George Ernest Gibson (November 9, 1884 – August 26, 1959) was a Scottish-born American nuclear chemist.
George Ernest Gibson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and educated partly in Germany where he attended a gymnasium in Darmstadt, finishing his schooling in Edinburgh.
Two of his students were awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry, William Giauque and Glenn T. Seaborg.
In 1927 he stayed a year with Walter Heitler in Göttingen as a Guggenheim Fellow.
He was elected in 1923 a Fellow of the American Physical Society.