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Gilbert Di Paolo
Gilbert Di Paolo is a Swiss-trained neuroscientist and cell biologist who earned a Ph.D. at Lausanne in 1998, taught at Columbia, and leads neurodegeneration research at Denali Therapeutics.
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834), French aristocrat and major general in the Continental Army; wounded at Brandywine, secured 6,000 French troops, led the 1781 Virginia campaign, drafted the Declaration of the Rights of Man, and toured all 24 U.S. states in 1824-25.
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (1845–1914), was a British aristocrat and colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of Canada from 1898 to 1904 and as Viceroy of India.
Gilbert F. White
Gilbert F. White (1911–2006) was an American geographer known as the father of floodplain management, who reshaped United States flood policy away from dams and levees.
Gilbert Froment
Gilbert Froment, born 1930, is a Belgian chemical reaction engineer known for modeling catalytic reactors in petroleum refining and petrochemicals, and a Texas A&M research professor.
Gilbert George Lonzarich
Gilbert George Lonzarich is a physicist at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge whose 1994 observation of pressure-induced superconductivity in CeIn3 gave the first strong evidence that magnetic fluctuations can mediate superconducting pairing.
Gilbert Gottfried
Gilbert Gottfried (1955-2022), American stand-up comedian and voice actor, famed for his screeching voice as Iago in Aladdin and the Aflac duck, and for boundary-pushing jokes including the first public 9/11 joke.
Gilbert Gratiant
Gilbert Gratiant (1895–1985) was a Martinican poet and prose writer who wrote in both Creole and French, best known for the Creole fable collection Fab' Compè Zicaque.
Gilbert Gray
Gilbert T. Gray (1902–1981) was an American sailor from New Orleans who won Olympic gold in the Star class at the 1932 Los Angeles Games, skippering Jupiter with Andrew Libano; not the sprinter Glenroy Gilbert.
Gilbert Islands
Gilbert Islands: 16 low-lying coral atolls in central Micronesia, westernmost group of Kiribati (independent 1979), including capital atoll Tarawa and outlier Banaba; over 90% of Kiribati's population lives there.
Gilbert Islands campaign
The Gilbert Islands campaign was a United States amphibious operation of November 1943, code-named Operation Galvanic, that seized the Japanese-held atolls of Tarawa, Makin, and Apamama.
Gilbert Laws
Gilbert Umfreville Laws (1870-1918), British yacht designer and sailor; won 1908 Olympic gold as helmsman of Dormy, which he designed, in the 6-metre class; founded Burnham Boat Building Company.
Gilbert Melendez
Gilbert Melendez, "El Niño", American MMA lightweight; first WEC 155-pound champion (2004) and two-time Strikeforce champion (1,869 days), later a two-time UFC title challenger who lost to Henderson and Pettis and left the UFC in 2019.
Gilbert Morgan Smith
Gilbert Morgan Smith (1885–1959) was an American botanist at Stanford University who specialized in algae and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1948.
Gilbert Murray
Gilbert Murray (George Gilbert Aimé Murray, 1866–1957), Australian-born Oxford Regius Professor of Greek 1908–1936, translator of Euripides, League of Nations Union chairman 1922–1938, Intellectual Cooperation chairman 1928–1951, and Oxfam co-founder.
Gilbert N. Lewis
Gilbert N. Lewis, also known as Gilbert Newton Lewis, was an American physical chemist at Berkeley who created Lewis structures, the electron-pair bond, and Lewis acids and bases.
Gilbert O'Sullivan
Gilbert O'Sullivan, real name Raymond Edward O'Sullivan (born 1946, Waterford), Irish singer-songwriter behind "Alone Again (Naturally)", six UK number ones, the 1982 £7m royalties judgment, and the 1991 Biz Markie sample-clearance case.
Gilbert R. Thompson
Gilbert R. Thompson (G. R. Thompson; 1932–2026) was a British physician and Professor of Clinical Lipidology at Imperial College London who pioneered plasma exchange and LDL apheresis for familial hypercholesterolaemia.
Gilbert Rivers Upchurch Jr.
Gilbert Rivers Upchurch Jr. is an American vascular surgeon, chair of surgery at the University of Florida and a 2021 member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Gilbert Roberts
Sir Gilbert Roberts (1899–1978) was a British civil engineer who led the superstructure design of the Forth Road, Severn, and Humber suspension bridges, patenting the Severn's aerofoil box deck.
Gilbert Roland
Gilbert Roland (Luis Antonio Dámaso de Alonso, 1905-1994), Mexican-born Hollywood actor from silent films to Barbarosa (1982), famous as the Cisco Kid and for Golden Globe-nominated roles in The Bad and the Beautiful and Cheyenne Autumn.
Gilbert Ryle
Gilbert Ryle (1900–1976), British Oxford philosopher, Waynflete Professor 1945–1968 and Mind editor 1947–1972; author of The Concept of Mind (1949), which attacked Cartesian dualism as the 'ghost in the machine' via the category mistake, and distinguished knowing-how from knowing-that.
Gilbert S. Omenn
Gilbert S. Omenn is an American physician-scientist and geneticist at the University of Michigan whose 1996 CARET trial showed beta carotene supplements raise lung cancer risk in smokers.
Gilbert Sheldon
Gilbert Sheldon (1598–1677) was an English churchman, Bishop of London from 1660 and Archbishop of Canterbury from 1663, who led the restoration of the Church of England and the 1662 Act of Uniformity.
Gilbert Stanley Underwood
Gilbert Stanley Underwood (1890-1960/61), American architect of National Park Service rustic lodges: Ahwahnee Hotel, Bryce Canyon, Zion, Grand Canyon, Timberline, Sun Valley, and Jackson Lake lodges, plus federal buildings.
Gilbert Stengle
Gilbert Stengle (1933–2010) was an American mathematician at Lehigh University known for the 1974 Krivine–Stengle Positivstellensatz, a certificate for polynomial positivity that underlies sum-of-squares optimization.
Gilbert Stork
Gilbert Stork was a Belgian-born American organic chemist at Columbia University whose methods for stereochemical control reshaped synthesis, including the Stork enamine alkylation and the first stereoselective quinine synthesis.
Gilbert Strait
Gilbert Strait, also called Davies Gilbert Strait or estrecho Gilbert, is an Antarctic strait between Trinity and Tower Islands in the Palmer Archipelago at 63°38'S 60°16'W, named in 1828-31 for Royal Society president Davies Gilbert.
Gilbert Strang
Gilbert Strang is an American mathematician at MIT known for work in numerical analysis, linear algebra, and partial differential equations, and for his widely watched linear algebra lectures.
Gilbert Stuart
Gilbert Stuart (1755–1828), American portrait painter from Rhode Island, trained under Benjamin West in London and painted over 1,100 portraits; his unfinished 1796 Athenaeum portrait of George Washington appears on the U.S. one-dollar bill.