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Paul Kolbach
Paul Kolbach (1894–1974) was a Luxembourg-born brewing scientist and chemist who spent his career at the VLB in Berlin, introduced pH measurement into brewing chemistry, and gave his name to the Kolbachzahl and the Grad Windisch-Kolbach.
Paul Konchesky
Paul Konchesky (born 1981, Barking, Essex), English left back; Charlton's youngest-ever debutant, later West Ham, Fulham, Liverpool (18 apps), Leicester; two England caps; 2006 FA Cup and 2010 Europa League finalist.
Paul Konerko
Paul Konerko (born 1976) is a former MLB first baseman, 1994 Dodgers first-round pick, who starred 16 years for the Chicago White Sox, hit 439 home runs, won the 2005 World Series and ALCS MVP, and had his No. 14 retired.
Paul Kossoff
Paul Kossoff (1950-1976), English blues-rock guitarist and co-founder of Free, later Back Street Crawler; famed for his vibrato and the "All Right Now" solo; died in flight, aged 25.
Paul Krieg
Paul A. Krieg is an American developmental biologist at the University of Arizona known for the 1984 SP6 method for synthesizing messenger RNA in vitro.
Paul Kruger
Paul Kruger (Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, 1825–1904), Oom Paul, Boer statesman and last president of the South African Republic (ZAR) 1883–1900, restored Transvaal independence, faced the uitlander crisis and Jameson Raid, went into exile in 1900, and remains contested over conservation and racial policies.
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman, American economist born 1953, Nobel Memorial Prize 2008 (sole winner) for trade patterns and economic activity location; founder of new trade theory (1979 economies-of-scale model) and new economic geography (1991 core-periphery model); longtime New York Times columnist.
Paul Kubes
Paul Kubes is a Canadian immunologist at the University of Calgary known for using intravital microscopy to image how neutrophils and macrophages fight bacteria in living tissue.
Paul Kwiat
Paul G. Kwiat is an American quantum optics physicist who holds the John Bardeen Chair at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and directs its quantum information center.
Paul Kwong (邝保罗)
Paul Kwong (邝保罗) is a retired Anglican archbishop who served as Archbishop and Primate of the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui from 2007 to 2021.
Paul L. Busch
Paul L. Busch (1937–1999) was an American environmental engineer, president and CEO of the consulting firm Malcolm Pirnie and a leading authority on industrial and toxic waste treatment.
Paul L. Fox
Paul L. Fox is a molecular biologist at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute whose laboratory studies aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases and translational control in vascular and inflammatory disease.
Paul L. Friedman
Paul L. Friedman, born 1944 in Buffalo, New York, is a senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, appointed by President Clinton in 1994.
Paul L. Kimmel
Paul L. Kimmel is an American nephrologist and program director at the NIDDK, known for research on kidney disease in HIV infection and his 2014 review of acute and chronic kidney disease.
Paul L. Kirk
Paul L. Kirk (1902–1970) was an American chemist at UC Berkeley who founded the first academic criminalistics program in the United States and testified in the Sam Sheppard case.
Paul L. Maloney
Paul Lewis Maloney is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of Michigan since 2007, appointed by President George W. Bush.
Paul L. Padfield
Paul L. Padfield is a physician-scientist known for hypertension research, from vasopressin studies at the MRC Blood Pressure Unit in Glasgow to home blood pressure monitoring in Edinburgh.
Paul L. Richards
Paul L. Richards (1934–2024) was an American experimental physicist at UC Berkeley who built sensitive far-infrared detectors and used them to measure the cosmic microwave background.
Paul L. Schechter
Paul L. Schechter is an American observational astronomer, emeritus professor at MIT and National Academy member, known for the Schechter galaxy luminosity function, the Press–Schechter relation, and gravitational lensing.
Paul Labhart
Paul Labhart is a molecular biologist trained at ETH Zürich known for work on the Xenopus ribosomal RNA gene spacer and nonhomologous DNA end joining.
Paul Laibinis
Paul Laibinis is an American chemical engineer who specializes in surface chemistry, developing coatings that protect metals from corrosion and resist protein adsorption. He received a PECASE award in 1996.
Paul Lambert
Paul Lambert (born 1969) is a Scottish football manager and former midfielder who won the 1997 Champions League with Borussia Dortmund, captained Celtic to the 2003 UEFA Cup final, earned 40 Scotland caps, and managed Norwich City, Aston Villa, and Ipswich Town.
Paul Landers
Paul Landers (born 1964, Berlin; born Heiko Paul Hiersche) is the rhythm guitarist of Rammstein, formerly of Die Firma and the East Berlin DDR punk band Feeling B, known for his ampless SansAmp rig and signature Gibson and Tech 21 gear.
Paul Lange
Paul Lange (1931–2016) was a West German sprint canoeist from Oberhausen who won Olympic gold in the K-1 4 × 500 m kayak relay at the 1960 Rome Games.
Paul Langevin
Paul Langevin (1872–1946) was a French physicist at the Collège de France who created the Langevin equation, the classical theories of magnetism, and piezoelectric ultrasonics for submarine detection.
Paul Lansky
Paul Lansky (born 1944) is an American computer-music pioneer and Princeton emeritus professor; creator of mild und leise (sampled by Radiohead's Idioteque), Six Fantasies on a Poem by Thomas Campion, the chatter series, and Cmix software. Not the mob figure Meyer Lansky or the Lansky play-performance scale.
Paul Läuger
Paul Läuger (1896–1959) was a Swiss chemist who spent his career at J. R. Geigy in Basel, rising to general director and leading the research program behind the insecticide DDT.
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) was an American poet and writer, best known for his Black dialect verse and becoming the first African American to achieve an international audience.
Paul Laxalt
Paul Laxalt (1922–2018), Nevada Republican, was the state's 22nd governor (1967–71), U.S. senator (1974–87), and Ronald Reagan's closest ally, the "first friend", who chaired Reagan's 1976, 1980, and 1984 campaigns and briefly sought the 1988 GOP nomination.
Paul Laymann
Paul Laymann (1574 or 1575 to 1635) was a Tyrolean Jesuit moral theologian and canonist whose Theologia moralis, first printed at Munich in 1625, was reprinted into the eighteenth century.