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Encyclopedia of Scientists and Inventors.. Scientists in order according to their nickname.. The letter G

⏹Gadley Sir Ritgman John
Godlee, Sir Richman John

English surgeon (1849 - 1925)

Gadley gained his fame as a result of his success in surgically removing a brain tumor from one of his patients, and that was for the first time in the history of medicine in 1884.
Gadley headed the Royal College of Surgeons (R.C.S) and the Royal College of Medicine (R.C.M). Sir Rimshan Gadley was the nephew of the surgeon Joseph Lister, and Gadley wrote a biography of his uncle Lister.

⏹ Gadolin, Johan
Johan, Gadolin

Finnish chemist (1760 - 1852)
Gadolin learned in Abo (now known as Turku and is located in southwestern Finland). He also studied in Uppsala and then worked as a professor of chemistry at Abo University.
Gadolin was able to separate yttrium oxide from a mineral that was later named gadolinite in honor of its discoverer. This discovery led to access to oxides of rare earth elements that were not yet discovered, and this name was used for them at a later time. The element with atomic number 64 is called gadolinium.

⏹ Garcia, Manuel Garcia, Manuel

Professor of singing, Spanish-French (1805-1906)
Garcia was a well-known professor of singing and he worked as a professor at the Paris Conservatoire. He also worked at the Royal Academy of Music in London. · Garcia invented the laryngoscope, which made it possible to lay the foundation for the modern study of the larynx.

⏹ Garner, William Edward
Garner, William Edward

English chemist (1889 - 1960)
Garner learned in Birmingham, Gettingen, and London, and held prominent scientific positions in Birmingham and London, then went to Bristol to work as a professor of physical chemistry. Garner was chosen as a fellow at the Royal Society. Dry disintegration and explosive solids.

Gasser, Herbert Spencer.
Herbert Spencer and Gasser

American physiologist (physiologist).
( 1963 - 1888 )
Gasser studied in Wisconsin and Johns Hopkins University, then returned to the University of Wisconsin to work in teaching there, after that he became a professor in Washington and Cornell, then worked as director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. Gasser participated with Erlanger in the study of the nervous system, and they shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1944 · ( See Erlanger) also made important studies on blood clotting.

⏹ Gassendi, Pierre Gassendi

French philosopher and mathematician (1592-1655)
Gassendi was educated in a number of French institutions and was a precocious genius.
Gassendi taught philosophy in Aix, north of Marseille, when he was nineteen years old • His comments on Aristotle made him friends and enemies at the same time. He was a stubborn opponent of Descartes, and among the works of Gassendi: the biography of Tycho Brahe and the biography of Copernicus. He also has a book entitled:
Syntagma Philosophia Epicuri
In astronomical studies, Gassendi wrote his observations on the transition of the planet Mercury.

Gaffke, George Theodore August
Gaffky, George Theodor August

German bacteriologist (1850-1918)
Gafki became famous as a member of the Cholera Committee (Al-Haydah or Yellow Air), that committee that visited Egypt and India for the purpose of studying and addressing this problem. Gafki isolated and cultivated the bacillus of typhoid disease.

⏹ Gall, Franz Joseph
Gall Frantz Joseph"

German physiologist
( 1758 - 1828 )
Gall was educated in Baden, Strasbourg, and Vienna, where he worked as a doctor after graduating. Gall was the first to point out the presence of gray matter (gray matter) in the brain opposite the white matter. Gall erred in attributing some of the activities and abilities to the shape of the brain or the shape of the skull.
Gal's studies led to the emergence of Phrenology, meaning the study of intelligence through the shape of the skull, but this study proved to be wrong.

⏹ Sir Francis Galton
Galton Sir Francis

English anthropologist (1911-1822)
Galton received his education at University College and Cambridge
He traveled to Africa to conduct studies on its people, and after his return to London he was interested in the issue of eugenics.
And he wrote part of his money in his will to be spent on establishing a chair for the study of Eugenia, (Neslia) at the University of London. It is worth mentioning that Galton is a relative of Darwin.
He examined the thinking process of man of varying intelligence in his well-known book: Inquiries into Human Faculty.
And published in 1883, Galton concluded that people with higher education are less able to remember images vividly than is the case when the uneducated.
He studied the fingerprints in a way that led to benefiting from that and using it in the criminal investigation.
In the field of meteorology, Galton introduced the idea of ​​an anticyclone.
In terms of the method, he was very inclined to rely on statistics in his studies, and this is evident from the tables he developed on the rate of conflicts between spouses, as well as on the map of the distribution of camels (by opening the gym) in Britain and his attempt to estimate the effectiveness of prayer.