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George F. Sprague
George Frederick Sprague was an American corn geneticist who spent 48 years with the USDA at Ames, Iowa, creating the Iowa Stiff Stalk Synthetic germplasm.
George F. Vande Woude
George F. Vande Woude (1935–2021) was an American molecular oncologist who discovered the human MET oncogene in 1984 and led research at the National Cancer Institute.
George Fink
George Fink is an Austrian-born Australian neuroendocrinologist at the Florey Institute who discovered GnRH self-priming, directed the MRC Brain Metabolism Unit in Edinburgh, and founded the Encyclopedia of Stress.
George Fountzilas
George Fountzilas is a Greek medical oncologist at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki who led HeCOG phase III trials in head and neck and breast cancer from the 1980s onward.
George Francis Atkinson
George Francis Atkinson (1854–1918) was an American mycologist and botanist who led Cornell University's botany department from 1896, described almost 300 fungal taxa, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1918.
George Frederic Still
George Frederic Still (1868–1941) was a British physician, the first full-time pediatrician in Britain and first professor of children's diseases, known for Still's disease and Still's murmur.
George G. Glenner
George G. Glenner was an American physician and research pathologist who worked out the chemistry of amyloid and in 1984 isolated the beta-amyloid protein central to Alzheimer's disease.
George G. Rhoads
George G. Rhoads is an American epidemiologist who led an NIH epidemiology branch and spent over 30 years as a Rutgers professor before retiring in 2020.
George Gee Jackson
George Gee Jackson (1920–2020) was an American infectious-diseases physician-researcher who spent 37 years at the University of Illinois College of Medicine and edited the Journal of Infectious Diseases from 1979 to 1983.
George Georgiou
George Georgiou is an American chemical and biomedical engineer at the University of Texas at Austin, known for protein engineering, antibody repertoire analysis, and co-inventing the FDA-approved anthrax antitoxin obiltoxaximab.
George Grey Turner
George Grey Turner (1877–1951) was a British surgeon judged pre-eminent in England, professor at Durham and Hammersmith, remembered for Grey Turner's sign, flank bruising in severe acute pancreatitis.
George H. Elder
George H. Elder is an Emeritus Professor of Medical Biochemistry at Cardiff University whose research defined the biochemistry and management of the porphyrias, inherited disorders of haem biosynthesis.
George H. Hepting
George H. Hepting (1907–1988) was an American forest pathologist with the U.S. Forest Service and, in 1969, the first forester elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
George H. Hitchings
George H. Hitchings (1905–1998) was an American pharmacologist who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Gertrude Elion for rational drug design at Burroughs Wellcome.
George H. Lorimer
George H. Lorimer is a biochemist who worked out the reaction mechanism of Rubisco, the enzyme that fixes carbon dioxide in photosynthesis, and helped discover GroE chaperonin protein folding.
George H. McCracken
George H. McCracken Jr. was a pediatric infectious diseases researcher at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas who shaped the diagnosis and antibiotic treatment of childhood meningitis.
George H. Whipple
George H. Whipple was an American pathologist who shared the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries on liver therapy in anemia, and founded the University of Rochester medical school.
George Hajishengallis
George Hajishengallis (Georgios Hajishengallis) is an immunologist and periodontal researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, known for the keystone pathogen hypothesis and for linking periodontitis to systemic inflammatory disease.
George Henry Fox
George Henry Fox (1846–1937) was an American dermatologist, born in Ballston Spa, New York, who co-founded the American Dermatological Association and pioneered photographically illustrated atlases of skin disease.
George Hirst
George Hirst (1909–1994) was an American virologist who discovered in 1941 that influenza virus clumps red blood cells, giving a quantitative measure of the virus.
George Holman Bishop
George Holman Bishop (1889–1973) was an American neurophysiologist at Washington University School of Medicine, known for nerve-fiber research with Erlanger and Gasser and EEG in epilepsy.
George Howard Parker
George Howard Parker was an American zoologist and comparative physiologist at Harvard, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1913, known for his work on animal color change and neurohumors.
George Hripcsak
George Hripcsak is an American physician and biomedical informatician, chair of biomedical informatics at Columbia University, who led Arden Syntax and co-founded OHDSI in 2013.
George Hug
George Hug was a Swiss-born physician-scientist in pediatric metabolic disease who spent his career at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, described new glycogen storage diseases, and died in 2021.
George J. Annas
George J. Annas was an American health lawyer and Boston University professor known as "the father of patient rights" for establishing patients' rights as a legal concept.
George J. Gabuzda
George J. Gabuzda is an American physician-investigator whose research on cirrhosis and ascites at Boston City Hospital and Case Western Reserve University established how ascitic fluid forms, is absorbed, and should be managed.
George J. Klein
George J. Klein is a Canadian cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist, a Professor of Medicine at Western University in London, Ontario, known for work on arrhythmias and Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.
George J. Todaro
George J. Todaro (born 1937) is an American virologist and cancer researcher who established the NIH 3T3 cell line and proposed the 1969 oncogene hypothesis at the National Cancer Institute.
George Janossy
George Janossy is an immunologist at University College London and the Royal Free Hospital in London, known for leukemia immunophenotyping, bone-marrow transplantation, and affordable CD4 monitoring for HIV.
George Joseph Popják
George Joseph Popják (1914–1998) was a Hungarian-born biochemist who, with John W. Cornforth, worked out the reactions forming squalene, the precursor of cholesterol, and pioneered radioisotopic studies of metabolism in Britain.