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Gary Miller (theoretical computer scientist)

Gary Miller is an American theoretical computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, creator of the Miller primality test and the Miller–Rabin test used for RSA encryption keys.

Gary S. Calabrese

Gary S. Calabrese is an American chemist elected to the National Academy of Engineering for advanced electronic materials for semiconductor manufacture, and a former Corning senior vice president of Global Research.

Gatze Lettinga

Gatze Lettinga was a Dutch environmental engineer who co-invented the UASB reactor for wastewater treatment at Wageningen University and declined to patent it, helping the technology spread to thousands of plants worldwide.

Gayle S.W. Hagler

Gayle S.W. Hagler is a research environmental engineer at the U.S. EPA who measures air pollution near roads and evaluates low-cost air sensors, receiving a 2010 Presidential Early Career Award.

Geert-Jan van Houtum

Geert-Jan van Houtum is a Dutch operations researcher, professor at Eindhoven University of Technology since 1999, known for spare parts inventory control and predictive maintenance for capital goods.

Gene Alan Frantz

Gene Alan Frantz is an American electrical engineer known as "the Father of DSP" for leading digital signal processor development at Texas Instruments, and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020.

Gene Amdahl

Gene Amdahl (1922–2015) was an American computer architect and entrepreneur who designed the IBM System/360, founded Amdahl Corporation to build IBM-compatible mainframes, and formulated Amdahl's law.

Gene H. Golub

Gene H. Golub, also known as Gene Golub, was an American numerical analyst, the Stanford professor nicknamed "Professor SVD" who made the singular value decomposition practical and co-wrote Matrix Computations.

Geoff J. Pryde

Geoff J. Pryde is an Australian quantum physicist at Griffith University known for photonic quantum metrology, including a 2007 Nature demonstration of entanglement-free Heisenberg-limited phase estimation.

Geoffrey Boothroyd

Geoffrey Boothroyd (1932–2024) was an English-born manufacturing engineer who co-created the DFMA methodology with Peter Dewhurst, taught at UMass Amherst and the University of Rhode Island, and received the 1991 National Medal of Technology.

Geoffrey Dummer

Geoffrey Dummer (1909–2002) was a British electronics engineer at the Royal Radar Establishment who in 1952 published the first public description of the integrated circuit, though he never built one.

Geoffrey F. Strouse

Geoffrey F. Strouse is a chemistry professor at Florida State University known for nanometal surface energy transfer, an optical ruler technique, and microwave synthesis of nanocrystals.

Geoffrey Hinton

Geoffrey Hinton, also known as Geoff Hinton, is a British-Canadian computer scientist who won the 2018 Turing Award and 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for deep learning.

Geon‐Tae Park

Geon-Tae Park (박건태) is a South Korean materials researcher working on cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries, with a 2023 Ph.D. from Hanyang University and a visiting post at the University of Washington.

Georg Seelig

Georg Seelig is a physicist turned molecular programming researcher, professor at the University of Washington, known for DNA strand displacement circuits, SPLiT-seq single-cell sequencing, and co-founding Parse Biosciences.

George Ashley Campbell

George Ashley Campbell (1870–1954) was an American electrical engineer at Bell Telephone Laboratories whose loading coil made economical long-distance telephony possible and whose electric wave filter underlies frequency-division multiplexing.

George C. Maling Jr.

George C. Maling Jr. (1931–2022) was an American noise control engineer at IBM who shaped noise measurement for computers, led INCE/USA, and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1998.

George Clement Dacey

George Clement Dacey (1921–2010) was an American engineer and physicist who helped build the first working field-effect transistor at Bell Labs and later led Sandia National Laboratories.

George Cybenko

George Cybenko is a Dartmouth College engineering professor best known for proving the 1989 universal approximation theorem for neural networks, and a Fellow of the IEEE, SIAM, and AAAS.

George E. Dieter

George E. Dieter was an American mechanical metallurgist and educator who was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1993 for his work in materials design.

George E. Keller II

George E. Keller II (1933–2019) was an American chemical engineer at Union Carbide, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988 for novel separation processes.

George E. Solomon

George E. Solomon was an American aerospace engineer at TRW who led design of the Atlas ICBM reentry vehicle and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1967.

George Edwards (aircraft designer)

Sir George Robert Edwards (1908–2003) was a British aircraft designer and industrialist who led Vickers and chaired the British Aircraft Corporation, directing the Viscount and VC10 airliners.

George F. Sowers

George F. Sowers was an American geotechnical engineer, Regents Professor at Georgia Tech and consultant at Law Engineering, known for his textbook Introductory Soil Mechanics and Foundations and work on dams and sinkholes.

George Fillmore Swain

George Fillmore Swain (1857–1931) was an American civil engineer who headed civil engineering at MIT and held the Gordon McKay Professorship at Harvard from 1909 to 1929.

George Fraser

George Fraser is the American co-founder and CEO of Fivetran, the automated data integration company founded in 2012 with Taylor Brown. A University of Pittsburgh neurobiology PhD and former Emerald Therapeutics scientist, he led Fivetran through its 2015 pivot, unicorn funding, and the 2026 dbt Labs merger.

George H. Heilmeier

George H. Heilmeier was an American electrical engineer who demonstrated the first working liquid crystal display at RCA Laboratories, and later directed DARPA and led Bellcore.

George Herrmann

George Herrmann (1921–2007) was an applied mechanician and Stanford professor known for work on deformable solids and for founding the International Journal of Solids and Structures.

George Hockham

George Alfred Hockham (1938–2013) was a British electronics engineer who, with Charles Kao, co-authored the 1966 paper founding optical fiber communication, supplying the waveguide theory and fiber-dimension calculations.

George I. Haddad

George I. Haddad is an electrical engineer at the University of Michigan known for microwave electronics research and election to the National Academy of Engineering in 1994.