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Peter Rakich
Peter T. Rakich is an applied physicist and professor at Yale University whose lab demonstrated stimulated Brillouin scattering in silicon waveguides and developed a silicon Brillouin laser.
Peter Roll
Peter Roll was an American physicist at Princeton who, in Robert Dicke's group, built the radiometer that made the first confirming measurement of the cosmic microwave background in 1965.
Peter Schall
Peter Schall (born 1971) is a German soft condensed matter physicist and chair at the University of Amsterdam, known for imaging defects in colloidal crystals.
Peter Schiffer
Peter Schiffer is an American experimental condensed-matter physicist known for pioneering artificial spin ice, launched at Penn State in 2006, and now serves as Princeton's Dean for Research.
Peter Schmelcher
Peter Schmelcher is a theoretical physicist and professor of physics at Universität Hamburg since 2010, known for research on ultracold Rydberg atoms, strongly correlated bosons, and Bose-Einstein condensates.
Peter Sercel
Peter Sercel is a condensed matter theorist who trained at Caltech and taught at the University of Oregon from 1992 to 2002, known for modeling spin splitting in hybrid perovskites.
Peter Shawhan
Peter Shawhan, also known as Peter Sven Shawhan, is an American physicist and professor at the University of Maryland who helped validate LIGO's first gravitational-wave detection in 2015.
Peter Sorokin
Peter Sorokin (1931–2015) was an American physicist at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center who co-invented the organic dye laser in 1966, a laser tunable over a broad wavelength range.
Peter Toschek
Peter Toschek (1933–2020) was a German experimental physicist and laser spectroscopy pioneer who, working with Hans Dehmelt, first photographed single trapped ions and demonstrated their laser cooling.
Peter van Nieuwenhuizen
Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, born in Utrecht, the Netherlands, in 1938, is a Dutch theoretical physicist who co-discovered supergravity at Stony Brook in 1976 and shared the $3 million Special Breakthrough Prize in 2019.
Peter Woit
Peter Woit is a Senior Lecturer in mathematics at Columbia University since 1989, known for his 2006 book Not Even Wrong, which argues string theory makes no testable predictions.
Peter Zerwas
Peter M. Zerwas is a theoretical particle physicist who worked at DESY in Hamburg on QCD, Higgs physics, and supersymmetry, credited in the 2004 Nobel advanced information for collecting measurements of the running strong coupling.
Peter Zoller
Peter Zoller, born 1952, is an Austrian theoretical physicist at the University of Innsbruck, a founder of quantum information science with trapped ions and cold atoms.
Petra Schwille
Petra Schwille, born 1968, is a German biophysicist directing the Department of Cellular and Molecular Biophysics at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, known for reconstituting E. coli's Min proteins.
Petros Tzeferacos
Petros Tzeferacos is a plasma physicist at the University of Rochester who directs the Flash Center for Computational Science and won a 2025 PECASE award.
Petter Minnhagen
Petter Minnhagen is a theoretical physicist known for work on the Kosterlitz–Thouless transition in two-dimensional superconductors; his theory appears in the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics background.
Phil Muntz
Phil Muntz, born Eric Phillip Muntz, was a Canadian-born aerophysicist at the University of Southern California known for electron beam fluorescence diagnostics and the Knudsen compressor.
Philip A. Ekstrom
Philip A. Ekstrom is a physicist and former student of Hans Dehmelt who co-authored the 1973 isolation of a single electron at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Philip Abelson
Philip Abelson (1913–2004) was an American nuclear physicist who co-discovered the element neptunium in 1940, directed Carnegie's Geophysical Laboratory, and edited Science from 1962 to 1984.
Philip B. Allen
Philip B. Allen is an American theoretical physicist who spent 1971 to 2016 as a professor at Stony Brook University, known for his 1975 reanalysis of superconductor transition temperatures.
Philip Burton Moon
Philip Burton Moon (1907–1994) was a British experimental physicist who proved neutrons reach thermal energies, worked on the MAUD Committee and at Los Alamos, and held Birmingham's Poynting Chair.
Philip F. Hopkins
Philip F. Hopkins is an American theoretical astrophysicist, the Ira S. Bowen Professor at Caltech, known for galaxy formation research and for leading the FIRE simulations and developing the GIZMO code.
Philip H. Bucksbaum
Philip H. Bucksbaum, also published as P. H. Bucksbaum, is an American atomic physicist at Stanford and SLAC who works on ultrafast optics and attosecond science, and who organized the PULSE Institute.
Philip Herbert Cowell
Philip Herbert Cowell (1870–1949) was a British astronomer who transformed orbit computation by integrating the equations of motion directly, and with Andrew Crommelin predicted the 1910 return of Halley's Comet to within 2.68 days.
Philip Hofmann
Philip Hofmann, born 1967 in Berlin, is a German experimental condensed matter physicist and professor at Aarhus University who directs the ASTRID2 synchrotron and studies surfaces of topological materials.
Philip Kim (physicist)
Philip Kim is a Korean-American experimental condensed matter physicist and Professor of Physics at Harvard University, known for co-discovering the quantum Hall effect in graphene and pioneering van der Waals heterostructures.
Philip M. Morse
Philip M. Morse (1903–1985) was an American physicist at MIT who worked in quantum mechanics, acoustics, and operations research, and became the first director of Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Philip M. Platzman
Philip M. Platzman (Philip Moss Platzman) was an American condensed-matter physicist at Bell Labs who co-developed the theory of collective excitations in the fractional quantum Hall liquid.
Philip Moll
Philip Moll is a condensed matter physicist who studies quantum materials by carving crystals into microscopic devices, and directs a Max Planck institute department in Hamburg.
Philip Moriarty
Philip Moriarty is a physicist, Professor of Physics at the University of Nottingham since 2005, known for manipulating single atoms with scanning probe microscopes and for the Sixty Symbols videos.