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Peter (Polyansky), Metropolitan of Krutitsy
Peter (Polyansky), Metropolitan of Krutitsy (Пётр Полянский), was a Russian Orthodox bishop who served as locum tenens of the patriarchal throne from 1925 until his execution by Soviet authorities in 1937.
Peter A Jones
Peter A Jones is a South African-born cancer epigenetics researcher whose discovery that 5-azacytidine inhibits DNA methylation led to the drug's 2004 approval for myelodysplastic syndrome.
Peter A. Beal
Peter A. Beal is an American chemist and professor at the University of California, Davis, known for research on the chemical biology of RNA editing.
Peter A. Calabresi
Peter A. Calabresi is an American neurologist and neuroimmunologist known for research on how immune cells damage the brain in multiple sclerosis and for retinal imaging to track the disease.
Peter A. Campochiaro
Peter A. Campochiaro, born in 1952, is an American ophthalmologist and Eccles Professor at Johns Hopkins' Wilmer Eye Institute who led gene therapy trials for macular degeneration.
Peter A. Diamond
Peter A. Diamond, also known as Peter Diamond, is an American economist at MIT who won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for search-friction markets.
Peter A. Edwards
Peter A. Edwards is a biological chemist at UCLA known for research on lipid metabolism and bile acids, which act as both digestive detergents and hormones.
Peter A. Kollman
Peter A. Kollman, also known as Peter Kollman, was an American computational chemist at UCSF who developed the AMBER force field and simulation software for proteins and nucleic acids.
Peter A. Lawrence
Peter A. Lawrence, also known as Peter Lawrence, is a developmental geneticist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge known for work on Drosophila pattern formation.
Peter A. Leidel
Peter A. Leidel is a private equity investor who co-founded Yorktown Partners LLC, a New York firm founded in 1997 that invests in oil and gas companies.
Peter A. McCullough
Peter A. McCullough, American cardiologist (Baylor/Texas A&M), COVID-19 early-treatment promoter and vaccine critic; ABIM certification revoked per lookup tool, multiple paper retractions, Wellness Company chief science officer.
Peter A. McNaughton
Peter A. McNaughton is a New Zealand-born sensory neuroscientist and Professor of Pharmacology at King's College London, known for identifying the ion channels behind warmth sensation and chronic pain.
Peter A. Merkel
Peter A. Merkel is an American rheumatologist who is Chief of Rheumatology at the University of Pennsylvania, leads the Vasculitis Clinical Research Consortium, and ran major vasculitis drug trials.
Peter A. Raymond
Peter A. Raymond is a biogeochemist at Yale who studies carbon cycling in rivers and lakes, known for a 2013 Nature analysis of global inland-water CO2 emissions.
Peter A. Stott
Peter A. Stott, also published as Peter Stott, is a British climate scientist at the Met Office Hadley Centre who pioneered attributing the 2003 European heatwave to human influence.
Peter A. Ubel
Peter A. Ubel is an American physician and behavioral scientist at Duke University, a National Academy of Medicine member known for research on how patients and physicians make decisions.
Peter A. Ward
Peter A. Ward, born 1934, is an American physician-scientist and immunopathologist at the University of Michigan who established C5a as a driver of inflammation and sepsis.
Peter Aaby
Peter Aaby is a Danish epidemiologist who founded the Bandim Health Project in Guinea-Bissau in 1978 and proposed that vaccines have non-specific effects on child survival.
Peter Abbamonte
Peter Abbamonte is a condensed matter physicist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who developed M-EELS and observed the plasmon known as a demon in 2023.
Peter Abelard
Peter Abelard, also known as Pierre Abélard, was a French logician, theologian, and monk (1079–1142), a founder of nominalism famous for his correspondence with Heloise.
Peter Abrahams
Peter Abrahams, full name Peter Henry Abrahams Deras (1919–2017), was a South African-born novelist and journalist whose 1946 novel Mine Boy drew world attention to conditions under apartheid.
Peter Aerts
Peter Aerts (born 1970), "The Dutch Lumberjack," is a retired Dutch heavyweight kickboxer and three-time K-1 World Grand Prix champion (1994, 1995, 1998), famous for his right high kicks and a record 6:43 tournament win in 1998.
Peter Agre
Peter Agre, born 1949 in Minnesota, is an American physician-scientist who discovered the aquaporin water channels, winning half of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Peter Akinola
Peter Jasper Akinola is a Nigerian Anglican bishop who served as Primate of All Nigeria from 2000 to 2010, leading the Anglican Communion's largest province.
Peter Albersheim
Peter Albersheim (1934–2017) was an American plant biochemist who showed that cell wall fragments he named oligosaccharins regulate plant processes, and co-founded the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center at the University of Georgia.
Peter Alexander (journalist)
Peter Alexander (born 1976, Oakland, California) is an American TV journalist, former NBC News chief White House correspondent and Saturday Today co-anchor, now MS NOW anchor and chief national reporter hosting State of Play.
Peter Allen (musician)
Peter Allen (Peter Richard Woolnough, 1944–1992) was an Australian singer-songwriter and entertainer, Oscar winner for "Arthur's Theme", writer of "I Still Call Australia Home", and husband of Liza Minnelli.
Peter Alliss
Peter Alliss (1931-2020), English professional golfer and BBC 'voice of golf'; eight-time Ryder Cup player, winner of 20+ tournaments, BBC lead commentator from 1978, and designer of The Belfry.
Peter Altenberg
Peter Altenberg, pen name of Richard Engländer (1859–1919), was a Jewish-Austrian writer and Vienna bohemian known for very short sketches and prose poems admired by Kafka and Rilke.
Peter and Gordon
Peter and Gordon: British Invasion pop duo of Peter Asher and Gordon Waller, formed via Westminster School. Their 1964 hit "A World Without Love", given by Paul McCartney, topped US and UK charts; hits ran 1964-1968 before a 2005-2009 reunion.