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- G. B. HalstedGeorge Bruce Halsted (November 25, 1853 – March 16, 1922), usually cited as G. B. Halsted,
- G. Evelyn HutchinsonBritish ecologist (1903–1991)
- G. I. TaylorBritish physicist and mathematician (1886–1975)
- G. N. RamachandranIndian physicist (1922–2001)
- Gabor MedalThe Gabor Medal is one of the medals awarded by the Royal Society for "acknowledged distin
- Gabriel LippmannFrench physicist (1845–1921)
- Gabriele FalloppioItalian anatomist (1522/23–1562)
- Gale Bruno van AlbadaGale Bruno van Albada (28 March 1912, Amsterdam – 18 December 1972, Amsterdam) was a Dutch
- Galesburg City Township, Knox County, IllinoisGalesburg City Township is one of twenty-one townships in Knox County, Illinois, USA. As o
- Galesburg, IllinoisCity in Illinois, United States
- Galois representationIn mathematics, a Galois module is a G-module, with G being the Galois group of some exten
- Garrett HardinAmerican ecologist (1915–2003)
- Gary FeldmanGary J. Feldman is an American particle physicist who works on neutrino physics with the N
- Gary H. PosnerGary H. Posner (June 2, 1943 – February 26, 2018) was Scowe Professor of Chemistry at John
- Gary KildallAmerican computer scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur (1942–1994)
- Gary MarksGary Marks (born 1952 in London) is an American-based academic and an expert on multilevel
- Gaspard-Gustave de CoriolisFrench mathematician, mechanical engineer, and scientist (1792–1843)
- Gau Westphalia-NorthThe Gau Westphalia-North (German: Gau Westfalen-Nord) was an administrative division of Na
- Gaucher RG.40 Week-EndThe Gaucher RG.40 Week-End was a high-wing, two-seat, low-power, touring aircraft built in
- Gelia T. CastilloFilipino sociologist (1928–2017)
- Gender inequality in BoliviaWomen in Bolivia face significant challenges and discrimination despite the Constitution o
- Gender inequality in El SalvadorGender inequality can be found in various areas of Salvadoran life such as employment, hea
- Gender representation in video gamesThe portrayal of gender in video games, as in other media, is a subject of research in gen
- Gender representation on corporate boards of directorsAspect of culture
- Gene AmdahlAmerican computer architect and high-tech entrepreneur
- Genetics and the Origin of SpeciesGenetics and the Origin of Species is a 1937 book by the Ukrainian-American evolutionary b
- Geneviève JourdainFrench engineer and researcher (1945–2006)
- Geneviève Thiroux d'ArconvilleFrench writer and chemist (1720–1805)
- Genu valgumGenu valgum, commonly called "knock-knee", is a condition in which the knees angle in and
- Geoffrey BurbidgeBritish astronomer
- Geoffrey HintonBritish-Canadian computer scientist (born 1947)
- Geoffrey WilkinsonEnglish chemist and Nobel prize winner (1921–1996)
- GeometrodynamicsIn theoretical physics, geometrodynamics is an attempt to describe spacetime and associate
- Georg BednorzGerman physicist (born 1950)
- Georg Christoph EimmartGeorg Christoph Eimmart the Younger (22 August 1638, Regensburg – 5 January 1705, Nürnberg
- Georg Christoph LichtenbergGerman scientist and satirist (1742–1799)
- Georg Heinrich PertzGeorg Heinrich Pertz (28 March 1795 – 7 October 1876) was a German historian.
- Georg Wilhelm StellerGerman biologist and explorer (1709–1746)
- George Albert BoulengerBelgian-British zoologist
- George CayleyBritish aeronautical engineer (1773–1857)
- George DantzigAmerican mathematician (1914–2005)
- George David BirkhoffAmerican mathematician (1884–1944)
- George E. P. BoxBritish statistician
- George E. SmithAmerican physicist (1930–2025)
- George Edward PagetSir George Edward Paget, KCB, FRS (22 December 1809 – 16 January 1892) was an English phys
- George Ellery HaleAmerican solar astronomer (1868–1938)
- George H. HitchingsGeorge Herbert Hitchings (April 18, 1905 – February 27, 1998) was an American medical doct
- George Hale (minister)George Ernest Hale (July 1884 – September 1966), early in his career referred to as G. Ern
- George Joseph BellGeorge Joseph Bell FRSE (26 March 1770 – 23 September 1843) was a Scottish advocate and le
- George Lane (British Army officer)George Henry Lane, MC (born Gyuri or György Lányi; 18 January 1915 – 19 March 2010) was a
- George M. Foster (anthropologist)George McClelland Foster Jr. (October 9, 1913 – May 18, 2006) was an American anthropologi
- George OrmerodGeorge Ormerod JP DL FRS FSA (20 October 1785 – 9 October 1873) was an English antiquary a
- George Paget ThomsonBritish physicist (1892–1975)
- George PeacockEnglish mathematician and Anglican cleric (1791–1858)
- George PólyaHungarian-American mathematician and educator (1887–1985)
- George PullmanAmerican engineer and businessman (1831–1897)
- George RosenkranzHungarian chemist (1916 – 2019)
- George Safford ParkerAmerican inventor of leak-resistant fountain pen (1863-1937)
- George SeriesGeorge William Series FRS (22 February 1920 – 2 January 1995) was a British physicist, not
- George SmootAmerican astrophysicist (1945–2025)
- George W. BrindleyGeorge William Brindley (June 19, 1905 – October 23, 1983) was a British-American crystall
- George Washington (inventor)American inventor and businessman
- George Washington Gale Ferris Jr.American civil engineer (1859–1896)
- George Washington GoethalsUnited States Army general (1858–1928)
- Georges CharpakPolish-born French physicist
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de BuffonFrench naturalist, mathematician, and cosmologist (1701–1788)
- Georgette DélibriasFrench scientist (1924–2015)
- Georgia BenkartAmerican mathematician (1947–2022)
- Georgia Caldwell SmithOne of the first African-American women to gain a bachelor's degree in mathematics
- Georgiana BonserBritish physician (1898–1979)
- Georgius AgricolaGerman scholar, mineralogist and metallurgist (1494–1555)
- Gerard 't HooftDutch theoretical physicist
- Gerard KrefftAustralian zoologist, palaeontologist, and museum curator (1830–1881)
- Gerard KuiperDutch astronomer (1905–1973)
- Gérard LaumonGérard Laumon (French: ; born 1952) is a French mathematician working in number theory and
- Gérard MourouFrench physicist and Nobel laureate (born 1944)
- Gerd BinnigGerman physicist (born 1947)
- Gerel OchirMongolian geologist
- Gerhard DomagkGerman bacteriologist (1895–1964)
- Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and EngineeringThe Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering is awarded by the Natur
- Gerhard KrefftGerhard Krefft (30 March 1912 - 20 March 1993) was a German ichthyologist and herpetologis
- Germain Henri HessSwiss-Russian chemist and physician (1802–1850)
- German Cancer Research CenterThe German Cancer Research Center (known as the Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum or simply
- German Future PrizeThe German Future Prize award is considered one of the most prestigious conferred for scie
- GermansPeople of Germany
- GernrodeGernrode (German pronunciation: ) is a historic town and former municipality in the Harz D
- Gerrit BlaauwGerrit Anne "Gerry" Blaauw (17 July 1924 – 21 March 2018) was a Dutch computer scientist,
- Gerta KellerGeologist and paleontologist
- Gertrude B. ElionAmerican biochemist and pharmacologist (1918–1999)
- Gertrude BaconBritish writer, aeronaut and botanist (1874–1949)
- Gertrude Mary CoxAmerican statistician (1900–1978)
- Gertrude RandAmerican research psychologist (1886-1970)
- Gertrude Van WagenenAmerican scientist
- Gerty CoriCzech-American biochemist (1896–1957)
- Ghana Academy of Arts and SciencesThe Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS) is a learned society for the arts and scienc
- Gia VoeltzGia Voeltz is an American cell biologist. She is a professor of Molecular, Cellular and De
- Gilbert PlassGilbert Norman Plass (March 22, 1920 – March 1, 2004) was a Canadian physicist who in the
- Gillian BatesBritish biologist
- Gillian GehringBritish academic, and former Professor of Physics
- Gillian GriffithsBritish biologist and immunologist
- Ginny FiennesBritish explorer
- Ginsparg–Wilson equationIn lattice field theory, the Ginsparg–Wilson equation generalizes chiral symmetry on the l
- Ginzburg–Landau theoryIn physics, Ginzburg–Landau theory, often called Landau–Ginzburg theory, named after Vital
- Giovanni Domenico CassiniMathematician and astronomer (1625–1712)
- Girard DesarguesFrench mathematician and engineer (1591–1661)
- Gisela MosigGerman biologist
- Giuseppe GabrielliGiuseppe Gabrielli (26 February 1903 – 29 November 1987) was an Italian aeronautics engine
- Giuseppe OcchialiniGiuseppe Paolo Stanislao "Beppo" Occhialini ForMemRS (Italian pronunciation: ; 5 December
- Giuseppe PeanoItalian mathematician and glottologist (1858–1932)
- Giuseppina Masotti BiggiogeroItalian mathematician (1894–1977)
- Glaci ZancanBrazilian biochemist
- Gladys Anderson EmersonAmerican historian, biochemist and nutritionist (1903–1984)
- Gladys DickAmerican microbiologist
- Gladys Kalema-ZikusokaUgandan scientist
- Gladys Lounsbury HobbyAmerican scientist (1910–1993)
- Gladys WestAmerican mathematician (1930–2026)
- Glass batteryThe glass battery is a type of solid-state battery. It uses a glass electrolyte and lithiu
- Glauber–Sudarshan P representationThe Glauber–Sudarshan P representation is a suggested way of writing down the phase space
- GlaxoSmithKline PrizeThe GlaxoSmithKline Prize and Lecture is awarded by the Royal Society of London "for origi
- Glenn CurtissAmerican aviator and industrialist (1878–1930)
- Glenn T. SeaborgAmerican chemist (1912–1999)
- Global Virus NetworkThe Global Virus Network (GVN) is an international coalition of medical virologists whose
- Gloria BolotskyAmerican computer scientist
- Gloria Conyers HewittAmerican mathematician (born 1935)
- Gloria Ford GilmerAmerican mathematician (1928–2021)
- Gloria HollisterAmerican explorer, scientist (1900–1988)
- Glucose 1-phosphateGlucose 1-phosphate (also called Cori ester) is a glucose molecule with a phosphate group
- GlycomicsGlycomics is the comprehensive study of glycomes (the entire complement of sugars, whether
- Glynn HouseGlynn House is a Grade II* listed country estate near Cardinham in the county of Cornwall.
- Godfrey HounsfieldBritish electrical engineer (1919–2004)
- Golden Pipeline Heritage TrailGolden Pipeline Heritage Trail (also known as the Golden Pipeline Drive Trail) was a proje
- Gordon Arthur RileyGordon Arthur Riley (1 June 1911 – 7 October 1985) was an American biological oceanographe
- Gosling EmacsGosling Emacs (often shortened to "Gosmacs" or "gmacs") is a discontinued Emacs implementa
- Gösta Mittag-LefflerSwedish mathematician (1846–1927)
- Gottfried Reinhold TreviranusGerman physician, naturalist, and proto-evolutionary biologist
- Gotthold EisensteinGerman mathematician (1823–1852)
- GöttingenCity in Lower Saxony, Germany
- Gottlieb DaimlerGerman engineer, industrialist and automotive pioneer (1834–1900)
- Government Chief Scientific Adviser (United Kingdom)The UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA) is the personal adviser on science and t
- Government of NigerThe government of Niger is the apparatus through which authority functions and is exercise
- GPR17Uracil nucleotide/cysteinyl leukotriene receptor is a G protein-coupled receptor that in h
- Grace Alele-WilliamsNigerian mathematician and academic (1932–2022)
- Grace CoyleGrace Longwell Coyle (1892–1962) was a highly influential American thinker in the area of
- Grace ElderingAmerican public health scientist
- Grace Mary CrowfootBritish archaeologist
- Grace MedesAmerican biochemist
- Grace Murray Hopper AwardThe Grace Murray Hopper Award (named for computer pioneer RADM Grace Hopper) has been awar
- Grace Nambatya KyeyuneUgandan scientist
- Grace Olive WileyAmerican herpetologist
- Grace Raymond HebardAmerican historian and educator (1861–1936)
- Grasshopper escapementThe grasshopper escapement is a low-friction escapement for pendulum clocks invented by Br
- Gravitation (book)Gravitation is a widely adopted textbook on Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity
- Gray molassesGray molasses is a method of sub-Doppler laser cooling of atoms. It employs principles fro
- Greene Vardiman BlackAmerican dentistry pioneer (1836–1915)
- Greenwood Cemetery (Nashville, Tennessee)Greenwood Cemetery is situated at 1428 Elm Hill Pike, Nashville in Davidson County, Tennes
- Gregorio BarbarigoGregorio Giovanni Gaspare Barbarigo (16 September 1625 – 18 June 1697) was an Italian Roma
- Gregorio Ricci-CurbastroItalian mathematician (1853–1925)
- Gregory G. PincusAmerican biochemist (1903–1967), inventor of the contraceptive pill
- Gretchen DailyAmerican biologist (born 1964)
- Grigori PerelmanRussian mathematician (born 1966)
- Gromov boundaryIn mathematics, the Gromov boundary of a δ-hyperbolic space (especially a hyperbolic group
- Gromov's inequality for complex projective spaceIn Riemannian geometry, Gromov's optimal stable 2-systolic inequality is the inequality
- Grünwald, BavariaGrünwald (German for green forest) is a municipality in the district of Munich, in the sta
- Guderley–Landau–Stanyukovich problemGuderley–Landau–Stanyukovich problem describes the time evolution of converging shock wave
- Gudrun RuudNorwegian zoologist (1882–1958)
- Guggenheim Aeronautical LaboratoryThe Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology (GALCIT),
- Guido MünchGuido Münch Paniagua (June 9, 1921 – 29 April 2020) was a Mexican astronomer and astrophys
- Guido van RossumDutch programmer and creator of Python (born 1956)
- Guillaume de l'HôpitalFrench mathematician (1661–1704)
- Guillotière CemeteryGuillotière Cemetery is the name of two adjacent but associated cemeteries in Lyon, France
- Gulbenkian PrizeGulbenkian Prize is a series of prizes awarded annually by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundat
- Gulielma ListerEnglish mycologist and naturalist
- Gulli PetriniSwedish physicist and suffragist (1867–1941)
- Guo ShoujingChinese astronomer and mathematician (1231–1316)
- Gustaf DalénSwedish engineer and inventor (1869–1937)
- Gustav Ludwig HertzGerman physicist (1887–1975)
- Guy de ChauliacFrench physician and surgeon
- Gwen FentonAustralian Antarctic biologist
- Gwendolyn Wilson FowlerAfrican-American pharmacist