Scientist/researcher Famous Names Starting with Letter G

Is a scholar of political science and law, famous for his work on the politics of law, human rights

Is a scholar of political science and law, famous for his work on the politics of law, human rights and communities. He is a professor of law, societies and justice, and international studies at University of Washington. In the past he was a professor of political science and law at Tel Aviv University where he served as its Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Law, Society and Politics Program.

Of Pergamon was a prominent ancient Greek[2] physician, whose theories dominated Western medical sci

Of Pergamon was a prominent ancient Greek[2] physician, whose theories dominated Western medical science for well over a millennium. The forename "Claudius", absent in Greek texts, was first documented in texts from the Renaissance.

Is an American engineer and NASA astronaut. He was a backup crew member for Expedition 15 and joined

Is an American engineer and NASA astronaut. He was a backup crew member for Expedition 15 and joined Expedition 16 aboard the International Space Station for a short time before becoming a member of Expedition 17. He returned to Earth 14 June 2008 on boar

Was a leading and controversial ecologist from Dallas, Texas, who was most known for his 1968 paper,

Was a leading and controversial ecologist from Dallas, Texas, who was most known for his 1968 paper, The Tragedy of the Commons. He is also known for Hardin's First Law of Ecology, which states "You cannot do only one thing", and used the familiar phrase "Nice guys finish last" to sum up the "selfish gene" concept of life and evolution.[1]Hardin received a B.S. in zoology from the University of Chicago in 1936 and a PhD in microbiology from Stanford University in 1941. Moving to the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1946, he served there as Professor of Human Ecology from 1963 until his (nominal) retirement in 1978.

Is a former American astronaut.Payton flew on the STS-51-C mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discover

Is a former American astronaut.Payton flew on the STS-51-C mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in January 1985 which launched from and returned to land at the Kennedy Space Center, in Florida. STS-51C was the first dedicated Space Shuttle Departmen

Was a French entomologist.Passionnate about insects from a young age and through the intervention of

Was a French entomologist.Passionnate about insects from a young age and through the intervention of Georges Cuvier, he participated in the Morea expedition organised by Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent in 1829.

An Indian chemist who works in the Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit of the Indian Institute

An Indian chemist who works in the Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Till very recently he was in the School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad. He works in the area of supramolecular chemistry and crystal engineering. Desiraju has played a major role in the development of crystal engineering over the last two decades

An American ecologist and a leading pioneer in the study of acid rain.Likens obtained his PhD from t

An American ecologist and a leading pioneer in the study of acid rain.Likens obtained his PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1962, and joined the faculty of Dartmouth College in 1961. He was co-founder in 1963 of a group with Drs. F. Herbert Bormann, Robert S. Pierce and Noye M. Johnson working on the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.[1] The study immediately found that the rain was abnormally acidic, and the group made one of the first scientific studies linking acid rain to air pollution such as Sulphur Dioxide. The group also devised a range of highly influential long-term experiments on the ecosystem scale.

Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science (and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering) at Stanfo

Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science (and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering) at Stanford University, was one of the preeminent numerical analysts of his generation.

Is a Norwegian American computer architect and hi-tech entrepreneur, chiefly known for his work on m

Is a Norwegian American computer architect and hi-tech entrepreneur, chiefly known for his work on mainframe computers at IBM and later his own companies, especially Amdahl Corporation. He is perhaps best known for formulating Amdahl's law, which states a fundamental limitation of parallel computing.

Is a former cosmonaut that commanded two Soyuz flights.Mankov was born in Yefimovka, Orenburg Oblast

Is a former cosmonaut that commanded two Soyuz flights.Mankov was born in Yefimovka, Orenburg Oblast, Russian SFSR on June 1, 1950.[3] He was selected as a cosmonaut on September 2, 1985 and flew as Commander on Soyuz TM-10 and Soyuz TM-16, retiring on De

Is a Russian Air Force officer and an RSA cosmonaut. He is married to Irina Anatolievna Padalka (Pon

Is a Russian Air Force officer and an RSA cosmonaut. He is married to Irina Anatolievna Padalka (Ponomareva). They have three daughters: Yulia, Ekaterina and Sonya. Gennady enjoys the theater, parachute sport and diving.

Was an Instructor-Test-Cosmonaut and Department Head at Russian aerospace firm RSC Energia. He has b

Was an Instructor-Test-Cosmonaut and Department Head at Russian aerospace firm RSC Energia. He has been decorated twice as Hero of the Soviet Union (December 10, 1980 and April 11, 1984). He also received the Ashoka Chakra Award from India in 1984.

Is an English born geologist and glaciologist. He attended Winchester College in Hampshire and gradu

Is an English born geologist and glaciologist. He attended Winchester College in Hampshire and graduated from New College, Oxford.In 1951 he became a staff member with the Canadian Defence Research Board (DRB) (now part of the Department of National Defence. With the DRB he was part of several expeditions to places such as the Saint Elias Mountains in the Yukon and Cornwallis Island, Northwest Territories (now Nunavut). From 1953-1954 he led the joint Canada-United States expedition to Ellesmere Island In 1956 he received a Doctor of Philosophy from Oxford for his work on Ellesmeres glaciers.

English chemist.

English chemist.

German physicist.As a high school teacher, Ohm started his research with the recently invented elect

German physicist.As a high school teacher, Ohm started his research with the recently invented electrochemical cell,

German botanist, zoologist, physician and explorer, who worked in Russia and present-day Alaska.

German botanist, zoologist, physician and explorer, who worked in Russia and present-day Alaska.

German chemist who reported a method for synthesis of alkenes from aldehydes and ketones using compo

German chemist who reported a method for synthesis of alkenes from aldehydes and ketones using compounds called phosphonium ylides in the Wittig reaction. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Herbert C. Brown in 1979.

A Hungarian-born American chemist.

A Hungarian-born American chemist.

A professor of psychology at Princeton University's Department of Psychology. He formerly served as

A professor of psychology at Princeton University's Department of Psychology. He formerly served as Professor of Psychology at Rockefeller University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Harvard University, where he was Chairman of the Department of Psychology. He was a Fulbright Research Fellow at Oxford University and served as the President of the American Psychological Association

Was a Romanian scientist, engineer and inventor. During his career, he registered over 130 invention

Was a Romanian scientist, engineer and inventor. During his career, he registered over 130 inventions. He is the creator of the Theory of Sonics, a new branch of continuum mechanics, in which he described the transmission of mechanical energy through vibrations.

Was an American aerospace executive and a NASA astronaut.Low worked in the Spacecraft Systems Engine

Was an American aerospace executive and a NASA astronaut.Low worked in the Spacecraft Systems Engineering Section of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, from March 1980 until June 1984. During that time he was involved in th

A Hungarian Radiochemist who was important in the development of the tracer method where radioactive

A Hungarian Radiochemist who was important in the development of the tracer method where radioactive tracers are used to study chemical processes, e.g., the metabolism of animals. For this he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1943

Is a former NASA astronaut.George was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in January 1978. He

Is a former NASA astronaut.George was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in January 1978. He flew as a scientific equipment operator in the WB 57-F earth resources aircraft and served as the Astronaut Office representative in the Space Shuttle Ext

American astrophysicist, cosmologist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his work on COBE with J

American astrophysicist, cosmologist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his work on COBE with John C. Mather that led to the measurement "...of the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation."