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Pehenuikai
Pehenuikai, also written Pehenuka, was an ancient Egyptian official who served as Chief Justice and Vizier in the late Fifth Dynasty, known from his mastaba tomb at Saqqara.
Pehla Nasha (पहला नशा)
Pehla Nasha (पहला नशा) is a 1993 Indian Hindi-language thriller directed by Ashutosh Gowariker, starring Deepak Tijori and Pooja Bhatt, a remake of Body Double.
Pehlwani
Pehlwani, also called kushti, is the traditional wrestling of the Indian subcontinent, fought on prepared earth rather than a mat and practiced in training schools called akharas.
PEHO syndrome
PEHO syndrome (progressive encephalopathy with edema, hypsarrhythmia, optic atrophy) is a rare infantile genetic disorder with extreme cerebellar atrophy, first described in Finnish patients, caused chiefly by ZNHIT3 mutations but genetically heterogeneous.
PEHO-like syndrome
PEHO-like syndrome (ORPHA:99807, OMIM 617507) is a rare genetic infantile encephalopathy with hypsarrhythmic seizures, edema, hypotonia, and dysmorphism, but lacking the optic atrophy and cerebellar atrophy of PEHO syndrome; genetically heterogeneous.
Pehr B. Harbury
Pehr B. Harbury is an American biochemist and associate professor at Stanford University whose DNA-templated synthesis method programs small-molecule drug discovery, earning him a 2005 MacArthur Fellowship.
Pehr Victor Edman
Pehr Victor Edman (1916–1977) was a Swedish biochemist who devised the Edman degradation, the stepwise method for protein sequencing, and later built an automated protein sequenator.
Pehredaar Piya Ki (पेहरेदार पिया की)
Pehredaar Piya Ki (पेहरेदार पिया की), also rendered पहरेदार पिया की, was a 2017 Sony TV Hindi drama about 9-year-old prince Ratan married to 18-year-old Diya (Tejasswi Prakash). Criticized for glorifying child marriage, shifted to late night by the BCCC, and pulled off air effective 28 August 2017.
Pei clan of Hedong
The Pei clan of Hedong (河东裴氏) was a hereditary aristocratic lineage based in Hedong, China, prominent from the late Han through the Tang, with 17 Tang chancellors.
Pei county clique of Liu Bang
The Pei county clique of Liu Bang (沛縣吏集團) were local clerks and officials who followed Liu Bang into rebellion, supplying the core ruling group of the early Han empire.
Pei Ji
Pei Ji (裴寂, 570–629) was a founding statesman of the Tang dynasty, whose urging and material support helped Emperor Gaozu launch the uprising at Jinyang in 617.
Pei Ju
Pei Ju (裴矩, 547–627) was a Chinese statesman and diplomat who served the Sui and early Tang dynasties and compiled the Xiyu Tuji, a survey of Silk Road states.
Pei Ju's management of the Sui–Turkic frontier and the Shibi Khan's rise
Pei Ju's management of the Sui–Turkic frontier (裴矩离间突厥) was a Sui dynasty frontier policy under Emperor Yang, in which Pei Ju patronized Qimin Khan and used divide-and-rule tactics.
Pei Mian
Pei Mian (裴冕, 703–770) was a Tang dynasty official who co-led the petition urging the heir apparent to take the throne as Emperor Suzong at Lingwu in 756, and twice served as chancellor.
Pei Qian
Pei Qian (裴潜), courtesy name Wenxing, was a Cao Wei official who pacified Dai commandery and served as Director of the Imperial Secretariat, dying in 244.
Pei Shimin
Pei Shimin, also known as Pei Deming, was a Chinese master of Yixing zisha pottery, famed for restoring the Gongchun teapot and called "Second Chen Mingyuan".
Pei Songzhi
Pei Songzhi (裴松之, 372 to 451) was a Chinese historian of the Eastern Jin and Liu Song dynasties, known for annotating the Records of the Three Kingdoms.
Pei Wu
Pei Wu (裴武) was a Tang dynasty official sent as envoy to the rebel Wangchengzong in 810, later serving as Prefect of the Capital and Military Governor of Jingnan.
Pei Xingjian
Pei Xingjian (裴行俭, 619–682) was a Tang dynasty general, statesman, and calligrapher who reformed official selection and in 679 commanded over 300,000 men against a Turkic revolt.
Pei Xiu (Tang dynasty chancellor)
Pei Xiu (裴休, 791–864) was a Tang dynasty statesman who served as chief fiscal commissioner and chancellor under Emperor Xuanzong and rebuilt the grain transport to the capital.
Pei Xiu (Western Jin cartographer and statesman)
Pei Xiu (裴秀), courtesy name Jiyann, was a Western Jin statesman and cartographer whose six principles of mapmaking governed Chinese cartography for over a millennium.
Pei Yan
Pei Yan (裴炎), courtesy name Zilong, was a chancellor of the Tang dynasty who served Emperor Gaozong, helped depose Emperor Zhongzong in 684, and was executed that year.
Pei Yaoqing
Pei Yaoqing (裴耀卿, 681–743) was a Tang dynasty official who rose from child prodigy to Director of the Chancellery and led the canal-transport reform that moved 7,000,000 shi of grain in three years.
Pei Zhenhua
Pei Zhenhua (裴振华, born 1959) is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Suzhou Tianhua Ultra-Clean Technology in 1997 and became one of the earliest outside investors in CATL.
Pei Zhou
Pei Zhou is a structural biologist and biochemist at Duke University who uses NMR spectroscopy and crystallography to study protein structures and develop antibiotic and anticancer drug leads.
Pei-Cheng Yeh
Pei-Cheng Yeh (叶培城), known in English as Dandy Yeh, is a Taiwanese entrepreneur who co-founded Gigabyte Technology in 1986 and has served as its chairman ever since.
Pei-Hao Su
Pei-Hao Su, known as Eddy Su, is a Taiwanese engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded PolyAI, a London-based enterprise voice-AI company, in 2017 and serves as its SVP of Engineering.
PEI-PEG polyplex
A PEI-PEG polyplex is a non-viral gene delivery particle in which polyethylenimine (PEI) condenses nucleic acids and a polyethylene glycol (PEG) shell reduces toxicity, aggregation, and blood clearance.
Peicheng
Peicheng, alternate romanization of the county seat of Pei County (沛县), Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China; pop about 195,000. Qin-era Sishui Commandery seat, home of Liu Bang and the Dafeng Ge; distinct from Picheng town.
Peide D. Ye
Peide D. Ye is an electrical engineer and professor at Purdue University known for research on 2D channel materials like phosphorene, negative-capacitance transistors, and oxide electronics.