Physicists and astronomers

Paul K. Weimer

Paul K. Weimer was an American applied physicist at RCA Laboratories in Princeton who co-designed the image orthicon television camera tube and invented the thin-film transistor.

Paul Kwiat

Paul G. Kwiat is an American quantum optics physicist who holds the John Bardeen Chair at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and directs its quantum information center.

Paul L. Richards

Paul L. Richards (1934–2024) was an American experimental physicist at UC Berkeley who built sensitive far-infrared detectors and used them to measure the cosmic microwave background.

Paul L. Schechter is an American observational astronomer, emeritus professor at MIT and National Academy member, known for the Schechter galaxy luminosity function, the Press–Schechter relation, and gravitational lensing.

Paul Langevin

Paul Langevin (1872–1946) was a French physicist at the Collège de France who created the Langevin equation, the classical theories of magnetism, and piezoelectric ultrasonics for submarine detection.

Paul Ledoux

Paul Ledoux (1914–1988) was a Belgian astrophysicist at the University of Liège whose Ledoux criterion, semi-convection concept, and rotational-splitting relation remain central to stellar astrophysics.

Paul Linford Richards

Paul Linford Richards (1934–2024) was an American experimental physicist at UC Berkeley who built sensitive far-infrared detectors and measured the cosmic microwave background, the Big Bang's leftover radiation.

Paul Loubeyre

Paul Loubeyre (born 1958) is a French high-pressure physicist, a senior fellow at the CEA known for his 2020 synchrotron evidence of metallic hydrogen near 425 GPa.

Paul M. Ricker

Paul M. Ricker is a computational astrophysicist, professor of astronomy and physics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, who studies galaxy clusters, supernovae, and gravitational waves.

Paul M. Tedrow

Paul M. Tedrow is a physicist who, with Robert Meservey at MIT, discovered spin-polarized electron tunneling in 1970, work honored with the 2009 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize.

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Paul McEuen

Paul L. McEuen is an American condensed matter physicist at Cornell University, known for carbon nanotube and graphene device physics and for building the smallest walking robots.

Paul Meakin

Paul Meakin is an English-born physicist known for simulations and experiments on fractal aggregation, multifractals, and avalanche dynamics in rice piles and other granular materials.

Paul Meredith

Paul Meredith is a materials physicist who has been Professor of Materials Physics at Swansea University since 2017, working on perovskite solar cells and bioelectronics.

Paul Morel

Paul Morel, printed as Pierre Morel, is a French physicist who co-proposed with Philip Anderson the 1961 p-wave pairing state of superfluid helium-3, later named Anderson–Brinkman–Morel.

Paul Peter Ewald

Paul Peter Ewald (1888–1985) was a German physicist and crystallographer who gave the first rigorous explanation of X-ray diffraction and founded the International Union of Crystallography.

Paul Richard Heinrich Blasius

Paul Richard Heinrich Blasius (1883–1970) was a German applied physicist and Ludwig Prandtl's first doctoral student, known for the Blasius boundary-layer solution and the 1/4-power pipe friction law.

Paul S. Julienne

Paul S. Julienne is an American theoretical atomic physicist who helped establish the field of ultracold matter and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.

Paul Scherrer

Paul Scherrer (1890–1969) was a Swiss experimental physicist who co-invented the Debye–Scherrer powder method of X-ray crystallography and built ETH Zurich's physics institute over 40 years.

Paul Schmit

Paul Schmit is an American plasma physicist at Sandia National Laboratories known for his work on magnetized liner inertial fusion (MagLIF) on the Z Pulsed Power Facility.

Paul Sophus Epstein

Paul Sophus Epstein (1883–1966) was a mathematical physicist and Caltech professor known for his 1916 quantum theory of the Stark effect and for Epstein drag.

Paul Townsend

Paul Kingsley Townsend (P.K. Townsend) is a British theoretical physicist, Professor of Theoretical Physics at Cambridge DAMTP, known for supergravity, supermembranes, string duality, and M-theory.

Paul W. Merrill

Paul W. Merrill (1887–1961) was an American astronomer at Mount Wilson Observatory who defined spectral class S in 1922 and detected technetium in stellar spectra in 1952.

Paul-Pierre Henry

Paul-Pierre Henry (1848–1905) was a French astronomer and optician who, with his younger brother Prosper-Mathieu, discovered fourteen asteroids and built the refractors adopted for the Carte du Ciel.

Pavel A. Cherenkov

Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (1904–1990) was a Soviet experimental physicist at the Lebedev Institute in Moscow who discovered Cherenkov radiation in 1934 and shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Pavel Jelínek

Pavel Jelínek (Pavel Jelinek; born 1972) is a Czech condensed-matter physicist at the Institute of Physics in Prague, best known for the first real-space imaging of a σ-hole in 2021.

Pavel Kroupa

Pavel Kroupa, born 1963 in Czechoslovakia, is a Czech-Australian astrophysicist and professor at the University of Bonn known for the canonical stellar initial mass function and MOND.

Pavle Savić

Pavle Savić (Павле Савић, 1909–1994) was a Serbian physical chemist who nearly discovered nuclear fission with Irène Joliot-Curie and founded Yugoslavia's Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences.

Paweł Hawrylak

Pawel Hawrylak is a Polish-Canadian theoretical condensed matter physicist known for the theory of quantum dots as artificial atoms, and a professor at the University of Ottawa.