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Jeanne Golay Jeanne Marie Golay (born April 16, 1962) is an American former road bicycle racing professional from Coral Gables, Florida. She won the 1992, 1994 and 1995 United States National Road Race Championships, and the 1992 world team time-trial cham ...

(born 1962), bicycle professional *

Helen Golay The Black Widow Murders were a colloquial name for a pair of murders committed by two pensioners in California, United States: on April 18, 2008, Helen Golay, 78, formerly of Santa Monica, California, and Olga Rutterschmidt, 75, formerly of ...

(born 1931), American woman who murdered two homeless men for life insurance money *

Marcel J. E. Golay Marcel Jules Edouard Golay (; May 3, 1902 – April 27, 1989) was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, and information theorist, who applied mathematics to real-world military and industrial problems. He was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. C ...

(1902–1989), mathematician, physicist and information theorist *

Dolphy Rodolfo Vera Quizon Sr. (July 25, 1928 – July 10, 2012), known professionally as Dolphy, was a Filipino comedian and actor. He is widely regarded as the country's "King of Comedy" for his comedic talent embodied by his long roster of works ...

(1928-2012), Filipino actor and comedian, used Golay as his screen name in 1944. Several devices and systems were named after Marcel J. E. Golay: *

Golay cell The Golay cell is a type of opto-acoustic detector mainly used for infrared spectroscopy. It consists of a gas-filled enclosure with an infrared absorbing material and a flexible diaphragm or membrane. When infrared radiation is absorbed, it heat ...

, a detector for infrared spectroscopy *

Savitzky–Golay filter A Savitzky–Golay filter is a digital filter that can be applied to a set of digital data points for the purpose of smoothing the data, that is, to increase the precision of the data without distorting the signal tendency. This is achieved, in a ...

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Binary Golay code In mathematics and electronics engineering, a binary Golay code is a type of linear error-correcting code used in digital communications. The binary Golay code, along with the ternary Golay code, has a particularly deep and interesting connection ...

, an error-correcting code *

Ternary Golay code In coding theory, the ternary Golay codes are two closely related error-correcting codes. The code generally known simply as the ternary Golay code is an 1, 6, 53-code, that is, it is a linear code over a ternary alphabet; the relative distan ...

, an error-correcting code Places: *

Golay, Kutch Golay or Gholay is a village of Abdasa Taluka of Kutch district of Gujarat, India. History Under the Chavda rule, it was known as Sarasgar Pattan, was, until superseded by Jakhau, a place of some importance. About a mile west of Golay, is a ...

, a village in Kutch, Gujarat, India

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