List of Eponyms (A-K) - G

G

  • Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist and geologist — gadolinite, the mineral after which the chemical element gadolinium has been named
  • Thomas Gage (botanist) — greengage
  • Uziel Gal — the Uzi submachine gun
  • Galileo Galilei — galileo or gal, unit of acceleration
  • Israel Galili — the Galil assault rifle
  • Luigi Galvani (1737–1798), discovered the Galvanic response of muscles to electricity. The process of galvanization is also named after him.
  • James Gamble and William Procter — Procter & Gamble
  • Henry Laurence Gantt — Gantt chart
  • John Garand — M1 Garand rifle
  • Alexander Garden (naturalist) - after whom the gardenia was named.
  • Giuseppe Garibaldi — Garibaldi biscuits, Italian aircraft carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi
  • Gideon Gartner — Gartner
  • Hermann Gartner — Gartner's duct
  • Richard J. Gatling — Gatling gun
  • Carl Friedrich Gauss — gauss — unit of magnetic induction, Gauss' law; see also: List of topics named after Carl Friedrich Gauss.
  • Enola Gay Tibbets — Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb. Tibbets' son Paul Tibbets, pilot of the plane, named it after his mother.
  • Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Jacques Charles — Law of Charles and Gay-Lussac
  • Lou Gehrig, American Baseball player — Lou Gehrig's Disease
  • Hans Geiger — Geiger counter, Geiger-Müller tube
  • King George I of Great Britain — Georgia (U.S. state)
  • King George VI of Great Britain — George Cross
  • Elbridge Gerry - gerrymandering
  • Domingo Ghirardelli — Ghirardelli Chocolate Company
  • Josiah Willard Gibbs — Gibbs free energy, Gibbs phenomenon
  • Thomas Gilbert — Kiribati
  • King Camp Gillette - founder, Gillette
  • Gaston Glock — GLOCK GmbH and its best-known product, the Glock pistol
  • Kurt Gödel — Gödel's incompleteness theorem, Gödel's ontological proof
  • Maria Goeppert-Mayer - Goeppert-Mayer (GM) unit for the cross section of two-photon absorption
  • Samuel Goldwyn — Goldwyn Picture Corporation, later merged into Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. (or MGM)
  • Wilbert Gore — Gore-Tex
  • Klement Gottwald — Zlín, a city in Moravia, the Czech Republic, was renamed Gottwaldov during 1949—1990.
  • Ernst Gräfenberg — Gräfenberg spot (G-spot)
  • Sylvester Graham — Graham crackers, Graham flour
  • Thomas Graham — Graham's Law
  • Robert James Graves — Graves-Basedow disease
  • Louis Harold Gray — gray, unit of absorbed dose of radiation
  • Henri Grob — Grob's Attack
  • Ernst Grünfeld — Grünfeld Defence
  • Vicente Guerrero — Guerrero
  • Georges Guillain — Guillain-Barré syndrome
  • Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin (1738–1814) — advocate of what came to be called the guillotine
  • Henry C. Gunning — mineral Gunningite
  • Robert John Lechmere Guppy (1836–1916) — Guppy or guppie

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