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Georg August Schweinfurth
Georg August Schweinfurth (1836–1925) was a German botanist and explorer of the Nile–Congo region who discovered the Uele River and gave science its first authoritative account of the Congo Pygmies.
Georg E. Schulz
Georg E. Schulz (1939–2026) was a structural biochemist at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg and the University of Freiburg who solved enzyme and membrane protein structures by X-ray crystallography.
Georg Felix
Georg Felix is a German-based plant scientist at the University of Basel and the ZMBP in Tübingen who identified the receptor EFR that perceives bacterial EF-Tu in plants.
Georg Meissner
Georg Meissner (1829–1905) was a German physiologist and anatomist who discovered the skin's tactile corpuscles and the gut's submucosal nerve plexus, both named for him.
Georg Melchers
Georg Melchers (1906–1997) was a German geneticist who directed the Max Planck Institute for Biology in Tübingen and pioneered plant protoplast fusion, producing tomato-potato hybrids.
Georg Nagel
Georg Nagel, born 1953 in Weingarten, Germany, is a German biophysicist who identified the light-gated channelrhodopsins, making optogenetics possible, and shares the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Georg Stingl
Georg Stingl is an Austrian dermatologist and immunologist whose laboratory showed how imiquimod destroys basal cell carcinoma via dendritic cells, and who led phase 3 brodalumab psoriasis trials.
Georg von Békésy
Georg von Békésy was a Hungarian-born biophysicist who alone won the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering how the ear detects pitch.
George A Lemieux
George A. Lemieux is an American researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, known for chemical biology work with Carolyn Bertozzi and C. elegans fat-metabolism and aging research with Kaveh Ashrafi.
George A. Bartholomew
George A. Bartholomew (1919–2006) was an American zoologist at UCLA who helped found comparative physiological ecology, the study of how wild animals' physiology fits their environments.
George A. Calin
George A. Calin is a molecular pathologist and cancer researcher at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center whose work established that microRNAs are involved in human cancer.
George A. Kassavetis
George A. Kassavetis is a molecular biologist at the University of California, San Diego, known for work on the enzymology of transcription initiation in phage T4 and yeast.
George A. Zentmyer
George A. Zentmyer was an American plant pathologist at UC Riverside who identified the avocado rootstock Duke 7 and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1979.
George A.M. Cross
George A.M. Cross is a British molecular parasitologist, first to identify the variant surface glycoprotein family of Trypanosoma brucei, opening the molecular study of antigenic variation.
George Augustine
George J. Augustine is a neuroscientist at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore who studies synaptic communication, calcium signaling, and optogenetic brain-circuit mapping, and co-authors the textbook Neuroscience.
George B. Benedek
George B. Benedek, also known as G. B. Benedek, was an American physicist and MIT professor who invented quasi-elastic light scattering spectroscopy and applied it to cataract and Alzheimer's research.
George B. Craig
George B. Craig was an American entomologist at Notre Dame who pioneered genetic study of the yellow fever mosquito and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1983.
George B. Wislocki
George B. Wislocki (1892–1956) was an American anatomist and histochemist, Parkman and James Stillman Professor at Harvard, known for his work on the placenta and the blood-brain barrier.
George B. Witman
George B. Witman is an American cell biologist and Professor Emeritus at UMass Chan Medical School who pioneered biochemical and molecular genetic approaches to studying cilia and flagella.
George Beadle
George Wells Beadle was an American geneticist who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edward Tatum and Joshua Lederberg for the one gene–one enzyme hypothesis.
George Brown Goode
George Brown Goode (1851–1896) was an American ichthyologist and museum administrator who served as Smithsonian assistant secretary in charge of the U.S. National Museum from 1887 until his death.
George Bruening
George Emil Bruening (1938–2023) was an American plant pathologist and molecular virologist at UC Davis, known for work on plant resistance to viral diseases and Pierce's disease of grapevines.
George C. Hill
George C. Hill (1939–2026) was an American microbiologist and medical educator at Vanderbilt University, known for first culturing the African sleeping sickness parasite and elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1998.
George C. Prendergast
George C. Prendergast is an American cancer researcher who developed IDO inhibitors and studied the Bin1 tumor suppressor gene, leading the Lankenau Institute for Medical Research since 2004.
George Carman
George M. Carman is a Rutgers professor whose laboratory identified the yeast PAH1 gene, the homolog of mammalian fat-regulating lipin proteins, and founded its Center for Lipid Research.
George Chaconas
George Chaconas is a Canadian molecular geneticist at the University of Calgary, a Canada Research Chair from 2003 to 2017, known for bacteriophage Mu transposition and the molecular biology of Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease spirochete.
George Coupland
George Coupland, born in 1959, is a British plant molecular geneticist directing the Department of Plant Developmental Biology at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne.
George D. Rose
George D. Rose is a biophysicist and Krieger-Eisenhower Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University, known for predicting protein chain turns from hydrophobicity and his 2006 backbone-based folding theory.
George D. Snell
George D. Snell, also known as George Davis Snell, was an American mouse geneticist who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize for discovering the mouse major histocompatibility complex.
George E. Coghill
George Ellett Coghill (1872–1941) was an American neuroembryologist and anatomist known for decades of study of how the nervous system and behavior develop together in salamanders.