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Peter Voulkos
Peter Voulkos, born Panagiotis Harry Voulkos, was an American ceramicist whose aggressive abstract clay sculptures reshaped postwar American ceramics and influenced artists like Ken Price.
Peter W. Andrews
Peter W. Andrews, also known as P. W. Andrews, is a biologist at the University of Sheffield known for characterizing stem cell surface markers like SSEA3 and TRA-1-60.
Peter W. Baas
Peter W. Baas is a cell biologist and neuroscientist, professor at Drexel University College of Medicine since 2000, known for showing how microtubules are organized in neurons.
Peter W. Barlow
Peter W. Barlow, also known as Peter William Barlow, was an English civil engineer who patented a cylindrical tunnelling shield in 1864, used in the Tower Subway.
Peter W. Carr
Peter W. Carr (1944–2025) was an American analytical chemist at the University of Minnesota, known for zirconia stationary phases, the hydrophobic-subtraction model, and two-dimensional liquid chromatography.
Peter W. Gage
Peter W. Gage (1937–2005) was a New Zealand-born Australian membrane physiologist and neuroscientist who studied ion channels at UNSW and the Australian National University and helped found the biotechnology company Biotron.
Peter W. Gething
Peter W. Gething is an Australian-based epidemiologist and geospatial modeller of malaria who co-heads the Malaria Atlas Project and is a professor at Curtin University and The Kids Research Institute Australia in Perth.
Peter W. H. Holland
Peter W. H. Holland, born 1963, is Linacre Professor of Zoology at Oxford and a Royal Society Fellow known for research on homeobox genes, gene duplication, and amphioxus.
Peter W. Halligan
Peter W. Halligan is an Irish neuropsychologist and Honorary Professor at Cardiff University, known for work on visual neglect and malingering, who served as Chief Scientific Adviser for Wales from 2018 to 2022.
Peter W. Hochachka
Peter W. Hochachka (1937–2002) was a Canadian zoologist at the University of British Columbia who founded adaptational biochemistry, the study of how animals survive low oxygen.
Peter W. Kalivas
Peter W. Kalivas is an American neuroscientist at the Medical University of South Carolina who established glutamate signaling as a central mechanism of drug addiction and relapse.
Peter W. Lampert
Peter W. Lampert (1929–1986) was a German-born American neuropathologist who chaired pathology at UCSD from 1979 until his death, using electron microscopy to study demyelination and viral disease.
Peter W. Stacpoole
Peter W. Stacpoole is a physician-scientist and professor at the University of Florida who has researched dichloroacetate since 1969, leading trials in lactic acidosis and mitochondrial disease.
Peter W. Voorhees
Peter W. Voorhees is a materials scientist at Northwestern University known for research on Ostwald ripening, elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016.
Peter W.F. Wilson
Peter W.F. Wilson is an American cardiologist and cardiovascular epidemiologist at Emory University whose Framingham work produced the most widely validated heart disease risk prediction rule.
Peter Walter
Peter Walter is a German-born biochemist and cell biologist known for discovering the signal recognition particle and defining the unfolded protein response, honored with the 2014 Lasker and 2018 Breakthrough Prizes.
Peter Wasserscheid
Peter Wasserscheid, born 1970 in Würzburg, is a German chemist known for ionic liquids in catalysis and liquid organic hydrogen carriers, holding the Chemical Reaction Engineering chair at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg since 2003.
Peter Watkins
Peter Watkins (1935–2025) was a British docudrama pioneer and director of Culloden and The War Game, the banned BBC nuclear-war film that won a best documentary Oscar; also made Resan and La Commune.
Peter Watts (road manager)
Peter Anthony Watts (1946–1976) was Pink Floyd's English road manager and sound engineer from 1967 to 1974, built the band's custom PA, co-designed a 20-input WEM console, supplied the laughter on Dark Side of the Moon, and was Naomi Watts's father; distinct from other Peter Watts namesakes.
Peter Wayne Marks
Peter Wayne Marks is an American hematologist-oncologist who directed the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research from 2016 to 2025, overseeing COVID-19 vaccine review.
Peter Weber (television personality)
Peter Weber, "Pilot Pete" (born 1991), American airline pilot and TV personality; Bachelorette season 15 finalist, Bachelor season 24 lead (2020), later The Traitors and Destination X runner-up.
Peter Weir
Peter Weir, born 1944 in Sydney, is an Australian film director of the Australian New Wave who moved to Hollywood, directing Witness, Dead Poets Society, The Truman Show, Master and Commander, and his final film The Way Back (2010).
Peter Weisbeek
Peter J. Weisbeek, born 1943 in Groningen, is a Dutch molecular biologist and professor of molecular genetics at Utrecht University, known for chloroplast protein targeting research.
Peter Weiss
Peter Weiss (1916–1982), German-born Swedish-exile playwright, novelist, painter, and filmmaker; author of Marat/Sade, Die Ermittlung, Viet Nam Diskurs, and Die Ästhetik des Widerstands; theorist of documentary theater.
Peter Welch
Peter Welch, Democratic U.S. senator from Vermont since 2023 (Class 3, term ending 2029), previously Vermont's at-large House member 2007–2023 and first Democratic Vermont Senate president pro tempore.
Peter Weller
Peter Weller (born 1947, Stevens Point, Wisconsin) is an American actor, director, and Renaissance art historian, known for RoboCop (1987), Buckaroo Banzai, and Naked Lunch, and for a UCLA PhD in Italian Renaissance art history.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
Peter Wessel Zapffe (1899–1990), Norwegian philosopher, writer, and mountaineer; author of Om det tragiske (On the Tragic, 1941) and the essay The Last Messiah (1933); pessimist who held humans overequipped by evolution and described four defense mechanisms: isolation, anchoring, distraction, sublimation.
Peter Whittingham
Peter Whittingham (1984-2020), English midfielder for Aston Villa, Cardiff City, and Blackburn Rovers; Cardiff legend with 459 appearances and 98 goals, 2008 FA Cup and 2012 League Cup finalist, died aged 35 after a pub fall in Barry.
Peter Whittle (politician)
Peter Whittle: British UKIP politician, 2016 London Assembly London-wide member and UKIP's 2016 mayoral candidate (4%), later Brexit Alliance leader, New Culture Forum founder and media producer.
Peter Wilderer
Peter Wilderer is a German civil engineer known for biofilm-based wastewater treatment and the first Stockholm Water Prize awarded to a German academic, in 2003.