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Gregory S. Vassell
Gregory S. Vassell (1921–2016) was an American power systems engineer who planned American Electric Power's 765-kV transmission network and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1980.
Gregory Scarpa
Gregory Scarpa Sr. (1928–1994), "the Grim Reaper," Colombo crime family capo and FBI informant from 1962, linked to the 1964 Mississippi civil-rights case, the 1991–93 Colombo war, and the Devecchio trial.
Gregory Shwartzman
Gregory Shwartzman (1896–1965) was a Russian-born American bacteriologist at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York who described the Shwartzman phenomenon, a two-injection skin reaction, in 1928.
Gregory Sierra
Gregory Sierra (1937-2021), American character actor of Puerto Rican descent; Julio Fuentes on Sanford and Son and Sgt. Chano Amenguale in the original Barney Miller cast; also Soap, Hill Street Blues, Miami Vice.
Gregory Smith (actor)
Gregory Edward Smith, Canadian-American actor, writer, and director born 1983 in Toronto; played Ephram Brown on Everwood (2002-06) and Dov Epstein on Rookie Blue (2010-15), later a TV director; distinct from other Gregory Smiths.
Gregory Sonnenberg
Gregory F. Sonnenberg is an American immunologist at Weill Cornell Medicine whose laboratory studies innate lymphoid cells, T cells, and the microbiota in intestinal immunity, colon cancer, and immunotherapy resistance.
Gregory Steinberg
Gregory R. Steinberg is a Canadian metabolism researcher and professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, co-directing its metabolism research center and known for work on AMPK and metformin.
Gregory Stephanopoulos
Gregory Stephanopoulos, born in Greece in 1950, is a chemical engineer and W. H. Dow Professor at MIT, credited with founding metabolic engineering and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003.
Gregory Stock
Gregory Stock is an American biophysicist and biotech entrepreneur known for advocating human genetic enhancement, directing a UCLA medicine and technology program, and writing Redesigning Humans, which won the Kistler Book Prize.
Gregory T. Armstrong
Gregory T. Armstrong, known as Greg Armstrong, is an American pediatric oncologist and epidemiologist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, principal investigator of the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study.
Gregory Thaumaturgus
Gregory Thaumaturgus, also called Gregory the Wonderworker and originally named Theodore, was a third-century bishop of Neocaesarea in Pontus, converted by Origen, who died around 270.
Gregory the Illuminator (Գրիգոր Լուսավորիչ)
Gregory the Illuminator (Grigor Lusavorich) is the saint the Armenian Church venerates as the converter of King Trdat and the first patriarch of Armenia, ordained around 314.
Gregory Tsamblak
Gregory Tsamblak (Григорий Цамблак), born around 1364/1365 probably in Tarnovo, was a Bulgarian churchman, diplomat, and writer of the Tarnovo literary school who served as Metropolitan of Kiev from 1415 until his death in winter 1419/20.
Gregory V
Gregory V (Γρηγόριος Ε΄), born Georgios Angelopoulos, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in three terms, hanged by Ottoman order during the Greek Revolution of 1821.
Gregory V. Lowry
Gregory V. Lowry, also published as Greg Lowry, is an American environmental engineer at Carnegie Mellon University known for research on engineered nanomaterials in water, soil, and plants.
Gregory van der Wiel
Gregory van der Wiel (born 1988, Amsterdam) is a retired Dutch right back: Ajax academy product (191 appearances), PSG 2012–16 with four straight Ligue 1 titles, Fenerbahçe, Cagliari, Toronto FC; 46 Netherlands caps including the 2010 World Cup final; retired 2021 after mental health struggles.
Gregory VI (Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople)
Gregory VI, born Georgios Fourtouniadis (1798 to 1881), was twice Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, deposed in 1840 and resigning in 1871 over the Bulgarian church question.
Gregory VI (pope)
Gregory VI, born Giovanni Graziano (John Gratian), was pope from 1045 to 1046; he bought the office from Benedict IX and was deposed at Sutri in 1046.
Gregory VII
Gregory VII, born Gregorios Zervoudakis, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from December 1923 until his death in November 1924, issuing the Tomos of 1924 granting autocephaly to the Church of Poland.
Gregory W. Albers
Gregory W. Albers is a vascular neurologist at Stanford University, director of its Stroke Center since 1992, whose DEFUSE 3 trial helped extend stroke treatment to 24 hours.
Gregory W. Wornell
Gregory W. Wornell is an American electrical engineer on the MIT faculty since 1991, known for digital watermarking and cooperative wireless diversity, and a Fellow of the IEEE.
Gregory Wannier
Gregory Wannier was a physicist whose name attaches to foundational objects of solid-state physics: Wannier functions, Wannier excitons, the Stark ladder, and Kramers–Wannier duality.
Gregory Winter
Gregory Winter, also known as Greg Winter, is a British biochemist and protein engineer who pioneered humanized antibodies and shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Gregory Y. Lauwers
Gregory Y. Lauwers is a gastrointestinal pathologist who led GI pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard from 2000 to 2016 and is now a Senior Member at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa.
Gregory's Girl
Gregory's Girl (1980, UK release 1981) is Bill Forsyth's Scottish coming-of-age romantic comedy set in Cumbernauld, starring John Gordon Sinclair, Dee Hepburn, and Clare Grogan; it won the BAFTA for Best Original Screenplay.
Gregory's Two Girls
Gregory's Two Girls (1999) is Bill Forsyth's British comedy sequel to Gregory's Girl, with John Gordon Sinclair as Gregory, now a 35-year-old English teacher investigating a factory scandal.
Greibach normal form
Greibach normal form (GNF), also Greibach normal-form, is a context-free grammar form where every production is A to a alpha, terminal first; proven by Sheila Greibach in 1965 and used to build pushdown automata.
Greifswald
Greifswald (Universitäts- und Hansestadt Greifswald) is a Baltic Sea university and Hanseatic city in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany: founded near Eldena Abbey in 1199, Hanseatic from 1278, university since 1456, Swedish 1648–1815, birthplace of Caspar David Friedrich.
Greifswald nuclear power plant
The Greifswald nuclear power plant (Kernkraftwerk Greifswald), also called Lubmin, was an East German plant of Soviet WWER-440 reactors on the Baltic coast, shut down in 1990.
Greig cephalopolysyndactyly syndrome
Greig cephalopolysyndactyly syndrome (GCPS, OMIM 175700) is a rare autosomal dominant disorder caused by GLI3 loss of function at 7p14.1, combining polydactyly, syndactyly, macrocephaly, and hypertelorism.