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George P. Canellos
George P. Canellos is an American medical oncologist known for combination chemotherapy for Hodgkin's disease, first at the National Cancer Institute and then as founding chief of medical oncology at Dana-Farber.
George P. Chrousos
George P. Chrousos, born 1951 in Patras, Greece, is a Greek pediatric endocrinologist known for systematizing the stress system concept and serving as President of the Hellenic Pasteur Institute.
George P. Hess
George P. Hess (1922–2015) was an American biochemist who spent 60 years at Cornell University developing rapid chemical-kinetic techniques that made neurotransmitter receptors measurable on millisecond time scales.
George Patton
George C Patton (1954–2022) was an Australian child and adolescent psychiatrist at Melbourne's Centre for Adolescent Health who chaired the 2016 Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health.
George Perkins Clinton
George Perkins Clinton (1867–1937) was an American botanist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station from 1902 to 1937, known for his monographs on the smut fungi of North America and Connecticut.
George Pickering (British physician)
Sir George White Pickering (1904–1980) was a British physician who showed that high blood pressure is the upper end of a continuous distribution, not a distinct disease.
George Pomeroy Sayre
George Pomeroy Sayre (born 1911) was an American physician and pathologist at the Mayo Clinic who co-described Kearns-Sayre syndrome with Thomas P. Kearns in 1958.
George Poste
George Poste is a British-born scientist, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1997, who led research and development at SmithKline Beecham and now works at Arizona State University.
George Q. Daley
George Q. Daley, also known as George Daley, is an American physician-scientist and dean of Harvard Medical School known for stem cell science and cancer biology.
George R. Buchanan
George R. Buchanan is an American pediatric hematologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas who led sickle cell research and co-chaired 2014 national treatment guidelines.
George R. Fraser
George R. Fraser, also known as George Robert Fraser, is a human geneticist born in 1932 who delineated Fraser syndrome and studied deafness and blindness in childhood.
George R. Minot
George R. Minot, also known as George Richards Minot, was an American Harvard physician whose liver diet reversed pernicious anemia, earning the 1934 Nobel Prize.
George R. Siber
George R. Siber is a Canadian-trained physician-scientist and vaccinologist who led development of childhood vaccines against pneumococcus and Hib, winning the 2016 Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal.
George R. Siggins
George Robert Siggins was an American neuroscientist who used electrophysiology to show how norepinephrine and alcohol act on single neurons, working at NIMH, the Salk Institute, and Scripps.
George R. Stark
George R. Stark (born 1933) is an American biochemist and National Academy of Sciences member whose laboratory named the Northern blot and helped discover the JAK-STAT pathway.
George R. Uhl
George R. Uhl is an American neuroscientist and board-certified neurologist known for cloning the cocaine-sensitive dopamine transporter and for genetic and transporter-based studies of addiction, now a professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
George S. Alexopoulos
George S. Alexopoulos is an American psychiatrist and Professor Emeritus at Weill Cornell Medical College, known for the Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia and the vascular depression hypothesis.
George S. Eisenbarth
George S. Eisenbarth (1947–2012) was an American diabetologist and immunologist who established type 1 diabetes as a chronic autoimmune disease, arguing insulin is its principal autoantigen.
George S. Kurland
George S. Kurland was an American cardiologist and clinical investigator at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, known for inducing hypothyroidism with radioactive iodine to treat severe heart disease.
George Sachs
George Sachs (1935–2019) was an Austrian-born physician-scientist who trained in Edinburgh, identified the gastric proton pump at UCLA, and helped develop omeprazole, the first proton pump inhibitor.
George Schaller
George Beals Schaller, born 1933 in Berlin, is an American field biologist whose first-in-the-wild studies of mountain gorillas, lions, tigers, and giant pandas reshaped how large mammals are observed and protected.
George Seidel
George E. Seidel Jr. (1943–2021) was an American reproductive physiologist at Colorado State University whose laboratory turned embryo transfer, embryo splitting, and sexed semen into working cattle-industry tools.
George Spahn
George Spahn, blind elderly owner of the Spahn Movie Ranch near Chatsworth, California, who let Charles Manson and the Manson Family live and work on his western film set and horse ranch in 1968-1969.
George Sperling
George Sperling is an American vision scientist at the University of California, Irvine, best known for the 1960 partial-report experiments that demonstrated iconic memory, the brief visual store holding a whole scene.
George Stamatoyannopoulos
George Stamatoyannopoulos (1934–2018) was a Greek-born American geneticist and hematologist at the University of Washington whose fetal hemoglobin research underlies modern sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia therapies.
George Streisinger
George Streisinger (1927–1984) was a Hungarian-born American molecular biologist and geneticist at the University of Oregon who worked on T-even phage genetics and in 1981 published the first method for cloning a vertebrate, using zebrafish.
George Sugihara
George Sugihara is a theoretical ecologist and professor of biological oceanography at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, known for empirical dynamic modeling, convergent cross mapping, and early-warning signals of ecological collapse.
George Sumner Huntington
George Sumner Huntington (1861–1927) was an American comparative anatomist who held Columbia University's anatomy chair for 35 years and pioneered linking evolutionary theory with human anatomy.
George Thomas (molecular biologist)
George Thomas is an American molecular biologist known for purifying and cloning S6K1 and S6K2, kinases downstream of mTORC1, and for work linking S6K1 to obesity and diabetes.
George Tiller
George Tiller (1941-2009), Wichita, Kansas physician and medical director of Women's Health Care Services, one of few US providers of late-term abortions; survived a 1986 clinic bombing and 1993 shooting, was acquitted in 2009, then murdered by Scott Roeder.