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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 Gaffky

Georg Theodor August Gaffky (1850–1918) was a German bacteriologist and pupil of Robert Koch who first cultured the typhoid bacillus in 1884 and led the Robert Koch Institute from 1904.

Georg Lenz

Georg Lenz is a German hematologist-oncologist directing the Department of Internal Medicine A at University Hospital Münster, known for research on diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Georg Ludwig Zuelzer

Georg Ludwig Zuelzer was a German internist who patented Acomatol, a pancreatic extract that reduced glycosuria in diabetic patients, more than a decade before insulin was isolated.

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 Nickenig

Georg Nickenig is a German cardiologist, chair of Internal Medicine (Cardiology and Pneumology) at the University of Bonn and director of the University Hospital Bonn heart center since 2005.

Georg Schett

Georg Schett, born 1969, is an Austrian physician-scientist who directs rheumatology at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen and led the world's first CAR T-cell therapy for autoimmune disease in 2021.

Georg Sticker

Georg Sticker (1860–1960) was a German internist and medical historian who discovered that fleas transmit plague, first described erythema infectiosum, and became in 1921 the first professor of the history of medicine at Würzburg.

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. Kaplan

George A. Kaplan is an American social epidemiologist, Thomas Francis Collegiate Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan, known for research on how socioeconomic conditions shape health inequalities.

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. Kaysen

George Alan Kaysen was an American nephrologist and physician-scientist at UC Davis and the VA, known for reframing low albumin in dialysis patients as inflammation rather than malnutrition.

George A. Wells

George A. Wells is a Canadian biostatistician and clinical epidemiologist at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, directing its Cardiovascular Research Methods Centre and leading major cardiology trials.

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. Koelle

George Brampton Koelle (1918–1997) was an American pharmacologist at the University of Pennsylvania who developed the Koelle–Friedenwald stain for cholinesterase and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1972.

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 Broze

George J. Broze was an American hematologist and professor at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, known for discovering tissue factor pathway inhibitor (TFPI).