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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. Jeffs

George W. Jeffs (1924–2019) was an American aerospace engineer and Rockwell International executive who directed the Apollo command and service module program through nine lunar missions.

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 Bridge

The George Washington Bridge, also called the GW Bridge, is a double-decked suspension bridge carrying Interstate 95 across the Hudson River between Manhattan and Fort Lee, New Jersey.

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.

George Washington Gale Ferris Jr.

George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. (1859–1896) was an American civil engineer from Pittsburgh who built the original Ferris wheel for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.

George Washington Goethals

George Washington Goethals (1858–1928) was an American army officer and civil engineer who directed the Panama Canal's completion and served as first governor of the Panama Canal Zone.

George Washington Memorial Parkway

The George Washington Memorial Parkway is a 38.3-mile National Park Service scenic road along the Potomac River from Mount Vernon to the Capital Beltway, established by Congress in 1930.

George Westinghouse

George Westinghouse Jr. was an American inventor and industrialist who patented the railroad air brake in 1869, founded Westinghouse Electric in 1886, and led the adoption of alternating current.

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 Besse II (enrichment plant)

Georges Besse II, also written GB2, is a commercial uranium enrichment plant at the Tricastin nuclear site in southern France, operated by Orano with gas centrifuge technology since 2010.

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.

Georgi Gerganov (Георги Герганов)

Georgi Gerganov (Георги Герганов) is a Bulgarian software engineer and former medical physicist who created ggml and llama.cpp, founded ggml.ai in 2023, and joined Hugging Face with his team in 2026.

Georgia Department of Driver Services

The Georgia Department of Driver Services (DDS) is the Georgia state agency responsible for issuing driver's licenses, ID cards, and permits, created by House Bill 501 in 2005.

Georgia Department of Transportation

The Georgia Department of Transportation, led by Commissioner Russell R. McMurry and headquartered in Atlanta, plans and maintains Georgia's roads and bridges and supports rail, transit, aviation, and ports.

Georgia Power

Georgia Power is an investor-owned electric utility headquartered in Atlanta, the largest subsidiary of the Southern Company, serving about 2.8 million customers across 155 of Georgia's 159 counties.

Georgia Rural Telephone Museum

The Georgia Rural Telephone Museum is a museum of antique telephones and equipment in Leslie, Georgia, opened by Tommy C. Smith in 1995 and displaying about 2,000 items.

Georgia State Route 400

Georgia State Route 400, also signed Georgia 400, is a 53.7-mile road in metropolitan Atlanta running from I-85 in Buckhead through Sandy Springs and Cumming to near Dahlonega.

Georgia-Pacific

Georgia-Pacific is an American forest-products company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1927, it makes Brawny, Dixie, and Quilted Northern products and has been owned by Koch since 2005.

Georgian architecture

Georgian architecture is the style of the British world from 1714 to 1830, guided by proportion, symmetry, and balance, drawing on classical Greek and Roman models.

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.