Eponyms: G
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| gadolinite, gadolinium | Johann Gadolin (1760-1852), Finnish chemist |
| gal, Galilean | Galileo (1564-1642), Italian astronomer |
| galenical | Galen (AD129-199), Greek physician |
| Gallup poll | George Horace Gallup (1901-84), American statistician |
| galvanise | Luigi Galvani (1739-98), Italian physiologist |
| gamp | Mrs Sarah Gamp, nurse in the novel Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens |
| gardenia | Alexander Garden (1730-91), Scottish-American botanist |
| gargantuan | Gargantua, gigantic king in the novel Gargantua by French satirist Francois Rabelais (c.1494-1553) |
| garibaldi biscuit | Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-82), Italian patriot and soldier |
| Gatling gun | Richard Jordan Gatling (1818-1903), American inventor |
| Gaullism; Gaullist | Charles (André Joseph Marie) de Gaulle (1890-1970), French General and President |
| gauss | Karl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), German mathematician |
| Gay-Lussac’s law | Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778-1850), French scientist |
| Geiger counter | Hans Geiger (1882-1945), German physicist |
| gentian | Gentius, 2nd century-BC king of Illyria |
| georgette | Madame Georgette de la Plante, late 19th century French dressmaker |
| Georgia | King George II of England, (1683-1760) |
| Georgian | Reigns of Kings George I to George IV of England (1714-1830) |
| gerrymander | Elbridge Gerry (1744-1814), American politician |
| Gideons | Gideon, Old Testament judge |
| gilbert | William Gilbert (1544-1603), English scientist |
| Gilbert’s Syndrome | Nicolas Augustin Gilbert (1858-1927), French physician |
| Gilbertian | Sir William Schwenk Gilbert (1836-1911), English comic dramatist |
| Gladstone bag | William Ewart Gladstone (1809-98), British statesman and prime minister |
| Goethian; goethite | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German poet, writer, scholar and scientist |
| golliwog | Golliwog, animated doll in children’s books by Bertha Upton (d.1912), American writer |
| Gongorism | Luis de Góngora y Argote (1561-1627), Spanish priest and lyric poet |
| Gordon Bennett! | Gordon Bennet (1841-1918), American newspaper proprietor |
| Gordon setter | Alexander Gordon (1743-1827), Scottish nobleman |
| Gothic | The Goths, a Germanic people who originated in Scandinavia |
| Graafian follicle | Regnier de Graaf (1641-73), Dutch physician and anatomist |
| gradgrind | Thomas Gradgrind, character in novel Hard Times (1854) by Charles Dickens |
| graham bread/cracker/flour | Sylvester Graham (1794-1851), American dietary reformer |
| grangerise | James Granger (1723-76), English writer and clergyman |
| Granny Smith apple | Maria Ann Smith (d 1870), Australian gardener |
| Graves’ disease | Robert James Graves (1796-1853), Irish physician |
| gray | Louis Harold Gray (1905-65), English physicist and radiologist |
| greengage | Sir William Gage (1777-1864), English botanist |
| Gregorian calendar | Pope Gregory XIII (born Ugo Buoncampagno; 1502-1585) |
| Gregorian chant | Pope Gregory I (c.AD540-604) |
| Gresham’s law | Sir Thomas Gresham (c.1519-79), English financier |
| Grimm’s law | Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm (1785-1863), German philologist |
| grog, groggy | Old Grog, nickname of Sir Edward Vernon (1684-1757), British admiral |
| guillemot | Guillemot, affectionate form of Guillaume, the French version of the English name William |
| guillotine | Joseph Ignace Guillotin (1738-1814, French physician |
| gun | Gunhildr, Old Norse female name |
| Gunter’s chain; gunter rig | Edmund Gunter (1581-1626), English mathematician and astronomer |
| guppy | Robert J. L. Guppy (1836-1916), Trinidad born British scientist |
| Guttman scale | Louis Guttman (1916-87), American psychologist and mathematician |
| guy | Guy Fawkes (1570-1606), English conspirator |