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George V. Mann
George V. Mann (1917–2013) was an American physician and biochemist at Vanderbilt whose Maasai field studies and 1977 editorial "Diet-Heart: End of an Era" made him a leading critic of the diet-heart hypothesis.
George Van Smith
George Van Siclen Smith (1900–1984) was an American gynecology researcher who spent his career at Harvard Medical School and the Free Hospital for Women in Boston.
George W. Corner
George W. Corner (1889–1981) was an American anatomist and reproductive physiologist who helped identify progesterone, proposed its name in 1935, and led the Carnegie Institution's Department of Embryology.
George W. Sledge
George W. Sledge is an American medical oncologist who spent 30 years at Indiana University, led the TAILORx and MONARCH 2 breast cancer trials, and served as ASCO president.
George W. Thorn
George W. Thorn (1906–2004) was an American endocrinologist, Hersey Professor at Harvard and Physician-in-Chief at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, known for treating Addison's disease.
George Wald
George Wald (1906–1997) was an American biologist at Harvard who identified vitamin A as the light-absorbing molecule of vision, winning the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
George Washington Tryon
George Washington Tryon Jr. (1838-1889) was a Philadelphia malacologist who founded the American Journal of Conchology, led the Academy of Natural Sciences' Conchological Section from 1866, and began the Manual of Conchology, continued by Pilsbry.
George Watt (physician)
George Watt is a United States Army physician and infectious disease researcher at AFRIMS in Bangkok, known for clinical trials on scrub typhus treatment in northern Thailand.
George Weber (biochemist)
George Weber was a biochemist and physician at the Indiana University School of Medicine who founded the enzymology of cancer cells and developed the Molecular Correlation Concept.
George William Bartelmez
George William Bartelmez (1885–1967) was an American embryologist who spent most of his career at the University of Chicago and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1949.
George Yancopoulos
George Damis Yancopoulos is an American physician-scientist and co-founder of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. He is known for his work in molecular immunology, having been the principal inventor of nine FDA-approved medicines.
George‐Lucian Moldovan
George-Lucian Moldovan is a Romanian-trained molecular biologist, professor and Vice Chair for Research at Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, Pennsylvania, who studies DNA replication stress and genomic stability.
Georges Barski
Georges Barski (1909–1985) was a Polish-born French biologist who discovered somatic cell hybridization at the Institut Gustave-Roussy in Villejuif, a technique that later enabled gene mapping and monoclonal antibodies.
Georges Bourguignon
Georges Bourguignon (1876–1963) was a French physician and neurophysiologist who first applied chronaxie to human subjects, building clinical electrodiagnosis at the Salpêtrière hospital in Paris.
Georges de Morsier
Georges de Morsier (1894–1982) was a Swiss neurologist in Geneva who created Switzerland's first hospital neurology unit and is remembered for de Morsier syndrome, the older name for septo-optic dysplasia.
Georges Köhler
Georges Köhler (1946–1995) was a German immunologist who co-developed the hybridoma technique for monoclonal antibodies and shared the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Georges Mer
Georges Mer is a structural biologist and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who studies chromatin modifications in DNA damage repair.
Georges-Fernand Widal
Georges-Fernand Widal (1862–1929) was a French physician and bacteriologist at Hôpital Cochin in Paris who introduced the typhoid agglutination test in 1896 and helped immunize the French army against typhoid.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–1788), French naturalist, Intendant of the Jardin du Roi, author of the 44-volume Histoire naturelle and Époques de la Nature; defined species by fertile reproduction, not transformist.
Georgii P. Georgiev
Georgii Pavlovich Georgiev (Георгий Павлович Георгиев) is a Soviet and Russian molecular biologist, born in Leningrad in 1933, who discovered nuclear dRNA as the precursor of messenger RNA.
Georgina M. Mace
Dame Georgina M. Mace (1953–2020) was a British conservation scientist, professor at University College London, who developed the IUCN Red List criteria for assessing species extinction risk.
Georgina V. Long
Georgina V. Long is an Australian medical oncologist and melanoma researcher, Medical Director of Melanoma Institute Australia and a professor at the University of Sydney, named 2024 Australian of the Year.
Georgios Cotzias
Georgios Cotzias (1918–1977) was a Greek-born American physician and National Academy of Sciences member whose high-dose oral L-DOPA treatment reversed Parkinsonism, a milestone in neurology.
Georgios P. Chrousos
Georgios P. Chrousos is a Greek pediatric endocrinologist, born in Patras in 1951, known for work on the HPA axis, glucocorticoid resistance, and the stress system, and elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
Georgios Papanikolaou (Γεώργιος Νικολάου Παπανικολάου)
Georgios Papanikolaou (Γεώργιος Νικολάου Παπανικολάου), also George Nicholas Papanicolaou, Greek physician (1883–1962) who invented the Pap smear; reported vaginal-smear cancer diagnosis in 1928, validated it with Traut in 1943, and cut cervical cancer mortality.
Georgios Skiniotis
Georgios Skiniotis is a structural biologist known for cryo-EM structures of GPCR–G protein and β-arrestin complexes, who won the 2011 PECASE and joined St. Jude in 2024.
Geosiphon
Geosiphon (Geosiphon pyriformis, synonym G. pyriforme) is a rare glomeromycotan soil fungus in Archaeosporales that uniquely hosts the cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme inside bladder-like vesicles instead of forming arbuscular mycorrhiza with plants.
Geosmin synthase
Geosmin synthase (SCO6073, geoA) is a bifunctional bacterial terpene cyclase from Streptomyces coelicolor that converts farnesyl diphosphate to germacradienol, then to geosmin and acetone, using only Mg2+; the cause of earthy soil and water odors.
Geospiza
Geospiza, the ground finches of the Galápagos established by John Gould in 1837, is a genus of Darwin's finches in Thraupidae, with six traditionally recognized species whose beak evolution is driven by seed diet, the ALX1 locus, and hybridization.
Geothlypis
Geothlypis (yellowthroats) is a genus of New World wood-warblers, Parulidae, established by Cabanis in 1847, with about nine species of marsh and thicket birds, yellow-bellied and black-masked, including the Common Yellowthroat.