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Gilles Holst
Gilles Holst (1886–1968) was a Dutch physicist who took part in the 1911 Leiden discovery of superconductivity and founded Philips' NatLab, pioneering industrial research in the Netherlands.
Gilles Pisier
Gilles Pisier is a French mathematician, born in 1950 in New Caledonia, known for Banach space geometry, operator space theory, and results including the K-convexity characterization.
Gino Fano
Gino Fano (1871–1952) was an Italian mathematician born in Mantua, regarded as the founder of finite geometry and known for the Fano plane and Fano varieties central to modern algebraic geometry.
Giorgio Bellettini
Giorgio Bellettini is an Italian experimental particle physicist who helped found the CDF experiment at Fermilab and was co-spokesperson when the top quark was discovered in 1995.
Giorgio Parisi
Giorgio Parisi is an Italian theoretical physicist at Sapienza University of Rome, awarded half of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on spin glasses.
Giovanna Barbarella
Giovanna Barbarella is an Italian chemist at the CNR Institute of Organic Synthesis and Photoreactivity in Bologna who introduced oligothiophene S,S-dioxides in 1998 and applied thiophene-based materials to light-emitting devices and fluorescent probes.
Giovanni Amelino-Camelia
Giovanni Amelino-Camelia, born 1965 in Naples, is an Italian quantum-gravity physicist at the University of Naples Federico II who proposed doubly special relativity and helped establish quantum-gravity phenomenology.
Giovanni Battista Rizza
Giovanni Battista Rizza (1924–2018) was an Italian mathematician at the University of Parma who worked on quasi-complex, quasi-Hermitian, and Kähler manifolds; the Rizza manifold is named for him.
Giovanni Frattini
Giovanni Frattini (1852–1925) was an Italian group theorist who taught in Roman schools and is known for the Frattini subgroup and the Frattini argument, which he took from Capelli.
Giovanni Giambelli
Giovanni Giambelli, also known as Giovanni Zeno Giambelli, was an Italian mathematician trained under Corrado Segre in Turin, remembered for the Giambelli determinantal formula in Schubert calculus.
Giovanni Inghirami
Giovanni Inghirami (1779–1851) was an Italian Piarist priest, astronomer, and cartographer who directed Florence's Osservatorio Ximeniano and produced the first geometric map of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
Giovanni Jona-Lasinio
Giovanni Jona-Lasinio, born 1932 in Florence, is an Italian theoretical physicist at Sapienza University of Rome known for the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model of spontaneous symmetry breaking and the Boltzmann Medal.
Giovanni Plana
Giovanni Plana (1781–1864) was an Italian astronomer and mathematician who held the chair of astronomy at the University of Turin. He is noted for his summation formula.
Giovanni Schiaparelli
Giovanni Schiaparelli (1835–1910) was an Italian astronomer and director of the Brera Observatory in Milan whose 1877 Mars observations introduced the canali and Martian nomenclature still in use.
Gisbert Schneider
Gisbert Schneider is a Swiss-based biochemist and bioinformatician, Full Professor of Computer-Assisted Drug Design at ETH Zurich since 2010, credited with introducing AI-based drug design and coining "scaffold hopping".
Giulia Galli
Giulia Galli is a condensed matter physicist known for first-principles simulations of solids and liquids; she is a University of Chicago professor and directs MICCoM at Argonne.
Giulio Cerullo
Giulio Cerullo (born 1965) is an Italian physicist and full professor at the Politecnico di Milano, known for inventing the non-collinear optical parametric amplifier producing 5-femtosecond light pulses.
Giulio Natta
Giulio Natta was an Italian chemist at the Politecnico di Milano who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Karl Ziegler for polymer chemistry.
Giuseppe Bellussi
Giuseppe Bellussi is an Italian industrial chemist who spent his career leading catalysis research at Eni, rising to Senior Vice President for Research and Development.
Giuseppe Gigli
Giuseppe Gigli (born 1970 in Rome) is an Italian physicist and nanotechnologist, full professor at the University of Salento and founder of the CNR Institute of Nanotechnology in 2015.
Giuseppe Marrucci
Giuseppe (Pino) Marrucci, born 1937 in Naples, is an Italian chemical engineer at the Università di Napoli Federico II known for reshaping the theory of entangled polymer dynamics.
Giuseppe Mercalli
Giuseppe Mercalli was an Italian priest, volcanologist, and seismologist who taught at the University of Naples from 1892 and whose earthquake intensity scale became the Modified Mercalli scale.
Giuseppe Occhialini
Giuseppe Occhialini, known to colleagues as Beppo, was an Italian experimental physicist who helped discover the positron's pair production in cosmic rays and, in 1947, the charged pion.
Giuseppe Oddo
Giuseppe Oddo (1865–1954) was an Italian chemist born at Caltavuturo near Palermo, the last exponent of Cannizzaro's Palermo chemical school, remembered for an early bicyclic structure of camphor and the mesoidria hypothesis.
Giuseppe Sansone
Giuseppe Sansone (born 1977) is an Italian physicist working on isolated attosecond pulses, and full professor of experimental physics at the University of Freiburg in Germany since 2016.
Giuseppe Vaiana
Giuseppe Vaiana (died 1991) was an Italian astrophysicist who led solar and stellar X-ray astronomy at AS&E, directed Skylab's S-054 telescope, and rebuilt the Palermo Observatory.
Giuseppe Veronese
Giuseppe Veronese (1854–1917) was an Italian mathematician, professor of geometry at Padua from 1881, who founded the projective geometry of spaces of more than three dimensions.
Giuseppe Vitali
Giuseppe Vitali (1875–1932) was an Italian mathematician who in 1905 constructed the first nonmeasurable set of real numbers, and proved the Vitali covering and convergence theorems.
Gjon Gazulli
Gjon Gazulli is the name of two notable Albanians: a 15th-century Dominican astronomer and diplomat of Ragusa, and a priest martyred in 1927 and beatified in 2024.
Gleb Dobrovolsky
Gleb Dobrovolsky, full name Gleb Vsevolodovich Dobrovolsky (Глеб Всеволодович Добровольский; 1915–2013), was a Russian soil scientist who founded the first soil science faculty in Russia's universities.