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Philip J. Santangelo

Philip J. Santangelo is a biomedical engineer and professor at Georgia Tech and Emory known for single-molecule RNA imaging probes and inhalable mRNA therapeutics and vaccines.

Philip J. Snodgrass

Philip J. Snodgrass is an American physician and Professor Emeritus of Medicine at Indiana University, known for his 1974 and 1976 reports on urea-cycle enzyme deficiencies, including Reye's syndrome.

Philip Jackson (actor)

Philip Jackson (born 1948, Retford, England) is an English actor best known as Chief Inspector Japp in Agatha Christie's Poirot and Abbot Hugo in Robin of Sherwood, with films including Brassed Off and Scum.

Philip Jefferson

Philip N. Jefferson is an American economist and Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve Board since 2023, previously an economics professor at Swarthmore and dean of faculty at Davidson College.

Philip John Bart

Philip John Bart is an Antarctic marine geologist at Louisiana State University, known for reconstructing Antarctic ice sheet advance and retreat from seismic records and a 2001 PECASE award recipient.

Philip Johnson

Philip Johnson (Philip Cortelyou Johnson, 1906–2005) was an American architect who introduced European modernism to the United States and built the Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut.

Philip Johnson-Laird

Philip Johnson-Laird, born 1936, is a British cognitive psychologist, emeritus Stuart Professor of Psychology at Princeton, known for the mental model theory that people reason by building models of possibilities.

Philip Johnston (entrepreneur)

Philip Johnston, born in 1986 in Guildford, UK, is a British entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of Starcloud, a space technology company building data centers in orbit.

Philip Jones (cancer researcher)

Philip H. Jones is a British clinician-scientist who studies the earliest stages of cancer, and a Cambridge professor and Sanger Institute group leader elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2023.

Philip Jones Griffiths

Philip Jones Griffiths (1936–2008) was a Welsh photojournalist best known for Vietnam Inc. (1971), a critical photographic account of the Vietnam War. He served as president of Magnum Photos from 1980 to 1985.

Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), American science fiction author of 44 novels and 121 short stories including The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?; Hugo winner whose reality-questioning fiction inspired Blade Runner and the Philip K. Dick Award.

Philip K. Dick Award

The Philip K. Dick Award, founded in 1983 by admirers of Philip K. Dick, honors distinguished science fiction first published in the United States as a paperback original.

Philip K. Dick bibliography

The Philip K. Dick bibliography records the published works of American science fiction writer Philip K. Dick (1928–1982): over 120 short stories, 44 novels, and the Exegesis.

Philip Kassel

Philip Kassel (Philipp Kassel, 1876–1959), German-born American gymnast with the Philadelphia Turngemeinde; won 1904 St. Louis Olympic team gold (370.13) and placed sixth in the field sports all-around.

Philip Kaufman

Philip Kaufman (born 1936, Chicago) is an American film director and screenwriter of The Right Stuff, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Henry & June, and co-creator of the Raiders of the Lost Ark story; distinct from Charlie, Phil, and Moisés Kaufman.

Philip Kerr

Philip Kerr (1956–2018), British novelist, creator of the Bernie Gunther historical detective series beginning with March Violets (1989) and the Berlin Noir trilogy; also wrote Gridiron and Children of the Lamp as P. B. Kerr.

Philip Kim (physicist)

Philip Kim is a Korean-American experimental condensed matter physicist and Professor of Physics at Harvard University, known for co-discovering the quantum Hall effect in graphene and pioneering van der Waals heterostructures.

Philip Kitcher

Philip Kitcher (born 1947, London) is a British-American philosopher of science at Columbia University, known for his account of scientific explanation as unification and his defense of science in democracy.

Philip Kotler

Philip Kotler is an American marketing theorist, Professor Emeritus at Northwestern's Kellogg School, whose 1967 textbook Marketing Management became the most widely used marketing textbook worldwide.

Philip Kranzusch

Philip Kranzusch is a structural biologist and microbiologist who leads cancer immunology and virology research at Dana-Farber and Harvard, showing human innate immunity evolved from bacterial antiphage defense.

Philip L. De Jager

Philip L. De Jager is a neurologist and neuroimmunologist-geneticist, the Weil-Granat Professor of Neurology at Columbia University, known for large-scale genetic and single-cell studies of multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer's disease.

Philip L. Felgner

Philip L. Felgner is an American biochemist who pioneered lipofection, delivering DNA and RNA into cells with synthetic cationic lipids, and won the 2022 Robert Koch Prize.

Philip Labonte

Philip Steven Labonte is an American singer from Massachusetts, co-founder and vocalist of the metal band All That Remains, who earlier sang for Shadows Fall.

Philip Lane

Philip R. Lane, born 1969, is an Irish economist serving since 2019 on the ECB Executive Board as Chief Economist, after governing the Central Bank of Ireland from 2015.

Philip Larkin

Philip Arthur Larkin (1922–1985) was an English poet, novelist, and librarian at Hull from 1955, known for collections like The Less Deceived, The Whitsun Weddings, and High Windows.

Philip Leder

Philip Leder (1934–2020) was an American molecular geneticist who helped decipher the genetic code at NIH, then founded Harvard Medical School's genetics department and created the OncoMouse.

Philip Lett

Philip Lett (1922–2014) was an American mechanical engineer called the "Father of the M1 Tank" for leading the M1 Abrams tank's design, development, and production at Chrysler.

Philip Levine (physician)

Philip Levine (1900–1987) was a Russian-born American physician, bacteriologist, and serologist who established the Rh factor as the cause of hemolytic disease of the newborn.

Philip M Hubbard

Philip M Hubbard is an American computer scientist at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus who builds visualization tools for fruit fly connectomics and won a 2014 Academy Award.

Philip M. Condit

Philip M. Condit, born in 1941 in Berkeley, California, is an American aerospace engineer who led Boeing as CEO and chairman from 1996 until his resignation in 2003.