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Peidong Yang
Peidong Yang (杨培东) is a chemist and materials scientist at UC Berkeley, known for the first nanowire nanolaser and artificial photosynthesis converting CO2 into fuels.
Peierls transition
The Peierls transition is a metal-to-insulator phase transition in which a one-dimensional metal spontaneously distorts its lattice with period twice the Fermi wavevector, opening an energy gap at the Fermi level.
Peijia Medical (沛嘉医疗)
Peijia Medical (沛嘉医疗) is a Chinese medical device company headquartered in Suzhou that makes transcatheter heart valves and neurointerventional devices, listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange since 2020.
Peijun Zhang
Peijun Zhang is a structural biologist working in cryo-electron microscopy, Professor at Oxford and founding director of eBIC, known for the complete all-atom structure of the HIV-1 capsid.
Peinado
Peinado (Cerro Peinado, Volcan del Manantial) is a 5,741 m symmetrical stratovolcano in Argentina's Central Andean Volcanic Arc, younger than 100,000 years, with no known Holocene eruptions and no monitoring.
Peine forte et dure
Peine forte et dure, Law French for strong and hard punishment, was the English penalty of pressing with weights imposed on felons who refused to plead, abolished in 1772; Giles Corey died under it at Salem in 1692.
Peipsiveere
Peipsiveere (Peipsiveere looduskaitseala) is Estonia's largest nature reserve, 34,610 ha at the Emajõgi delta on Lake Peipsi; Ramsar site 906 since 1997, Natura 2000 and IBA, rich waterbird and eagle habitat.
Peipus
Lake Peipus (Peipsi, Chudskoe), a 3,555 km2 shallow transboundary lake on the Estonia-Russia border, fourth or fifth largest in Europe, with three basins, major fisheries, and persistent eutrophication.
Peira
The Peira (Πείρα, literally "experience") is a Byzantine legal casebook compiled anonymously in Constantinople in the late 1030s or early 1040s from the judgments of the judge Eustathios Rhomaios.
Peixe Angical Hydroelectric Plant
Peixe Angical Hydroelectric Plant (Usina Hidrelétrica Peixe Angical) is a hydroelectric power station on the Tocantins River in Brazil, operating since 2006 with 498.75 MW installed capacity.
Peixuan Guo
Peixuan Guo (郭培宣) is a nanobiotechnologist who founded the field of RNA nanotechnology, discovered the phi29 motor pRNA, and holds an endowed chair at Ohio State University.
Peja Stojaković
Peja Stojaković (Predrag Stojaković), Serbian basketball forward born 1977, 1996 draft pick 14, 13 NBA seasons with Kings, Pacers, Hornets, Raptors, Mavericks; 2011 NBA champion, 3-time All-Star, 2002 world champion, FIBA Hall of Fame 2024.
Pejman Rohani
Pejman Rohani is a British-trained disease ecologist and mathematical epidemiologist at the University of Georgia, known for work on stochastic epidemic dynamics and pertussis resurgence.
Pejorative
Pejorative: a word or expression expressing contempt or disapproval (noun or adjective), from Latin pejor 'worse'. Covers pejoration (semantic worsening, e.g. lewd, wench), slurs versus insults, theory, hate speech policy, and abuse detection.
Peju Alatise
Peju Alatise (born 1975 in Lagos) is a Nigerian interdisciplinary artist who represented Nigeria at the 2017 Venice Biennale and won the FNB Art Prize.
Pekah
Pekah (Hebrew פֶּקַח), son of Remaliah, was king of Israel from about 735 to 732 BC, taking the throne by murdering Pekahiah and later killed by Hoshea.
Pekahiah
Pekahiah was a king of the northern kingdom of Israel, son and successor of Menahem, who reigned in Samaria about two years before being assassinated by his officer Pekah.
Pekalongan
Pekalongan (Kota Batik), coastal city in Central Java, Indonesia; founded 1 April 1906, population 321,095 (2024); UNESCO Creative City of Crafts and Folk Art (2014) producing about 70% of national batik, facing tidal flooding from land subsidence.
Pekanbaru
Pekanbaru, capital of Riau Province, Indonesia, on the Siak River; grew from the 1784 Senapelan market. Covers 632.26 km², 15 districts, about 1.03 million people (2024), HDI 84.91 (2025).
Peking duck (北京烤鸭)
Peking duck (北京烤鸭, Beijing kaoya) is Beijing's signature roast duck dish, made by hanging-oven (Quanjude, 1864) or closed-oven (Bianyifang, 1416) methods, both national intangible cultural heritage since 2008, served carved with pancakes, scallion, and sweet bean sauce.
Peking Duk
Peking Duk: Australian electronic dance duo from Canberra (Adam Hyde, Reuben Styles, formed 2010). Hits "High" ft. Nicole Millar (No. 2, 2014 Hottest 100) and "Take Me Over"; debut album Paradise released 2026.
Peking glass
Peking glass is the glass produced by the imperial glasshouse founded in 1696 in the Qing court's Imperial Workshops in Beijing, and later Chinese glassware made in its style.
Peking Man (北京人)
Peking Man (北京猿人, Homo erectus pekinensis): Middle Pleistocene Homo erectus fossils from Zhoukoudian near Beijing, found from 1921, first skullcap 1929 by Pei Wenzhong; originals lost in 1941, Weidenreich casts survive.
Peking opera
Peking opera (京剧, jingju), also called Beijing or Jingxi opera, is a stylised Chinese total theatre combining singing, reciting, dance-acting, and combat; formed from Anhui troupes after 1790, with xipi/erhuang music, sheng-dan-jing-chou roles, and UNESCO inscription in 2010.
Peking Opera Blues (刀马旦)
Peking Opera Blues (刀馬旦) is Tsui Hark's 1986 Hong Kong action comedy starring Brigitte Lin, Sally Yeh, and Cherie Chung as three women in 1913 Beijing stealing documents exposing Yuan Shikai; restored in 4K Dolby Atmos in 2026.
Peking Union Medical College Hospital
Peking Union Medical College Hospital (北京协和医院, PUMCH), founded by the Rockefeller Foundation in 1921 in Beijing, is a Class A tertiary comprehensive hospital, national center for complex and rare diseases, and China's top-ranked teaching hospital.
Peking University (北京大学)
Peking University (北京大学, Beida), founded 1898 as the Imperial University of Peking, is China's first national comprehensive university, in Beijing's Haidian District; New Culture Movement center, May Fourth birthplace, merged with Beijing Medical University in 2000, QS #13.
Peking University First Hospital
Peking University First Hospital (北京大学第一医院, Beida Hospital), founded 15 February 1915 in Beijing, is China's earliest founded hospital, a tertiary Grade A teaching hospital of Peking University known for urology, nephrology, dermatology, and pediatrics, with 2,480 beds and a Daxing campus opened in 2023.
Peking University People's Hospital
Peking University People's Hospital (北京大学人民医院), founded 1918 as China's first Chinese-financed general hospital, is a Peking University teaching hospital in Beijing with 2,600+ beds, two national research centers, and a Xiong'an branch.
Peking University Press
Peking University Press, also known as PKU Press, is the academic publishing house of Peking University in Beijing, re-established in 1979 and known for textbooks and the Ruzang Confucian Canon.