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George A. Hulett
George A. Hulett was an American physical chemist and Princeton's first professor of physical chemistry, from 1909 to 1935, known for osmotic pressure and stable standard cells.
George A. Olah
George A. Olah (1927–2017) was a Hungarian-born American chemist at the University of Southern California who won the 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on carbocations in superacids.
George A. Samara
George A. Samara (1936–2006) was an American physicist who spent his 45-year career at Sandia National Laboratories, pioneering high-pressure studies of ferroelectric and dielectric materials.
George A. Thompson
George A. Thompson (1919–2017) was an American geologist and geophysicist at Stanford University whose research explained how the stretched crust of the western United States formed the Basin and Range Province.
George Abram Miller
George Abram Miller (1863–1951) was an American mathematician at the University of Illinois who determined the groups of order 32 and 64 and published over 800 papers on finite groups.
George Andrews (mathematician)
George Andrews, born 1938 in Salem, Oregon, is an American number theorist at Penn State known for integer partitions and finding Ramanujan's lost notebook in 1976.
George B. Field
George B. Field (1929–2024) was an American theoretical astrophysicist, founding director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, known for work on the interstellar medium and magnetic fields.
George B. Pegram
George B. Pegram was an American experimental physicist who spent his career at Columbia University, studied radioactivity and slow neutrons, and helped launch the government's uranium program in 1939.
George Barany
George Barany, born in Hungary in 1955, is an American chemist and University of Minnesota professor known for peptide chemistry, the Dts protecting group, and orthogonality in synthesis.
George Barger
George Barger (1878–1939) was a British chemist and biochemist, born in Manchester, who isolated tyramine and histamine and, with Henry Dale, laid the foundation for chemical neurotransmission.
George Batchelor
George Batchelor was an Australian-born fluid dynamicist at Cambridge who founded DAMTP in 1959, founded the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, and led research in turbulence.
George Bergman
George M. Bergman (born 1943) is an American mathematician who spent his career at the University of California, Berkeley, known for the diamond lemma for ring theory.
George Bernard Dantzig
George Bernard Dantzig (1914–2005) was an American mathematician known as the father of linear programming, which he founded and solved with the simplex method in 1947.
George Biddell Airy
George Biddell Airy was an English astronomer and mathematician who served as Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881, re-equipped the Royal Observatory, and established the world's prime meridian.
George Boole
George Boole (1815–1864) was an English mathematician who reduced logic to an algebra; his Boolean logic, applied to circuits by Claude Shannon, underlies modern digital computing.
George Büchi
George Büchi (1921–1998) was a Swiss-born organic chemist who spent his career at MIT and is known for the Paternò–Büchi reaction and natural product synthesis.
George C. Pimentel
George C. Pimentel, also known as G. C. Pimentel, was an American physical chemist at UC Berkeley who developed matrix isolation spectroscopy and discovered the first chemically pumped laser.
George Christou
George Christou is a Cypriot-born synthetic inorganic chemist, University Distinguished Professor and Drago Chair holder at the University of Florida since 2001, and a pioneer of single-molecule magnetism.
George Chrystal
George Chrystal (1851–1911) was a Scottish mathematician, professor of mathematics at the University of Edinburgh from 1879, whose two-volume Algebra influenced mathematical education throughout Great Britain.
George Clark Southworth
George Clark Southworth (1890–1972) was an American radio physicist at Bell Telephone Laboratories who revived the hollow-pipe waveguide in the 1930s and first measured the sun's microwave radiation.
George Comstock (astronomer)
George Cary Comstock (1855–1934) was an American astronomer, professor at the University of Wisconsin and director of Washburn Observatory, known for measuring stellar aberration and refraction.
George Crabtree
George Crabtree (1944–2023) was an American condensed-matter physicist at Argonne National Laboratory known for work on vortices in high-temperature superconductors and for directing the energy storage research center JCESR.
George D. Watkins
George D. Watkins is an American physicist and Sherman Fairchild Professor Emeritus at Lehigh University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1988, known for identifying defects in semiconductors by magnetic resonance.
George Daniels (watchmaker)
George Daniels (1926–2011) was a British watchmaker who made complete watches by hand from raw metal and invented the co-axial escapement later adopted by Omega.
George David Birkhoff
George David Birkhoff (1884–1944) was an American mathematician at Harvard best known for proving Poincaré's last geometric theorem in 1913 and the pointwise ergodic theorem of 1931.
George Davidson (geodesist)
George Davidson (1825–1911) was an English-born American geodesist, astronomer, and geographer who spent fifty years with the United States Coast Survey mapping the Pacific Coast, then taught geography at Berkeley.
George de Hevesy
George de Hevesy (Georg von Hevesy; Hungarian Hevesy György; 1885–1966) was a Hungarian radiochemist who invented the radioactive tracer method, winning the 1943 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and co-discovering hafnium.
George Deacon
Sir George Edward Raven Deacon (1906–1984) was a British oceanographer who systematized the Southern Ocean's circulation and founded the United Kingdom's first national institute of oceanography.
George E. Kimball
George E. Kimball (1906–1967) was an American quantum chemist and Columbia professor who became a founder of operations research, co-authoring Methods of Operations Research and winning the Navy's Presidential Citation of Merit.
George E. P. Box
George E. P. Box (1919–2013) was a British statistician known for the Box–Jenkins method, Box–Cox transformations, and the phrase "all models are wrong, but some are useful."