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George Porter
George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham, was a British photochemist who invented flash photolysis, shared the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and championed solar energy.
George Rochester
George Dixon Rochester (1908–2001) was a British cosmic-ray physicist who, with Clifford Butler, discovered the first strange particle, the V-particle, in cloud-chamber photographs at Manchester, published in Nature in 1947.
George S. Hammond
George S. Hammond (1921–2005) was an American physical organic chemist, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1963, known for the Hammond postulate and as a founder of organic photochemistry.
George Saliba
George Saliba is a Lebanese-American historian of Arabic and Islamic science, based at Columbia University since 1978, best known for challenging the classical narrative of Islamic science's decline.
George Salmon
George Salmon (1819–1904) was an Irish mathematician and Anglican theologian at Trinity College Dublin, Provost from 1888, known for proving a cubic surface contains exactly 27 lines.
George Sarton
George Sarton (1884–1956) was a Belgian-American chemist turned historian considered the founder of the history of science as a discipline; he founded the journal Isis and taught at Harvard.
George Savvidy
George Savvidy (Georgios Savvidis) is a theoretical physicist at the Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics of NCSR Demokritos in Athens, best known for his 1977 prediction of the Savvidy vacuum.
George Scatchard
George Scatchard (1892–1973) was an American physical chemist at MIT who studied the physical chemistry of solutions and protein binding; the Scatchard equation and plot still bear his name.
George Schatz
George C. Schatz, born in 1949, is an American theoretical chemist at Northwestern University known for quantum scattering of gas-phase reactions and metal nanoparticle optics, including SERS.
George Smoot
George Smoot was an American astrophysicist and cosmologist who led the 1992 detection of fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background, sharing the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics.
George Sudarshan
George Sudarshan (1931–2018) was an Indian-American theoretical physicist who, with Robert Marshak, co-formulated the V-A theory of weak interactions and contributed to quantum optics and open quantum systems.
George Szekeres
George Szekeres (1911–2005) was a Hungarian-born Australian mathematician who laid foundations of Ramsey theory with the 1935 Erdős–Szekeres theorem and co-created the Kruskal–Szekeres coordinates for black holes, working at Adelaide and UNSW.
George Tilton
George Tilton (1923–2010) was an American geochemist who pioneered uranium-lead geochronology, helped produce the first accurate age of the Earth, and taught at UC Santa Barbara.
George Udny Yule
George Udny Yule (1871–1951) was a British statistician who worked under Karl Pearson and at Cambridge, pioneering regression-based correlation, Yule's Q, Simpson's paradox, and the Yule–Walker equations.
George Uhlenbeck
George Eugene Uhlenbeck (1900–1988) was a Dutch-American theoretical physicist who proposed electron spin with Samuel Goudsmit in 1925, developed the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process, and won the Wolf Prize.
George Volkoff
George Volkoff (1914–2000) was a Russian-Canadian physicist who, with Oppenheimer in 1939, co-predicted the maximum mass of neutron stars, the Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff limit, and built physics research at the University of British Columbia.
George W. Clark
George W. Clark was an American MIT physicist and astronomer, a pioneer of X-ray astronomy who took part in the 1962 discovery of Sco X-1.
George W. Huber
George W. Huber is a chemical engineer, the Richard L. Antoine Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, known for converting biomass into liquid fuels and co-founding Anellotech and Pyran.
George W. Luther
George W. Luther III, born in Philadelphia in 1947, is an American marine chemist at the University of Delaware known for trace metal speciation and electrochemical ocean sensors.
George W. Preston
George W. Preston is an American astronomer and Director Emeritus of the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, known for his spectroscopic work on RR Lyrae stars and metal-poor stars.
George W. Snedecor
George W. Snedecor, also known as George Waddel Snedecor, was an American statistician who built the first US statistical laboratory at Iowa State and wrote Statistical Methods (1937).
George W. Whitehead
George W. Whitehead (George William Whitehead Jr., 1918–2004) was an American mathematician who taught at MIT from 1949 to 1985 and is known for the J-homomorphism in algebraic topology.
George Walter Stewart
George Walter Stewart (1876–1956) was an American physicist and acoustician who invented the acoustic filter and built the University of Iowa physics department into a doctoral program.
George Wetherill
George Wetherill (1925–2006) was an American physicist and planetary scientist at the Carnegie Institution whose simulations of planet formation earned him the title father of Earth-formation models.
George William Gray
George William Gray (1926–2013) was a British organic chemist at the University of Hull whose stable cyanobiphenyl liquid crystals, invented in 1972, made the modern LCD industry possible.
George William Hill
George William Hill (1838–1914) was an American astronomer and mathematician who rebuilt the theory of the Moon's motion, working alone on a farm in West Nyack, New York.
George William Lamplugh
George William Lamplugh (1859–1926) was a British geologist who rose from self-taught amateur on the Yorkshire coast to Assistant Director of the Geological Survey, establishing the standard subdivision of the Speeton Clay.
George Wulff
George Wulff, also known as Georg or Yuri Viktorovich Wulff (Вульф Георгий Викторович), was a Russian and Soviet crystallographer who created the Wulff construction and net.
George Zografi
George Zografi is a pharmaceutical scientist and former dean of the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Pharmacy, elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1989.
George Zweig
George Zweig is an American physicist and neurobiologist who, at CERN in 1964, independently proposed the quark model, calling its constituents aces; he won the 2015 J. J. Sakurai Prize.