All articles starting with P

Peter Wilf

Peter Wilf is an American paleobotanist and professor of geosciences at Penn State who studies fossil plants and ancient climates, with long-term fieldwork in Argentine Patagonia.

Sep 20, 2026

Peter William Jack Rigby

Peter William Jack Rigby, known as Peter Rigby, is a British molecular biologist who studies gene regulation in embryonic development and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2010.

Sep 27, 2026

Peter Williams (Louisiana politician)

Peter Williams is an American politician and former Democrat who switched to the Republican Party in 2025, running for Louisiana's 2nd Congressional District in 2026.

Oct 21, 2026

Peter Windt

Peter Windt, born Pieter Windt in 1973 in Veendam, Netherlands, is a former Dutch field hockey player who won gold with the national team at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

Peter Withe (born 1951, Liverpool), English centre forward; scored the only goal in Aston Villa's 1982 European Cup final win over Bayern Munich; league titles with Forest and Villa; 11 England caps; later managed Thailand and Indonesia.

Peter Woit

Peter Woit is a Senior Lecturer in mathematics at Columbia University since 1989, known for his 2006 book Not Even Wrong, which argues string theory makes no testable predictions.

Oct 22, 2026

Peter Wok of Rosenberg

Peter Wok of Rosenberg (Czech: Petr Vok z Rožmberka, 1539–1611) was a Bohemian nobleman, the last male Rosenberg, and a leading art patron with a library of about 11,000 volumes.

Peter Wolf

Peter Wolf is an American singer, painter, and former radio disc jockey. He is known for his solo career and his work with the J. Geils Band.

Sep 19, 2026

Peter Woo

Peter Woo (吴光正) is a Hong Kong property and retail tycoon who chaired Wheelock and The Wharf from 1986, running the group behind Harbour City and Times Square.

Peter Woodthorpe

Peter Woodthorpe (1931–2004), English character actor; Estragon in the 1955 British premiere of Beckett's Waiting for Godot; voiced Gollum in the 1978 animated Lord of the Rings film and the 1981 BBC Radio 4 adaptation.

Peter Wothers

Peter Wothers is a British chemist at the University of Cambridge who presented the 2012 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures and was awarded an MBE in 2014.

Peter Wright (darts player)

Peter Wright, "Snakebite" (born 1970, Livingston, Scotland), Scottish PDC darts player and two-time world champion (2020, 2022), 2017 UK Open and 2021 World Matchplay winner, known for his mohawk and showmanship.

Peter Wright (MI5 officer)

Peter Wright was a British former assistant director of MI5, the service's first scientist, known for Spycatcher, his 1987 memoir the Thatcher government spent years trying to suppress.

Peter Wright (structural biologist)

Peter Wright is a structural biologist and NMR spectroscopist at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for showing that intrinsically disordered proteins fold as they bind their targets.

Oct 21, 2026

Peter Wylde

Peter Wylde (born 1965), American show jumper from Medfield, Massachusetts; 1982 ASPCA Maclay winner, 2004 Athens Olympic team gold and 2002 World Equestrian Games individual bronze on Fein Cera; later coach at Winley Farm, Millbrook, New York.

Peter Wyngarde

Peter Wyngarde (Cyril Louis Goldbert, died 15 January 2018) was a British actor famous as Jason King in Department S (1969-70) and Jason King (1971-72); also Klytus in Flash Gordon; birth date disputed.

Peter Y. Chou

Peter Y. Chou is a protein chemist who, with Gerald D. Fasman at Brandeis University, published the 1974 Chou–Fasman method, an early and widely cited protein structure prediction approach.

Peter Yarrow

Peter Yarrow (1938-2025), American folk singer-songwriter of Peter, Paul and Mary, co-writer of Puff the Magic Dragon, civil rights performer, 1970 conviction and 1981 Carter pardon, founder of Operation Respect.

Sep 19, 2026

Peter Young (investment banker)

Peter Young is an American investment banker who founded Young & Partners in 1995, a firm specializing in chemical and life science investment banking, and leads it as CEO.

Peter Zandstra

Peter W. Zandstra is a Canadian bioengineer known for stem cell bioengineering, a professor at the University of British Columbia and its Vice-President, Research and Innovation since 2026.

Peter Zeihan

Peter Zeihan (Peter Henry Zeihan) is an American geopolitical strategist, author, and speaker who left the intelligence firm Stratfor in 2012 to found Zeihan on Geopolitics.

Peter Zerwas

Peter M. Zerwas is a theoretical particle physicist who worked at DESY in Hamburg on QCD, Higgs physics, and supersymmetry, credited in the 2004 Nobel advanced information for collecting measurements of the running strong coupling.

Peter Zimetbaum

Peter J. Zimetbaum is an American cardiac electrophysiologist who directs clinical cardiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and is the Richard and Susan Smith Professor of Cardiology at Harvard Medical School.

Peter Zoller

Peter Zoller, born 1952, is an Austrian theoretical physicist at the University of Innsbruck, a founder of quantum information science with trapped ions and cold atoms.

Oct 15, 2026

Peter Zumthor

Peter Zumthor, born 1943 in Basel, is a Swiss architect known for carefully detailed buildings like the Therme Vals and winner of the 2009 Pritzker Prize.

Peter–Weyl theorem

The Peter–Weyl theorem is a 1927 result of Fritz Peter and Hermann Weyl stating that matrix coefficients of irreducible representations form an orthonormal basis of L²(G) for compact groups.

Peter, Paul and Mary

Peter, Paul, and Mary: American folk trio formed in New York in 1961 (Peter Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey, Mary Travers), managed by Albert Grossman; known for "Blowin' in the Wind," "Puff the Magic Dragon," and the 1963 March on Washington.

Sep 24, 2026

Peter's coup against Sophia (Trinity campaign of 1689)

Peter's coup against Sophia (Троицкий поход 1689 года), the Trinity campaign of 1689, was the seizure of power by the seventeen-year-old Tsar Peter I from his half-sister, the regent Sophia Alekseevna.