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Gerald J. Meyer

Gerald J. Meyer is an American chemist at UNC-Chapel Hill known for research on electron transfer in dye-sensitized solar cells and director of the DOE solar hub CHASE since 2020.

Gerald J. Wasserburg

Gerald J. Wasserburg (1927–2016) was an American isotope geochemist at Caltech whose isotopic measurements of meteorites and lunar samples established a time scale for the early solar system.

Gerald Jerry Fishman

Gerald Jerry Fishman, known as Jerry Fishman, is an American NASA astrophysicist born in 1943 who led the BATSE gamma-ray burst experiment and shared the 2011 Shaw Prize in Astronomy.

Gerald Mahan

Gerald Mahan (1937–2021) was an American condensed matter physicist who predicted the x-ray edge singularity, shaped thermoelectrics theory, and wrote the graduate textbook Many-Particle Physics.

Gerald Maurice Clemence

Gerald Maurice Clemence (1908–1974) was an American astronomer in celestial mechanics who worked at the U.S. Naval Observatory and Yale, best known for his theory of the motion of Mars.

Gerald Neugebauer

Gerry Neugebauer (1932–2014) was a German-born American physicist and astronomer at Caltech who founded infrared astronomy, led the Two-Micron Sky Survey and the IRAS mission, and directed Palomar Observatory.

Gerald Pearson

Gerald Pearson (1905–1987) was an American solid-state physicist at Bell Labs who co-invented the first practical silicon solar cell in 1954, then taught electrical engineering at Stanford.

Gerald R. Crabtree

Gerald R. Crabtree is a Stanford professor of pathology and developmental biology, a National Academy of Sciences member known for the calcineurin–NFAT pathway, BAF chromatin remodeling complexes in cancer, and chemically induced proximity.

Gerald Schubert

Gerald Schubert (1939–2025) was an American geophysicist and planetary scientist who spent his career at UCLA, modeled planetary interiors and atmospheres, and served on missions from Apollo to Juno.

Gérald Tenenbaum

Gérald Tenenbaum, born 1952 in Nancy, is a French mathematician specializing in analytic and probabilistic number theory, known for work on divisors, friable integers, and his standard graduate textbook.

Geraldine L. Richmond

Geraldine L. Richmond is an American physical chemist at the University of Oregon known for laser studies of water surfaces, who served as Under Secretary for Science at the Department of Energy from 2021 to 2025.

Gérard Ben Arous

Gérard Ben Arous is a French-born probabilist, Silver Professor of Mathematics at NYU's Courant Institute and its dean since August 2025, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.

Gérard C. Bond

Gérard C. Bond was an American marine geologist at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory who identified the recurring North Atlantic climate cycles now called Bond events.

Gerard De Geer

Baron Gerard Jacob De Geer (1858–1943) was a Swedish geologist who founded varve chronology, counting annual glacial sediment layers to build the Swedish Time Scale, a roughly 13,000-year chronology of Scandinavia's last deglaciation.

Gérard de Vaucouleurs

Gérard de Vaucouleurs (1918–1995) was a French-born astronomer at the University of Texas at Austin, known for the de Vaucouleurs law, a revised galaxy classification, and the Local Supercluster.

Gerard F. Gilmore

Gerard F. Gilmore, known as Gerry Gilmore, is a British galactic astronomer at Cambridge who identified the Milky Way's thick disc and helped lead the Gaia mission.

Gérard Férey

Gérard Férey (1941–2017) was a French inorganic chemist and CNRS research director who pioneered metal-organic frameworks, designing the MIL family of porous materials for gas storage.

Gerard J. Milburn

Gerard J. Milburn is an Australian theoretical physicist at the University of Queensland known for quantum measurement theory and the 2001 KLM scheme for optical quantum computing.

Gerard K. O'Neill

Gerard K. O'Neill, also known as Gerard Kitchen O'Neill, was an American experimental physicist at Princeton University who invented the storage-ring principle behind modern particle colliders.

Gerard Kuiper

Gerard Peter Kuiper was a Dutch-born American astronomer and founder of modern planetary science, known for discovering Titan's atmosphere and the Kuiper Belt.](about 20 words)

Gerard Meijer

Gerard Meijer (born 1962) is a Dutch atomic and molecular physicist at the Fritz-Haber-Institut in Berlin, known for Stark deceleration and electrostatic trapping of cold molecules.

Gérard Mourou

Gérard Mourou, born in 1944 in Albertville, France, is a French physicist who invented chirped pulse amplification, enabling petawatt laser pulses, and won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Gerard Parkin

Gerard Parkin, known informally as Ged Parkin, is an inorganic and organometallic chemist at Columbia University since 1988, known for synthetic models of zinc enzymes and cleaving carbon-carbon bonds.

Gérard Rauzy

Gérard Rauzy (1938–2010) was a French mathematician at the universities of Provence and Aix-Marseille II, known for Rauzy induction, Arnoux–Rauzy sequences, and the Rauzy fractal.

Gerard van Koten

Gerard van Koten, born 1942 in Haarlem, is a Dutch organometallic chemist, emeritus professor at Utrecht University, known for the NCN-pincer ligand platform used in catalysis.

Gerardus 't Hooft

Gerardus 't Hooft, also known as Gerard 't Hooft, is a Dutch theoretical physicist at Utrecht University who shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with his advisor Martinus Veltman.

Géraud Sénizergues

Géraud Sénizergues is a French computer scientist, professor of theoretical computer science at the Université de Bordeaux, who proved in 1997 that DPDA equivalence is decidable.

Gerbrand Ceder

Gerbrand Ceder is a computational materials scientist, professor at UC Berkeley and Senior Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, known for computational materials design, battery cathode discoveries, and co-founding The Materials Project.

Gerd Binnig

Gerd Binnig is a German physicist who co-invented the scanning tunneling microscope at IBM Zurich and won a share of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Gerd Faltings

Gerd Faltings is a German mathematician at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn who proved the Mordell conjecture, won the Fields Medal in 1986, and received the 2026 Abel Prize.