3,698 articles
Panče Naumov
Panče Naumov (Панче Наумов) is a Macedonian-born chemist, professor at New York University Abu Dhabi, known for establishing crystal adaptronics, the study of molecular crystals that bend, jump, and heal.
Paola Barbara
Paola Barbara is an Italian-American experimental condensed matter physicist who chairs the Physics Department at Georgetown University, known for research on atomically thin materials including graphene and MoS2.
Paolo de Bernardis
Paolo de Bernardis, born in Firenze in 1959, is an Italian experimental astrophysicist at Sapienza University of Rome whose BOOMERanG balloon experiment provided evidence for a flat universe.
Paras Prasad
Paras N. Prasad, born 1946, is an Indian-born chemist and photonics researcher at the University at Buffalo known for nanophotonics and light-activated nanoparticles for cancer imaging and therapy.
Pascale Senellart
Pascale Senellart, born 1972, is a French quantum optician and CNRS research director at Université Paris-Saclay known for semiconductor quantum-dot single-photon sources; she co-founded Quandela and joined the Académie des sciences in 2022.
Pascual Jordan
Pascual Jordan (1902–1980) was a German theoretical physicist who co-founded matrix mechanics with Born and Heisenberg, pioneered quantum field theory, introduced Jordan algebras, and later served in the Bundestag.
Patience Mthunzi
Patience Mthunzi-Kufa is a South African laser scientist who pioneered biophotonics in South Africa, earning the country's first known PhD in the field in 2010.
Patrice Genevet
Patrice Genevet is a French optical physicist known for his work on metasurfaces, and has been Professor of Physics at the Colorado School of Mines since 2023.
Patricia Burchat
Patricia Burchat is an experimental particle physicist at Stanford University known for the BaBar CP violation experiment and dark energy research with the Rubin Observatory.
Patrick A. Lee
Patrick A. Lee, also known as Patrick Lee, is an American condensed matter theorist, MIT professor since 1982, and pioneer of mesoscopic physics and high-temperature superconductivity theory.
Patrick Gill (British physicist)
Patrick Gill is a British physicist and NPL Fellow at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, known for optical atomic clocks that underpin a future redefinition of the SI second.
Patrick Hopkins
Patrick E. Hopkins is an American mechanical engineer and physicist at the University of Virginia who studies nanoscale heat transport and received the PECASE award in 2013.
Patrick M.S. Blackett
Patrick M.S. Blackett (1897–1974) was a British nuclear physicist who won the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing the Wilson cloud chamber for nuclear and cosmic-ray research.
Patrick Michel
Patrick Michel is a French planetary scientist at the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur in Nice, known for numerical modeling of asteroid collisions and leading ESA's Hera mission.
Patrick Thaddeus
Patrick Thaddeus (1932–2017) was an American astronomer and molecular spectroscopist, a founder of astrochemistry who worked at Columbia and then Harvard, discovering many interstellar molecules.
Paul Alfred Biefeld
Paul Alfred Biefeld (1867–1943) was an American astronomer trained in Zurich who taught physics and astronomy at Denison University, Ohio, and directed Swasey Observatory from 1911 to 1934.
Paul B. Corkum
Paul B. Corkum, also published as Paul Corkum, is a Canadian physicist known as the father of attosecond science who shared the 2022 Wolf Prize in Physics.
Paul Brumer
Paul Brumer, born 1945, is a Canadian-based theoretical chemical physicist at the University of Toronto, known for co-founding coherent control of chemical reactions with laser light.
Paul C. Martin
Paul C. Martin (1931–2016) was an American theoretical physicist at Harvard, the first Van Vleck Professor, known for the 1959 many-particle theory and the Martin–Siggia–Rose formalism.
Paul Chaikin
Paul Chaikin is an American condensed matter physicist, the Silver Professor of Physics at New York University, known for soft matter physics, ellipsoid packing, and colloidal self-assembly.
Paul D. Foote
Paul D. Foote was an American physicist known for experimental work on alkali metal vapor spectra and for directing research at Gulf Oil's Gulf Research & Development Company in Pittsburgh.
Paul Dirac
Paul Dirac was a British theoretical physicist whose 1928 equation reconciled quantum mechanics with relativity, predicted antimatter, and won him a share of the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Paul Drude
Paul Karl Ludwig Drude (1863–1906) was a German physicist who in 1900 formulated the Drude model, the first quantitative theory of metallic conduction, and edited the Annalen der Physik.
Paul Ehrenfest
Paul Ehrenfest (1880–1933) was an Austrian-born Dutch theoretical physicist who succeeded Lorentz at Leiden in 1912, known for the Ehrenfest theorem, the adiabatic principle, and his students.
Paul Glansdorff
Paul Gustave Glansdorff (1904–1999) was a Belgian thermodynamicist and university teacher at the Université Libre de Bruxelles who, with Ilya Prigogine, discovered the 1954 general evolution criterion for non-equilibrium thermodynamics.
Paul Herget
Paul Herget (1908–1981) was an American astronomer at the University of Cincinnati who founded and directed the IAU's Minor Planet Center from 1947 to 1978, rebuilding worldwide asteroid tracking after World War II.
Paul Ho
Paul Ho, also known as Paul T. P. Ho (賀曾樸), is a Taiwanese-American radio and submillimeter astronomer known for interferometry, star formation, and the Event Horizon Telescope.
Paul Horn (physicist)
Paul Horn is an American condensed matter physicist who directed IBM Research from 1996 to 2007 and later served as Senior Vice Provost for Research at NYU.
Paul J. Dagdigian
Paul J. Dagdigian is a chemical physicist and Emeritus Academy Professor at Johns Hopkins University, known for studying gas-phase molecular collision dynamics and laser-based trace detection.
Paul J. Steinhardt
Paul J. Steinhardt, also known as Paul Steinhardt, is an American theoretical physicist and cosmologist at Princeton University, known for inflationary cosmology, his cyclic model of the universe, and quasicrystals.