Biographies
Life accounts of notable scientists and engineers
Biographies
Life accounts of notable scientists and engineers
Gaffky, Georg Theodor August (1850–1918)
Gagarin, Yuri Alexeyevich (1934–1968)
Gajdusek, D(aniel) Carleton (1923–2008)
Gale, Robert (Peter) (1945– )
Galen (c. AD 129–c. 199)
Galileo (1564–1643)
Gall, Joseph G(rafton) (1928– )
Galle, Johann Gottfried (1812–1910)
Gallo, Robert Charles (1937– )
Galois, Evariste (1811–1832)
Galston, Arthur W(illiam) (1920–2008)
Galton, Francis (1822–1911)
Galvani, Luigi (1737–1798)
Gamow, George (1904–1968)
Gantt, Henry Laurence (1861–1919)
Gardner, Julia (Anna) (1882–1960)
Garrod, Archibald Edward (1857–1936)
Garstang, John (1876–1956)
Gassendi, Pierre (1592–1655)
Gasser, Herbert Spencer (1888–1963)
Gatling, Richard Jordan (1818–1903)
Gauss, Carl Friedrich (1777–1855)
Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis (1778–1850)
Geber (c. 721–c. 815)
Ged, William (1690–1749)
Gegenbaur, Karl (1826–1903)
Geiger, Hans (Wilhelm) (1882–1945)
Geim, Andre (1958– )
Gell-Mann, Murray (1929– )
Gemma Frisius (1508–1555)
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Etienne (1772–1844)
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Isidore (1805–1861)
Gerard of Cremona (1114–1187)
Gerard, John (1545–1612)
Gerhardt, Charles Frederic (1816–1856)
Germain, Sophie (Marie) (1776–1831)
Gesner, Konrad von (1516–1565)
Giacconi, Riccardo (1931– )
Giaever, Ivar (1929– )
Giauque, William Francis (1895–1982)
Gibbon, John Heysham (1903–1973)
Gibbs, (Josiah) Willard (1839–1903)
Giffard, Henri (1825–1882)
Gilbert, G(rove) K(arl) (1843–1918)
Gilbert, Walter (1932– )
Gilbert, William (1544–1603)
Gilbreth, Frank (Bunker) (1868–1925)
Gilbreth, Lillian (Evelyn) (1878–1972)
Gilchrist, Percy Carlyle (1851–1935)
Gill, David (1843–1914)
Gillette, King Camp (1855–1932)
Gillies, Sir Harold Delf (1882–1960)
Gilman, Alfred (1941–2015)
Gilman, Henry (1893–1986)
Gimbutas, Marija (1921–1994)
Ginsburg, Charles P (1920–1992)
Ginzburg, Vitalii Lazarevich (1916–2009)
Glaser, Donald Arthur (1926–2013)
Glashow, Sheldon Lee (1932– )
Glauber, Johann Rudolf (1604–1670)
Glauber, Roy (Jay) (1925– )
Gleason, Andrew M(attei) (1921–2008)
Glenn, John Herschel, Jr (1921–2016)
Gmelin, Johan Georg (1709–1755)
Goddard, Robert Hutchings (1882–1945)
Gödel, Kurt (1906–1978)
Godwin, Harry (1901–1985)
Goeppert-Mayer, Maria (1906–1972)
Gold, Thomas (1920–2004)
Goldberg, Leo (1913–1987)
Goldberger, Joseph (1874–1929)
Goldhaber, Maurice (1911–2011)
Goldmark, Peter (Carl) (1906–1977)
Goldring, Winifred (1888–1971)
Goldschmidt, Richard Benedikt (1878–1958)
Goldschmidt, Victor Moritz (1888–1947)
Goldsmith, Grace Arabell (1904–1975)
Goldstein, Eugen (1850–1930)
Goldstein, Joseph Leonard (1940– )
Goldstein, Max Aaron (1870–1941)
Goldwasser, Shafrira
Golgi, Camillo (1843–1926)
Golomb, Solomon W.
Gomberg, Moses (1866–1947)
Goodall, Jane (1934– )
Goodenough, John B.
Goodenough, John Bannister (1922– )
Goodsir, John (1814–1867)
Goodyear, Charles (1800–1860)
Gosse, Philip Henry (1810–1888)
Gosset, William Sealey (1876–1937)
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp (1824–1896)
Gould, Gordon (1920–2005)
Gould, James L (1945– )
Gould, John (1804–1881)
Gould, Stephen Jay (1941–2002)
Gowers, William Richard (1845–1915)
Graaf, Regnier de (1641–1673)
Grace, Virginia (Randolph) (1901–1994)
Graham, Thomas (1805–1869)
Graham-Smith, Francis (1923– )
Grandi, Guido (1671–1742)
Granit, Ragnar A(rthur) (1900–1991)
Grant, Peter R(aymond) (1936– )
Grassmann, Hermann Günther (1809–1877)
Graves, Robert James (1796–1853)
Gray, Asa (1810–1888)
Gray, Elisha (1835–1901)
Gray, Henry (1827–1861)
Gray, James (1891–1975)
Gray, John Edward (1800–1875)
Greatbatch, Wilson (1919–2011)
Green, George (1793–1841)
Greene, Leonard Michael (1918–2006)
Greenfield, Susan (1950– )
Greengard, Paul (1925– )
Greenstein, Jesse Leonard (1909–2002)
Gregg, Norman McAlister (1892–1966)
Greider, Carol W(idney) (1961– )
Grew, Nehemiah (1641–1712)
Griffin, Donald Redfield (1915–2003)
Grignard, (François Auguste) Victor (1871–1935)
Grimaldi, Francesco Maria (1618–1663)
Grimes, William Francis (1905–1988)
Grinnell, George Bird (1849–1938)
Gross, David (Jonathan) (1941– )
Gross, Samuel David (1805–1884)
Grosseteste, Robert (c. 1169–1253)
Grove, Andy Steven (1936– )
Groves, Leslie (1896–1970)
Grubb, Howard (1844–1931)
Grubbs, Robert H (1942– )
Grumman, Leroy (Randle) (1895–1982)
Grünberg, Peter (1939– )
Guericke, Otto von (1602–1686)
Guérin, Camille (1872–1961)
Guettard, Jean-Etienne (1715–1786)
Guillaume, Charles Edouard (1861–1938)
Guillemin, Roger Charles Louis (1924– )
Guinter, Johannes (1505–1574)
Gull, William Withey (1816–1890)
Gullstrand, Allvar (1862–1930)
Gunter, Edmund (1581–1626)
Gurdon, John Bertrand (1933– )
Gutenberg, Beno (1889–1960)
Gutenberg, Johannes (c.1398–1468)
Guyot, Arnold (Henry) (1807–1884)
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