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Gordon K. Danielson

Gordon K. Danielson, full name Gordon Kenneth Danielson, Jr., was an American cardiovascular surgeon at the Mayo Clinic who pioneered operations for complex congenital heart defects, including Ebstein anomaly repair.

Gordon K. Smyth

Gordon K. Smyth is an Australian statistical bioinformatician who leads a laboratory at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, creating the widely used limma and edgeR packages.

Gordon Keller

Gordon M. Keller is a Canadian stem cell biologist known for the 1997 discovery of the hemangioblast and for directing pluripotent stem cells into blood and heart cells.

Gordon L. Brownell

Gordon L. Brownell, also known as Gordon Lee Brownell, was an American MIT physicist who pioneered positron imaging of brain tumors in the 1950s, a technology that evolved into PET.

Gordon L. Hager

Gordon L. Hager is an American molecular biologist who heads the Hormone Action and Oncogenesis Section at the National Cancer Institute, known for showing steroid receptors bind DNA dynamically.

Gordon Lowe

Gordon Lowe, born 1949, is a Scottish physician-scientist who was Professor of Vascular Medicine at Glasgow from 1993 to 2009 and showed that raised clotting factor levels increase thrombosis risk.

Gordon M. Shepherd

Gordon M. Shepherd (1933–2022) was an American neuroscientist at Yale whose work on the olfactory bulb, brain microcircuits, and neurogastronomy shaped the study of smell.

Gordon M. Tomkins

Gordon M. Tomkins (1926–1975) was an American biochemist who helped found molecular endocrinology, showing how steroid hormone receptors regulate gene expression, and led molecular biology research at NIH before joining UCSF.

Gordon Morgan Holmes

Gordon Morgan Holmes was an Irish neurologist at Queen Square, London, who defined the clinical signs of cerebellar disease and mapped the human visual cortex.

Gordon N. Gill

Gordon N. Gill (1937–2021) was an American endocrinologist who joined the University of California, San Diego faculty in 1969 and studied hormone action and signal transduction, especially EGF receptor trafficking.

Gordon Peters

Gordon Peters (1948–2016) was a British molecular biologist at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and Cancer Research UK, known for identifying the int-2 locus and the INK4a/ARF tumor suppressor locus.

Gordon R. Bernard

Gordon R. Bernard is an American pulmonary and critical care physician-scientist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center who led the NIH ARDS Clinical Trials Network from 1994 to 2014.

Gordon Rustin

Gordon J.S. Rustin is a British medical oncologist known for trials in gynecological cancer and germ-cell tumors and for CA125 research at Charing Cross and Mount Vernon hospitals.

Gordon Sato

Gordon Sato, also known as Gordon H. Sato, was an American cell biologist who pioneered serum-free cell culture and later led the Manzanar Project in Eritrea.

Gordon Zubrod

Charles Gordon Zubrod (1914–1999) was an American oncologist who, as clinical and scientific director of the National Cancer Institute, built the cooperative clinical trials system through which childhood leukemia became largely curable.

Gösta Forssell

Gösta Forssell (1876–1950) was a Swedish physician and radiologist who founded Radiumhemmet in Stockholm in 1910, coined the term behind brachytherapy, founded Acta Radiologica, and built Swedish radiotherapy.

Gösta Gahrton

Gösta Gahrton is a Swedish hematologist and professor emeritus at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, known for establishing allogeneic stem cell transplantation as a treatment for multiple myeloma.

Gösta Tibblin

Gösta Tibblin (1929–1997) was a Swedish physician and cardiovascular epidemiologist, a pioneer of the field in Sweden, best known for starting and leading the Men Born in 1913 study in Gothenburg.

Gottfried Fraenkel

Gottfried Fraenkel (1901–1984) was a German-born entomologist and insect physiologist, professor at the University of Illinois, known for insect nutrition, the hormone bursicon, and founding chemical ecology.

Gottfried Schatz

Gottfried Schatz (1936–2015) was an Austrian-born biochemist who co-discovered mitochondrial DNA in 1964, worked out how proteins are imported into mitochondria, and taught at the University of Basel.

Gotthilft Studnitz

Gotthilft von Studnitz (1908–1994) was a German physician, physiologist, and zoologist known for research on retinal vision processes and a professorship at the University of Halle.

Gottlieb Burckhardt

Gottlieb Burckhardt (1836–1907) was a Swiss psychiatrist who, as director of the Préfargier asylum, performed the first psychosurgical operations on six patients between 1888 and 1890, decades before the leucotomy.

Gou Young Koh

Gou Young Koh (고유영) is a South Korean physician-scientist in vascular biology who directs the IBS Center for Vascular Research and is a distinguished professor at KAIST in Daejeon.

Gourisankar Ghosh

Gourisankar Ghosh is an Indian-born American structural biologist and professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UC San Diego, known for landmark crystal structures of the transcription factor NF-κB.

Grady F. Saunders

Grady F. Saunders is a molecular biologist at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, known for the 1991 positional cloning of the candidate aniridia gene, now called PAX6.

Graeme Clark (otolaryngologist)

Graeme Clark, born in Camden, New South Wales in 1935, is an Australian otolaryngologist whose Melbourne team developed the first multi-channel cochlear implant, commercialized as the Cochlear/Nucleus device.

Graeme I. Bell

Graeme I. Bell is an American-trained biochemist and human geneticist at the University of Chicago known for the genetics of diabetes, including the first positional cloning of calpain-10 in type 2 diabetes.

Graeme J. Hankey

Graeme J. Hankey is an Australian neurologist and stroke clinician-scientist who holds the Perron Institute Chair in Stroke Research at the University of Western Australia, Perth.

Graeme Meintjes

Graeme Meintjes is a South African infectious-diseases physician, Professor of Medicine at the University of Cape Town, known for research on HIV-associated tuberculosis and cryptococcal meningitis.

Graeme W. Davis

Graeme W. Davis is a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco, known for establishing homeostatic synaptic plasticity, the study of how neurons stabilize their function.