Physicists and astronomers

Gary T. Horowitz

Gary T. Horowitz is an American theoretical physicist, a Distinguished Professor at UC Santa Barbara since 1983, known for work on black holes and quantum gravity.

Gaurav Bahl

Gaurav Bahl is an experimental physicist and professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a 2022 Optica Fellow who demonstrated the first quantized quadrupole topological insulator.

Gavin Salam

Gavin P. Salam is a theoretical particle physicist and professor at Oxford whose work centers on quantum chromodynamics for LHC measurements; he invented the anti-k_t jet algorithm in 2008.

Gen Shirane (1924–2005) was a Japanese-born American condensed matter physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory who used triple-axis neutron spectroscopy to study ferroelectricity, magnetism, and high-Tc superconductivity.

Gene Dresselhaus

Gene Frederick Dresselhaus (1929–2021) was an American solid-state physicist at MIT whose 1955 analysis of spin-orbit coupling in semiconductors gave his name to the Dresselhaus effect, earning him the 2022 Buckley Prize.

Gennady Shvets

Gennady Shvets is a plasma physicist and photonics researcher at Cornell University, known for laser-plasma accelerators, topological photonics, and infrared metasurface biosensing, with more than 140 papers.

Geoffrey A. Blake

Geoffrey A. Blake is an astronomer and chemist at Caltech who studies molecules in star and planet formation, co-authoring the 2011 discovery of ocean-like water in comet Hartley 2.

Geoffrey Beach

Geoffrey S. D. Beach is a materials scientist and Toyota Professor at MIT who studies spin dynamics, domain walls, and skyrmions in magnetic thin films.

Geoffrey Burbidge

Geoffrey Ronald Burbidge (1925–2010) was a British-born astronomer who worked in the United States, co-author of the 1957 B²FH paper on element synthesis in stars.

Geoffrey Chew

Geoffrey Chew (1924–2019) was an American theoretical particle physicist at UC Berkeley who led the S-matrix approach to the strong force and its bootstrap principle, called nuclear democracy.

Geoffrey Ingram Taylor

Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor (1886–1975) was a British physicist and mathematician at Trinity College, Cambridge, known for work on turbulence, shock waves, and plastic deformation.

Geoffrey Marcy

Geoffrey Marcy, born 1954, is an American astronomer who discovered more than 100 exoplanets and resigned from UC Berkeley in 2015 after a harassment investigation.

Geoffrey West

Geoffrey West, born 1940 in England, is a British-born theoretical physicist and Santa Fe Institute professor known for scaling laws of life, cities, and companies.

Georg Ohm

Georg Simon Ohm (1789–1854) was a German physicist who discovered Ohm's law, that current is proportional to voltage, in his 1827 book on galvanic circuits.

George A. Samara

George A. Samara (1936–2006) was an American physicist who spent his 45-year career at Sandia National Laboratories, pioneering high-pressure studies of ferroelectric and dielectric materials.

George B. Field

George B. Field (1929–2024) was an American theoretical astrophysicist, founding director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, known for work on the interstellar medium and magnetic fields.

George B. Pegram

George B. Pegram was an American experimental physicist who spent his career at Columbia University, studied radioactivity and slow neutrons, and helped launch the government's uranium program in 1939.

George Biddell Airy

George Biddell Airy was an English astronomer and mathematician who served as Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881, re-equipped the Royal Observatory, and established the world's prime meridian.

George Clark Southworth

George Clark Southworth (1890–1972) was an American radio physicist at Bell Telephone Laboratories who revived the hollow-pipe waveguide in the 1930s and first measured the sun's microwave radiation.

George Comstock (astronomer)

George Cary Comstock (1855–1934) was an American astronomer, professor at the University of Wisconsin and director of Washburn Observatory, known for measuring stellar aberration and refraction.

George Crabtree

George Crabtree (1944–2023) was an American condensed-matter physicist at Argonne National Laboratory known for work on vortices in high-temperature superconductors and for directing the energy storage research center JCESR.

George D. Watkins

George D. Watkins is an American physicist and Sherman Fairchild Professor Emeritus at Lehigh University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1988, known for identifying defects in semiconductors by magnetic resonance.

George E. Smith

George E. Smith (1930–2025) was an American physicist at Bell Laboratories who co-invented the charge-coupled device, the sensor of digital cameras, and won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics.

George Efstathiou

George Efstathiou is a Cambridge astrophysicist, one of the architects of the standard Lambda cold dark matter model of cosmology, honored with the 2022 RAS Gold Medal.

George Ellery Hale

George Ellery Hale (1868–1938) was an American astronomer who invented the spectroheliograph, discovered magnetic fields in sunspots in 1908, built the Yerkes, Mount Wilson, and Palomar observatories, and founded Caltech.

George F. R. Ellis

George F. R. Ellis, or George Francis Rayner Ellis, is a South African cosmologist at the University of Cape Town known for general relativity and criticizing multiverse proposals.

George Feher

George Feher (1924–2017) was a Czechoslovak-born American physicist, a founding professor of physics at UC San Diego who invented ENDOR spectroscopy and applied it to bacterial photosynthesis, winning the Wolf Prize.

George FitzGerald (Irish physicist)

George Francis FitzGerald was an Irish physicist at Trinity College Dublin who proposed in 1889 that moving bodies contract, and who led the group that established Maxwell's electromagnetic theory.

George Floudas

George Floudas (Γεώργιος Φλούδας) is a Greek polymer and soft-matter physicist, professor at the University of Ioannina and senior visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research.