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Gösta Mittag-Leffler

Gösta Mittag-Leffler, born Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler (1846–1927), was a Swedish mathematician who proved the Mittag-Leffler theorem, founded Acta Mathematica in 1882, and whose Djursholm estate became a research institute.

Gottfried Köthe

Gottfried Köthe (1905–1989) was a German mathematician and Nestor of functional analysis in Germany, known for sequence space theory, the Köthe–Toeplitz dual, and the monograph Topological Vector Spaces.

Gottfried Otting

Gottfried Otting is an Australian-based biomolecular NMR spectroscopist and Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University, known for protein hydration studies and lanthanide tagging for determining protein structures by NMR.

Gou Lijun

Gou Lijun (苟利军) is a Chinese astrophysicist at the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences known for measuring black hole spins, including Cygnus X-1.

Gouverneur Kemble Warren

Gouverneur Kemble Warren (1830–1882) was an American army engineer who mapped the trans-Mississippi West and led the Army of the Potomac's engineers in the Civil War.

Govindasamy Mugesh

Govindasamy Mugesh, born 1970, is an Indian bioinorganic and medicinal chemist, professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, winner of the 2012 Bhatnagar and 2019 Infosys Prizes.

Grace Bates

Grace Elizabeth Bates (1914–1996) was an American mathematician and professor emeritus at Mount Holyoke College, known for work on loops and quasigroups and the Bates distribution.

Grace Wahba

Grace Wahba, born 1934, is a statistician who spent 51 years at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and won the 2025 International Prize in Statistics for smoothing splines.

Graeme Henkelman

Graeme Henkelman is a Canadian-born computational materials chemist at the University of Texas at Austin, known for the climbing-image nudged elastic band and dimer methods for finding saddle points.

Graeme Moad

Graeme Moad is an Australian chemist and CSIRO Fellow who co-invented RAFT polymerization at CSIRO in 1996, a controlled radical technique used by over 100 companies worldwide, and was elected to the Royal Society in 2023.

Graeme Segal

Graeme Segal is an Australian-born mathematician working in algebraic topology and quantum field theory, known for the Segal conjecture, Segal spaces, and the Chern Medal in 2026.

Graeme Stephens

Graeme L. Stephens is an Australian atmospheric scientist known for research on clouds, radiation, and climate, and for creating and leading NASA's CloudSat satellite mission.

Graham Feingold

Graham Feingold is a South African-born atmospheric scientist at NOAA's Chemical Sciences Laboratory in Boulder, known for his 2009 and 2010 Nature papers on aerosol-cloud interactions.

Graham Higman

Graham Higman (1917–2008) was a British group theorist, Waynflete Professor at Oxford from 1960 to 1984, known for the Higman embedding theorem, HNN extensions, and the PORC conjecture.

Graham J. Hutchings

Graham J. Hutchings, also known as G. J. Hutchings, is a British chemist and Regius Professor at Cardiff University, a pioneer of catalysis by gold.

Graham Pearson

D. Graham Pearson, born 1965, is a British isotope geochemist at the University of Alberta known for using diamonds and mantle xenoliths to study the continental mantle.

Graham R. Fleming

Graham R. Fleming, born in Barrow, England, in 1949, is a physical chemist at UC Berkeley known for developing two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy and applying it to photosynthesis.

Graham Ross (theoretical physicist)

Graham Ross (1944–2021) was a British theoretical particle physicist at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal Society and winner of the 2012 Dirac Medal.

Graham Sutton

Graham Sutton (Oliver Graham Sutton) was a Welsh mathematician and meteorologist known for work on atmospheric diffusion and for directing the Meteorological Office, 1953 to 1965.

Grant H. Stokes

Grant H. Stokes is an American physicist at MIT Lincoln Laboratory who directs the LINEAR program, which has found about half of near-Earth asteroids discovered since 1998.

Greg G. Qiao

Greg G. Qiao, also known as Greg Qiao, is an Australian polymer scientist and professor at the University of Melbourne, leading its Polymer Science Group.

Greg Lawler

Greg Lawler, born 1955 in Alexandria, Virginia, is an American probabilist at the University of Chicago known for loop-erased random walks, the Brownian frontier, and the 2019 Wolf Prize.

Greg Moore

Gregory W. Moore is an American theoretical physicist at Rutgers University working on string theory, M-theory, and gauge theory, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.

Greg Pitz

Greg Pitz is an American laser physicist at the Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, who received a PECASE award in 2012.

Grégoire Nicolis

Grégoire Nicolis (1939–2018) was a Belgian physicist at the Université Libre de Bruxelles who helped build the theory of dissipative structures and co-created the Brusselator model with Ilya Prigogine.

Gregor Wentzel

Gregor Wentzel was a German-born theoretical physicist known for the WKB approximation and the first quantum field theory book, holding the Zurich chair from 1928 to 1948 before moving to Chicago.

Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro

Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (1853–1925) was an Italian mathematician who held the chair of mathematical physics at the University of Padua and created the tensor calculus Einstein used in general relativity.

Gregory A. Fiete

Gregory A. Fiete is an American theoretical condensed matter physicist, a professor at Northeastern University known for work on topological quantum matter and chiral phonons.

Gregory A. Sotzing

Gregory A. Sotzing, also published as G.A. Sotzing, is an American polymer chemist and professor at the University of Connecticut working on electrochromic polymers and dielectric energy storage.

Gregory Breit

Gregory Breit was an American nuclear and theoretical physicist, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1939, known for the Breit interaction and the Breit–Wigner formula.