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Philip W. Anderson

Philip W. Anderson, also known as P. W. Anderson, was an American condensed matter physicist who won the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics and spent 35 years at Bell Laboratories.

Philip W. Gold

Philip W. Gold is an American physician-scientist in biological psychiatry who joined the NIH in 1974 and showed that the stress hormone CRH is over-secreted in melancholic depression.

Philip W. Hinds

Philip W. Hinds is an American cancer biologist at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston who studies how pRB and D-type cyclins control the cell cycle.

Philip W. Ingham

Philip W. Ingham is a British developmental geneticist known for identifying the trithorax gene and uncovering the Hedgehog signaling pathway, work that led to a skin-cancer drug.

Philip W. Kantoff

Philip W. Kantoff is an American medical oncologist who led genitourinary oncology at Dana-Farber for 28 years, then chaired medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering from 2015.

Philip W. Lavori

Philip W. Lavori, also published as Philip Lavori, is a biostatistician and emeritus professor of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University, known for adaptive treatment strategies.

Philip W. Majerus (1936–2016) was an American physician-biochemist and hematologist at Washington University in St. Louis, best known for showing that low-dose aspirin prevents blood clots, heart attacks, and strokes.

Philip W. Shaul

Philip W. Shaul is an American physician-scientist in vascular biology who directs the Center for Pulmonary and Vascular Biology at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

Oct 10, 2026

Philip W. Signor

Philip W. Signor is an American paleobiologist at UC Davis known for the Signor–Lipps effect, which explains why sudden mass extinctions appear gradual in the fossil record.

Philip W. Tucker

Philip W. Tucker is a molecular immunologist known for sequencing mouse and human immunoglobulin D genes and describing a human VH family rearranged in immature B-cell tumors.

Philip Walther

Philip Walther, born 1978 in Vienna, is an Austrian quantum physicist and professor at the University of Vienna known for experimental photonic quantum computing and blind quantum computing.

Philip Winchester

Philip Winchester (born 1981, Belgrade, Montana) is an American actor known as Sgt. Michael Stonebridge in Strike Back and prosecutor Peter Stone in the Dick Wolf universe, trained at LAMDA.

Oct 20, 2026

Philip Witte

Philip Witte, born in Hamburg in 1984, is a German former field hockey forward who won Olympic gold with Germany at the 2008 Beijing Games.

Oct 10, 2026

Philip Wolfe (mathematician)

Philip Wolfe, also known as Philip Starr Wolfe, was an American mathematician and founding figure in mathematical programming, known for the Dantzig–Wolfe decomposition and Frank–Wolfe algorithms.

Sep 19, 2026

Philip Wulff Heyman

Philip Wulff Heyman (1837–1893) was a Danish wholesale merchant who co-founded the Tuborg brewery at Hellerup in 1873 and led it as its largest shareholder.

Philip Wylie

Philip Gordon Wylie (1902–1971), American novelist and social critic; wrote Gladiator (1930), When Worlds Collide (1933, with Edwin Balmer), and Generation of Vipers (1942), where he coined "Momism."

Philip Zimbardo

Philip Zimbardo (1933-2024), American social psychologist and 2002 APA president at Stanford, led the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, ended after six days, and later founded the Heroic Imagination Project.

Philipe Lins

Philipe Lins, "Monstro", Brazilian MMA fighter, 2018 PFL heavyweight tournament champion and $1 million winner, UFC 2020-2024, lost by first-round KO to Francis Ngannou at Netflix's Rousey vs. Carano event in May 2026.

Philipp Adelhelm

Philipp Adelhelm is a physical chemist and materials scientist who became Professor of Physical Chemistry of Materials at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 2019, working on sodium-ion batteries.

Philipp Amthor

Philipp Amthor (born 1992, Ueckermünde) is a German CDU politician, Bundestag member since 2017 for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, hit by the 2020 Augustus Intelligence lobbying affair, now Minister of State for Federal-State Cooperation since July 2026.

Sep 19, 2026

Philipp Blum

Philipp Blum, born in 1979, is an Austrian managing partner of Julius Blum GmbH, the furniture-fittings maker in Höchst, Vorarlberg, leading it since 2019 in the third generation.

Philipp E. Scherer

Philipp E. Scherer is a Swiss-born cell biologist who discovered the fat-cell hormone adiponectin in 1995 and directs the Touchstone Diabetes Center at UT Southwestern in Dallas.

Philipp Franz von Siebold

Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796–1866), German physician and naturalist, served the Dutch trading post at Dejima, Nagasaki, from 1823; founded Narutaki-juku, was banished in 1829 over maps, and authored Nippon, Fauna Japonica, and Flora Japonica.

Philipp Harter

Philipp Harter is a German gynecologic oncologist, director of gynecology and gynecologic oncology at Evang. Kliniken Essen-Mitte in Essen and speaker of the AGO study group.

Philipp Holliger

Philipp Holliger is a Swiss synthetic biologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, known for showing that xeno nucleic acids can store and evolve genetic information.

Oct 10, 2026

Philipp Hübl

Philipp Hübl (born 1975 in Hannover) is a German philosopher and author who works on philosophy of mind, rationality, and moral psychology, and writes on misinformation.

Philipp J Keller

Philipp J Keller is a physicist turned microscope builder who, as a Senior Group Leader at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus since 2010, images whole embryos at single-cell resolution.

Philipp Kirkorov

Philipp Kirkorov (Филипп Киркоров), Russian estrada and pop singer born 1967 in Varna, People's Artist of Russia, ex-husband of Alla Pugacheva, Eurovision 1995 entrant, known for camp stage spectacle and Eurovision songwriting.

Philipp Kukura

Philipp Kukura is a biophysical chemist and Professor of Chemistry at Oxford who pioneered mass photometry, measuring the mass of single biomolecules in solution with light.