Lord, inventor of Jacob's staff, and proponent of limited divine knowledge of particulars.
Gerstmann syndrome
Gerstmann syndrome, also called angular gyrus syndrome, is a rare neuropsychological tetrad of finger agnosia, left-right disorientation, agraphia, and acalculia after dominant parietal lobe lesions, first described by Josef Gerstmann in 1924 and now explained by subcortical white matter disconnection.
Gerstmann–Sträussler–Scheinker syndrome
Gerstmann–Sträussler–Scheinker syndrome (GSS) is a rare autosomal dominant hereditary prion disease caused by PRNP mutations, first described in 1936, marked by multicentric PrP amyloid plaques, progressive cerebellar ataxia, and later dementia.
Gersuind family
Gersuind family: collisional asteroid family in the central main belt named for (686) Gersuind, highly inclined (sin i > 0.3), CX-complex, bounded by ν5 and ν16 resonances, estimated age about 1.4 Gyr.
Gert Cauwenberghs
Gert Cauwenberghs is a Belgian-trained engineer and Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering at UC San Diego who pioneered energy-efficient neuromorphic chips emulating the brain and co-founded the EEG company Cognionics.
Gert Ehrlich
Gert Ehrlich (1926–2012) was an Austrian-born American surface scientist at General Electric and the University of Illinois who first measured how individual metal atoms move across crystal surfaces, and the namesake of the Ehrlich–Schwoebel barrier.
Gert Fredriksson
Gert Fredriksson was a Swedish sprint kayaker who won six gold medals at four Olympic Games from 1948 to 1960, the most successful male canoeist in Olympic history.
Gert Fröbe
Gert Fröbe (Karl Gerhart Fröbe, 1913–1988) was a German actor, famed as the title villain of Goldfinger (1964), whose lines were dubbed by Michael Collins; earlier known for Berliner Ballade, Dr. Mabuse films, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Gert G. Wagner
Gert G. Wagner (1953–2024) was a German economist who directed the German Socio-Economic Panel for over two decades and chaired the executive board of DIW Berlin.
Gert H. Brieger
Gert H. Brieger was a German-born American physician and historian of medicine who led the Johns Hopkins Institute of the History of Medicine from 1984 to 2001.
Gert Heidler
Gert Heidler (born 1948) is a German former winger for SG Dynamo Dresden, five-time East German champion, and Olympic football gold medalist with East Germany at Montreal 1976.
Gert Potgieter
Gert Potgieter (Gerhardus Cornelius Potgieter, born 16 April 1937), South African 440-yard hurdles world record holder (three records, 1957-1960), 1958 Cardiff Commonwealth gold medalist, 1956 Olympic 400m hurdles finalist, later non-racial sport administrator.
Gert Sibande District Municipality
Gert Sibande District Municipality (GSDM), DC30, one of three district municipalities in Mpumalanga, South Africa, seat Ermelo; seven local municipalities, 31,841 km2, coal, gold, Sasol Secunda, four Eskom power stations, agriculture and forestry.
Gertie the Dinosaur
Gertie the Dinosaur, also known simply as Gertie, is Winsor McCay's 1914 American animated short film, the earliest animated film featuring a dinosaur and the first with a character of distinct personality, debuting as a vaudeville act before theatrical release.
Gertjan Medema
Gertjan Medema is a Dutch water microbiologist at KWR Water Research Institute and TU Delft, known for pioneering wastewater-based epidemiology and winning the 2024 Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize.
Gertjon Corona
Gertjon Corona is a 250 km diameter corona on Venus at 30°S, 276°E in the Themis Regio quadrangle (V-53), a concentric double ring feature named for a Teutonic fertility goddess, IAU-approved in 1991.
Gertrud Hurler
Gertrud Hurler, née Zach (1889–1965), was a German pediatrician in Munich whose 1920 paper gave the first widely cited description of Hurler syndrome, the severe form of MPS I.
Gertrud Kolmar
Gertrud Kolmar, pen name of Gertrud Käthe Chodziesner, was a German Jewish lyric poet who left about 450 poems and was murdered at Auschwitz in 1943.
Gertrud Kurz
Gertrud Kurz, née Hohl (1890–1972), was a Swiss Christian pacifist and refugee helper known nationwide as the "Flüchtlingsmutter" for her wartime aid to refugees and protests against Switzerland's border-closure policy.
Gertrud M. Schüpbach
Gertrud M. Schüpbach is a Swiss-born developmental geneticist at Princeton University whose work on fruit fly oogenesis uncovered the gurken and torpedo signaling genes, a ligand and receptor of the EGF receptor pathway.
Gertrud von Le Fort
Gertrud von Le Fort (1876–1971) was a German writer of novels, poems, and essays whose work joined the Renouveau catholique; her novella Die Letzte am Schafott inspired Bernanos' Dialogues des Carmélites.
Gertrude (crater on Titania)
Gertrude is a large impact crater on Titania, Uranus's largest moon. At 326 km wide it is Titania's largest known crater, named after Hamlet's mother in Shakespeare's play.
Gertrude B. Elion
Gertrude B. Elion was an American biochemist and pharmacologist who designed drugs from nucleic acid metabolism at Burroughs Wellcome, sharing the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Gertrude Bell
Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) was a British archaeologist, traveller, and Oriental Secretary in Iraq who helped install King Faisal, shape the borders of modern Iraq, write its Antiquities Law, and found the Iraq Museum.