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Peter Lee (materials scientist)
Peter Lee, also known as Peter D. Lee, is a professor of materials science at University College London known for synchrotron X-ray imaging of materials and intact human organs.
Peter Lee Jung-sum (李忠琛)
Peter Lee Jung-sum (李忠琛) was a Hong Kong meteorologist and assistant director of the Royal Observatory Hong Kong from 1981 to 1992, who led the introduction of automated weather monitoring there.
Peter Lely
Sir Peter Lely, born Pieter van der Faes (1618–1680), was a Dutch-born Baroque portrait painter who became the leading portraitist in England, defining the Restoration court under Charles II.
Péter Lengyel
Péter Lengyel, also known as Peter Lengyel, was a Hungarian-born American molecular biologist at Yale University whose laboratory discovered and named RNase L, the enzyme through which interferons block virus replication.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is a venture capital investor and co-founder of Griffin Gaming Partners, a Santa Monica firm investing exclusively in gaming, after leading interactive ventures at Lionsgate.
Peter Libby
Peter Libby is an American cardiovascular physician-scientist and Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School who established inflammation as a driving force in atherosclerosis and helped lead the CANTOS trial.
Peter Lichter
Peter Lichter is a German cancer geneticist who headed Molecular Genetics at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg and developed FISH and array-CGH into standard cancer research tools.
Peter Lieck
Peter Mosebjane Lieck is a German fintech co-founder of Augustus, a Berlin payments company founded in 2022 as Ivy, where he serves as chief revenue officer leading partnerships.
Peter Liljeroth
Peter Liljeroth (born 1975) is a Finnish-based physicist and Professor of Atomic Scale Physics at Aalto University, known for switching a single molecule with current in 2007.
Peter Lim
Peter Lim (Lim Eng Hock), born 1953, is a Singaporean billionaire investor known as the "remisier king" who controls Thomson Medical Group and owns Valencia CF.
Peter Lindbergh
Peter Lindbergh, born Peter Brodbeck, was a German fashion photographer and film director known for unretouched black-and-white images that redefined beauty standards and helped launch the 1990s supermodel era.
Peter Lipka
Peter Lipka is a British technology executive, Chief Operating Officer of Improbable, the London company behind the SpatialOS simulation platform, which he joined in 2012.
Peter Liu (venture capitalist)
Peter Liu (刘宇环, Liu Yuhuan) is a Beijing-born, Taipei-raised venture capitalist who co-founded Walden International in 1987 and founded WI Harper Group, investing in over 100 Greater China technology companies.
Peter Llewelyn Davies
Peter Llewelyn Davies (1897–1960) was an English publisher, the middle of five sons of Arthur and Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, whose name was given to J. M. Barrie's character Peter Pan.
Peter Lodahl
Peter Lodahl is a Danish physicist and professor of quantum physics and technology at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, known for quantum-dot photonics and for founding Sparrow Quantum.
Peter Lombard
Peter Lombard (Petrus Lombardus), c. 1095–1160, was an Italian scholastic theologian who taught at Notre Dame, became bishop of Paris, and wrote the Four Books of Sentences.
Peter Lopez (attorney)
Peter Lopez (attorney) was an American entertainment lawyer, founder of Kleinberg Lopez Lange Cuddy & Klein, representing Michael Jackson, Eagles, Andrea Bocelli, and Michael Buble; husband of Catherine Bach, died 2010.
Peter Lorre
Peter Lorre (László Löwenstein, 1904–1964), Hungarian-born actor famous as the child murderer in Fritz Lang's M (1931), later a Hollywood character actor in The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca and director of Der Verlorene.
Peter Louis Andresen
Peter Louis Andresen is an American materials scientist known for predicting and preventing stress corrosion cracking in nuclear reactors, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013.
Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow
Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow (1832–1918) was a Norwegian mathematician who proved the three Sylow theorems of finite group theory, published in 1872, and edited Abel's collected works.
Peter Luger Steak House
Peter Luger Steak House, founded 1887 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn as Carl Luger's Café, is a Forman-family-owned steakhouse known for dry-aged USDA Prime porterhouse, a no-credit-card policy, and locations in Great Neck, Las Vegas, and Tokyo.
Peter Lupus
Peter Lupus (Peter Nash Lupus Jr., born June 17, 1932, Indianapolis) is an American bodybuilder and actor, Willy Armitage on Mission: Impossible (1966–73), formerly Rock Stevens in Italian sword-and-sandal films, later a record-setting elderly weightlifter.
Peter Lynch
Peter Lynch (born 1944) is an investor who managed Fidelity's Magellan Fund from 1977 to 1990, compounding it at 29.2% a year and coining "invest in what you know."
Peter M. Banks
Peter M. Banks is an American space physicist at Stanford and UC San Diego known for radar studies of the aurora and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Peter M. Biggs
Peter M. Biggs (Peter Martin Biggs) was an English veterinary virologist who established the cause of Marek's disease and led development of the first vaccine against a cancer.
Peter M. Blumberg
Peter M. Blumberg is an American biochemical pharmacologist at the National Cancer Institute who identified protein kinase C as the receptor for phorbol ester tumor promoters.
Peter M. Cox
Peter Cox, also published as Peter M. Cox, is a British climate scientist at the University of Exeter who led the first climate simulation with an interactive carbon cycle.
Peter M. Doubilet
Peter M. Doubilet is a radiologist, Professor at Harvard Medical School, and Senior Vice Chair of Radiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, known for the 2013 criteria defining nonviable pregnancy on ultrasound.
Peter M. Glazer
Peter M. Glazer is an American radiation oncologist and physician-scientist who chairs the Department of Therapeutic Radiology at Yale, known for research on DNA repair, tumor hypoxia, and gene editing.
Peter M. Henson
Peter M. Henson is an immunologist and immunopathologist, Professor Emeritus at National Jewish Health in Denver, known for establishing how the body clears dying cells without inflammation.