All articles starting with P

Paul Vojta

Paul Vojta is a mathematician and Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, known for a conjecture in Diophantine geometry that unifies Roth's theorem, the Mordell conjecture, and the abc conjecture.

Paul Volcker

Paul Volcker was an American central banker who chaired the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987, raising interest rates to a record 20 percent to cut inflation.

Paul von Buder

Paul von Buder (1836–1914) was a German Lutheran theologian, Ephorus of the Evangelisches Stift and professor of New Testament and dogmatics at Tübingen, ennobled in 1893.

Paul von Hindenburg

Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg (1847–1934), Prussian field marshal, victor of Tannenberg, and Weimar Reich President 1925–1934 who appointed Hitler chancellor on 30 January 1933.

Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck

Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck (1870-1964), the 'Lion of Africa', commanded the German Schutztruppe in East Africa in World War I, fought Tanga, Mahiwa and a guerrilla campaign, surrendered at Abercorn in November 1918, then led Freikorps troops, backed the Kapp Putsch, and became colonial revisionism's leading figure.

Sep 20, 2026

Paul von Ragué Schleyer

Paul von Ragué Schleyer, often cited as P. von R. Schleyer, was an American physical organic and computational chemist who synthesized adamantane and introduced the NICS aromaticity probe.

Sep 24, 2026

Paul von Rennenkampf

Paul von Rennenkampf (Павел Карлович Ренненкампф) was a Russian cavalry general who led the Transbaikal Cossacks in 1904 and the 1st Army in East Prussia in 1914.

Paul von Schoenaich

Paul von Schoenaich (1866–1954) was a Prussian cavalry general who became a pacifist, leading the German Peace Society from 1929 to 1933 and again from 1946 to 1951.

Sep 20, 2026

Paul W. Armstrong

Paul W. Armstrong is a Canadian cardiologist at the University of Alberta who led major acute cardiac care trials and was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2017.

Paul W. Ayers

Paul W. Ayers (Paul Woodson Ayers) is a theoretical chemist and Canada Research Chair at McMaster University known for conceptual density functional theory and the Fukui function.

Paul W. Bohn

Paul W. Bohn is an American analytical chemist, the Arthur J. Schmitt Professor at the University of Notre Dame, known for nanofluidics and the 2017 ACS Award in Electrochemistry.

Paul W. Downs

Paul W. Downs (born 1982, Morristown, New Jersey) is an American actor, writer, director, and producer, co-creator and star of Hacks as Jimmy LuSaque Jr., formerly of Broad City and Paulilu, with three Emmy wins.

Paul W. Ewald

Paul W. Ewald is an evolutionary biologist who argues pathogen virulence evolves with transmission mode and founded evolutionary medicine with his 1994 book Evolution of Infectious Disease.

Paul W. Franks

Paul W. Franks (born 1973 in Stockport, England) is a professor of genetic epidemiology at Lund University, known for research on the genetics of obesity and type 2 diabetes.

Paul W. Glimcher

Paul W. Glimcher is an American neuroscientist at New York University credited as the founder of neuroeconomics, the study of decision-making bridging neuroscience and economics.

Paul W. K. Rothemund

Paul W. K. Rothemund, also known as Paul Rothemund, is an American researcher at Caltech who invented scaffolded DNA origami, described in Nature in 2006.

Paul W. Kincade

Paul W. Kincade (1944–2025) was an American immunologist at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation known for work on B cell development, and a president of the American Association of Immunologists.

Paul W. M. Blom

Paul W. M. Blom is a Dutch physicist known for research on polymer LEDs and organic solar cells, and a director at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research.

Paul W. Merrill

Paul W. Merrill (1887–1961) was an American astronomer at Mount Wilson Observatory who defined spectral class S in 1922 and detected technetium in stellar spectra in 1952.

Paul W. Newacheck

Paul W. Newacheck is an American health policy researcher and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, known for studies of children's health insurance.

Paul W. Noble

Paul W. Noble is an American pulmonary physician-scientist who studies lung fibrosis, led divisions at Duke and Cedars-Sinai, and is now a Clinical Professor at UNC Chapel Hill.

Paul W. S. Anderson

Paul W. S. Anderson (Paul William Scott Anderson, born 1965, Newcastle upon Tyne) is a British director, producer, and screenwriter of Mortal Kombat, Event Horizon, and the billion-dollar Resident Evil film series, married to Milla Jovovich.

Sep 20, 2026

Paul W. Sternberg

Paul W. Sternberg is a Caltech biologist who studies the nematode C. elegans, known for connecting worm development genes to human cancer genes and leading WormBase.

Paul W. Tibbets IV

Paul W. Tibbets IV, retired U.S. Air Force brigadier general, B-1 and B-2 pilot, grandson of the Enola Gay pilot, commanded the 393rd Bomb Squadron and 509th Bomb Wing and served as Deputy Commander of Air Force Global Strike Command until retiring December 1, 2018.

Paul W.H.I. Parren

Paul W.H.I. Parren is a Dutch molecular immunologist, Professor of Immunology at Leiden University Medical Center since 2015, and an inventor of six approved therapeutic antibodies including daratumumab.

Paul Waaktaar-Savoy

Paul Waaktaar-Savoy (Pål Waaktaar Gamst, born 1961) is the Norwegian guitarist and main songwriter of a-ha ("Take On Me") and founder, with wife Lauren, of the indie band Savoy.

Paul Walden

Paul Walden (Павел Иванович Вальден, 1863–1957) was a chemist who discovered the Walden inversion, taught at Riga and St. Petersburg, and was nominated seven times for the Nobel Prize.

Paul Walker

Paul Walker (1973–2013), American actor, played undercover cop Brian O'Conner in The Fast and the Furious franchise; known for Varsity Blues, Running Scared, Hours, Reach Out Worldwide, and death in a 2013 Porsche crash.