The Gabriel–Popescu theorem, also quoted as Popesco–Gabriel theorem because of that spelling in the original published paper (cf. the spelling in that order, which is sometimes considered wrong when in the order of the authors!) asserts that every Grothendieck category can be represented as a reflective subcategory of a category of modules over a unital ring, where the localization functor is exact (one calls such subcategories of module categories Giraud subcategories). The right adjoint (reflection) is in this setup sometimes called the section functor.
This is the Ab-enriched analogue of the fact that sheaf toposes are equivalently the left exact reflective subcategories of presheaf toposes. See a more general statement at enriched sheaf.
There are various generalizations, e.g.
N. Kuhn had related results in the study of Steenrod algebra, cf. also
An analogue in triangulated setup: every triangulated category which is well generated in the sense of Amnon Neeman and algebraic (over ground ring ) in the sense of Bernhard Keller is -linearly triangle equivalent to a localization of the derived category of a small pretriangulated dg-category by a localizing subcategory generated by a set of objects:
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