Physical and mathematical scientists

Pablo Alonso‐González

Pablo Alonso-González is a Spanish nanooptics physicist who leads the Quantum Nano-optics group at the Universidad de Oviedo, known for the first nanometric-precision imaging of guided light in graphene.

Pablo G. Debenedetti

Pablo G. Debenedetti is an Argentine-born American chemical engineer at Princeton University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2000 and known for the singularity-free theory of supercooled water.

Pablo Jarillo Herrero

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, born 1976 in Valencia, Spain, is a Spanish experimental condensed matter physicist at MIT whose 2018 discovery of superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene founded twistronics.

Padmini Rangamani

Padmini Rangamani is an Indian-born American theoretical biophysicist, professor at UC San Diego, and 2017 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Päivi Törmä

Päivi Törmä is a Finnish physicist and professor of applied physics at Aalto University, where she leads the Quantum Dynamics group and studies nanoplasmonics and superconductivity.

Pál Turán

Pál Turán (1910–1976) was a Hungarian mathematician who founded extremal graph theory with his 1940 theorem, created the power sum method, and collaborated with Erdős.

Pallab K. Bhattacharya

Pallab K. Bhattacharya, born in India in 1949, is an electrical engineer at the University of Michigan known for discovering self-organized quantum dots and commercializing quantum dot lasers.

Pamela A. Matson

Pamela A. Matson is an American sustainability scientist and Stanford professor known for work on biosphere-atmosphere interactions, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1994.

Pamela L. Heinselman

Pamela L. Heinselman is an American research meteorologist at NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma, known for phased-array radar research and the Warn-on-Forecast program.

Pamela L. Nagler

Pamela L. Nagler is an American USGS scientist in Tucson, Arizona, known for satellite measurement of riparian water use and a 2009 Presidential Early Career Award.

Pamela M. Chu

Pamela M. Chu is an American analytical chemist at NIST in Gaithersburg, Maryland, known for quantitative infrared spectroscopy, trace-gas reference data, and coordinating NIST's carbon capture program since 2021.

Panagiotis Karkanas

Panagiotis (Takis) Karkanas is a Greek geoarchaeologist known for sediment micromorphology; since 2014 he has directed the Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Science at Athens, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018.

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.

Pao Ming Pu

Pao Ming Pu (蒲保明, 1910–1988) was a Chinese differential geometer who proved Pu's inequality and later founded topology and fuzzy topology research at Sichuan University.

Pao-Lu Hsu

Pao-Lu Hsu (许宝騄) was a Chinese mathematician who founded the teaching and research of probability and statistics in China, introducing complete convergence with Herbert Robbins in 1947.

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.

Paola Loreti

Paola Loreti is an Italian mathematician, full professor of mathematical analysis at Sapienza University of Rome, working in control theory, partial differential equations, and number theory.

Paolo D’Odorico

Paolo D’Odorico is an ecohydrologist and the Thomas J. Graff Professor of Natural Resources at the University of California, Berkeley, known for work on desertification and virtual water trade.

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.

Paolo Falcaro

Paolo Falcaro is an Italian materials chemist and professor at Graz University of Technology known for positioning metal–organic framework crystals and for MOF enzyme biocomposites.

Paolo Melchiorre

Paolo Melchiorre is an Italian organic chemist, professor at the University of Bologna since 2022, known for light-driven enantioselective organocatalysis and the 2021 RSC Pedler Award.

Paolo Samorì

Paolo Samorì (born 1971) is an Italian chemist working on supramolecular chemistry, organic electronics, and 2D materials, directing the Nanochemistry Laboratory at the Université de Strasbourg.

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.

Park Williams

Park Williams is a hydroclimatologist and Professor of Geography at UCLA whose tree-ring research quantified human-caused warming's role in the southwestern North American megadrought; he received a 2023 MacArthur Fellowship.

Partha Sarathi Mukherjee

Partha Sarathi Mukherjee, born 1973, is an Indian supramolecular coordination chemist at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, known for Pd(II) and Pt(II) molecular cages and barrels used in catalysis.

Pascal Schlosser

Pascal Schlosser is a German statistical genomics researcher who leads the Computational Medicine group at the University of Freiburg and holds an adjunct appointment at Johns Hopkins.

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.