Chemists

Peter Hore

Peter Hore is a British biophysical chemist at Oxford known for work on NMR of proteins and on how migratory birds sense Earth's magnetic field.

Peter J. Stang

Peter J. Stang is an American chemist at the University of Utah, a pioneer of coordination-driven self-assembly who won the National Medal of Science in 2010 and the Priestley Medal in 2013.

Peter Klason

Peter Klason, born Johan Peter Klason (1848–1937), was a Swedish chemist and professor at the Royal Institute of Technology who devised the Klason lignin method.

Peter Moore (biophysicist)

Peter Moore, born 1939, is an American biophysicist and Sterling Professor emeritus at Yale known for determining the atomic structure of the ribosome's large subunit.

Peter P. Edwards

Peter P. Edwards, born 1949, is a British inorganic and materials chemist, Emeritus Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Oxford, known for metal–nonmetal transitions and microwave routes to hydrogen.

Peter Pauson

Peter Ludwig Pauson (1925–2013) was a German-born British chemist who co-discovered ferrocene in Pittsburgh in 1951 and worked in Glasgow, where the Pauson–Khand reaction is named for him.

Péter Pulay

Péter Pulay, born 1941 in Veszprém, Hungary, is a quantum chemist at the University of Arkansas whose analytic gradient method made routine molecular structure computation possible.

Peter R. Schreiner

Peter R. Schreiner, also known as Peter Schreiner, is a German physical organic chemist who holds the Liebig Chair at Justus Liebig University Giessen and won the 2024 Leibniz Prize.

Peter Roesky

Peter W. Roesky, born 1967 in Göttingen, is a German inorganic chemist and professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, known for lanthanide coordination chemistry and single-molecule magnets.

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Peter Rossky

Peter Rossky is an American theoretical chemist at Rice University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011 for pioneering statistical mechanics of liquids.

Peter S. Kim

Peter S. Kim is an American biochemist and medicinal chemist, a Stanford professor known for the gp41 structure behind HIV entry inhibitors and for leading Merck Research Laboratories.

Peter Schwerdtfeger is a German-born theoretical chemist and physicist, a Distinguished Professor at Massey University in New Zealand known for relativistic quantum chemistry, especially gold and the heaviest elements.

Peter Strasser

Peter Strasser is a chemist and professor of electrochemistry and electrocatalysis at TU Berlin since 2007, known for dealloyed core–shell catalysts for fuel cells and water electrolysis.

Peter T. Cummings

Peter T. Cummings is an Australian-trained chemical engineer in statistical mechanics and molecular simulation, a Vanderbilt professor elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2023.

Peter W. Carr

Peter W. Carr (1944–2025) was an American analytical chemist at the University of Minnesota, known for zirconia stationary phases, the hydrophobic-subtraction model, and two-dimensional liquid chromatography.

Peter Wothers

Peter Wothers is a British chemist at the University of Cambridge who presented the 2012 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures and was awarded an MBE in 2014.

Petra E. de Jongh

Petra E. de Jongh is a Dutch materials chemist, professor of catalysts and energy materials at Utrecht University, known for nanoparticle catalysts and hydrogen storage research.

Pher G. Andersson

Pher G. Andersson is a Swedish organic chemist, professor of organic chemistry at Stockholm University since 2013, known for iridium-catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenation and a Fulbright stay with K. Barry Sharpless at Scripps.

Phil Mason

Phil Mason, known online as Thunderf00t, is a British chemist at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague whose YouTube channel debunks creationism and pseudoscience.

Phil S. Baran

Phil S. Baran, born 1977 in Denville, New Jersey, is an American organic chemist at Scripps Research known for ideal synthesis, named reagents, and a 2013 MacArthur Fellowship.

Philip A. Gale

Philip A. Gale is a British supramolecular chemist known for work on anion recognition and transport, and Professor of Supramolecular Chemistry at the University of Groningen since 2026.

Philip Anderson Shaffer

Philip Anderson Shaffer (1881–1960) was an American biological chemist who established that insulin is a protein and headed the Department of Biological Chemistry at Washington University School of Medicine from 1910 to 1946.

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Philip F. Low

Philip F. Low (1921–1997) was a Canadian-born soil physical chemist at Purdue University who pioneered the thermodynamics of clay–water systems and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992.

Philip P. Power

Philip P. Power (Philip Patrick Power) is a retired inorganic chemist at UC Davis known for low-valent main-group compounds and the quintuple-bonded dichromium species ArCrCrAr.

Philip Skell

Philip Skell (1918–2010) was an American chemist at Pennsylvania State University, a founder of modern carbene chemistry known for the Skell Rule and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1977.

Philippe A. Guye

Philippe Auguste Guye (1862–1922) was a Swiss physical chemist, professor at the University of Geneva, and founder of the Journal de chimie physique, known for precise gas density and atomic weight measurements.

Philippe Barbier

Philippe Barbier was a French organic chemist who performed the first organomagnesium synthesis in 1899; the Barbier reaction is named for him, though his student Victor Grignard alone won the 1912 Nobel Prize.

Philippe Poulin

Philippe Poulin is a French physical chemist at the Centre de recherche Paul Pascal, CNRS, near Bordeaux, known for colloids, liquid crystals, and carbon nanotube fibers.