All articles starting with P

Philip E. Nelson

Philip E. Nelson (born 1934) is an American food scientist at Purdue University who developed large-scale aseptic food storage and won the 2007 World Food Prize.

Philip E. Strahan

Philip E. Strahan (born 1963) is a finance economist who holds the John L. Collins Chair in Finance at Boston College and studies bank deregulation, small-firm credit, and banking liquidity.

Philip Edward Smith (1884–1970) was an American endocrinologist and anatomist who established the pituitary gland's hormonal control of growth, the thyroid, and reproduction, and taught anatomy at Columbia.

Philip Effiong

Philip Effiong (1925-2003), also Efiong, Nigerian Army officer and Biafra's Vice President and second-in-command under Ojukwu; final head of state who announced Biafra's surrender on 12 January 1970 and signed at Dodan Barracks on 15 January 1970.

Philip Elmer LaMoreaux

Philip Elmer LaMoreaux (1920–2008) was an American hydrogeologist known for his work on karst, who served as Alabama state geologist from 1961 to 1976 and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989.

Philip England

Philip England, born 1951, is a geophysicist at the University of Oxford known for showing continents deform as viscous fluids and for work on Tibet.

Philip F. Halloran

Philip F. Halloran is a Canadian transplant immunologist and nephrologist at the University of Alberta, known for discovering antibody-mediated rejection and creating the MMDx molecular biopsy system.

Sep 20, 2026

Philip F. Hopkins

Philip F. Hopkins is an American theoretical astrophysicist, the Ira S. Bowen Professor at Caltech, known for galaxy formation research and for leading the FIRE simulations and developing the GIZMO code.

Philip F. Low

Philip F. Low (1921–1997) was a Canadian-born soil physical chemist at Purdue University who pioneered the thermodynamics of clay–water systems and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992.

Philip Feigelson

Philip Feigelson (1925–2001) was an American biochemist at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons who studied hormonal control of gene expression in rat liver.

Sep 20, 2026

Philip Felig

Philip Felig was an American endocrinologist who spent fourteen years as a Yale professor of medicine, established the glucose-alanine cycle, led the Sandoz Research Institute, and died in 2020.

Philip Feng

Philip X.-L. Feng is an electrical engineer known for nanoelectromechanical systems built from atomically thin 2D materials such as molybdenum disulfide, and a 2016 PECASE recipient.

Oct 21, 2026

Philip Fleming

Philip Fleming (1889-1971), British rower and banker, won 1912 Stockholm Olympic gold in the men's eight, stroking Leander Club past New College, Oxford; later chaired Flemings Merchant Bank.

Philip Franklin

Philip Franklin (1898–1965) was an American mathematician at MIT who worked in topology, graph theory, and analysis; he gave the Franklin graph, the only known counterexample to the Heawood conjecture.

Philip G. Hodge

Philip G. Hodge (1920–2014) was an American mechanical engineer and applied mathematician who advanced plasticity theory, taught at Illinois Tech and Minnesota, and received the ASME Medal in 1987.

Sep 27, 2026

Philip G. Reinhard

Philip G. Reinhard, born 1941, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Northern District of Illinois, appointed by George H.W. Bush in 1992.

Philip Glass

Philip Glass (born 1937, Baltimore) is an American composer of 'music with repetitive structures,' associated with minimalism. Known for Einstein on the Beach, the Philip Glass Ensemble, Koyaanisqatsi, and Oscar-nominated film scores.

Philip Glenister

Philip Glenister (born 1963, Harrow, London) is an English actor famous as DCI Gene Hunt in BBC's Life on Mars (2006–07) and Ashes to Ashes (2008–10); also known for Cranford, Mad Dogs, Outcast, Belgravia, and the 2025 Bergerac reboot.

Philip Goulder

Philip J. R. Goulder is a British physician-scientist and Professor of Immunology at Oxford known for defining CTL escape in HIV and leading pediatric HIV cure research.

Philip Green

Sir Philip Green is a Monaco-based British retail entrepreneur who built the Arcadia and BHS retail empires, extracted large dividends from both, and became the central figure in BHS's 2016 collapse.

Philip Greenland

Philip Greenland is an American cardiologist and epidemiologist, the Harry W. Dingman Professor of Cardiology at Northwestern University, known for coronary artery calcium scoring for heart disease risk prediction.

Oct 22, 2026

Philip Guston

Philip Guston (1913–1980) was a Canadian-born American painter who moved from Abstract Expressionism to cartoon-like figuration, best known for his 1970 paintings of hooded figures.

Philip H. Bucksbaum

Philip H. Bucksbaum, also published as P. H. Bucksbaum, is an American atomic physicist at Stanford and SLAC who works on ultrafast optics and attosecond science, and who organized the PULSE Institute.

Philip H. Henneman

Philip H. Henneman was an American endocrinologist who researched kidney stones and metabolic bone disease, best known for establishing urinary hydroxyproline as a marker of bone collagen turnover in 1963.

Philip H. S. Torr

Philip H. S. Torr, also cited as Philip Torr, is a British computer vision researcher who holds a research chair at the University of Oxford and leads the Torr Vision Group.

Philip Hall

Philip Hall (1904–1982) was a British group theorist at Cambridge who proved Hall's marriage theorem, generalised the Sylow theorems to finite soluble groups, and revived finite group theory.

Philip Hamilton

Philip Hamilton (1782–1801), eldest son of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, named for Philip Schuyler; Columbia graduate killed at age 19 in his 1801 duel with lawyer George Eacker at Weehawken.

Philip Hammond

Philip Hammond, nicknamed Spreadsheet Phil, is a British Conservative politician who was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2016 to 2019 after holding the Transport, Defence, and Foreign Office posts.

Philip Handler

Philip Handler (1917–1981) was an American biochemist who spent thirty years building Duke University's biochemistry department, then served twelve years as President of the National Academy of Sciences.