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Gernot Frenking

Gernot Frenking is a theoretical chemist and professor emeritus at Philipps University of Marburg, known for energy decomposition analysis and bonding studies of unusual molecules.

Gerold Schwarzenbach

Gerold Schwarzenbach (1904–1978) was a Swiss chemist, professor at the University of Zürich and then ETH Zürich, who founded complexometric EDTA titration and defined the chelate effect.

Gershom Martin

Gershom Martin, who publishes as Jan M. L. Martin, is a Belgian-born computational quantum chemist and professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for the Wn thermochemistry methods.

Giacinto Scoles

Giacinto Scoles (1935–2024) was an Italian-born physical chemist who pioneered molecular beams, cryogenic bolometer detectors, and helium nanodroplet spectroscopy, and was Donner Professor of Science at Princeton from 1987.

Giacomo Ciamician

Giacomo Luigi Ciamician (1857–1922) was an Italian chemist of Armenian descent who founded organic photochemistry at Bologna, working with Paul Silber, and predicted a solar-powered civilization in 1912.

Gianfranco Pacchioni

Gianfranco Pacchioni is an Italian theoretical chemist and full professor at the University of Milano-Bicocca whose computational work on oxide surfaces and supported metal atoms anticipated single-atom catalysis.

Gideon J. Davies

Gideon J. Davies is a British structural biologist and Professor of Chemistry at the University of York, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2010.

Gilbert N. Lewis

Gilbert N. Lewis, also known as Gilbert Newton Lewis, was an American physical chemist at Berkeley who created Lewis structures, the electron-pair bond, and Lewis acids and bases.

Gilbert Stork

Gilbert Stork was a Belgian-born American organic chemist at Columbia University whose methods for stereochemical control reshaped synthesis, including the Stork enamine alkylation and the first stereoselective quinine synthesis.

Giovanna Barbarella

Giovanna Barbarella is an Italian chemist at the CNR Institute of Organic Synthesis and Photoreactivity in Bologna who introduced oligothiophene S,S-dioxides in 1998 and applied thiophene-based materials to light-emitting devices and fluorescent probes.

Gisbert Schneider

Gisbert Schneider is a Swiss-based biochemist and bioinformatician, Full Professor of Computer-Assisted Drug Design at ETH Zurich since 2010, credited with introducing AI-based drug design and coining "scaffold hopping".

Giulio Natta

Giulio Natta was an Italian chemist at the Politecnico di Milano who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Karl Ziegler for polymer chemistry.

Giuseppe Bellussi

Giuseppe Bellussi is an Italian industrial chemist who spent his career leading catalysis research at Eni, rising to Senior Vice President for Research and Development.

Giuseppe Oddo

Giuseppe Oddo (1865–1954) was an Italian chemist born at Caltavuturo near Palermo, the last exponent of Cannizzaro's Palermo chemical school, remembered for an early bicyclic structure of camphor and the mesoidria hypothesis.

Gleb Yushin

Gleb Yushin (Глеб Юшин) is a materials scientist, professor at Georgia Tech, and co-founder and chief technology officer of Sila Nanotechnologies, known for silicon-carbon battery anodes.

Glenn C. Micalizio

Glenn C. Micalizio is an American organic chemist who joined UC Irvine in 2025, known for titanium-mediated reductive cross-coupling reactions and the synthesis of the non-opioid analgesic conolidine.

Glenn Martyna

Glenn J. Martyna is a computational physicist and chemist known for the Nosé–Hoover chain thermostat and the Martyna–Tobias–Klein equations for constant-pressure molecular dynamics, developed in the 1990s.

Glenn T. Seaborg

Glenn T. Seaborg (1912–1999) was an American nuclear chemist at Berkeley who co-discovered plutonium and nine other elements, won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and chaired the Atomic Energy Commission.

Gonçalo Bernardes

Gonçalo Bernardes is a Portuguese chemical biologist, Professor of Chemical Biology at the University of Cambridge, known for site-selective protein modification and targeted cancer therapeutics, and co-founded four companies.

Goran Ungar

Goran Ungar is a polymer and liquid crystal scientist and Emeritus Professor of Polymers and Organic Materials at the University of Sheffield, known for discovering the first liquid quasicrystals.

Gordon Hammes

Gordon Hammes is an American biochemist and Duke University professor known for enzyme kinetics and single-molecule studies of enzyme dynamics, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1973.

Gottfried Otting

Gottfried Otting is an Australian-based biomolecular NMR spectroscopist and Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University, known for protein hydration studies and lanthanide tagging for determining protein structures by NMR.

Govindasamy Mugesh

Govindasamy Mugesh, born 1970, is an Indian bioinorganic and medicinal chemist, professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, winner of the 2012 Bhatnagar and 2019 Infosys Prizes.

Graeme Henkelman

Graeme Henkelman is a Canadian-born computational materials chemist at the University of Texas at Austin, known for the climbing-image nudged elastic band and dimer methods for finding saddle points.

Graeme Moad

Graeme Moad is an Australian chemist and CSIRO Fellow who co-invented RAFT polymerization at CSIRO in 1996, a controlled radical technique used by over 100 companies worldwide, and was elected to the Royal Society in 2023.

Graham J. Hutchings

Graham J. Hutchings, also known as G. J. Hutchings, is a British chemist and Regius Professor at Cardiff University, a pioneer of catalysis by gold.

Greg G. Qiao

Greg G. Qiao, also known as Greg Qiao, is an Australian polymer scientist and professor at the University of Melbourne, leading its Polymer Science Group.

Gregory A. Sotzing

Gregory A. Sotzing, also published as G.A. Sotzing, is an American polymer chemist and professor at the University of Connecticut working on electrochromic polymers and dielectric energy storage.

Gregory C. Fu

Gregory C. Fu is an American chemist and Norman Chandler Professor of Chemistry at Caltech, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014, known for nickel- and copper-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions and asymmetric nucleophilic catalysis.

Gregory H. Robinson

Gregory H. Robinson is an American synthetic inorganic chemist at the University of Georgia, known for the first stable neutral diborene and a carbene-stabilized diatomic silicon molecule.