Irakli Grigoryevich Gvertsiteli (born 22.12.1918) is a Soviet experimental physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR (1979); in 1978 —82 he was vice-president of the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR. He was born in Tbilisi. He graduated from Tbilisi University (1941).
From 1976 he has been chairman of the State Committee for Science and Technology of the Georgian SSR.
His main research has concerned thermoelectricity, the thermionic method of energy conversion, ion doping, the physical principles and technology of
the separation of stable isotopes, and the study of molecular layered structures.
USSR State Prize (1974).