All articles starting with P

Peter Grünberg

Peter Grünberg was a German physicist who shared the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics with Albert Fert for discovering giant magnetoresistance, which enabled hard disk read heads.

Sep 20, 2026

Peter Gruss

Peter Gruss (Peter Gruß), born 1949, is a German developmental biologist known for Pax gene research and president of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft from 2002 to 2014.

Peter Guber (born 1942) is an American film producer and executive, studio chief of Columbia, chairman-CEO of Sony Pictures, and founder of Mandalay Entertainment; producer of Rain Man, Batman, and Midnight Express and co-owner of the Golden State Warriors and Los Angeles Dodgers.

Péter Gulácsi

Péter Gulácsi, Hungarian goalkeeper (born 1990), 58 caps. Eleven seasons at RB Leipzig from 2015: 296 Bundesliga games, 96 clean sheets, two DFB Cups, 2019/20 Champions League semi-final; joined Villarreal in August 2026.

Peter Gumbsch

Peter Gumbsch is a German materials scientist known for multiscale modeling of deformation and fracture and for mechanical metamaterials; he won the Leibniz Prize in 2007.

Peter Gunn

Peter Gunn, American private eye TV series (1958–1961) created by Blake Edwards, starring Craig Stevens and Lola Albright, 114 episodes on NBC then ABC, famed for Henry Mancini's jazz score and the Peter Gunn Theme.

Peter Günter

Peter Günter is a Swiss physicist in nonlinear optics who led ETH Zurich's Nonlinear Optics Laboratory until his 2010 retirement and is best known for the organic electro-optic crystal DAST.

Peter Gustav Kawerau

Peter Gustav Kawerau, usually shortened to Gustav Kawerau, was a German Lutheran theologian, professor of practical theology at Kiel and Breslau, and editor of Luther's works.

Peter Guthrie Tait

Peter Guthrie Tait (1831–1901) was a Scottish mathematical physicist who held the Edinburgh chair of natural philosophy from 1860, founded knot theory, and championed quaternions.

Peter Gutmann (computer scientist)

Peter Gutmann is a New Zealand computer security researcher at the University of Auckland, known for the 35-pass Gutmann wipe method and the cryptlib security toolkit.

Peter H. Bennett

Peter H. Bennett is an American diabetes epidemiologist who began the landmark Pima Indian diabetes studies in 1965 and helped shape WHO diagnostic criteria adopted in 1980.

Peter H. Byers

Peter H. Byers, also published as Peter Byers, is an American medical geneticist at the University of Washington known for research on inherited connective-tissue disorders.

Peter H. Egger

Peter H. Egger (born 1969) is an Austrian economist who has been Professor of Economics at ETH Zurich since 2009, working on international trade, taxation, and gravity models.

Peter H. Fishman

Peter H. Fishman is an NIH biochemist at NINDS whose research established how gangliosides are synthesized and reported the first human disease of defective ganglioside biosynthesis.

Peter H. Forsham

Peter H. Forsham was an American endocrinologist who directed UCSF's Metabolic Research Unit from 1952 to 1984, pioneering diabetes research and glucagon's role in diabetic ketoacidosis.

Peter H. Gleick

Peter H. Gleick is an American hydroclimatologist who co-founded the Pacific Institute in Oakland in 1987 and is known for the concepts of the soft path for water and peak water.

Peter H. Hackett

Peter H. Hackett is an American physician specializing in high-altitude medicine, based in Telluride, Colorado, known for altitude illness research and field medicine in Nepal and on Denali.

Peter H. Krammer

Peter H. Krammer (P. H. Krammer), born in 1946, is a German immunologist at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg known for discovering the CD95 (APO-1/Fas) death-receptor system.

Peter H. L. Notten

Peter H. L. Notten (born 1952) is a Dutch materials electrochemist known for rechargeable NiMH and lithium-ion battery research at Philips Research and Eindhoven University of Technology.

Peter H. McBreen

Peter H. McBreen, born 1953 in Ireland, is a Canadian surface chemist at Université Laval known for chirality transfer on chirally modified platinum catalysts and named professor emeritus in 2026.

Peter H. Raven

Peter H. Raven (1936–2026) was an American botanist and evolutionary biologist who led the Missouri Botanical Garden for 39 years and, with Paul Ehrlich, coined the term "coevolution" in 1964.

Peter H. Schiller

Peter H. Schiller (1931–2023) was an American visual neuroscientist who spent his career at MIT, establishing the roles of the ON and OFF channels of vision.

Peter H. Schur

Peter H. Schur is an American rheumatologist and clinical immunologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for linking anti-DNA antibodies and falling complement to lupus disease activity.

Sep 20, 2026

Peter H. Seeberger

Peter H. Seeberger (born 1966) is a chemist working in glycoscience and flow chemistry, known for automated glycan assembly, glycan microarrays, and a continuous-flow synthesis of artemisinin.

Sep 20, 2026

Peter H. Seeburg

Peter H. Seeburg (1944–2016) was a German molecular biologist and neuroscientist who pioneered cloning human hormone genes, then helped found molecular neurobiology through work on GABA-A and glutamate receptors and RNA editing.

Peter H. Sönksen

Peter H. Sönksen is a British physician-scientist in endocrinology and diabetes, known for a 1989 growth hormone trial and for leading the GH-2000 anti-doping test group.

Peter H. Verburg

Peter H. Verburg is a Dutch environmental geographer and professor at VU Amsterdam known for the CLUE land-use models, elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2026.

Peter H. Wiernik

Peter H. Wiernik is an American medical oncologist known for leukemia research, including the 1997 retinoic acid trial for acute promyelocytic leukemia and early clinical studies of paclitaxel.