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Gyroscope
A gyroscope is a spinning disk whose axis resists changes in direction, providing a fixed reference for navigation. Named by Léon Foucault in 1852, modern types include mechanical, ring-laser, fiber-optic, and MEMS gyroscopes.
Gyroscope Therapeutics Ltd
Gyroscope Therapeutics Limited was a clinical-stage biotechnology company in Stevenage, England, developing a one-time gene therapy for dry age-related macular degeneration, acquired by Novartis in 2022.
Gyrotron
A gyrotron is a high-power vacuum electron tube, invented in the USSR in 1964, that generates millimeter-wave radiation and is the standard heating source for fusion plasmas.
Gyroulas
Gyroulas (Γύρουλας) is an archaeological site south of Sangri, Naxos: an 8th-century-BC open-air sanctuary of Demeter, Kore and Apollo, later an all-marble Archaic temple of Lygdamis's reign, converted into a Christian basilica.
Gyrover
Gyrover is a single-wheel, gyroscopically stabilized mobile robot developed at Carnegie Mellon University by H. Benjamin Brown, Jr. and Yangsheng Xu, in which an internal spinning flywheel provides stabilization and steering.
Gyrton(e)
Gyrton (Gyrtone, Γύρτων; modern Gyrtonè) was an ancient Homeric city of Pelasgiotis, Thessaly, near Larissa, whose Phlegyan inhabitants, disputed location, Hellenistic sanctuary, and bronze coinage are known from Strabo, Livy, and excavation.
Gyth(e)ion
Gyth(e)ion (Γύθειον, Gytheum/Gythium), ancient port and arsenal of Sparta on the Laconian Gulf; destroyed by Tolmides 455 BC, freed by Augustus, Roman theatre excavated 1891.
Gyu‐Chul Yi
Gyu-Chul Yi (이규철) is a South Korean physicist and professor at Seoul National University known for zinc oxide nanorod growth and flexible LEDs grown on graphene.
Gyubin (박규빈)
Gyubin (박규빈), also known as Park Gyu-bin, is a South Korean singer-songwriter. She debuted in 2024 and later made a major debut in Japan in 2026.
Gyujanggak
Gyujanggak (규장각) was the royal library and advisory council of Korea's Joseon dynasty, founded by King Jeongjo in 1776 at Changdeokgung Palace and now held by Seoul National University.
Gyula Andrássy
Gyula Andrássy the Elder (1823–1890), Hungarian statesman; first prime minister of Dual Monarchy Hungary (1867) and Austro-Hungarian foreign minister 1871–1879; initiator of the Congress of Berlin and the 1879 Dual Alliance.
Gyula Bóbis
Gyula Bóbis (Bóbis Gyula), Hungarian wrestler (1909–1972), 1948 London Olympic gold medalist in freestyle heavyweight, 1950 world silver medalist, father of fencer Ildikó Bóbis.
Gyula Dienes
Gyula Dienes (Dienes Gyula), Hungarian freestyle swimmer of the 1930s, BEAC club; swam on the 4x100 m freestyle relay with Kiss, Lengyel, and Csik that set the first official world record, 4:10.2, Budapest, 26 June 1937. Not the pastor, plant pathologist, or railway conductor of the same name.
Gyula Farkas (Hungarian physicist)
Gyula Farkas, also published as Julius Farkas (1847–1930), was a Hungarian mathematician and theoretical physicist, professor at the University of Kolozsvár, who proved Farkas's lemma, a theorem of linear inequalities central to optimization.
Gyula Glykais
Gyula Glykais (Glykais Gyula, 1893–1948) was a Hungarian sabre fencer of Greek descent, double Olympic team champion (1928, 1932) and three-time European champion, later a county auditor in Szekszárd.
Gyula Gömbös
Gyula Gömbös (Gömbös Gyula), Hungarian general and radical right-wing Prime Minister 1932–1936; MOVE president from 1918, 95-point Nemzeti Munkaterv, pro-Italian and pro-German orientation; died in office in Munich in 1936.
Gyula Grosics
Gyula Grosics (1926–2014), Hungary's 'Black Panther' goalkeeper of the Golden Team: 86 caps, 1952 Olympic gold, 1954 World Cup silver, three World Cups, and an early sweeper-keeper style.
Gyula Halasy
Gyula Halasy (1891–1970) was a Hungarian sport shooter who won individual trap gold at the 1924 Paris Olympics with 98 of 100, Hungary's first Olympic shooting title.
Gyula Illyés
Gyula Illyés, born Illés Gyula, was a leading Hungarian poet, novelist, and dissident whose People of the Puszta (1936) exposed the plight of landless farm servants.
Gyula Kőnig
Gyula Kőnig, also known as Julius Kőnig, was a Hungarian mathematician at the Technical University of Budapest whose 1904 continuum hypothesis attempt yielded Kőnig's theorem.
Gyula Krúdy
Gyula Krúdy (Krúdy Gyula, 1878–1933) was a Hungarian novelist, short-story writer, and journalist, a master of modern Hungarian prose best known for the Szindbád cycle.
Gyula Lorant
Gyula Lóránt (Lipovics; 1923–1981), Hungarian center-back of the Golden Team: 37 caps, 1952 Olympic gold, 1954 World Cup silver, later Bundesliga and PAOK coach, died on the PAOK bench.
Gyula O. H. Katona
Gyula O. H. Katona, born 1941 in Budapest, is a Hungarian mathematician at the Rényi Institute known for extremal set theory, the Kruskal–Katona theorem, and the Katona circle method.
Gyula Pál
Gyula Pál, publishing as Julius Pál, was a Hungarian-born, later Danish mathematician in topology and convex geometry, best known for solving the convex Kakeya needle problem.
Gyula Pauler
Gyula Pauler (Hungarian: Pauler Gyula) was a Hungarian historian and archivist who founded the Hungarian National Archive and led it from 1874 until his death in 1903.
Gyula Szapáry
Gyula Szapáry (1832–1905) was a Hungarian conservative aristocrat and financier, the ninth prime minister of Hungary from 1890 to 1892, whose government carried out the gold-based korona currency reform.
Gyula Torok
Gyula Torok (Török Gyula, nicknamed Béka, 1938-2014), Hungarian boxer, 1960 Rome Olympic flyweight gold medalist, beating Sergey Sivko 3-2; 1959 European silver; later coach and Kispest Granite Factory worker.
Gyula Zolyomy
Gyula Zolyomi (Zólyomi Gyula, born 1918), Hungarian freestyle swimmer; non-starter on Hungary's bronze 4x200 m relay at Berlin 1936; set 4x100 m freestyle relay world records of 4:06.6 (1937) and 4:02.0 (1938) with Csik, Korosi, and Grof. Distinct from the 1890-born wrestler of the same name.
Gyula Zsivotzky
Gyula Zsivotzky (Zsivótzky Gyula, 1937-2007), Hungarian hammer thrower: Olympic gold 1968 Mexico City, silvers 1960 and 1964, world records 73.74 m (1965) and 73.76 m (1968), 13-time Hungarian champion.
Gyunyeo
Gyunyeo (균여; 923–973) was a Hwaeom Buddhist monk and poet of early Goryeo Korea, remembered for unifying the Hwaeom order and for his hyangga Buddhist songs.