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Gregory C. Beroza

Gregory C. Beroza is an American seismologist, on the Stanford University faculty since 1990, known for research on earthquake sources and for machine-learning methods that improved earthquake catalogs.

Gregory C. Fu

Gregory C. Fu is an American chemist and Norman Chandler Professor of Chemistry at Caltech, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014, known for nickel- and copper-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions and asymmetric nucleophilic catalysis.

Gregory Chaitin

Gregory Chaitin, born in Chicago in 1947, is a mathematician and computer scientist who co-founded algorithmic information theory, discovered the halting probability Ω, and spent about 40 years at IBM.

Gregory D. Scholes

Gregory D. Scholes is an Australian-born physical chemist, the William S. Tod Professor of Chemistry at Princeton, known for ultrafast laser spectroscopy of photosynthetic light harvesting and quantum coherence.

Gregory Fuchs

Gregory D. Fuchs is an American applied physicist, the James R. Meehl Professor at Cornell University, known for quantum sensing and spin control using defects in diamond, hBN, and GaN.

Gregory G. Howes

Gregory G. Howes is a theoretical plasma physicist and professor at the University of Iowa who studies turbulence in the solar wind and received a 2010 Presidential Early Career Award.

Gregory H. Robinson

Gregory H. Robinson is an American synthetic inorganic chemist at the University of Georgia, known for the first stable neutral diborene and a carbene-stabilized diatomic silicon molecule.

Gregory J. Retallack

Gregory J. Retallack is an Australian-born paleontologist and emeritus professor at the University of Oregon, known for his research on the fossil record of soils.

Gregory N. Tew

Gregory N. Tew is an American polymer scientist and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, known for pioneering biomimetic antimicrobial polymers that mimic host-defense peptides.

Gregory Neil Tew

Gregory Neil Tew is an American polymer scientist and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a PECASE recipient known for synthetic mimics of antimicrobial peptides.

Gregory P. Baxter

Gregory P. Baxter (1876–1953) was an American analytical chemist at Harvard who determined the atomic weights of 29 elements and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1916.

Gregory S. Engel

Gregory S. Engel is an American chemist and ultrafast spectroscopist at the University of Chicago, known for his 2007 Nature paper reporting wavelike quantum coherence in photosynthetic energy transfer.

Gregory Wannier

Gregory Wannier was a physicist whose name attaches to foundational objects of solid-state physics: Wannier functions, Wannier excitons, the Stark ladder, and Kramers–Wannier duality.

Grenville Turner

Grenville Turner (died 2024) was a British isotope geochemist who, with Craig Merrihue, invented the argon-40/argon-39 dating method and produced the first precise ages of the Apollo lunar rocks.

Greta R. Patzke

Greta R. Patzke (born 1974) is a German chemist, Full Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Zurich since 2016, researching water splitting catalysis.

Griffith C. Evans

Griffith C. Evans (1887–1973) was an American mathematician in functional analysis, potential theory, and mathematical economics who built the mathematics departments at Rice Institute and Berkeley.

Grigore Moisil

Grigore Moisil (1906-1973) was a Romanian mathematician and computer scientist, considered the father of Romanian informatics, who founded Romania's first computing center and introduced the Łukasiewicz-Moisil algebras in many-valued logic.

Grigori Perelman (Григорий Яковлевич Перельман)

Grigori Perelman, also known as Grisha Perelman (Григорий Перельман), is a Russian mathematician who proved the Poincaré conjecture in 2002 and 2003 preprints and declined the Fields Medal.

Grigory Barenblatt

Grigory Barenblatt (1927–2018) was a Soviet and later American applied mathematician known for the cohesive crack model, intermediate asymptotics, and turbulence, later a professor at Cambridge and Berkeley.

Grigory Landsberg

Grigory Samuilovich Landsberg was a Soviet physicist and full USSR Academy of Sciences member who, with Leonid Mandelstam, discovered Raman scattering in crystals in February 1928.

Grigory Margulis

Grigory Margulis, born 1946 in Moscow, is a Russian-born mathematician at Yale University known for work on lattices in Lie groups and winner of the Fields, Wolf, and Abel prizes.

Grote Reber

Grote Reber was an American radio engineer who, working alone after Karl Jansky's 1933 discovery, built the world's first radio telescope in 1937 and made the first radio maps of the sky.

Grove Karl Gilbert

Grove Karl Gilbert (1843–1918) was an American geologist who served the USGS for 39 years and became a founder of geomorphology, the study of how landforms are shaped.

Guangbin Dong

Guangbin Dong (董广彬) is an American-based organic chemist at the University of Chicago known for catalytic carbon–carbon bond activation and "cut & sew" ring construction.

Guenter Ahlers (engineer)

Guenter Ahlers is an experimental physicist known for critical phenomena near the superfluid transition of liquid helium and for experiments on convection, pattern formation, and turbulent heat transport.

Guglielmo Lanzani

Guglielmo Lanzani is an Italian physicist and full professor at the Politecnico di Milano who studies organic photophysics and develops light-sensitive interfaces, including a retinal prosthesis for degenerative blindness.

Guglielmo Marconi

Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian inventor of wireless telegraphy, or radio, who received the first wireless patent in 1896 and won the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Guglielmo Scovazzi

Guglielmo Scovazzi is an Italian-American computational mechanics researcher and Duke University professor, best known for developing the Shifted Boundary Method and receiving the 2017 Presidential Early Career Award.

Guibin Jiang (江桂斌)

Guibin Jiang (江桂斌) is a Chinese analytical and environmental chemist at the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, known for research on persistent organic pollutants and mercury.

Guido Ascoli

Guido Ascoli (1887–1957) was an Italian mathematician known for work on partial differential equations, functional analysis, and mathematics education, with chairs at Pisa, Milan, and Turin.