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Gaston Albert Gohierre de Longchamps
Gaston Albert Gohierre de Longchamps (1842–1906) was a French mathematician and lycée professor of mathématiques spéciales, known for the de Longchamps point of a triangle and for editing mathematics journals.
Gaston Alibert
Gaston Alibert (Gaston Jules Louis Antoine Alibert), French épée fencer (1878-1917), Salle Baudry Paris; 7th at Paris 1900, double gold medalist in individual and team épée at London 1908, first French épée Olympic champion.
Gaston Aumoitte
Gaston Aumoitte (1884-1957), French croquet player, won two gold medals at the 1900 Paris Olympics in one-ball singles and doubles with cousin Georges Johin; later a Lieutenant Colonel.
Gaston Bachelard
Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962) was a French philosopher at the Sorbonne who developed the epistemological break and wrote poetics studies of the imagination, including The Poetics of Space.
Gaston County
Gaston County, North Carolina: Piedmont county west of Charlotte, formed 1846 from Lincoln County, named for William Gaston; seat Gastonia since 1909; historic textile center, 2020 population 227,943.
Gaston Dam
Gaston Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Roanoke River in Halifax County, North Carolina, completed in 1963 by Virginia Electric and Power Company, impounding the 34-mile Lake Gaston.
Gastón Gaudio
Gastón Gaudio, "El Gato", Argentine tennis player, 2004 French Open champion who beat Guillermo Coria 0-6, 3-6, 6-4, 6-1, 8-6 saving two match points; career-high No. 5, eight ATP titles.
Gaston Islands
Gaston Islands: two islands and rocks 2 km NW of Reclus Peninsula tip, Danco Coast, Antarctic Peninsula, at 64°29'S 61°50'W. Charted 1898 by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, named for Gaston de Gerlache; group name adopted by the UK in 1960.
Gaston Julia
Gaston Julia (1893–1978) was a French mathematician, born in Algeria, who co-founded the theory of iteration of rational functions and is remembered for the fractal Julia sets.
Gaston K. Rivera
Gaston K. Rivera is a pediatric hematology-oncology researcher at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis whose 1986 relapse study and 1991 reinforced-early-treatment trial shaped childhood ALL therapy.
Gaston Mercier
Gaston Mercier (Gaston Antoine Mercier, 1932-1974), French rower for Société d'Encouragement du Sport Nautique, Nogent-sur-Marne; Olympic gold 1952 Helsinki coxed pair, bronze 1956 coxless four, fourth 1960 eights.
Gaston Moch
Gaston Moch (1859–1935) was a French artillery officer and pacifist publicist, one of the first Esperantists in France, who resigned from the army in 1894 to campaign for disarmament and Franco-German reconciliation.
Gaston Paris
Gaston Paris (Bruno Paulin Gaston Paris, 1839–1903) was a French philologist and medievalist who made medieval French literature a scientific discipline, held the Collège de France chair, and founded the journal Romania.
Gastón Ramírez
Gastón Exequiel Ramírez Pereyra, Uruguayan attacking midfielder born 1990 in Fray Bentos; Peñarol, Bologna, then club-record €15.2M move to Southampton (2012), Middlesbrough, Sampdoria, 43 Uruguay caps, now Boston River.
Gaston Ramon
Gaston Ramon (1886–1963) was a French veterinarian and biologist at the Institut Pasteur who discovered toxoid vaccination, the flocculation test, and vaccine adjuvants, and holds the record for Nobel Prize nominations without winning.
Gaston Reiff
Gaston Reiff (Gaston Étienne Ghislaine Reiff), Belgian runner, 1921-1992, won the 1948 Olympic 5,000 m in 14:17.6, beating Emil Zátopek; first Belgian Olympic track and field gold, plus three world records.
Gaston Roelants
Gaston Roelants (born 5 February 1937, Opvelp, Belgium), Belgian steeplechaser and marathon runner; 1964 Olympic 3000 m steeplechase champion, 1962 European champion, twice steeplechase world record holder (8:29.6, 8:26.4), and 20 km and 1-hour world record holder.
Gaston Salmon
Gaston Salmon (Gaston Joseph Clément Marie Salmon, 1878–1918) was a Belgian fencer who won gold in the men's team épée at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics.
Gaston Steam Plant
The Gaston Steam Plant, also known as Plant Gaston, is an Alabama Power power station on the Coosa River near Wilsonville, Alabama, with five units totaling 1,880,000 kW.
Gastón Taratuta
Gastón Taratuta is an Argentine entrepreneur who founded Aleph Group, a Miami-based digital-advertising intermediary, and in 2022 became the first Argentine named EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year.
Gaston Thube
Gaston Thube (Gaston Marie Thubé), a French industrialist and sailor, won the gold medal in the 6 meters Three-Person Keelboat class at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics aboard the Mac Miche.
Gastonia Ghost Peppers
Gastonia Ghost Peppers, formerly Gastonia Baseball Club and Honey Hunters, an Atlantic League independent baseball team at CaroMont Health Park in Gastonia, North Carolina, renamed 2024 after the Carolina Reaper; ceased operations September 30, 2026.
Gastonia, North Carolina
Gastonia, North Carolina: county seat of Gaston County, incorporated 1877 as a railroad junction town, once a leading Southern textile center, now a Piedmont city of about 87,000 west of Charlotte.
Gastornis
Gastornis, also known historically as Diatryma, is an extinct genus of giant flightless herbivorous birds of the Paleogene of Europe, North America, and Asia, the largest terrestrial tetrapods of Paleocene Europe, named by Hébert in 1855.
Gastrectomy
Gastrectomy is the surgical removal of all or part of the stomach, most often serving as curative treatment for gastric adenocarcinoma, performed through various methods.
Gastric acid
Gastric acid, or stomach acid, is the hydrochloric acid secreted by parietal cells of the stomach lining, keeping stomach pH near 1.5 to digest protein and kill microbes.
Gastric Acidity Determination
Gastric acidity determination, also called gastric analysis or stomach acid test, measures free and total acid in stomach contents via tube aspiration and titration or telemetric pH capsules, quantifying basal and maximal acid output in mEq/hr.
Gastric adenocarcinoma and proximal polyposis of the stomach
GAPPS, gastric adenocarcinoma and proximal polyposis of the stomach, is a rare autosomal dominant hereditary gastric cancer syndrome caused by APC promoter 1B point mutations, causing hundreds of fundic gland polyps in the proximal stomach with 12-25% gastric cancer risk and no colorectal polyposis.
Gastric antral vascular ectasia
Gastric antral vascular ectasia (GAVE), or watermelon stomach, is a rare antral vascular malformation causing iron-deficiency anemia and GI bleeding, treated endoscopically with argon plasma coagulation, band ligation, or radiofrequency ablation.
Gastric Balloon
Gastric balloon (intragastric balloon, IGB): temporary space-occupying stomach device for obesity, inducing satiety by delayed gastric emptying. Includes Garren-Edwards bubble history, Orbera, Obalon, Elipse devices, efficacy and FDA safety alerts.