George W. Downs (1911 – November 8, 1964) was an American physicist and corporate officer.
In 1939, joined the William Miller Corporation, a scientific instruments developer in Pasadena, California.
[1] During World War II, Downs served for a time as a physicist in the University of California's War Research Division, before returning to Caltech in 1943 as a development engineer on rocketry and torpedo projects.
In 1963, Downs retired as the company's vice president, but continuing as a director until his death.
The Downs-Lauritsen Laboratory of Physics, on the campus of the California Institute of Technology, is named after him.