Scientific Phenomena Named After People - G

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• Gabriel synthesis – Siegmund Gabriel
• Gattermann reaction – Ludwig Gattermann
• Gattermann–Koch reaction – Ludwig Gattermann and Julius Arnold Koch
• Gause's principle – Georgii Gause
• Gauss's law – Carl Friedrich Gauss
• Gauss–Bonnet gravity, theorem – Carl Friedrich Gauss and Pierre Ossian Bonnet
• Geib–Spevack process (a.k.a. Girdler sulfide (GS) process) – Karl-Hermann Geib and Jerome S. Spevack (and the Girdler company, which built the first American plant using the process)
• Geiger counter (a.k.a. Geiger-Müller counter) – Johannes Wilhelm (Hans) Geiger (and Walther Müller)
• Geiger–Marsden experiment (a.k.a. Rutherford experiment) – Johannes Wilhelm (Hans) Geiger and Ernest Marsden
• Geiger–Müller tube – Johannes Wilhelm (Hans) Geiger and Walther Müller
• Geiger–Nuttall law/rule – Johannes Wilhelm (Hans) Geiger and John Mitchell Nuttall
• Geissler tube – Heinrich Geissler
• Gibbs entropy, free energy, paradox, Gibbs' phase rule, Gibbs phenomenon – Josiah Willard Gibbs
• Gibbs–Donnan effect (a.k.a. Donnan effect) – Josiah Willard Gibbs and Frederick G. Donnan
• Gibbs–Marangoni effect (a.k.a. Marangoni effect) – Josiah Willard Gibbs and Carlo Marangoni
• Gibbs–Helmholtz equation – Josiah Willard Gibbs and Hermann von Helmholtz
• Gibbs–Thomson effect – Josiah Willard Gibbs and three Thomsons: James Thomson, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Sir J. J. Thomson
• Giffen good – Sir Robert Giffen
• Goldbach's conjecture – Christian Goldbach
• Goldstone boson (a.k.a. Nambu-Goldstone boson) – see Nambu-Goldstone boson, below
• Gomberg–Bachmann reaction – Moses Gomberg and Werner Emmanuel Bachmann
• Goodhart's law – Charles Goodhart
• Goos–Hänchen effect or shift – Hermann Fritz Gustav Goos and Hilda Hänchen
• Grashof number – Franz Grashof
• Greisen–Zatsepin–Kuzmin cut-off/limit – Kenneth Greisen, Georgiy Zatsepin and Vadim Kuzmin
• Gresham's law – Sir Thomas Gresham
• Griess test (diazotization reaction) – Johann Peter Griess
• Grignard reaction – François Auguste Victor Grignard
• Grob fragmentation – Cyril A. Grob
• Gromov–Witten invariant – Mikhail Gromov and Edward Witten
• Grosch's law – Herbert Reuben John Grosch
• Grotrian diagram – Walter Robert Wilhelm Grotrian
• Grotthuss chain – Christian Johann Dietrich Theodor von Grotthuss
• Grotthuss–Draper law – Christian Johann Dietrich Theodor von Grotthuss and John William Draper
• Gunn diode, effect – J. B. Gunn
• Gunning fog index – Robert Gunning
• Gustafson's law, a.k.a. Gustafson-Barsis's law – John L. Gustafson (and Edward H. Barsis)
• Gutenberg–Richter law – Beno Gutenberg and Charles Francis Richter