Physical and mathematical scientists

Garik Israelyan

Garik Israelyan, also published as Garik Israelian, is an Armenian astrophysicist at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias in Tenerife, born in Yerevan in 1963.

Garnet K. L. Chan

Garnet K. L. Chan, also known as Garnet Kin-Lic Chan, is a Hong Kong-born theoretical chemist at Caltech known for tensor-network methods in quantum chemistry.

Garret M. Miyake is an American chemist at Colorado State University known for developing organocatalyzed atom transfer radical polymerization (O-ATRP), which makes polymers with organic catalysts and visible light.

Garrett Birkhoff

Garrett Birkhoff (1911–1996) was an American mathematician who spent his career at Harvard and is known for lattice theory, universal algebra, and the textbook Survey of Modern Algebra.

Garrison Sposito

Garrison Sposito (born 1939) is an American environmental soil chemist and chemical physicist, Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, known for his 1999 paper on clay mineral surface geochemistry.

Gary A. Baker

Gary A. Baker is an American analytical chemist at the University of Missouri who studies ionic liquids, carbon nanodots, and SERS, and received a 2008 PECASE award.

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Gary A. Molander

Gary A. Molander is an American organic chemist, Hirschmann-Makineni Professor at the University of Pennsylvania since 1999, known for organotrifluoroborate reagents and photoredox/nickel dual catalysis.

Gary A. Steele

Gary A. Steele is a Canadian physicist, born in Toronto, who works on quantum nanoscience at Delft University of Technology, where he has been a full professor since 2018.

Gary B. Schuster

Gary B. Schuster is a photochemist and Vasser Woolley Professor Emeritus at Georgia Tech, known for the CIEEL chemiluminescence mechanism and for long-distance charge transport in duplex DNA.

Gary Douberly

Gary Douberly is an American physical chemist at the University of Georgia who studies short-lived molecules by helium nanodroplet spectroscopy and received a 2012 PECASE award.

Gary E. Maciel

Gary E. Maciel was an American chemist known for solid-state NMR spectroscopy, who taught at Colorado State University from 1971 and directed its NMR Center.

Gary Gibbons

Gary Gibbons is a British theoretical physicist at Cambridge known for the Euclidean approach to quantum gravity and, with Stephen Hawking, the 1977 discovery that cosmological horizons have temperature and entropy.

Gary Hinshaw

Gary Hinshaw is an American astrophysicist who led data analysis for NASA's WMAP mission, pinning down the universe's age and composition, and won the 2018 Breakthrough Prize.

Gary J. Patti

Gary J. Patti is an American chemist at Washington University in St. Louis who works in metabolomics and lipidomics, measuring small molecules by mass spectrometry.

Gary Keck

Gary E. Keck is an American organic chemist at the University of Utah known for the Keck asymmetric allylation and the first total synthesis of bryostatin 1.

Gary M. Hieftje

Gary M. Hieftje is an American analytical chemist who spent his career at Indiana University, known for atomic spectrometry, chemical instrumentation, aptamer biosensors, and the first ICP time-of-flight mass spectrometer.

Gary P. Wiederrecht

Gary P. Wiederrecht is an American nanoscientist at Argonne National Laboratory, director of its Center for Nanoscale Materials, who won a 1998 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Gary P. Zank

Gary P. Zank is an American space physicist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville who models the solar wind and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2016.

Gary Parker

Gary Parker is a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2017, who studies how rivers and deep-sea currents reshape landscapes through sediment transport.

Gary S. Grest

Gary S. Grest is a computational physicist at Sandia National Laboratories whose molecular dynamics simulations of polymers, colloids, and granular media contributed to the bead-spring model, a standard in polymer simulation.

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Gary Siuzdak

Gary Siuzdak is an American chemist at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, who leads its Center for Metabolomics and created the XCMS software and METLIN database.

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.

Gary W. Brudvig

Gary W. Brudvig is an American chemist at Yale University who studies water oxidation in photosystem II and designs catalysts for artificial photosynthesis and solar fuels.

Gaston Albert Gohierre de Longchamps

Gaston Albert Gohierre de Longchamps (1842–1906) was a French mathematician and lycée professor of mathématiques spéciales, known for the de Longchamps point of a triangle and for editing mathematics journals.

Gaston Julia

Gaston Julia (1893–1978) was a French mathematician, born in Algeria, who co-founded the theory of iteration of rational functions and is remembered for the fractal Julia sets.

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.

Gautam R. Desiraju

Gautam R. Desiraju, born 1952, is an Indian chemist at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, a founder of crystal engineering who introduced the supramolecular synthon.

Gavin A. Schmidt

Gavin A. Schmidt is a climatologist and climate modeler who has directed NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York since 2014 and co-founded RealClimate.

Gavin E. Crooks

Gavin E. Crooks is an English chemist working in America on nonequilibrium thermodynamics and the physics of information, known for the 1999 Crooks fluctuation theorem.