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Philip Hartman
Philip Hartman (1915–2015) was an American mathematician at Johns Hopkins University who worked on ordinary differential equations, proved the Hartman–Grobman theorem, and wrote the textbook Ordinary Differential Equations.
Philip Hauser
Philip Hauser (1909–1994) was an American demographer and sociologist at the University of Chicago who founded its Population Research Center and served at the U.S. Census Bureau.
Philip Haydon
Philip G. Haydon is a neuroscientist and Professor of Neuroscience Emeritus at Tufts University School of Medicine, known for discovering that astrocytes signal to neurons and for co-founding GliaCure.
Philip Henry Kuenen
Philip Henry Kuenen (1902–1976) was a Dutch geologist at Groningen who pioneered marine geology and showed experimentally that turbidity currents produce graded deep-sea sand beds.
Philip Henry Wicksteed
Philip Henry Wicksteed (1844–1927) was an English Unitarian minister, Dante scholar, and economic theorist whose 1910 Common Sense of Political Economy secured his place in economics.
Philip Herbert Cowell
Philip Herbert Cowell (1870–1949) was a British astronomer who transformed orbit computation by integrating the equations of motion directly, and with Andrew Crommelin predicted the 1910 return of Halley's Comet to within 2.68 days.
Philip Herbert, 7th Earl of Pembroke
Philip Herbert, 7th Earl of Pembroke and 4th Earl of Montgomery (1653–1683), English peer notorious for violence; imprisoned for blasphemy 1678, twice tried for killing men (Nathaniel Cony, William Smeeth), escaped by peerage privilege.
Philip Hieter
Philip Hieter is an American-trained Canadian geneticist, professor of medical genetics at the University of British Columbia, known for yeast chromosome stability genes and synthetic-lethality approaches to cancer drug targets.
Philip Hindes
Philip Hindes (born 1992, Krefeld, Germany) is a retired British track sprinter, MBE, who won Olympic team sprint gold at London 2012 and Rio 2016 as man one, retiring from the GB team in 2021.
Philip Hoffmann
Philip Hoffmann, Austrian alpine skier born 2002 in Spittal an der Drau, won boys' giant slalom gold and team bronze at the 2020 Lausanne Winter Youth Olympics; retired March 2025 at 22.
Philip Hofmann
Philip Hofmann, born 1967 in Berlin, is a German experimental condensed matter physicist and professor at Aarhus University who directs the ASTRID2 synchrotron and studies surfaces of topological materials.
Philip Holmes
Philip Holmes, born 1945, is a British-born mathematician and mechanical engineer at Princeton University known for dynamical systems and chaos theory and a standard 1983 textbook with John Guckenheimer.
Philip I of France
Philip I of France (1052–1108), fourth direct Capetian king, reigned 1060–1108; son of Henry I and Anne of Kiev, he expanded the royal domain, fought the Anglo-Norman kings, and was excommunicated over his marriage to Bertrada of Montfort.
Philip II of France
Philip II of France, called Philip Augustus, was king of France from 1180 to 1223 and the first of the great Capetian kings of medieval France.
Philip II of Macedon
Philip II of Macedon (c. 382–336 BCE), son of Amyntas III, reigned 360/59–336 BCE, father of Alexander the Great; built the sarissa-armed professional army, won Chaeronea in 338, founded the League of Corinth, and planned the Persian campaign.
Philip II of Moscow
Philip II of Moscow, born Fyodor Stepanovich Kolychev, was Metropolitan of Moscow and all Rus from 1566 to 1568, deposed and killed in 1569 for publicly denouncing Ivan the Terrible's oprichniki.
Philip II of Spain
Philip II (Felipe II, 1527–1598), son of Emperor Charles V, ruled Spain, Italy, the Low Countries, Portugal after 1580, and the Americas from Madrid and the Escorial, battling the Dutch revolt, the Ottomans, and England's Armada-year defiance while defaulting on state debt.
Philip III of France
Philip III the Bold (Philippe III le Hardi, 1245–1285), Capetian king of France 1270–1285, son of Louis IX; gained the Toulouse inheritance, regent of Navarre, died after the failed Aragonese crusade.
Philip III of Macedon
Philip III of Macedon (Arrhidaeus, c.357–317 BCE), mentally impaired half-brother of Alexander the Great, was proclaimed king at Babylon in 323, ruled jointly with Alexander IV under regents Perdiccas, Antipater, and Polyperchon, and was murdered by Olympias in 317.
Philip III of Spain
Philip III of Spain (1578–1621), reigned 1598–1621, king of Spain, Naples, Sicily, and Portugal. Son of Philip II; first Habsburg to delegate rule to a valido, the Duke of Lerma; oversaw the Pax Hispanica (1604, 1609) and the 1609–14 Morisco expulsion.
Philip IV of France
Philip IV the Fair (Philippe IV le Bel, 1268-1314), Capetian king of France 1285-1314, son of Philip III; clashed with Pope Boniface VIII, expelled the Jews in 1306, suppressed the Templars, and built a centralized fiscal monarchy.
Philip IV of Spain
Philip IV of Spain (Felipe IV, 1605–1665), also Philip III of Portugal, reigned 1621–1665. Known as the Planet King; ruled through validos Olivares and Haro, faced the 1640 revolts, and signed the Peace of Westphalia (1648) and Pyrenees (1659).
Philip J. Barter
Philip J. Barter was an Australian cardiovascular researcher specializing in HDL cholesterol and CETP, who chaired the ILLUMINATE trial of torcetrapib and won the Anitschkow Prize in 2011.
Philip J. Cowen
Philip J. Cowen is a psychiatrist and Professor of Psychopharmacology at the University of Oxford whose 1997 Lancet tryptophan-depletion study showed how serotonin relates to depressive relapse.
Philip J. Darlington
Philip J. Darlington (1904–1983) was an American entomologist and biogeographer at Harvard, curator of insects at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, known for his 1957 book Zoogeography.
Philip J. Farabaugh
Philip J. Farabaugh is an American molecular biologist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County whose laboratory discovered programmed +1 frameshifting in yeast retrotransposons and studies translational misreading.
Philip J. Fialkow
Philip J. Fialkow (1934–1996) was an American physician-scientist and hematologist at the University of Washington who first showed that leukemia is a clonal stem-cell disease, and later served as the medical school's dean.
Philip J. Fry
Philip J. Fry is the protagonist of Futurama, Matt Groening and David X. Cohen's animated sci-fi sitcom: a pizza delivery boy frozen December 31, 1999, who wakes 1,000 years later at Planet Express, voiced by Billy West.
Philip J. Hogg
Philip J. Hogg (Philip Hogg) is an Australian biochemist at the Centenary Institute in Sydney who showed disulphide bonds dynamically switch protein activity on and off.
Philip J. Landrigan
Philip J. Landrigan is an American pediatrician and epidemiologist whose El Paso lead studies helped remove lead from gasoline and shaped children's environmental health policy.