All articles starting with P

Paul Moayyedi

Paul Moayyedi is a gastroenterologist and Professor of Medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, known for his 2000 Lancet trial of population H. pylori screening.

Paul Mockapetris

Paul Mockapetris is an American computer scientist who invented the Domain Name System (DNS) in 1983 at USC's Information Sciences Institute and operated its first root servers.

Sep 20, 2026

Paul Modrich

Paul Modrich (born 1946) is an American biochemist at Duke University who elucidated DNA mismatch repair, the pathway correcting replication errors, and shared the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Paul Molitor

Paul Molitor (Paul Leo Molitor) is an American former baseball player and manager who spent 21 seasons in the majors and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2004.

Paul Monsky

Paul Monsky is a mathematician and longtime Brandeis University professor known for Monsky's theorem, the 1970 result that a square cannot be cut into an odd number of equal-area triangles.

Paul Montel (1876–1975) was a French mathematician whose theory of normal families of analytic functions became a working tool of complex analysis and a foundation for Fatou and Julia's iteration theory.

Paul Mooney (comedian)

Paul Mooney (Paul Gladney, 1941–2021), American comedian, writer, and actor; Richard Pryor's longtime writing partner, SNL "Word Association" writer, Homey D. Clown and Negrodamus creator, memoirist of Black Is the New White.

Paul Morel

Paul Morel, printed as Pierre Morel, is a French physicist who co-proposed with Philip Anderson the 1961 p-wave pairing state of superfluid helium-3, later named Anderson–Brinkman–Morel.

Sep 27, 2026

Paul Moriarty (New Jersey politician)

Paul Moriarty is an American Democratic politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 2006 to 2024 and now represents the 4th district in the New Jersey Senate.

Paul Morphy

Paul Morphy (1837–1884), New Orleans-born American chess master, unofficial world champion after 1857 American Chess Congress and 1858 European tour wins over Anderssen, Harrwitz, and Löwenthal; Staunton never played him.

Oct 22, 2026

Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon (born 1951) is an Irish poet from Portadown, County Armagh, known for allusive, formally intricate verse and winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Paul Müller (Swiss chemist)

Paul Hermann Müller (1899–1965) was a Swiss chemist at J. R. Geigy in Basle who discovered DDT's insecticidal action, winning the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Paul Mulvaney

Paul Mulvaney is an Australian physical and colloid chemist at the University of Melbourne, recognized as a pioneer of surface plasmon spectroscopy of metal nanoparticles.

Paul Muni

Paul Muni (Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund, 1895-1967), American actor from the Yiddish theater; Oscar winner for The Story of Louis Pasteur, star of Scarface and I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Tony winner for Inherit the Wind.

Paul Muntner

Paul Muntner is an American cardiovascular epidemiologist known for blood pressure measurement and hypertension control, whose 2017 analysis estimated 103.3 million US adults had hypertension under the ACC/AHA guideline.

Paul Myers (musician)

Paul Myers (musician): Canadian Toronto-born musician, songwriter and journalist based in Berkeley, California; half of the duo The Paul & John and author of music biographies including A Wizard A True Star; distinct from namesake tribute vocalists and an Irish 1980s guitarist.

Paul N. Blumberg

Paul N. Blumberg is an American engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2008 for automotive-system modeling that improved emissions control and fuel economy.

Paul N. Durrington

Paul N. Durrington, also known as Paul Durrington, is a British physician-scientist in lipid disorders who pioneered cascade family screening for familial hypercholesterolaemia and led the CARDS statin trial.

Paul N. Maton

Paul N. Maton, also cited as P. N. Maton, is a British-trained gastroenterologist known for research on Zollinger–Ellison syndrome, omeprazole, and octreotide at NIH and in Oklahoma.

Paul N. Pearson

Paul N. Pearson is a micropaleontologist at Cardiff University and University College London whose boron-isotope work on foraminifera produced a 60-million-year record of atmospheric CO2.

Paul N. Yu

Paul N. Yu, born Paul Nan-Gan Yu, was a Chinese-born American cardiologist who built the University of Rochester's cardiology unit and was American Heart Association president in 1972.

Oct 21, 2026

Paul Nash

Paul Nash (born 1947, London) is a South African sprinter who equalled the hand-timed 100 m world record of 10.0 at Krugersdorp on 2 April 1968, ran 9.2 for 100 yards, and was barred from the 1968 Olympics by the apartheid ban; arthritis ended his career at 22.

Paul Nassif

Paul S. Nassif (born 1962) is a Lebanese-American, double board-certified facial plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills, a revision rhinoplasty specialist, co-star of E!'s Botched with Terry Dubrow, and founder of NassifMD Skincare.

Paul Negulescu

Paul Negulescu is a cell biologist and Vertex Pharmaceuticals Senior Vice President in San Diego who led discovery of the CFTR modulators treating cystic fibrosis, winning the 2024 Breakthrough Prize and the 2025 Lasker~DeBakey Award.

Oct 21, 2026

Paul Neumann

Paul Neumann (1875–1932), Austrian swimmer and physician, first Austrian Olympic champion, won the 1896 Athens 500 m freestyle gold in 8:12.6; also US distance records, and namesakes in NBA basketball and German politics.

Sep 19, 2026

Paul Newhagen

Paul Newhagen is an American semiconductor executive who co-founded Altera Corporation in 1983, served as its chief financial officer for about 10 years, and sat on its board until 2007.

Paul Newman

Paul Newman (1925–2008), American actor and philanthropist, won the Best Actor Oscar for The Color of Money and co-founded Newman's Own in 1982, which has donated over $600 million in profits to charity.

Oct 22, 2026

Paul Ngei

Paul Ngei was a Kenyan politician and independence leader, one of the Kapenguria Six imprisoned by the British in 1952, who later served 27 years as a cabinet minister.

Paul Nghiem

Paul T. Nghiem is an American physician-scientist, Founding Chair of Dermatology at the University of Washington, who led the pembrolizumab trial supporting FDA approval for Merkel cell carcinoma.