Physicists and astronomers

George Fytas

George Fytas (Γεώργιος Φυτάς) is a Greek physical chemist who studies hypersonic phonons in polymers and colloids, professor at the University of Crete until 2016.

George Gamow (Георгий Антонович Гамов)

George Gamow (Георгий Антонович Гамов), 1904 to 1968, was a Russian-born American theoretical physicist who explained alpha decay, initiated Big Bang nucleosynthesis, and popularized science.

George Gloeckler

George Gloeckler, born 1937 in Odessa, Ukraine, is an American space physicist at the University of Maryland who discovered interstellar pickup ions and designed instruments for Ulysses and ACE.

George H. Markstein (1911–2011) was a combustion scientist at Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory in Buffalo who showed that a flame's burning velocity depends on stretch, giving the Markstein length and number, standard parameters in flame theory.

George H. Trilling

George H. Trilling (1930–2020) was an American experimental particle physicist at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, known for strange-particle work and the SLAC–LBL discovery of the J/ψ particle and tau lepton.

George Herbig

George Herbig (1920–2013) was an American astronomer, regarded as the father of star-formation studies, who spent over seventy years studying how stars are born at Lick Observatory and in Hawaii.

George Howard Darwin

George Howard Darwin (1845–1912) was an English astronomer, the second son of Charles Darwin, and Plumian Professor at Cambridge who founded the mathematical theory of tidal friction.

George K. Burgess

George K. Burgess (1874–1932) was an American physicist, known for high-temperature measurement and metallurgy, who directed the National Bureau of Standards from 1923 until his death.

George M. Homsy

George M. "Bud" Homsy (1943–2024) was an American fluid mechanician known for research on viscous fingering and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006.

George M. Zaslavsky

George M. Zaslavsky (Заславский Георгий Моисеевич; 1935–2008) was a Soviet and American physicist, one of three founders of Hamiltonian chaos theory, known for the Zaslavsky map and fractional kinetics.

George Michael Morris

G. Michael Morris is an American optical engineer who spent 19 years as Professor of Optics at Rochester and founded three photonics companies, including RPC Photonics.

George Paget Thomson

George Paget Thomson (1892–1975) was a British physicist who shared the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering electron diffraction, and later chaired the MAUD atomic bomb committee.

George Pake

George Pake was an American condensed matter physicist who founded and led Xerox PARC from 1970, and whose 1948 NMR work became a cornerstone of MRI research.

George Rochester

George Dixon Rochester (1908–2001) was a British cosmic-ray physicist who, with Clifford Butler, discovered the first strange particle, the V-particle, in cloud-chamber photographs at Manchester, published in Nature in 1947.

George Savvidy

George Savvidy (Georgios Savvidis) is a theoretical physicist at the Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics of NCSR Demokritos in Athens, best known for his 1977 prediction of the Savvidy vacuum.

George Smoot

George Smoot was an American astrophysicist and cosmologist who led the 1992 detection of fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background, sharing the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics.

George Sudarshan

George Sudarshan (1931–2018) was an Indian-American theoretical physicist who, with Robert Marshak, co-formulated the V-A theory of weak interactions and contributed to quantum optics and open quantum systems.

George Uhlenbeck

George Eugene Uhlenbeck (1900–1988) was a Dutch-American theoretical physicist who proposed electron spin with Samuel Goudsmit in 1925, developed the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process, and won the Wolf Prize.

George Volkoff

George Volkoff (1914–2000) was a Russian-Canadian physicist who, with Oppenheimer in 1939, co-predicted the maximum mass of neutron stars, the Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff limit, and built physics research at the University of British Columbia.

George W. Clark

George W. Clark was an American MIT physicist and astronomer, a pioneer of X-ray astronomy who took part in the 1962 discovery of Sco X-1.

George W. Preston

George W. Preston is an American astronomer and Director Emeritus of the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, known for his spectroscopic work on RR Lyrae stars and metal-poor stars.

George Walter Stewart

George Walter Stewart (1876–1956) was an American physicist and acoustician who invented the acoustic filter and built the University of Iowa physics department into a doctoral program.

George Wetherill

George Wetherill (1925–2006) was an American physicist and planetary scientist at the Carnegie Institution whose simulations of planet formation earned him the title father of Earth-formation models.

George William Hill

George William Hill (1838–1914) was an American astronomer and mathematician who rebuilt the theory of the Moon's motion, working alone on a farm in West Nyack, New York.

George Wulff

George Wulff, also known as Georg or Yuri Viktorovich Wulff (Вульф Георгий Викторович), was a Russian and Soviet crystallographer who created the Wulff construction and net.

George Zweig

George Zweig is an American physicist and neurobiologist who, at CERN in 1964, independently proposed the quark model, calling its constituents aces; he won the 2015 J. J. Sakurai Prize.

Georges Charpak

Georges Charpak (1924–2010) was a Polish-born French physicist at CERN and ESPCI Paris who won the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the multiwire proportional particle detector.

Georges Destriau

Georges Destriau (1903–1960) was a French physicist known as the discoverer of electroluminescence in phosphors, a phenomenon long called the "effet Destriau", and later worked at Westinghouse Electric.

Geraint F. Lewis

Geraint F. Lewis, born in Neath, Wales in 1969, is a Welsh astrophysicist at the University of Sydney who studies cosmology, galactic cannibalism, and dark energy.