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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.
Gédéon Dagan
Gedeon Dagan, born in Romania in 1932, is an Israeli hydrogeologist and Tel Aviv University professor emeritus, founder of stochastic subsurface hydrology and winner of the 1998 Stockholm Water Prize.
Geert-Jan Boons
Geert-Jan Boons is a chemical biologist and glycoscientist, professor at the University of Georgia and Utrecht University, known for chemoenzymatic methods that make complex glycans accessible in pure form.
Geert–Jan Kroes
Geert-Jan Kroes (born 1961) is a Dutch theoretical chemist and full professor at Leiden University, known for computer simulations of molecule–surface reaction dynamics and SRP-DFT.
Gen Shirane
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.
Geoff Brown
Geoffrey Charles Brown, known as Geoff Brown, was a British geophysicist and volcanologist at The Open University who pioneered volcano monitoring by microgravity and died in the 1993 Galeras eruption.
Geoff W. Coates
Geoffrey W. Coates, born 1966, is an American polymer chemist and Tisch University Professor at Cornell known for catalysts that turn carbon dioxide into recyclable polymers.
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 A. Ozin
Geoffrey A. Ozin is a Canadian materials chemist at the University of Toronto, widely called the father of nanochemistry, and won the 2011 Albert Einstein World Award of Science.
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 Blewitt
Geoffrey Blewitt is an American geophysicist at the University of Nevada, Reno, known for making GPS precise to the millimeter and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.
Geoffrey Bodenhausen
Geoffrey Bodenhausen (born 1951) is a Dutch-born French NMR spectroscopist, a pioneer of multidimensional NMR and professor emeritus at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
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 Colin Shephard
Geoffrey Colin Shephard (1927–2016) was a British mathematician who worked on convex geometry and reflection groups, co-authoring the 1954 Shephard–Todd classification and the book Tilings and Patterns.
Geoffrey Eglinton
Geoffrey Eglinton (1927–2016) was a British chemist whose insights into the geological fate of organic compounds made him the father of modern organic geochemistry and pioneer of molecular-fossil research.
Geoffrey Horrocks (mathematician)
Geoffrey Horrocks was a British mathematician who worked on vector bundles on projective space, a professor at Newcastle University until 1998, and namesake of the Horrocks construction, the Horrocks–Mumford bundle, and monads.
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 W. Coates
Geoffrey W. Coates (born 1966) is an American chemist, the Tisch University Professor at Cornell University, known for catalysts that make polymers from carbon dioxide and recyclable plastics.
Geoffrey Watson
Geoffrey Stuart Watson (1921–1998) was an Australian statistician who co-invented the Durbin–Watson test, co-authored the Nadaraya–Watson estimator, and founded directional statistics while chairing Princeton's statistics department.
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.
Geoffrey Wilkinson
Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921–1996) was a British inorganic chemist at Imperial College London who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on organometallic sandwich compounds.
Geoffroy Hautier
Geoffroy Hautier is a computational materials scientist, Trustee Professor at Rice University, co-developer of the Materials Project database, and a 2025 fellow of the American Physical Society.
Geologist
A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid Earth, including its composition, structure, processes, and history, and applies that knowledge to locating resources and assessing hazards.
Geordie Williamson
Geordie Williamson, born 1981, is an Australian mathematician and University of Sydney professor who found counterexamples to Lusztig's 1980 character formula conjecture and won the 2017 New Horizons Prize.
Georg Alexander Pick
Georg Alexander Pick (1859–1942) was an Austrian mathematician who spent his career at the German University in Prague, proved Pick's theorem in 1899, and was Albert Einstein's close friend and colleague during Einstein's Prague years.
Georg Bredig
Georg Bredig (1868–1944) was a German physical chemist regarded as the founder of catalysis research, known for Bredig's arc method, zwitterions, and asymmetric catalysis; driven from Karlsruhe by the Nazis, he died in New York.