Chemists

Paul Sabatier (chemist)

Paul Sabatier was a French chemist at the University of Toulouse who won the 1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for hydrogenating organic compounds over finely divided metals.

Paul von Ragué Schleyer

Paul von Ragué Schleyer, often cited as P. von R. Schleyer, was an American physical organic and computational chemist who synthesized adamantane and introduced the NICS aromaticity probe.

Paul W. Ayers

Paul W. Ayers (Paul Woodson Ayers) is a theoretical chemist and Canada Research Chair at McMaster University known for conceptual density functional theory and the Fukui function.

Paul W. Bohn

Paul W. Bohn is an American analytical chemist, the Arthur J. Schmitt Professor at the University of Notre Dame, known for nanofluidics and the 2017 ACS Award in Electrochemistry.

Paul Walden

Paul Walden (Павел Иванович Вальден, 1863–1957) was a chemist who discovered the Walden inversion, taught at Riga and St. Petersburg, and was nominated seven times for the Nobel Prize.

Paul Wender (chemist)

Paul Wender is a chemist who is the Francis W. Bergstrom Professor at Stanford University, known for over 50 total syntheses, including taxol and bryostatin analogs.

Paula T. Hammond

Paula T. Hammond is an American chemical engineer at MIT, an Institute Professor and dean of its School of Engineering, known for layer-by-layer drug-delivery nanoparticles.

Pavel A. Levkin

Pavel A. Levkin is a German-based chemist and materials scientist at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, known for droplet microarray surfaces where droplets act as miniaturized test tubes.

Pavel Hobza

Pavel Hobza is a Czech computational chemist who leads the Non-Covalent Interactions group at IOCB Prague, known for discovering the improper hydrogen bond and creating the S66 benchmark.

Pavel Jungwirth

Pavel Jungwirth (1966–2026) was a Czech physical chemist who led the Molecular Modeling group at IOCB Prague and created the first gold-colored metallic water solution in 2021.

Pavle V. Radovanovic

Pavle V. Radovanovic, also published as P. V. Radovanovic, is a materials chemist and professor at the University of Waterloo who studies multifunctional doped semiconductor nanocrystals.

Pedro Pérez (Spanish chemist)

Pedro J. Pérez, born 1965 in Aroche, Spain, is a Spanish organometallic chemist and professor of inorganic chemistry at the Universidad de Huelva, known for coinage-metal C–H activation catalysts.

Pekka Pyykkö

Pekka Pyykkö, born 1941 in Finland, is a theoretical chemist and professor emeritus at the University of Helsinki, known for relativistic quantum chemistry of gold and widely used covalent radii.

Peng Wu (molecular biologist)

Peng Wu (吴鹏) is a chemical biologist and professor at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for chemoenzymatic methods that edit cell-surface glycans and target cancer immunotherapy.

Per E. M. Siegbahn

Per E. M. Siegbahn, born 1945 in Stockholm, is a Swedish theoretical chemist at Stockholm University who introduced the CASSCF method and models metalloenzyme mechanisms, including nitrogenase.

Per Linse was a physical chemist at Lund University, PhD in 1984, who pioneered Monte Carlo simulation of charged colloids and polyelectrolytes and developed the MOLSIM simulation software used worldwide.

Percy Lavon Julian

Percy Lavon Julian, also known as Percy Julian, was an American organic chemist who synthesized physostigmine and low-cost cortisone from soybeans and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1973.

Peter Atkins

Peter Atkins, also known as Peter William Atkins, is a British chemist and Emeritus Professor at Oxford, best known for the standard textbook Atkins' Physical Chemistry and popular science books.

Peter B. Dervan

Peter B. Dervan, born 1945 in Boston, is an American chemical biologist and Caltech professor known for pyrrole–imidazole polyamides that read DNA sequences, winning the 2022 Priestley Medal.

Peter Bäuerle

Peter Bäuerle (born 1956) is a German organic chemist and professor emeritus at Ulm University, known for oligothiophene chemistry and organic solar cells, and a co-founder of Heliatek GmbH.

Peter Beak

Peter Beak was an American organic chemist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign known for the endocyclic restriction test and the complex-induced proximity effect in organolithium chemistry.

Peter C. Burns

Peter C. Burns (born 1966 in Fredericton, New Brunswick) is a Canadian-American inorganic chemist at Notre Dame known for work on uranyl peroxide minerals and nuclear waste.

Peter Chen

Peter Chen, born 1960, is an American physical organic chemist who spent 1994 to 2025 as a professor at ETH Zurich, known for growing diamond from methyl radicals in 1994.

Peter Debye

Peter Debye (Petrus Josephus Wilhelmus Debije) was a Dutch-born physical chemist who won the 1936 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and later taught at Cornell University.

Peter G. Bolhuis

Peter G. Bolhuis, also published as Peter Bolhuis, is a Dutch computational physical chemist at the University of Amsterdam known for pioneering transition path sampling.

Peter G. Schultz

Peter G. Schultz (born 1956) is an American chemist known for discovering catalytic antibodies and expanding the genetic code, and has led Scripps Research since 2015.

Peter Grieß

Peter Grieß, also known as Johann Peter Grieß, was a German-born British industrial chemist who discovered diazonium salts in 1858, the basis of the azo dye industry.

Peter H. McBreen

Peter H. McBreen, born 1953 in Ireland, is a Canadian surface chemist at Université Laval known for chirality transfer on chirally modified platinum catalysts and named professor emeritus in 2026.

Peter H. Seeberger

Peter H. Seeberger (born 1966) is a chemist working in glycoscience and flow chemistry, known for automated glycan assembly, glycan microarrays, and a continuous-flow synthesis of artemisinin.