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Gotse Delchev
Gotse Delchev, a revolutionary, shaped IMARO's fight for autonomy in Ottoman-ruled Macedonia. He died in battle in 1903 and is a national hero to both Bulgaria and North Macedonia.
Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser
Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser (Kaiserhymne, Volkshymne) is Joseph Haydn's 1797 imperial anthem, text by Lorenz Leopold Haschka for Franz II; Habsburg anthem to 1918, Austrian anthem 1929–1938, and melody of Germany's Deutschlandlied since 1922.
Gott mit uns
Gott mit uns ("God with us"), from Matthew 1:23, was the motto of the Prussian royal house from 1701 and of German emperors, inscribed on German soldiers' belt buckles from 1847 through both world wars until the Bundeswehr replaced it in 1962.
Götterdämmerung
Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods), WWV 86D, is Wagner's fourth and final Ring opera, premiered 17 August 1876 at Bayreuth; score completed 21 November 1874, originally conceived as Siegfrieds Tod.
Gottesman–Kitaev–Preskill (GKP) qubit
The Gottesman–Kitaev–Preskill (GKP) qubit, proposed in 2001 by Gottesman, Kitaev, and Preskill, encodes a logical qubit in a harmonic oscillator and is now realized in trapped ions and superconducting circuits.
Gottesman–Knill theorem
The Gottesman–Knill theorem is a result in quantum information theory stating that quantum circuits made only of Clifford gates can be simulated efficiently on a classical computer.
Gottfrid Svartholm
Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, known online as anakata, is a Swedish programmer who co-founded The Pirate Bay, and was convicted of copyright infringement in 2009 and hacking in 2013.
Gottfried Benn
Gottfried Benn (1886–1956) was a German physician, poet, and essayist who won notoriety with Morgue (1912), supported the Nazis in 1933, and was banned from publishing in 1938.
Gottfried Diener
Gottfried Diener (1926–2015), Swiss bobsledder of the Zürcher Bob Club; won four-man gold at the 1956 Cortina Winter Olympics and World titles in 1954 and 1955; later IAU crossbow president 1965–1999.
Gottfried Dohn
Gottfried Döhn (Dohn, Doehn), East German rower born 1951 in Dresden, won Olympic gold in the eights at Montreal 1976 and coxed fours at Moscow 1980, plus world titles in 1975, 1977, and 1978.
Gottfried Fraenkel
Gottfried Fraenkel (1901–1984) was a German-born entomologist and insect physiologist, professor at the University of Illinois, known for insect nutrition, the hormone bursicon, and founding chemical ecology.
Gottfried Haberler
Gottfried Haberler, born Gottfried von Haberler, was an Austrian-born economist at Harvard who gave comparative advantage its modern opportunity-cost formulation and wrote Prosperity and Depression (1937).
Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim
Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim (1594–1632), imperial field marshal of the Thirty Years' War, commander of the 'Pappenheimer' cuirassiers, stormer of Magdeburg 1631, mortally wounded at Lützen; namesake of Schiller's proverbial phrase and the Pappenheimer helmet.
Gottfried Keller
Gottfried Keller (1819–1890) was a Swiss novelist and poet of German expression, born and died in Zürich, best known for Der grüne Heinrich and Die Leute von Seldwyla.
Gottfried Köthe
Gottfried Köthe (1905–1989) was a German mathematician and Nestor of functional analysis in Germany, known for sequence space theory, the Köthe–Toeplitz dual, and the monograph Topological Vector Spaces.
Gottfried Menken
Gottfried Menken (1768–1831) was a German Reformed pastor and theologian in Bremen, known far beyond the city for Bible-centered preaching; his 24 Elijah homilies helped renew verse-by-verse homilies in the 19th century.
Gottfried Otting
Gottfried Otting is an Australian-based biomolecular NMR spectroscopist and Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University, known for protein hydration studies and lanthanide tagging for determining protein structures by NMR.
Gottfried Schatz
Gottfried Schatz (1936–2015) was an Austrian-born biochemist who co-discovered mitochondrial DNA in 1964, worked out how proteins are imported into mitochondria, and taught at the University of Basel.
Gottfried Ungerboeck
Gottfried Ungerboeck is an Austrian communications engineer, the inventor of trellis-coded modulation, who worked at IBM Zurich and Broadcom and received the Marconi Prize in 1996.
Gottfried von Strassburg
Gottfried von Strassburg was a Middle High German poet who died around 1210, known only as the author of Tristan, a courtly romance retelling the Tristan and Isolde legend.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) was a German philosopher and mathematician who invented calculus independently of Newton and built one of the first calculators able to multiply and divide.
Gotthard
Gotthard is a Swiss hard rock band from Lugano, formed in 1990, one of Switzerland's most successful rock acts with 17 Swiss number-one albums and more than 3.5 million records sold.
Gotthard Base Tunnel
The Gotthard Base Tunnel is a 57 km twin-tube railway tunnel under the Swiss Alps, the world's longest, running from Erstfeld to Bodio and opened in 2016.
Gotthard Handrick
Gotthard Handrick (Karl Hermann Gotthard Handrick, 1908-1978), German modern pentathlete and Luftwaffe officer; won gold at Berlin 1936, first non-Swedish Olympic champion in the sport, later Legion Condor pilot and Daimler-Benz representative.
Gotthard Heinrici
Gotthard Heinrici (1886-1971) was a German Generaloberst, the Wehrmacht's leading defensive specialist, commanding the 4th Army and Army Group Vistula; his diaries, edited by Johannes Hürter, document the German war of annihilation in the Soviet Union.
Gotthard Railway
The Gotthard Railway is the Swiss north–south railway across the Alps, opened in 1882 with a 15 km summit tunnel and supplemented since 2016 by the world's longest railway tunnel.
Gotthard Road Tunnel
The Gotthard Road Tunnel (German: Gotthard-Strassentunnel) is a 16.9-kilometer single-tube motorway tunnel in Switzerland carrying the A2 beneath the Gotthard Pass between Göschenen and Airolo. Opened in 1980, it was the world's longest road tunnel.
Gotthard Road Tunnel fire (2001)
The Gotthard Road Tunnel fire was a collision and blaze on 24 October 2001 in Switzerland's 17-kilometer Gotthard tunnel, killing 11 people and reshaping tunnel safety policy.
Gotthard Road Tunnel fire and structural damage
The Gotthard Road Tunnel fire was a 2001 HGV collision and fire in Switzerland's transalpine road tunnel that killed 11 people and closed the tunnel for two months.
Gotthard Tunnel
The Gotthard Tunnel is a Swiss railway tunnel through the Alps: the 15 km summit tunnel opened in 1882, joined by the 57 km Gotthard Base Tunnel in 2016.