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George T. Ligler
George T. Ligler is an American systems integration engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017, known for satellite-based aircraft navigation and ADS-B standards.
George Tchobanoglous
George Tchobanoglous is a professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering at UC Davis, an international authority on wastewater treatment, and coauthor of the textbook Wastewater Engineering.
George W. Govier
George W. Govier (George Wheeler Govier) was a Canadian chemical engineer who led the University of Alberta's engineering faculty and chaired Alberta's Energy Resources Conservation Board.
George W. Housner
George W. Housner (1910–2008) was an American engineer at Caltech, called the father of earthquake engineering and winner of the 1988 National Medal of Science.
George W. Lewis
George W. Lewis (1882–1948) was an American aeronautical research administrator who directed NACA research from 1924 to 1947, overseeing the NACA engine cowling and airfoil research.
George W. Scherer
George W. Scherer is a materials scientist and emeritus Princeton professor known for research on how porous solids like gels, cement, and stone deform and deteriorate.
George W. Sutton
George W. Sutton (1927–2021) was an American aerospace engineer who invented the ablation heat-protection material for hypersonic reentry and served as the AIAA Journal's longest-serving editor in chief.
George W. Swenson Jr.
George W. Swenson Jr. (1922–2017) was an American electrical engineer and radio astronomer at the University of Illinois, known for the 400-foot telescope at the Vermilion River Observatory.
George Warner Swenson
George Warner Swenson (1922–2017) was an American electrical engineer and radio astronomer at the University of Illinois, known for the 400-foot telescope at the Vermilion River Observatory.
George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver (c. 1864 to 1943) was an American agricultural scientist at Tuskegee Institute who promoted crop rotation for poor Southern farmers and developed over 300 peanut products.
Georges A. Deschamps
Georges A. Deschamps (1911–1998) was a French-born electrical engineer who proposed the microstrip antenna in 1953 and later taught electromagnetic theory at the University of Illinois.
Georges Belfort
Georges Belfort is a bioengineer and membrane scientist, Institute Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003 for bioseparations advances.
Georges Vendryès
Georges Vendryès (1920–2014) was a French engineer who directed reactor research at the French CEA and is regarded as the father of fast neutron reactors.
Georgios Giannakis
Georgios Giannakis (Γεώργιος Μπ. Γιαννάκης) is a Greek-American electrical engineer and McKnight Presidential Chair professor at the University of Minnesota, known for statistical signal processing.
Georgy V. Kurdjumov (Георгий Вячеславович Курдюмов)
Georgy V. Kurdjumov (Георгий Вячеславович Курдюмов) was a Soviet physicist and metallurgist, born in 1902, who discovered the diffusionless martensitic transformation in steels and directed major Soviet research institutes in Moscow and Chernogolovka.
Gerald A. Leonards
Gerald A. "Jerry" Leonards was a Canadian-born American geotechnical engineer, longtime Purdue University professor, and editor of the standard reference Foundation Engineering, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988.
Gerald B. Stringfellow
Gerald B. "Jerry" Stringfellow (1942–2025) was an American materials scientist at the University of Utah who pioneered organometallic vapor-phase epitaxy, the crystal-growth process behind red, orange, yellow, and green LEDs.
Gerald E. Galloway Jr.
Gerald E. Galloway Jr. is an American civil engineer, retired Army brigadier general, and University of Maryland professor emeritus known for leading the study of the Great Flood of 1993.
Gerald F. Tape
Gerald F. Tape was an American physicist and science administrator who was deputy director of Brookhaven National Laboratory and a U.S. Atomic Energy Commission commissioner.
Gerald Fuller
Gerald Fuller, born 1953 in Washington, D.C., is an American chemical engineer at Stanford University known for experimental rheology and optical techniques for studying complex liquids like polymers and emulsions.
Gerald L. Kulcinski
Gerald L. Kulcinski is an American nuclear engineer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, director of its Fusion Technology Institute, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1993.
Gerald Nadler
Gerald Nadler (1924–2014) was an American industrial engineer, professor and chair of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Southern California, and coauthor of the 1989 book Breakthrough Thinking.
Gerald Paul Dinneen
Gerald Paul Dinneen was an American electrical engineer and mathematician who directed MIT Lincoln Laboratory from 1970 to 1977, then served as a US Assistant Secretary of Defense from 1977 to 1981.
Gerald T. Orlob
Gerald T. Orlob (1924–2013) was an American environmental engineer and UC Davis professor, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1992 for water quality modeling.
Gerard F. Fox
Gerard F. Fox (1923–2008) was an American civil engineer who designed long-span bridges at HNTB, including the Dames Point Bridge, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976.
Gerard J. Foschini
Gerard J. Foschini (1940–2023) was an American electrical engineer at Bell Labs who created BLAST, the layered space-time theory behind MIMO wireless, and won the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal.
Gerard M. Faeth
Gerard M. Faeth (1936-2005) was an American combustion and multiphase-flow engineer, the Arthur B. Modine Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Michigan, known for spray combustion and spacecraft fire safety research.
Gérard Rousset (adaptive optics specialist)
Gérard Rousset is a French adaptive optics specialist at ONERA who led NAOS, the VLT adaptive optics system cited in the 2020 Nobel Physics background.
Gerasimos Konstantatos
Gerasimos Konstantatos (born 1979) is a Greek materials scientist who leads a group at ICFO in Barcelona, working on quantum dot photodetectors, LEDs, and solar cells.
Gerhard M. Sessler
Gerhard M. Sessler, born 1931 in Rosenfeld, Germany, is a German physicist who co-invented the foil electret microphone with James West at Bell Labs in 1962.