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Gleb Yushin

Gleb Yushin (Глеб Юшин) is a materials scientist, professor at Georgia Tech, and co-founder and chief technology officer of Sila Nanotechnologies, known for silicon-carbon battery anodes.

Glen Baxter (mathematician)

Glen Baxter (died 1983) was a mathematician in probability and combinatorics whose operator identity underlies fluctuation theory and gave the Rota–Baxter algebra and Baxter permutations.

Glen M. MacDonald

Glen M. MacDonald is a UCLA geographer and paleoclimatologist elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015, known for work on treelines and drought.

Glen P. Peters

Glen P. Peters is a Norwegian-based climate scientist at the CICERO Center for International Climate Research in Oslo, known for the 2016 commentary "The trouble with negative emissions".

Glenn C. Micalizio

Glenn C. Micalizio is an American organic chemist who joined UC Irvine in 2025, known for titanium-mediated reductive cross-coupling reactions and the synthesis of the non-opioid analgesic conolidine.

Glenn H. Fredrickson

Glenn H. Fredrickson is an American soft matter theorist and Distinguished Professor at UC Santa Barbara, known for pioneering field-theoretic simulation of self-assembling block copolymers.

Glenn Martyna

Glenn J. Martyna is a computational physicist and chemist known for the Nosé–Hoover chain thermostat and the Martyna–Tobias–Klein equations for constant-pressure molecular dynamics, developed in the 1990s.

Glenn S. Orton

Glenn S. Orton is an American planetary scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where since 1977 he has studied the atmospheres of the outer planets.

Glenn T. Seaborg

Glenn T. Seaborg (1912–1999) was an American nuclear chemist at Berkeley who co-discovered plutonium and nine other elements, won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and chaired the Atomic Energy Commission.

Glenn van de Ven

Glenn van de Ven is a Dutch astronomer known for dynamical modeling of galaxies and the CALIFA survey, and a professor at the University of Vienna since 2019.

Glennys Farrar

Glennys Farrar is an American theoretical physicist at New York University, known for 1973 scaling laws showing quarks are physically present in matter and for dark matter models.

Goetz Oertel

Goetz Oertel, born 1934, is a German-born American solar physicist who served as president of AURA from the mid-1980s to 1999, overseeing Hubble and Gemini.

Goki Eda

Goki Eda (枝 五紀) is a Japan-born physicist at the National University of Singapore known for research on atomically thin two-dimensional materials and exciton physics.

Gonçalo Bernardes

Gonçalo Bernardes is a Portuguese chemical biologist, Professor of Chemical Biology at the University of Cambridge, known for site-selective protein modification and targeted cancer therapeutics, and co-founded four companies.

Göran Ekström

Göran Ekström is a Swedish seismologist at Columbia University who leads the Global CMT Project and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.

Göran Lindblad (theoretical physicist)

Göran Lindblad (1940–2022) was a Swedish theoretical physicist at KTH Royal Institute of Technology who derived the Lindblad equation, the master equation for Markovian open quantum systems.

Goran Ungar

Goran Ungar is a polymer and liquid crystal scientist and Emeritus Professor of Polymers and Organic Materials at the University of Sheffield, known for discovering the first liquid quasicrystals.

Gordon Baym

Gordon Baym is an American theoretical physicist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign since 1963, known for neutron-star matter, quantum fluids, and the Kadanoff–Baym formalism, and winner of the Bethe and Onsager prizes.

Gordon C. Osbourn

Gordon C. Osbourn is an American physicist at Sandia National Laboratories known for originating strained-layer superlattices, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2002.

Gordon Danby

Gordon Danby (1929–2016) was a Canadian-born physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory who, with James R. Powell, invented superconducting maglev trains, earning the 2000 Benjamin Franklin Medal.

Gordon Ferrie Hull

Gordon Ferrie Hull (1870–1956) was a Canadian-born American physicist who, with Ernest Fox Nichols at Dartmouth College, made the first precise measurement of the pressure of light, and taught physics there for 41 years.

Gordon Gould

Gordon Gould (1920–2005) was an American physicist who coined the word "laser" as a Columbia graduate student in 1957 and spent nearly 30 years winning his patents.

Gordon Hammes

Gordon Hammes is an American biochemist and Duke University professor known for enzyme kinetics and single-molecule studies of enzyme dynamics, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1973.

Gordon J. F. MacDonald

Gordon J. F. MacDonald (1929–2002) was an American geophysicist whose work spanned high-pressure geochemistry, seismology, planetary science, and environmental policy; he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences at 32.

Gordon Pettengill

Gordon Pettengill (1926–2021) was an American radio astronomer and MIT professor who pioneered radar studies of the Moon, Mercury, and Venus, and directed the Arecibo Observatory.

Gordon Thomas Whyburn

Gordon Thomas Whyburn (1904–1969) was an American mathematician in point-set topology, known for cyclic element theory and interior transformations, and chairman of mathematics at the University of Virginia.

Gordon Walker (Canadian astronomer)

Gordon A. H. Walker (born 1936) is a Canadian astronomer and professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia who was among the first to detect planets around other stars.

Gordon Walter Semenoff

Gordon Walter Semenoff is a theoretical physicist at the University of British Columbia who identified the parity anomaly and showed in 1984 that graphene's electrons obey a Dirac equation.

Gorō Shimura

Gorō Shimura (志村五郎) was a Japanese number theorist at Princeton University who introduced Shimura varieties and, with Yutaka Taniyama, predicted the modularity behind Fermat's Last Theorem.

Gösta Ekspong

Gösta Ekspong (1922–2017) was a Swedish particle physicist, professor at Stockholm University from 1960 to 1988, who discovered neutral pions in cosmic rays and chaired the Nobel physics committee.