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Gabor wavelet

A Gabor wavelet is a sinusoidal carrier multiplied by a Gaussian envelope, used for localized time-frequency analysis of signals and for feature extraction from images.

Gabriel A. Vecchi

Gabriel A. Vecchi is a climate scientist, the Knox Taylor Professor of Geosciences at Princeton University, known for research on hurricanes, El Niño, monsoons, and climate change attribution.

Gabriel Aeppli

Gabriel Aeppli, born 1956, is a condensed matter physicist known for work on quantum magnetism, professor at ETH Zürich and head of Photon Science at the Paul Scherrer Institut.

Gabriel Andrew Dirac

Gabriel Andrew Dirac, born Gábor Balázs, was a Hungarian-born graph theorist and stepson of physicist Paul Dirac, best known for his 1952 Hamiltonian cycle theorem.

Gabriel George Katul

Gabriel George Katul is a hydrologist and micrometeorologist, the Theodore S. Coile Distinguished Professor at Duke University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.

Gabriel Kotliar

Gabriel Kotliar, born in Cordoba, Argentina in 1957, is a condensed matter theorist at Rutgers University known as a founding father of dynamical mean-field theory.

Gabriel Lippmann

Gabriel Lippmann, born in Hollerich, Luxembourg, in 1845, was a French physicist at the Sorbonne who won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physics for his method of reproducing colors photographically based on interference.

Gabriel Perez-Giz

Gabriel Perez-Giz is an astrophysicist who studies black-hole orbital dynamics, was the first writer and host of PBS Space Time on YouTube, and teaches at NYU Tandon.

Gabriel Popescu (Romanian physicist)

Gabriel Popescu was a Romanian physicist who pioneered quantitative phase imaging, a label-free microscopy method, as a distinguished professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign until his death in 2022.

Gabriel Stein

Gabriel Stein (1920–1976) was a physical chemist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem known as a pioneer in the radiation chemistry of nucleotides and radiobiology.

Gabriel van Oordt

Gabriel van Oordt, published as G. van Oordt, was a student of Fritz Haber at Karlsruhe and co-author of the 1905 paper on the formation of ammonia from the elements.

Gabriela González

Gabriela González, born 1965 in Córdoba, Argentina, is a physicist at Louisiana State University who served as LIGO spokesperson from 2011 to 2017, during the first gravitational-wave detection.

Gabriele Hegerl

Gabriele C. Hegerl is a climate scientist and Professor of Climate System Science at the University of Edinburgh, known for detection and attribution of climate change.

Gabriele Veneziano

Gabriele Veneziano is a theoretical physicist whose 1968 amplitude, built from the Euler beta function, is usually regarded as marking the birth of string theory.

GADGET

GADGET is a family of parallel cosmological simulation codes combining N-body gravity and SPH gas dynamics, first released in 2001 by Volker Springel and colleagues.

Gadobenate Dimeglumine

Gadobenate dimeglumine (Gd-BOPTA), marketed as MultiHance, is a gadolinium-based contrast agent for MRI, approved in the United States in 2004 and distinguished by weak albumin binding.

Gadobutrol

Gadobutrol is a non-ionic macrocyclic gadolinium-based contrast agent injected intravenously to enhance MRI, sold as Gadavist and Gadovist by Bayer and approved in the US in 2011.

Gadolinium

Gadolinium, element 64 with symbol Gd, is a silvery lanthanide metal with the highest thermal neutron capture of any element and key use in MRI contrast agents.

Gadolinium-doped ceria

Gadolinium-doped ceria (GDC, also written CGO) is a ceramic in which gadolinium replaces some cerium in cerium dioxide, creating oxygen vacancies that make it a fast oxide-ion conductor.

Gadolinium(III) oxide

Gadolinium(III) oxide (Gd₂O₃), also called gadolinia or gadolinium sesquioxide, is the white, water-insoluble oxide of the rare-earth metal gadolinium, used to make phosphors, MRI contrast agents, and neutron-shielding materials.

Gadopentetate Dimeglumine

Gadopentetate dimeglumine (Gd-DTPA), sold as Magnevist, is a linear ionic gadolinium-based contrast agent injected intravenously to enhance MRI of the brain, spine, and body; approved in 1988, it was the first MRI contrast agent.

Gadoxetate

Gadoxetate, also known as gadoxetic acid (Gd-EOB-DTPA) and sold as Eovist in the United States, is a gadolinium-based contrast agent injected intravenously for MRI of the liver.

Gadoxetic Acid

Gadoxetic acid (gadoxetate disodium) is a gadolinium-based MRI contrast agent, sold as Eovist and Primovist, taken up by liver cells for hepatobiliary-phase imaging of focal liver lesions.

Gaetano Guerra

Gaetano Guerra is an Italian polymer scientist and professor emeritus of Chemistry at the University of Salerno, internationally known for work on co-crystalline and nanoporous-crystalline phases of syndiotactic polystyrene.

Gaetano Scorza

Gaetano Scorza (1876–1939) was an Italian mathematician who worked on algebraic geometry, abelian functions, Riemann matrices, and algebras, and gave his name to the Scorza curve and Scorza varieties.

GAGG:Ce scintillator

GAGG:Ce, cerium-doped gadolinium aluminum gallium garnet, is a non-hygroscopic scintillator crystal with very high light yield, used in gamma spectroscopy, medical imaging, and space detectors.

Gaia BH1

Gaia BH1 is a binary system in Ophiuchus containing the nearest known black hole to Earth, about 1,560 light-years away, discovered by the Gaia mission in 2022.

Gaia BH1 and Gaia BH2

Gaia BH1 and Gaia BH2 are dormant stellar-mass black holes found by the Gaia mission through their companion stars' wobble, announced in 2022 and 2023.

Gaia BH2 and Gaia BH3

Gaia BH2 and Gaia BH3 are dormant stellar-mass black holes found by the Gaia mission; BH3 is the most massive stellar-origin black hole known in the Milky Way.

Gaia BH3

Gaia BH3 is a stellar-mass black hole of about 33 solar masses, the most massive of stellar origin known in the Milky Way, discovered by the Gaia mission in 2024.