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Griffiths-Jim beamformer
The Griffiths-Jim beamformer, also known as the generalized sidelobe canceler (GSC), is an adaptive beamforming structure introduced by Lloyd J. Griffiths and C.W. Jim in 1982.
Griffon Bruxellois
Griffon Bruxellois (Brussels Griffon), a Belgian toy dog breed, rough-coated and red, one of three small Belgian breeds with the Griffon Belge and Petit Brabançon; descended from the Smousje ratter, weight 3.5–6 kg, lifespan 12–15 years.
Grifo Rupes
Grifo Rupes, a 783 km lobate scarp (thrust-fault cliff system) on Mercury in quadrangle H-10, centered at 7.90°, 354.62°; IAU-approved 2019, named for the Portuguese ship of D. João de Castro's 1538 magnetic survey.
Grifola
Grifola is a genus of poroid, white-rotting polypore fungi (Polyporales, Grifolaceae) established by Gray in 1821; its type species Grifola frondosa is the edible maitake or hen-of-the-woods mushroom.
Grifola frondosa
Grifola frondosa, maitake or hen-of-the-woods, is an edible Polyporales fungus forming large rosettes of grey-brown caps at oak bases, studied for beta-glucan polysaccharides such as the D-fraction.
Grifter (character)
Grifter (Cole Cash) is a WildStorm, later DC Comics antihero created by Jim Lee and Brandon Choi, debuting in WildC.A.T.S. #1 (August 1992); a con man and ex-Team 7 soldier with Gen-factor telepathy and telekinesis.
Griggs
Mount Griggs (formerly Knife Peak) is a 2,317-m andesitic stratovolcano in Katmai National Park, Alaska, the cluster's highest peak, lying about 10 km behind the volcanic front, active since about 292 ka, fumarolically active, last eruption about 1790 BCE.
Grignard reaction
The Grignard reaction, discovered by Victor Grignard in Lyon in 1900, adds an organomagnesium halide to a carbonyl compound to form a new carbon–carbon bond.
Grignard reagent
A Grignard reagent, or Grignard compound, is an organomagnesium halide, RMgX, made from an organic halide and magnesium, used to form carbon–carbon bonds and alcohols.
Grigol Orbeliani
Grigol Orbeliani (გრიგოლ ორბელიანი, 1804–1883) was a Georgian Romantic poet and Imperial Russian general who took part in the 1832 independence plot and later served as governor-general of Tiflis.
Grigol Robakidze
Grigol Robakidze (გრიგოლ რობაქიძე) was a Georgian poet, novelist, and playwright who led the Blue Horns symbolist group and died in Swiss exile in 1962.
Grigor Dimitrov (Григор Димитров Димитров)
Grigor Dimitrov (Григор Димитров Димитров), Bulgarian tennis player from Haskovo, born 1991; 2008 Wimbledon and US Open boys' champion, winner of the 2017 ATP Finals and Cincinnati Masters, career-high No. 3.
Grigor III Pahlavuni
Grigor III Pahlavuni (Գրիգոր Գ. Պահլաւունի), c. 1093 to 1166, was catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church for over 50 years, corresponding with Pope Innocent II and writing hymns and homilies.
Grigor IV Tgha
Grigor IV Tgha (Գրիգոր Դ Տղա, "the Younger") was Catholicos of the Armenian Church at Hromkla from 1173 to 1193, succeeding his brother Nerses IV Shnorhali.
Grigor Khlatetsi
Grigor Khlatetsi, also known as Tserents or Bznunetsi, was a medieval Armenian writer, poet, and musician (1349–1425) known for reworking the Armenian menologion and chronicling the Timurid invasions.
Grigor Magistros
Grigor Magistros (Գրիգոր Մագիստրոս, ca. 990–1058), also known as Grigor Bjnetsi, was an Armenian prince, poet, and philosopher called the first secular Armenian author and a Byzantine official.
Grigor Parlichev
Grigor Parlichev (1830–1893) was a writer and teacher from Ohrid who won the 1860 Athens poetry prize and made the first Bulgarian translation of Homer's Iliad.
Grigor Tatevatsi
Grigor Tatevatsi, also known as Gregory of Tatev, was an Armenian theologian, philosopher, and saint who led the monastic university at Tatev from 1390 until his death in 1409.
Grigore Alexandru Ghica
Grigore Alexandru Ghica (1804–1857) was Prince of Moldavia from 1849 to 1856 and the last prince before the Union of 1859, remembered above all for abolishing Roma slavery in 1855.
Grigore Antipa
Grigore Antipa (1867–1944) was a Romanian biologist and oceanographer who organized Romania's first scientific explorations of the Black Sea and founded the Bucharest natural history museum bearing his name.
Grigore Cantacuzino
Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino (1832–1913), nicknamed "the Nabob", was a wealthy Romanian Conservative politician who twice served as prime minister, from 1899 to 1900 and 1904 to 1907.
Grigore Moisil
Grigore Moisil (1906-1973) was a Romanian mathematician and computer scientist, considered the father of Romanian informatics, who founded Romania's first computing center and introduced the Łukasiewicz-Moisil algebras in many-valued logic.
Grigore Ureche
Grigore Ureche (c. 1590–1647) was a Moldavian boyar and chronicler, a close collaborator of Prince Vasile Lupu, whose Chronicle of the Land of Moldavia opened Romanian-language historiography.
Grigori Perelman (Григорий Яковлевич Перельман)
Grigori Perelman, also known as Grisha Perelman (Григорий Перельман), is a Russian mathematician who proved the Poincaré conjecture in 2002 and 2003 preprints and declined the Fields Medal.
Grigori Rasputin (Григорий Ефимович Распутин)
Grigori Rasputin (Григорий Ефимович Распутин), 1869-1916, Siberian peasant faith healer and adviser to Tsar Nicholas II and Alexandra; murdered December 30, 1916 in the Moika Palace cellar by Yusupov and conspirators.
Grigori Rasputin in popular culture
Grigori Rasputin in popular culture: the Siberian mystic and favorite of Nicholas II as villain and meme in film (about 30 treatments since 1917), the 1932 MGM lawsuit behind the fictitious-persons disclaimer, Hammer's 1966 Mad Monk, Klimov's Agony, and Boney M's 1978 hit.
Grigoriy Kornev
Grigoriy Kornev (Grigoriy Ilyich Kornev, born 1961), Russian race walker; set indoor 5000 m race walk world records of 18:23.10 and 18:15.25 in Moscow, February 1992; personal bests 1:18:56 at 20 km and 3:50:15 at 50 km; later a masters road runner in Kemerovo. Not the FIS skier or swimmer named Kornev.
Grigoriy Panichkin
Grigoriy Panichkin (Григорий Дмитриевич Паничкин, born 5 November 1929) was a Soviet race walker who set ratified world records at 10,000 m (42:10.4) and 20,000 m track walk (1:27:38.6) in 1958 and won 50 km silver at the 1962 European Championships.
Grigoriy Taran
Grigoriy Taran (Григорий Таран), Soviet steeplechase runner born 1937 in Nikopol, set the 3000 m steeplechase world record of 8:31.2 at Kyiv on 28 May 1961, held 74 days; distinct from a Moscow marathon runner, a Novorossiysk youth swimmer, and a Hero of the Soviet Union pilot of the same name.
Grigory Barenblatt
Grigory Barenblatt (1927–2018) was a Soviet and later American applied mathematician known for the cohesive crack model, intermediate asymptotics, and turbulence, later a professor at Cambridge and Berkeley.