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Geoffrey R. Hill

Geoffrey R. Hill (Geoff Hill) is a New Zealand–trained hematologist and immunologist who studies graft-versus-host disease and directs stem cell transplantation at Fred Hutch in Seattle.

Geoffrey Rose (epidemiologist)

Geoffrey Rose (1926–1993) was a British physician and epidemiologist who coined the prevention paradox and led cardiovascular epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine until 1991.

Geoffrey S. Ginsburg

Geoffrey S. Ginsburg is an American physician-scientist in genomic and precision medicine, chief medical and scientific officer of the NIH All of Us Research Program.

Geoffrey Watterson

Geoffrey Anton Watterson is an Australian population geneticist who spent 1963 to 1993 at Monash University and created the Watterson estimator, a 1975 formula still used in population genomics.

Geoglobus

Geoglobus is a genus of hyperthermophilic, anaerobic Archaeoglobaceae archaea from deep-sea hydrothermal vents, with two species, G. ahangari and G. acetivorans, that respire obligately on Fe(III).

Geographic distribution of spiders

The geographic distribution of spiders covers where the world's 54,102 described species live, on every continent except Antarctica, though tropical regions remain barely surveyed and most diversity is undocumented.

Geographic distribution of Teloschistaceae

The geographic distribution of Teloschistaceae describes where the family's more than 1,000 orange and yellow lichen-forming fungi occur on sun-exposed rocks across Eurasia, Australia, and the Pacific, with regional counts from Italy to the Commander Islands.

Geographic tongue

Geographic tongue, or benign migratory glossitis, is a benign inflammatory tongue condition with migrating map-like patches from loss of filiform papillae, affecting about 1–3% of adults and associated with psoriasis (OR 3.53).

Geometer moth

Geometer moths (Geometridae), also called geometer moths or inchworm moths, are one of the largest moth families, with about 24,000 species in nine subfamilies worldwide, known for looping inchworm larvae and tympanal hearing organs.

Geometric morphometrics

Geometric morphometrics is the statistical analysis of biological form based on landmark coordinates, separating shape from size, position, and orientation; it is widely used in evolutionary biology and aquaculture.

Geometridae

Geometridae, geometer moths, a species-rich Lepidoptera family of nearly 24,000 species in nine subfamilies; larvae are inchworms with two or three proleg pairs, worldwide except Antarctica.

Geomys

Geomys is a genus of fossorial rodents in the family Geomyidae, called eastern pocket gophers, distinguished by two deep grooves on each upper incisor and living in the southeastern United States and northern Mexico.

Geophagia

Geophagia (geophagy), deliberate eating of earth, soil, or clay, a form of pica; documented since Hippocrates, most common in pregnant women and children, best explained as protection from pathogens and toxins, with risks of anemia, obstruction, and heavy metal exposure.

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 Bonne

Georg Bonne (1859–1945) was a German country doctor in Klein-Flottbek and Nienstedten on the Elbe, known as the "Engel von Nienstedten" and a lifelong campaigner for the river's cleanliness.

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 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.