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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.
Patricia Dove
Patricia M. Dove is an American geochemist at Virginia Tech, a University Distinguished Professor who studies biomineralization and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2012.
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 Couvreur
Patrick Couvreur, born in 1950, is a pharmaceutical scientist and professor emeritus at Université Paris-Saclay known for inventing biodegradable drug-delivery nanoparticles and squalenoylation, and for winning the 2013 European Inventor Award.
Patrick Dehornoy
Patrick Dehornoy was a French mathematician, professor at the Université de Caen, who proved in 1992 that Artin's braid groups are left-orderable, constructing the Dehornoy ordering; he died in 2019.
Patrick du Val
Patrick du Val (1903–1987) was a British mathematician who worked on algebraic surfaces and classified the surface singularities now known as du Val singularities in 1934.
Patrick G. Hatcher
Patrick G. Hatcher (P.G. Hatcher) is an American organic geochemist, Batten Endowed Chair at Old Dominion University since 2006, known for his 1983 Nature paper on petroleum-forming kerogen.
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 Grundy
Patrick Michael Grundy (1917–1959) was a statistician remembered almost solely for a four-page 1939 paper proving the Sprague–Grundy theorem, and for defining Grundy's game, whose nim-values remain an open problem.
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 Hostert
Patrick Hostert is a German remote-sensing scientist, a professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and founding director of its IRI THESys institute, known for mapping European farmland abandonment from satellites.
Patrick J. Walsh
Patrick J. Walsh is an American organic chemist at the University of Pennsylvania, a professor there since 1999 known for 2-azaallyl anions that form carbon–carbon bonds without transition-metal catalysts.
Patrick L. Holland
Patrick L. Holland is an American inorganic chemist, the Conkey P. Whitehead Professor at Yale University, known for iron compounds that convert atmospheric nitrogen into nitrides and ammonia.
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 Taylor (climate scientist)
Patrick Taylor is a climate scientist at NASA Langley Research Center who studies cloud feedback and Arctic climate change using satellite observations, and received the 2012 Presidential Early Career Award.
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.
Patrick Unwin
Patrick Unwin is a British electrochemist at the University of Warwick who invented scanning electrochemical cell microscopy and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2024.
Patrik Schmuki
Patrik Schmuki, born 1960 in Winterthur, Switzerland, is a Swiss electrochemist and professor at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg known for self-organized TiO2 nanotube layers used in photocatalysis.
Paul A. Mayewski
Paul A. Mayewski, born 1946, is an American glaciologist and polar explorer who directed the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine and led more than 60 polar expeditions.
Paul A. Smith (American topologist)
Paul Althaus Smith (1900–1980) was an American topologist at Columbia University whose Smith theory of fixed points of periodic transformations and Smith conjecture founded the study of group actions in topology.
Paul A. Wender
Paul A. Wender is an American organic and medicinal chemist, the Francis W. Bergstrom Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University, known for function-oriented synthesis and practical syntheses of bryostatin 1 and prostratin.
Paul A. Wilson
Paul A. Wilson is a palaeoceanographer and palaeoclimatologist who leads the Palaeoceanography and Palaeoclimate Research Group at the University of Southampton, known for reconstructing 50 million years of deep-sea temperatures and Antarctic ice growth.
Paul A. Witherspoon
Paul A. Witherspoon (1919–2012) was an American hydrogeologist who pioneered the study of fluid flow in fractured rock and founded Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory's Earth Sciences Division in 1977.
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 Appell
Paul Appell (1855–1930) was a French mathematician from Strasbourg who introduced the Appell functions F1–F4 and Appell polynomials, and led the University of Paris as dean and rector.
Paul B. Barton
Paul B. Barton, also Paul Booth Barton, Jr., was an American experimental geochemist at the U.S. Geological Survey who showed how ore deposits record the conditions of their formation.
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 Bernays
Paul Bernays (1888–1977) was a Swiss mathematician and logician, David Hilbert's closest collaborator, co-author of the Grundlagen der Mathematik, and namesake of NBG set theory.
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.