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Gustaf de Laval
Gustaf de Laval, born Carl Gustaf Patrik de Laval, was a Swedish engineer and inventor who created the centrifugal cream separator and a 30,000-rpm steam turbine.
Gustaf Dyrssen
Gustaf Dyrssen (1891-1981), Swedish general and four-time Olympian; modern pentathlon gold 1920 and silver 1924, team épée silver 1936; UIPM president 1948-60 and IOC member 1952-70.
Gustaf Fröding
Gustaf Fröding (1860–1911) was a Swedish poet from Värmland, regarded as the foremost renewer of Swedish lyric style; his 1891 debut Guitarr och dragharmonika sold 5,000 copies in five years.
Gustaf Gründgens
Gustaf Gründgens (1899–1963), German actor, director, and intendant; famous as Goethe's Mephisto; headed the Prussian State Theatre under the Nazis, later led Düsseldorf and Hamburg theatres; model for Klaus Mann's Mephisto.
Gustaf Ising
Gustaf Adolf Ising (1883–1960) was a Swedish physicist and geophysicist whose 1924 multiple-acceleration principle underlies the linear accelerator and, indirectly, the cyclotron; Ernest Lawrence called him the father of multiple acceleration.
Gustaf Johnsson
Gustaf Johnsson (Nils Gustaf Johnsson-Weidel, 1890–1959) was a Swedish artistic gymnast from Malmö who won gold in the men's team event at the 1908 London Olympics; distinct from same-named Swedish shooters, skiers, and hockey players.
Gustaf Kilman
Gustaf Olof Falhem Kilman (1882–1946), Swedish army officer and show jumper; won team jumping gold on Gåtan at Stockholm 1912, joint 15th individually on Irving at Antwerp 1920; Knight of the Order of the Sword.
Gustaf Komppa
Gustaf Komppa (1867–1949) was a Finnish chemist known for the total synthesis of camphoric acid, announced in 1903, and of camphor, published in 1908, and for the first industrial commercialization of such a synthesis.
Gustaf Lewenhaupt
Gustaf Lewenhaupt (Carl Gustaf Sixtensson Lewenhaupt, 1879–1962), Swedish count and cavalry officer; won 1912 Stockholm Olympic team show jumping gold on Medusa and placed 17th in the first Olympic modern pentathlon; later chamberlain to Gustaf VI Adolf.
Gustaf Olson
Gustaf Adolf Olson (Gösta), 1883–1966, Swedish gymnast and fencer; won gold in the men's team gymnastics (Swedish system) at London 1908 and also competed in individual épée at the same Games.
Gustaf Retzius
Gustaf Retzius (1842–1919) was a Swedish anatomist and histologist, professor at Karolinska Institutet, remembered for his nervous system and inner-ear research and the Cajal–Retzius cell.
Gustaf Roos
Gustaf Roos (1859–1938) was a Swedish politician and civil servant, a consultative minister in Lindman's government from 1906 to 1909 and governor of Gotland from 1912 to 1927.
Gustaf Rosenquist
Gustaf Vilhelm (Gösta) Rosenquist, Swedish artistic gymnast (1887–1961) from Jönköping, club Jönköpings GF; won 1908 London Olympic gold in the men's team event, Swedish system, scoring 438 points.
Gustaf Skarsgård
Gustaf Skarsgård (born 1980), Swedish actor, son of Stellan, brother of Alexander and Bill; trained at Teaterhögskolan and Dramaten; known for Floki in Vikings, 438 Dagar, Oppenheimer, and upcoming directing debut The Cannibal.
Gustaf V
Gustaf V (Oscar Gustaf Adolf), King of Sweden 1907–1950, last Swedish monarch with real political influence; forced the 1914 Courtyard Crisis government resignation, accepted parliamentarism in 1917, backed WWII neutrality, and was a noted tennis player ('Mr. G').
Gustaf VI Adolf
Gustaf VI Adolf (Oscar Fredrik Wilhelm Olaf Gustaf Adolf, 1882–1973), King of Sweden 1950–1973, last holder of the title King of Sweden, the Goths and the Wends; amateur archaeologist, Asine excavator, Chinese art collector; succeeded by grandson Carl XVI Gustaf.
Gustaf Wejnarth
Gustaf Wejnarth (Carl Gustaf Olof Wejnarth, 1902–1990), Swedish 400 m runner for SoIK Hellas; 1921 Swedish champion, silver in 4x400 m relay at Paris 1924 Olympics.
Gustatory hallucinations
Gustatory hallucinations, also called phantageusia, are tastes perceived without an oral stimulus; ICD-11 code MB27.21. They occur in epilepsy (parietal or rolandic operculum), psychosis (1-31% prevalence), and migraine.
Gustatory receptor
Gustatory receptor (GR), insect taste receptor family first found in Drosophila (68 genes); seven-transmembrane, inverted-topology tetrameric ligand-gated cation channels detecting sugars, bitter compounds, CO2, heat, and pheromones; distinct from mammalian GPCR taste receptors.
Gustau Catalán
Gustau Catalán is a Spanish materials scientist and ICREA Research Professor at the ICN2 near Barcelona, where he leads the Oxide Nanophysics Group and studies flexoelectricity and oxide ferroics at the nanoscale.
Gustav A. Hedlund
Gustav A. Hedlund was a mathematician at Yale University, a founder of symbolic dynamics through the Morse–Hedlund papers of 1938 and 1940 and an originator of cellular automata theory.
Gustav Adolf Anrich
Gustav Adolf Anrich (1867–1930) was a German Lutheran theologian and church historian, born in Alsace, who taught at Strasbourg, Bonn, and Tübingen and served as rector of Tübingen in 1928–1929.
Gustav Adolf Deissmann
Gustav Adolf Deissmann (1866–1937) was a German Lutheran theologian and papyrologist who proved the New Testament was written in everyday Koine Greek, and later led the ecumenical movement.
Gustav Adolf Jülicher
Gustav Adolf Jülicher (1857–1938) was a German Protestant New Testament scholar and church historian at Marburg whose two-volume Die Gleichnisreden Jesu helped end allegorical parable interpretation.
Gustav Adolf Ludwig Baur
Gustav Adolf Ludwig Baur (1816–1889) was a German Lutheran theologian who held the chair of practical theology at Leipzig from 1870, after professorships at Gießen and a Hamburg pastorate.
Gustav Adolf Warneck
Gustav Adolf Warneck (1834–1910) was a German Protestant theologian regarded as the founder of missiology, holding Germany's first professorship for the subject at Halle from 1896.
Gustav Albert Schwalbe
Gustav Albert Schwalbe (1844–1916) was a German anatomist and anthropologist, professor at Strasburg, known for Schwalbe's line in the eye and for arguing Neanderthals were a distinct extinct species.
Gustav Bickell
Gustav Bickell (1838–1906) was a German Orientalist, Semitist, and Catholic priest who edited foundational Syriac Christian texts and proposed an influential theory of biblical Hebrew meter.
Gustav Bossert
Gustav Bossert (1841–1925) was a German Lutheran pastor and church historian of Württemberg who served two rural parishes while building the modern scholarly study of Württemberg church history, including pioneering work on the Anabaptists.
Gustav Brock
Gustav Edvard Brock (1816–1878) was a Danish jurist and supreme-court advocate who, with Tietgen, Heyman, and Puggaard, founded the Tuborg brewery in Hellerup, Denmark, in 1873.