Physical world and mathematics

Georges Bouligand

Georges Bouligand (1889–1979) was a French mathematician who worked in analysis, geometry, and topology, taught at the Sorbonne, and introduced the box-counting, or Minkowski–Bouligand, dimension in 1928.

Georges Charpak

Georges Charpak (1924–2010) was a Polish-born French physicist at CERN and ESPCI Paris who won the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the multiwire proportional particle detector.

Georges Chaudron

Georges Chaudron (Georges Léon Chaudron) was a French chemist who devised the Chaudron diagram for iron-oxide reduction and led the École nationale supérieure de chimie de Paris.

Georges Cuvier

Georges Cuvier, also known as Baron Cuvier, full name Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier, was a French naturalist (1769–1832) who founded paleontology and comparative anatomy, demonstrated extinction, and proposed catastrophism.

Georges de Rham

Georges de Rham (1903–1990) was a Swiss mathematician, professor at Lausanne and Geneva, whose 1931 thesis proved de Rham's theorem and who created de Rham cohomology and the theory of currents.

Georges Destriau

Georges Destriau (1903–1960) was a French physicist known as the discoverer of electroluminescence in phosphors, a phenomenon long called the "effet Destriau", and later worked at Westinghouse Electric.

Georges Fontené

Georges Fontené (1848–1923) was a French mathematician and Paris school inspector known for the Rouché-Fontené theorem on linear equations, and for work on hyperspace geometry and Poncelet's theorem.

Georges Glaeser

Georges Glaeser (1918–2002) was a French mathematician and educator who worked in analysis, proving the Glaeser inequality and a 1963 theorem on composing differentiable functions, before directing the IREM of Strasbourg.

Georges Guiochon

Georges Guiochon (1931–2014) was a French-born analytical chemist known for the theory of nonlinear chromatography and preparative separations, and a Distinguished Scientist at the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Georges Hadziioannou

Georges Hadziioannou is a Greek-born French polymer scientist, Emeritus Professor at the University of Bordeaux, known for semiconducting polymers for printable electronics and solar cells.

Georges Lemaître

Georges Lemaître was a Belgian Catholic priest, mathematician, and astronomer at the Université catholique de Louvain who first proposed the expanding universe and the primeval atom, the basis of Big Bang theory.

Georges Matheron

Georges Matheron (Georges François Paul Marie Matheron, 1930–2000) was a French mathematician and mining engineer who founded geostatistics, formalized kriging, and co-founded mathematical morphology with Jean Serra.

Georges Reeb

Georges Reeb (1920–1993) was a French mathematician from Alsace who founded foliation theory, proving Reeb's theorem and creating the Reeb graph and foliation of the 3-sphere.

Georges Urbain

Georges Urbain (1872–1938) was a French chemist who discovered lutetium by separating ytterbium in 1907, won a 1909 priority ruling over Auer von Welsbach, and taught mineral chemistry at the Sorbonne.

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Georgi–Glashow model

The Georgi–Glashow model is a grand unified theory proposed by Howard Georgi and Sheldon Glashow in 1974, embedding the Standard Model's forces in the gauge group SU(5).

Georgia Destouni

Georgia Destouni, born 1961 in Greece, is a Swedish-based hydrologist, professor at Stockholm University since 2005, known for quantifying global human water consumption and drought effects on runoff.

Georgios C. Papanicolaou

George C. Papanicolaou is an American applied mathematician at Stanford University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2000, known for waves and diffusion in random media and financial mathematics.

Georgius Agricola

Georgius Agricola, born Georg Bauer, was a German scholar, physician, and mineralogist whose De re metallica (1556) remained the standard European mining and metallurgy text for two centuries.

Georgiy Shilov

Georgiy Shilov (Георгий Евгеньевич Шилов, 1917–1975) was a Soviet mathematician at Moscow State University who made foundational contributions to commutative Banach algebra theory and generalized functions.

Georgiy Shulpin

Georgiy Borisovich Shul'pin (Георгий Борисович Шульпин, 1946–2023) was a Russian chemist at the Semenov Institute in Moscow who developed vanadium and manganese systems for oxidizing alkane C–H bonds with hydrogen peroxide.

Georgy Adelson-Velsky

Georgy Adelson-Velsky, full name Georgy Maksimovich Adelson-Velsky, was a Soviet and Israeli mathematician who co-invented the AVL tree and led Kaissa, winner of the first World Computer Chess Championship in 1974.

Georgy Golitsyn

Georgy Golitsyn, also known as Georgy Sergeevich Golitsyn (Георгий Сергеевич Голицын), was a Russian atmospheric physicist who developed a similarity theory of planetary atmospheric circulation and made the first estimates of nuclear war's climatic effects.