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Peter Reddien
Peter Reddien, born 1974, is an American biologist who is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and studies how planarian flatworms regrow missing body parts using stem cells.
Peter Rehling
Peter Rehling (born 1966) is a German biochemist who has led the Institute of Cellular Biochemistry at the University Medical Center Göttingen since 2007, known for work on mitochondrial protein import and respiratory-chain assembly.
Peter Reichard
Peter Reichard (1925–2018) was a Swedish biochemist and Karolinska Institutet professor best known for discovering ribonucleotide reductase, the enzyme that supplies the four building blocks of DNA.
Peter Reid
Peter Reid (born 1956, Huyton) is an English former footballer and manager; Everton midfield star of the mid-1980s, PFA Player of the Year 1985, and Sunderland manager 1995-2002, winning two promotions and a record 105-point title.
Peter Revson
Peter Revson (Peter Jeffrey Revson) was an American racing driver who won the 1971 Can-Am championship and two Formula One Grands Prix with McLaren, dying in a 1974 testing accident.
Peter Riegert
Peter Riegert, American actor born 1947 in the Bronx, known for Animal House, Local Hero, and Crossing Delancey; Emmy-nominated for Barbarians at the Gate and Oscar-nominated for directing the short By Courier.
Peter Rivera (musician)
Peter Rivera (born Peter Hoorelbeke), American drummer and lead vocalist, founding frontman of Rare Earth, Motown's first white rock act; hits "Get Ready" and "I Just Want to Celebrate"; later Classic Rock All Stars and solo albums.
Peter Robbins (actor)
Peter Robbins (born Louis Nanasi, 1956, Los Angeles; died January 2022) was an American child actor, the original voice of Charlie Brown in Peanuts specials including A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) and It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966).
Peter Rocca
Peter Rocca (Peter Drake Rocca, born 1957, Oakland, California) is an American former backstroke swimmer: double 1976 Olympic silver medalist (100 and 200 m back, behind John Naber), 1975 and 1979 Pan Am gold medalist, 1979 NCAA 200-yard backstroke champion for Cal, and 1980 Olympic team captain lost to the boycott.
Peter Rochegune Munch
Peter Rochegune Munch (1870–1948) was a Danish historian and Radical Liberal politician, interior, defense, and foreign minister, whose neutrality policy ended with the German occupation in 1940.
Peter Roesky
Peter W. Roesky, born 1967 in Göttingen, is a German inorganic chemist and professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, known for lanthanide coordination chemistry and single-molecule magnets.
Peter Roll
Peter Roll was an American physicist at Princeton who, in Robert Dicke's group, built the radiometer that made the first confirming measurement of the cosmic microwave background in 1965.
Peter Rona (physician)
Peter Rona, born Peter Rosenfeld, was a physician and biochemist who led the Charité's chemical department in Berlin, published about 200 papers, and was nominated for the 1925 Nobel Prize.
Peter Rono
Peter Kipchumba Rono, Kenyan runner born 1967 in Kapsabet, won the 1988 Seoul Olympic 1,500 m gold at 21 years 62 days, beating Peter Elliott and Steve Cram; later a Mount St. Mary's coach and New Balance employee.
Peter Rosegger
Peter Rosegger (1843–1918) was an Austrian narrative writer, poet, and journalist from Styria whose works, translated into more than 22 languages, depicted mountain peasant life.
Peter Rosen
Peter Rosen (1935–2019) was an American emergency physician regarded as a founding father of emergency medicine, who founded two residencies and edited Rosen's Emergency Medicine.
Peter Rosenberg
Peter Rosenberg (born 1979) is an American radio DJ and WWE personality: Hot 97 morning host (Ebro in the Morning), ESPN New York's Don, Hahn & Rosenberg, and host of the Juan Epstein and Cheap Heat podcasts.
Peter Rossing
Peter Rossing (born 1965) is a Danish physician and medical researcher in endocrinology and diabetes, known for research on diabetic kidney disease and co-chairing the KDIGO 2022 guideline.
Peter Rossky
Peter Rossky is an American theoretical chemist at Rice University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011 for pioneering statistical mechanics of liquids.
Peter Rost
Peter Rost (born 1951, Leipzig) is a German handball player, coach, and functionary; not the swimmer Peter Drost or speed skater Patrick Roest. He captained East Germany to 1980 Olympic gold, won 1974 world silver, and earned 216 caps with 339 goals.
Peter Rothwell
Peter M. Rothwell is a British clinical neurologist and Professor of Clinical Neurology at the University of Oxford, known for stroke prevention research and the EXPRESS study.
Peter Rotwein
Peter Rotwein is an American physician-scientist in endocrinology and biochemistry known for work on insulin-like growth factors and early studies linking insulin-gene variation to type 2 diabetes.
Peter Rühmkorf
Peter Rühmkorf (1929–2008) was a German poet, essayist, and playwright known for virtuosic, politically engaged verse; he won the Georg Büchner Prize in 1993 and performed his poems with jazz accompaniment.
Peter S. Beagle
Peter S. Beagle (born 1939, New York City) is the American fantasy author of The Last Unicorn (1968); he won the Hugo and Nebula for "Two Hearts" and was named SFWA's 34th Grand Master in 2017.
Peter S. Eagleson
Peter S. Eagleson (1928–2021) was an American hydrologist at MIT who transformed hydrology into a global Earth science, founded ecohydrology, led AGU, and won the 1997 Stockholm Water Prize.
Peter S. Kim
Peter S. Kim is an American biochemist and medicinal chemist, a Stanford professor known for the gp41 structure behind HIV entry inhibitors and for leading Merck Research Laboratories.
Peter S. Klein
Peter S. Klein is a physician-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania who studies GSK-3, Wnt signaling, and hematopoietic stem cells, and showed lithium blocks amyloid-β production.
Peter S. Linsley
Peter S. Linsley is an American immunologist who showed that CTLA-4 is a second receptor for B7 and developed CTLA4Ig, which became the drug abatacept.
Peter S. Liss
Peter S. Liss (P. S. Liss) is an environmental chemist and emeritus professor at the University of East Anglia, known for research on gas exchange between ocean and atmosphere.
Peter S. McPherson
Peter S. McPherson is a Canadian neuroscientist at McGill University's Montreal Neurological Institute who identified key proteins in clathrin-mediated endocytosis and linked membrane trafficking to ataxia, ALS, and epilepsy.