George Sachs
George Sachs was a Russian-born German and American metallurgist.
Born in Moscow, he taught at Goethe [University Frankfurt|Frankfurt University], and the Case [Institute of Technology]
He was of Jewish birth, and left Germany with his family in 1937 to escape Nazi persecution, and settled in the United States. He was the father of the astronomer Rainer K. Sachs.
He is known for his work on Kurdyumov–Sachs orientations with Georgy Kurdyumov.