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Pascal Boniface
Pascal Boniface, born 1956 in Paris, is a French geopolitician, founder and director of the IRIS think tank, and author of more than eighty books on international relations.
Pascal Chanez
Pascal Chanez is a French physician-scientist in respiratory medicine and allergology, professor at Marseille and head of its severe asthma clinic, co-author of the mepolizumab trials DREAM and MENSA.
Pascal Dion
Pascal Dion, Canadian short track speed skater (born 1994, Montreal), CPV Pointe-aux-Trembles; Olympic gold 5000m relay Beijing 2022, bronze PyeongChang 2018, 3000m world champion 2022.
Pascal Fries
Pascal Fries, born 1972, is a neuroscientist known for the communication-through-coherence hypothesis, built from recordings in visual cortex, leading research groups in Frankfurt and Tübingen.
Pascal Fua
Pascal Fua is a Swiss computer vision researcher, professor at EPFL, and head of its Computer Vision Laboratory, known for the EPnP algorithm and object tracking.
Pascal Geldsetzer
Pascal Geldsetzer is a physician-scientist and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Stanford whose 2025 Nature study found shingles vaccination reduced dementia diagnoses by about 20%.
Pascal Groß
Pascal Groß (born 1991, Mannheim) is a German midfielder for Brighton & Hove Albion and Germany; Brighton's first Premier League signing (2017), 228 PL games, 30 goals, 45 assists, later Borussia Dortmund 2024-25, back at Brighton January 2026.
Pascal J. Goldschmidt‐Clermont
Pascal J. Goldschmidt-Clermont is a Belgian-trained cardiologist who led cardiology at Duke, directed Ohio State's Heart and Lung Research Institute, and was dean of the University of Miami's medical school from 2006 to 2016.
Pascal Jolyot
Pascal Jolyot, French foil fencer born 1958 in Fontainebleau; Olympic team gold and individual silver at Moscow 1980, team bronze at Los Angeles 1984, three world silvers, and Vet-60 world champion 2025.
Pascal Luck
Pascal Luck is an American venture capital investor, a former Managing Director at Core Capital Partners in Washington, D.C., now a Senior Advisor at Ethos Capital.
Pascal Mayer
Pascal Mayer is a French biophysicist and entrepreneur who invented the DNA cluster amplification behind Solexa-Illumina sequencing, winning the 2022 Breakthrough Prize and 2024 Gairdner Award.
Pascal Meier
Pascal Meier is a Swiss-trained molecular cell biologist and professor at the Institute of Cancer Research, known for work on inhibitor of apoptosis proteins, cell death, and inflammation.
Pascal Ravassard
Pascal Ravassard is a French neuroscientist, first author of the 2013 Science study showing hippocampal place cells can measure distance, cited in the 2014 Nobel Prize background.
Pascal Richard
Pascal Richard (born 1964, Vevey, Switzerland), nicknamed Le renard, Swiss road and cyclo-cross cyclist; 1988 cyclo-cross world champion, winner of Liège-Bastogne-Liège 1996 and Lombardy 1993, and first professional to win the Olympic road race, gold at Atlanta 1996.
Pascal S. Kaeser
Pascal S. Kaeser, also published as Pascal Kaeser, is a Swiss-born physician-scientist and Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School who studies active zones and dopamine release.
Pascal Schlosser
Pascal Schlosser is a German statistical genomics researcher who leads the Computational Medicine group at the University of Freiburg and holds an adjunct appointment at Johns Hopkins.
Pascal Schneider
Pascal Schneider is a Swiss immunologist and senior lecturer at the University of Lausanne whose work on TNF-family proteins produced the 2018 prenatal correction of XLHED.
Pascal Siakam
Pascal Siakam, born 1994 in Douala, Cameroon, is an NBA forward for the Indiana Pacers, drafted 27th in 2016 by Toronto. 2019 champion and Most Improved Player, two-time All-Star, 2025 Eastern Conference finals MVP.
PASCAL VOC
PASCAL VOC was a series of annual computer vision benchmark challenges run from 2005 to 2012, pairing annotated image datasets with standardized evaluation; its 20 object classes and detection metric remain in wide use.
Pascal Wehrlein
Pascal Wehrlein (born 1994, Sigmaringen) is a German racing driver and two-time ABB FIA Formula E World Champion (2023/24, 2025/26) with the Porsche Formula E Team; youngest-ever DTM champion (2015) and former F1 driver with Manor and Sauber.
Pascal's law
Pascal's law, or Pascal's principle, is a fluid mechanics principle stating that pressure applied to a confined fluid is transmitted undiminished in all directions, underlying hydraulic brakes and jacks.
Pascal's pyramid
Pascal's pyramid, also called Pascal's tetrahedron, is a three-dimensional arrangement of the trinomial coefficients of (x+y+z)^n, the analog of Pascal's triangle, with each entry the sum of the three above it.
Pascal's theorem
Pascal's theorem, also called the mystic hexagram theorem, is a projective geometry result: opposite sides of a hexagon inscribed in a conic meet in three collinear points.
Pascal's triangle
Pascal's triangle, also called the Khayyam or Yang Hui triangle, is a triangular array of binomial coefficients where each number is the sum of the two above it.
Pascal's wager
Pascal's wager is Blaise Pascal's pragmatic argument in the Pensées (1670) for believing in God: infinite expected reward makes wagering for God rational. Key objections: many Gods, mixed strategies, infinite utilities.
Pascal's Wager (video game)
Pascal's Wager is a dark fantasy Souls-like action RPG by TipsWorks and Giant Global, released on iOS in January 2020, later on Steam (Definitive Edition, 2021) and Switch (2022), known for its sanity meter, five characters, and mobile-first design.
Pascale Allotey
Pascale Allotey is a global public health researcher who has directed the World Health Organization's Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research since 2022.
Pascale Cossart
Pascale Cossart (born 1948) is a French microbiologist and emeritus professor at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, a pioneer of cellular microbiology known for her work on Listeria monocytogenes.
Pascale Guicheney
Pascale Guicheney, born 1952, is a French geneticist and emeritus Inserm research director in Paris, known for gene discoveries in long-QT syndrome, merosin-deficient congenital muscular dystrophy, and selenoprotein-related myopathy.
Pascale Senellart
Pascale Senellart, born 1972, is a French quantum optician and CNRS research director at Université Paris-Saclay known for semiconductor quantum-dot single-photon sources; she co-founded Quandela and joined the Académie des sciences in 2022.