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Georges Bouligand
Georges Bouligand (1889–1979) was a French mathematician who worked in analysis, geometry, and topology, taught at the Sorbonne, and introduced the box-counting, or Minkowski–Bouligand, dimension in 1928.
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 Chaudron
Georges Chaudron (Georges Léon Chaudron) was a French chemist who devised the Chaudron diagram for iron-oxide reduction and led the École nationale supérieure de chimie de Paris.
Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier, also known as Baron Cuvier, full name Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier, was a French naturalist (1769–1832) who founded paleontology and comparative anatomy, demonstrated extinction, and proposed catastrophism.
Georges de Rham
Georges de Rham (1903–1990) was a Swiss mathematician, professor at Lausanne and Geneva, whose 1931 thesis proved de Rham's theorem and who created de Rham cohomology and the theory of currents.
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.
Georges Fontené
Georges Fontené (1848–1923) was a French mathematician and Paris school inspector known for the Rouché-Fontené theorem on linear equations, and for work on hyperspace geometry and Poncelet's theorem.
Georges Glaeser
Georges Glaeser (1918–2002) was a French mathematician and educator who worked in analysis, proving the Glaeser inequality and a 1963 theorem on composing differentiable functions, before directing the IREM of Strasbourg.
Georges Guiochon
Georges Guiochon (1931–2014) was a French-born analytical chemist known for the theory of nonlinear chromatography and preparative separations, and a Distinguished Scientist at the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Georges Hadziioannou
Georges Hadziioannou is a Greek-born French polymer scientist, Emeritus Professor at the University of Bordeaux, known for semiconducting polymers for printable electronics and solar cells.
Georges Reeb
Georges Reeb (1920–1993) was a French mathematician from Alsace who founded foliation theory, proving Reeb's theorem and creating the Reeb graph and foliation of the 3-sphere.
Georges Urbain
Georges Urbain (1872–1938) was a French chemist who discovered lutetium by separating ytterbium in 1907, won a 1909 priority ruling over Auer von Welsbach, and taught mineral chemistry at the Sorbonne.
Georgia Destouni
Georgia Destouni, born 1961 in Greece, is a Swedish-based hydrologist, professor at Stockholm University since 2005, known for quantifying global human water consumption and drought effects on runoff.
Georgios C. Papanicolaou
George C. Papanicolaou is an American applied mathematician at Stanford University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2000, known for waves and diffusion in random media and financial mathematics.
Georgius Agricola
Georgius Agricola, born Georg Bauer, was a German scholar, physician, and mineralogist whose De re metallica (1556) remained the standard European mining and metallurgy text for two centuries.
Georgiy Shilov
Georgiy Shilov (Георгий Евгеньевич Шилов, 1917–1975) was a Soviet mathematician at Moscow State University who made foundational contributions to commutative Banach algebra theory and generalized functions.
Georgiy Shulpin
Georgiy Borisovich Shul'pin (Георгий Борисович Шульпин, 1946–2023) was a Russian chemist at the Semenov Institute in Moscow who developed vanadium and manganese systems for oxidizing alkane C–H bonds with hydrogen peroxide.
Georgy Adelson-Velsky
Georgy Adelson-Velsky, full name Georgy Maksimovich Adelson-Velsky, was a Soviet and Israeli mathematician who co-invented the AVL tree and led Kaissa, winner of the first World Computer Chess Championship in 1974.
Georgy Golitsyn
Georgy Golitsyn, also known as Georgy Sergeevich Golitsyn (Георгий Сергеевич Голицын), was a Russian atmospheric physicist who developed a similarity theory of planetary atmospheric circulation and made the first estimates of nuclear war's climatic effects.
Georgy Voronoy
Georgy Voronoy (1868–1908) was a mathematician of the Russian Empire, born in Ukraine, who created Voronoi diagrams and co-founded the geometry of numbers with Hermann Minkowski.
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.
Gerald A. Meehl
Gerald A. Meehl is an American climate scientist at NCAR in Boulder, Colorado, known for his 1996 El Niño-like warming paper and 2004 heat-wave projections.
Gerald Dolan
Gerald J. Dolan (1945–2008) was a physicist at Bell Labs and IBM's Watson Research Center known for the Dolan bridge technique used to fabricate the Josephson junctions in superconducting qubits.
Gerald E. Brown
Gerald E. Brown (1926–2013) was an American theoretical physicist at Stony Brook University known for nuclear physics, Brown–Rho scaling, and supernova theory with Hans Bethe.
Gerald G. Brown
Gerald G. Brown is an American operations researcher and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2008.
Gerald Gabrielse
Gerald Gabrielse is an American physicist and Northwestern University Professor. He holds the world's most precise measurements of the electron magnetic moment and discovered cold antihydrogen atoms.
Gerald Goertzel
Gerald Goertzel (died 2002) was an American theoretical physicist and computer scientist known for the 1958 Goertzel algorithm, widely used for detecting tones in DTMF telephone signaling.
Gerald Guralnik
Gerald Guralnik, also known as Gerald Stanford Guralnik, was an American theoretical physicist who co-authored a 1964 paper describing how elementary particles acquire mass, spending 47 years on the Brown University faculty.
Gerald Haug
Gerald H. Haug is a German paleoclimatologist who reconstructs past climate from ocean and lake sediment cores and directs climate geochemistry at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry.
Gerald J. Lieberman
Gerald J. Lieberman (1925–1999) was an American industrial engineer and statistician, a Stanford professor known for sampling inspection and reliability research and for the standard textbook Introduction to Operations Research.