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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 Gentleman Station

The Gerald Gentleman Station is a coal-fired power plant near Sutherland, Nebraska, owned by Nebraska Public Power District. Its two units, online in 1979 and 1982, total 1,365 MW.

Gerald Jay Sussman

Gerald Jay Sussman is an MIT computer scientist who co-invented the Scheme programming language in 1975 and coauthored Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, the "Wizard Book."

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 Penn (computational linguist)

Gerald Penn is a computational linguist and professor of computer science at the University of Toronto since 2001, known for work in natural language processing and mathematical linguistics.

Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier

The Gerald R. Ford class, or CVN-21, is a class of nuclear-powered US Navy supercarriers, successor to the Nimitz class, with lead ship commissioned in 2017.

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.

Gérard Cornuéjols

Gérard Cornuéjols is an operations researcher at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business, known for integer programming, lift-and-project cutting planes, and the 2000 Fulkerson Prize.

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 Guy Medioni

Gerard Guy Medioni is a French-American computer vision scientist, a USC professor emeritus and Amazon vice president elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.

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 J. Holzmann

Gerard J. Holzmann is a computer scientist best known for designing the Spin model checker for concurrent and distributed software; he led reliable-software research at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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.

Gerard Marcel Abel Baillely

Gerard Marcel Abel Baillely is a French-trained industrial chemist who led Procter & Gamble research and development and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025.

Gérard Medioni

Gérard Medioni is a computer vision researcher and USC Professor Emeritus known for tensor voting and for leading the computer vision behind Amazon's Just Walk Out stores.

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.

Gerard W. Elverum

Gerard W. "Jerry" Elverum was an American rocket-propulsion engineer who directed TRW's Apollo Lunar Module descent engine, the throttleable engine that landed astronauts on the Moon.

Gerardo Adesso

Gerardo Adesso is a mathematical physicist and Professor at the University of Nottingham since 2016, known for work on quantum entanglement, coherence, and quantum correlations.

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.

Gerber format

The Gerber format is a human-readable ASCII vector image format that transfers printed circuit board fabrication data from design to manufacturing, with one file per board layer.

Gerber Technology

Gerber Technology is an American maker of CAD and CAM software and automated cutting systems for apparel, founded in 1968 and acquired by France's Lectra in 2021.

Gerbera (drone)

The Gerbera, also known as the Gerbera UAV, is a Russian decoy drone that mimics the Shahed-136 attack drone to drain Ukrainian air defenses, first used in July 2024.

Gerdau

Gerdau is a Brazilian steel producer headquartered in Porto Alegre, founded in 1901 as a nail factory, and describes itself as the largest Brazilian steel producer, with operations across the Americas.

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.

Gerhard Neumann

Gerhard Neumann (1917–1997) was a German-American aviation engineer and General Electric executive who invented the variable stator compressor behind the J79 turbojet and led GE's aircraft engine business from 1961 to 1978.

German Aerospace Center

The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, DLR) is Germany's national research and technology center for aeronautics, space, energy, transport, security, and defense, headquartered in Cologne.

German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin

Graf Zeppelin, designated Flugzeugträger A, was a German aircraft carrier launched in 1938 but never commissioned; scuttled in 1945, it was sunk as a Soviet target in 1947.