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Graeme Meintjes

Graeme Meintjes is a South African infectious-diseases physician, Professor of Medicine at the University of Cape Town, known for research on HIV-associated tuberculosis and cryptococcal meningitis.

Graeme Moad

Graeme Moad is an Australian chemist and CSIRO Fellow who co-invented RAFT polymerization at CSIRO in 1996, a controlled radical technique used by over 100 companies worldwide, and was elected to the Royal Society in 2023.

Graeme Obree

Graeme Obree, 'The Flying Scotsman', Scottish cyclist born 1965; twice broke the world hour record (51.596 km in 1993, 52.713 km in 1994) on his homemade bike Old Faithful, won world pursuit titles in 1993 and 1995, and had his tuck and Superman positions banned by the UCI.

Graeme Parker

Graeme Parker, born 1982, known as The Hoof GP, is a Scottish cattle hoof trimmer from Wigtown whose YouTube channel, launched in 2019, became the largest agricultural channel on YouTube.

Graeme Segal

Graeme Segal is an Australian-born mathematician working in algebraic topology and quantum field theory, known for the Segal conjecture, Segal spaces, and the Chern Medal in 2026.

Graeme Smith

Graeme Craig Smith (born 1981), South African left-handed opening batter; captain in a record 109 Tests with 53 wins, 9,265 Test runs at 48.25, ICC Hall of Fame 2025.

Graeme Souness

Graeme Souness, born 1953, Scottish midfielder and manager; Liverpool captain 1982-84 winning five league titles and three European Cups; later Rangers player-manager, Liverpool manager, and Sky Sports pundit.

Graeme Stephens

Graeme L. Stephens is an Australian atmospheric scientist known for research on clouds, radiation, and climate, and for creating and leading NASA's CloudSat satellite mission.

Graeme Swann

Graeme Swann (born 1979, Northampton), English off-spin bowler; 60 Tests, 255 wickets for England 2008-2013; three Ashes wins, 2010 World T20; retired mid-Ashes December 2013; later pundit and England Lions spin coach.

Graeme W. Davis

Graeme W. Davis is a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco, known for establishing homeostatic synaptic plasticity, the study of how neurons stabilize their function.

Graeme Wistow

Graeme J. Wistow is a molecular biologist at the US National Eye Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, known for gene sharing, lens crystallin structure, and NEIBank.

Grænlendinga saga

Grænlendinga saga (the Saga of the Greenlanders) is a medieval Icelandic saga, usually dated to the early thirteenth century, describing the Norse settlement of Greenland and their voyages to Vinland.

GRAF, BAR domain

GRAF BAR domain: the crescent-shaped Bin/amphiphysin/Rvs module of GRAF family RhoGAPs (GRAF1/ARHGAP26, GRAF2, GRAF3, oligophrenin-1), a BAR-PH unit that senses curvature, tubulates CLIC/GEEC endocytic membranes, and inhibits GAP activity.

Grafana

Grafana is an open-source data visualization and observability platform developed by Grafana Labs that turns metrics, logs, and traces from sources like Prometheus into interactive dashboards.

Grafana Labs

Grafana Labs is an American software company founded in 2014 by Raj Dutt, Torkel Ödegaard, and Anthony Woods to develop the Grafana open source observability platform.

Grafenrheinfeld nuclear power plant

Grafenrheinfeld nuclear power plant (KKG) was a German nuclear power station in Bavaria that ran a pressurized water reactor from 1982 until 2015 and is now being dismantled.

Grafenworth

Grafenworth (Grafenwörth) is a market municipality in Lower Austria, postal code 3484, home of football club USC Grafenwörth, founded 1949, refounded 1966, playing in the 2. Klasse Wachau/Donau.

Graff (Martian crater)

Graff is a large impact crater on Mars, Gazetteer feature ID 2234, about 154-158 km across, centered near -21.18°, 153.81° E; named for German astronomer Kasimir Graff (1878-1950), IAU-approved 1973.

Graffiti

Graffiti is the often unauthorized spraying or scratching of words or images on public surfaces; the modern movement emerged around 1965 in Philadelphia and New York and spread worldwide in the 1980s.

Graffiti (Chris Brown album)

Graffiti is Chris Brown's third studio album, released December 8, 2009 on Jive Records after his assault of Rihanna. It peaked at number 7 on the Billboard 200, earned a Metascore of 39, and was later certified RIAA Gold.

Graffiti Bridge (album)

Graffiti Bridge is Prince's twelfth studio album and soundtrack to his 1990 film, released August 1990 on Paisley Park/Warner Bros. A 17-track set with The Time, Tevin Campbell, Mavis Staples, and George Clinton, it hit number 1 in the UK and number 6 on the Billboard 200.

Graffito of Esmet-Akhom

The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom is a bilingual hieroglyphic and Demotic inscription carved at Philae on 24 August 394 AD, regarded as the last securely dated hieroglyphic inscription.

Grafite

Grafite (Edinaldo Batista Libânio, born 1979) is a Brazilian former striker who won the 2008/09 Bundesliga with VfL Wolfsburg, scoring 28 goals as top scorer, and was German Footballer of the Year 2009.

Graft copolymer

A graft copolymer is a branched copolymer whose side chains, differing from the main backbone, are covalently attached along it; ABS plastic is a common example.

Graft copolymerization

Graft copolymerization chemically attaches side chains of one monomer onto a preformed polymer backbone to modify properties like wettability and fouling resistance, using routes called grafting-from, grafting-onto, and grafting-through.

Graft polymerization

Graft polymerization is a polymer synthesis method in which side chains are grown from or attached to a polymer backbone, tuning surface wettability, antifouling behavior, and biocompatibility.

Graft Survival

Graft survival is the persistence of a transplanted organ's function in a recipient, measured by Kaplan-Meier or death-censored estimates; rejection, HLA mismatch, and donor type are key determinants.

Graft urethroplasty

Graft urethroplasty is a urological technique that repairs long or recurrent urethral strictures by sewing in a free graft, most often buccal mucosa from the inside of the cheek.

Graft-chimaera

Graft-chimaera: a plant with genetically distinct tissues from two graft partners, also called graft chimera. Adam's laburnum (+Laburnocytisus adami, 1825) is the classic example; Winkler produced the first artificial ones in 1907.

Graft-versus-host disease

Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD): donor T cells from an allogeneic hematopoietic transplant attack recipient skin, gut, bile ducts, and lymph nodes; classified acute or chronic by NIH clinical criteria, treated with steroids, ruxolitinib, and newer prophylaxis.