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Philip M. Gschwend
Philip M. Gschwend is an environmental organic chemist and Ford Professor of Engineering at MIT who studies how organic pollutants move between water, sediments, and air.
Philip M. Halpern
Philip M. Halpern, also known as Philip Morgan Halpern, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of New York since 2020.
Philip M. Jardine
Philip M. Jardine (died 2014) was an American soil scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory who won a 1996 Presidential Early Career Award and pioneered field-scale bioremediation of uranium-contaminated groundwater.
Philip M. Morse
Philip M. Morse (1903–1985) was an American physicist at MIT who worked in quantum mechanics, acoustics, and operations research, and became the first director of Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Philip M. Neches
Philip M. Neches (1952–2022) was an American computer architect and entrepreneur who founded Teradata Corporation and applied massively parallel processing to commercial database computing, earning election to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012.
Philip M. Platzman
Philip M. Platzman (Philip Moss Platzman) was an American condensed-matter physicist at Bell Labs who co-developed the theory of collective excitations in the fractional quantum Hall liquid.
Philip Markoff
Philip Markoff (1986-2010), called the Craigslist Killer, was a Boston University medical student charged with murdering Julissa Brisman and robbing women met via Craigslist in 2009; he died by suicide in 2010 before trial, and charges were dismissed.
Philip Marlowe
Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles private detective, debuted in The Big Sleep (1939) and appears in seven novels through Playback (1958), plus film, TV adaptations and authorized continuation novels.
Philip May
Philip May, also known as Sir Philip May, is a City of London finance professional at Capital Group and the husband of former Prime Minister Theresa May.
Philip McGuire
Philip McGuire is a British psychiatrist and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford, known for brain imaging and clinical trial research on schizophrenia and psychosis.
Philip McKeon
Philip McKeon (Philip Anthony McKeon), American actor and radio personality, played Tommy Hyatt on the CBS sitcom Alice (1976–1985, 108 episodes); older brother of Nancy McKeon; later KFWB radio news and KWVH Texas host; died 2019, age 55.
Philip McMaster
Philip Duryee McMaster (1891–1973) was an American pathologist and microbiologist at the Rockefeller Institute in New York whose work on blood clotting and gallbladder function entered clinical diagnostic practice.
Philip Mease
Philip J. Mease is an American rheumatologist, clinical professor at the University of Washington and director of rheumatology research at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle.
Philip Michael Thomas
Philip Michael Thomas (born 1949, Columbus, Ohio) is an American actor and musician, best known as Detective Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs on NBC's Miami Vice (1984–1989, 111 episodes). Distinguishing facts: Broadway debut in No Place to Be Somebody (1971), starred in Sparkle (1976), pursued an EGOT, voiced Lance Vance in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
Philip Moll
Philip Moll is a condensed matter physicist who studies quantum materials by carving crystals into microscopic devices, and directs a Max Planck institute department in Hamburg.
Philip Moore, Baron Moore of Wolvercote
Philip Moore, Baron Moore of Wolvercote (1921–2009), British civil servant and Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II 1977–1986; RAF Bomber Command veteran, 1951 England rugby cap, life peer from 1986.
Philip Moriarty
Philip Moriarty is a physicist, Professor of Physics at the University of Nottingham since 2005, known for manipulating single atoms with scanning probe microscopes and for the Sixty Symbols videos.
Philip Morris International
Philip Morris International is an American tobacco company, spun off from Altria in 2008, that sells Marlboro cigarettes and leads the world in heated tobacco through IQOS.
Philip Morris USA
Philip Morris USA is the largest cigarette manufacturer in the United States, a wholly owned Altria Group subsidiary headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, best known for Marlboro.
Philip Morris v. Uruguay
Philip Morris v. Uruguay (ICSID ARB/10/7) was an investor-state arbitration under the 1988 Switzerland-Uruguay BIT challenging Uruguay's 80% health warnings and single presentation rule; all claims were dismissed on 8 July 2016.
Philip Morrison
Philip Morrison was an American physicist who worked on the first atomic bomb, then pursued cosmic rays, X-ray astronomy, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence at Cornell and MIT.
Philip Mosley
Philip Mosley is an English ballet dancer and administrator for The Royal Ballet. He is known for his character roles and his inspiration for the 2000 film Billy Elliot.
Philip N. Hawkins
Philip N. Hawkins, also known as Philip Hawkins, is a British rheumatologist at University College London who developed SAP scintigraphy for imaging amyloid deposits and founded the NHS National Amyloidosis Centre in 1999.
Philip N. Newsome
Philip N. Newsome is a British hepatologist known for leading trials of semaglutide and liraglutide in fatty liver disease and co-leading the renaming of NAFLD as MASLD.
Philip N. Tsichlis
Philip Tsichlis is a molecular oncologist whose laboratory discovered the AKT oncogene and cloned the Tpl2 kinase, holding faculty posts at Fox Chase, Thomas Jefferson, and Tufts.
Philip Neame
Sir Philip Neame (1888-1978), British Royal Engineers officer and member of the Shepherd Neame brewing family, is the only person to hold both the Victoria Cross (Neuve Chapelle, 1914) and an Olympic gold medal (1924 team running deer, double shot).
Philip Needleman
Philip Needleman (1939–2024) was an American pharmacologist who chaired pharmacology at Washington University, discovered COX-2, and led Monsanto and Pharmacia research that produced the arthritis drug Celebrex.
Philip Neri
Philip Neri (Filippo Neri, 1515–1595) was a Florentine-born priest who spent sixty years in Rome and founded the Congregation of the Oratory, known as the Apostle of Rome.
Philip Ng (伍允龙)
Philip Ng (伍允龍, born 1977) is a Hong Kong-born American actor, martial artist, and action choreographer; an Ip Man-lineage Wing Chun practitioner known for Once Upon a Time in Shanghai, Birth of the Dragon, and Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In.
Philip Niarchos (Φίλιππος Νιάρχος)
Philip Niarchos (Φίλιππος Νιάρχος) is a Greek billionaire shipping heir and art collector, born in 1954, eldest son of magnate Stavros Niarchos, with a Forbes-estimated net worth of $2.8 billion.