Physical and mathematical scientists

G. T. Ewan

G. T. Ewan, born George Ewan, was a Canadian nuclear physicist at Chalk River and Queen's University who pioneered germanium gamma-ray spectroscopy and co-founded the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory.

G. V. Belyi

G. V. Belyi is a Soviet mathematician known for Belyi's theorem, proved in 1979 with a famously simple proof, which underlies Grothendieck's theory of dessins d'enfants.

G. W. Pierce, full name George Washington Pierce, was an American physicist at Harvard who invented the Pierce oscillator, fixing radio transmitter frequencies, and directed Cruft Laboratory from 1914.

G.H. Hardy

G.H. Hardy, full name Godfrey Harold Hardy (1877–1947), was an English mathematician at Cambridge and Oxford, known for the Hardy–Ramanujan partition formula and the Hardy–Weinberg principle.

Gábor A. Somorjai

Gábor A. Somorjai (1935–2025) was a Hungarian-born American chemist at UC Berkeley who founded the molecular surface science of heterogeneous catalysis and won the Wolf, Priestley, and Fermi awards.

Gábor Csányi

Gábor Csányi is a Hungarian-born computational scientist and Professor of Molecular Modelling at Cambridge, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2025, known for machine-learned interatomic potentials like Gaussian approximation potentials.

Gábor Szegő

Gábor Szegő (1895–1985) was a Hungarian-born classical analyst whose work on Toeplitz determinants and orthogonal polynomials named the Szegő kernel, limit theorem, and curve; he led Stanford's mathematics department from 1938.

Gábor Tardos

Gábor Tardos, born 1964 in Budapest, is a Hungarian combinatorics researcher at the Rényi Institute who won the 2020 Gödel Prize with Robin Moser for the constructive Lovász local lemma.

Gábor Tusnády

Gábor Tusnády is a Hungarian mathematician and Research Fellow at the Rényi Institute in Budapest, best known for the 1975 Komlós–Major–Tusnády strong approximation theorems and Tusnády's inequality, and a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

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Gabriel A. Vecchi

Gabriel A. Vecchi is a climate scientist, the Knox Taylor Professor of Geosciences at Princeton University, known for research on hurricanes, El Niño, monsoons, and climate change attribution.

Gabriel Aeppli

Gabriel Aeppli, born 1956, is a condensed matter physicist known for work on quantum magnetism, professor at ETH Zürich and head of Photon Science at the Paul Scherrer Institut.

Gabriel Andrew Dirac

Gabriel Andrew Dirac, born Gábor Balázs, was a Hungarian-born graph theorist and stepson of physicist Paul Dirac, best known for his 1952 Hamiltonian cycle theorem.

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Gabriel George Katul

Gabriel George Katul is a hydrologist and micrometeorologist, the Theodore S. Coile Distinguished Professor at Duke University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.

Gabriel Kotliar

Gabriel Kotliar, born in Cordoba, Argentina in 1957, is a condensed matter theorist at Rutgers University known as a founding father of dynamical mean-field theory.

Gabriel Lippmann

Gabriel Lippmann, born in Hollerich, Luxembourg, in 1845, was a French physicist at the Sorbonne who won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physics for his method of reproducing colors photographically based on interference.

Gabriel Perez-Giz

Gabriel Perez-Giz is an astrophysicist who studies black-hole orbital dynamics, was the first writer and host of PBS Space Time on YouTube, and teaches at NYU Tandon.

Gabriel Popescu (Romanian physicist)

Gabriel Popescu was a Romanian physicist who pioneered quantitative phase imaging, a label-free microscopy method, as a distinguished professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign until his death in 2022.

Gabriel Stein

Gabriel Stein (1920–1976) was a physical chemist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem known as a pioneer in the radiation chemistry of nucleotides and radiobiology.

Gabriel van Oordt

Gabriel van Oordt, published as G. van Oordt, was a student of Fritz Haber at Karlsruhe and co-author of the 1905 paper on the formation of ammonia from the elements.

Gabriela González

Gabriela González, born 1965 in Córdoba, Argentina, is a physicist at Louisiana State University who served as LIGO spokesperson from 2011 to 2017, during the first gravitational-wave detection.

Gabriele Hegerl

Gabriele C. Hegerl is a climate scientist and Professor of Climate System Science at the University of Edinburgh, known for detection and attribution of climate change.

Gabriele Veneziano

Gabriele Veneziano is a theoretical physicist whose 1968 amplitude, built from the Euler beta function, is usually regarded as marking the birth of string theory.

Gaetano Guerra

Gaetano Guerra is an Italian polymer scientist and professor emeritus of Chemistry at the University of Salerno, internationally known for work on co-crystalline and nanoporous-crystalline phases of syndiotactic polystyrene.

Gaetano Scorza

Gaetano Scorza (1876–1939) was an Italian mathematician who worked on algebraic geometry, abelian functions, Riemann matrices, and algebras, and gave his name to the Scorza curve and Scorza varieties.

Galen D. Stucky

Galen D. Stucky (G. D. Stucky) is an American inorganic and materials chemist at UC Santa Barbara, known for synthesizing mesoporous silicas such as SBA-15.

Ganesha Daivajna

Ganesha Daivajna (Gaṇeśa Daivajña, born 1507) was an Indian astronomer and mathematician of Nandigram whose Grahalaghava, an astronomical handbook with epoch 1520, is still used by almanac-makers.

Gang Ren

Gang Ren (任罡) is a Chinese electron microscopist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory known for determining the 3.7 Å structure of the AQP1 water channel.

Gang Tian

Gang Tian (田刚) is a Chinese mathematician known for work on Kähler–Einstein metrics and for introducing K-stability, who held the Eugene Higgins Professorship at Princeton and directs BICMR in Beijing.

Gang Wu (chemist)

Gang Wu is a Professor of Chemistry at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, known for developing NMR methods for quadrupolar nuclei, especially oxygen-17, and for 2014 work on N-heterocyclic carbene monolayers on gold.