Physical and mathematical scientists

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 Hess

Paul Hess is a French chemist credited, alongside Georges Claude, with the 1896 discovery that acetone dissolves large quantities of acetylene and that the solution is not explosive.

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 Houser

Paul R. Houser is an American hydrologist known for developing land data assimilation, leading NASA's Hydros soil moisture satellite mission, and serving as a professor at George Mason University since 2005.

Paul Hugh Emmett

Paul Hugh Emmett (1900–1985) was an American chemist whose gas adsorption studies laid the foundation for the BET theory and the standard method for measuring catalyst surface areas.

Paul J. Chirik

Paul J. Chirik, also known as Paul Chirik, is an organometallic chemist at Princeton University known for building catalysts from earth-abundant metals like iron and cobalt.

Paul J. Crutzen

Paul J. Crutzen, also known as Paul Crutzen, was a Dutch atmospheric chemist who won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for ozone research and coined the term Anthropocene.

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. Dauenhauer

Paul J. Dauenhauer is an American chemical engineer at the University of Minnesota known for converting biomass into chemicals and winning a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship.

Paul J. Flory

Paul J. Flory was an American polymer chemist who won the 1974 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the physical chemistry of macromolecules.

Paul J. Hergenrother

Paul J. Hergenrother is an American chemical biologist and professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for discovering the antibiotic lolamicin and the anticancer drug candidate PAC-1.

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.

Paul J. Valdes

Paul J. Valdes, also published as Paul Valdes, is a climate scientist and Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Bristol who models climates of the deep past.

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 Karrer

Paul Karrer was a Swiss organic chemist who established the first known structures of a vitamin and a provitamin, winning the 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Paul Kelly (American mathematician)

Paul Joseph Kelly (1915–1995) was an American mathematician at UC Santa Barbara who posed the graph reconstruction conjecture in his 1942 thesis, proved it for trees in 1957, and named Kelly's lemma.

Paul Knochel

Paul Knochel (born 1955 in Strasbourg, France) is a French organic chemist, professor of organic chemistry at LMU Munich from 1999, known for the Knochel metallizations.

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. Kirk

Paul L. Kirk (1902–1970) was an American chemist at UC Berkeley who founded the first academic criminalistics program in the United States and testified in the Sam Sheppard case.

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

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 Läuger

Paul Läuger (1896–1959) was a Swiss chemist who spent his career at J. R. Geigy in Basel, rising to general director and leading the research program behind the insecticide DDT.

Paul Lebeau

Paul Lebeau (Paul Marie Alfred Lebeau, 1868–1959) was a French inorganic chemist known for fluorine chemistry, including sulfur hexafluoride, discovered with Henri Moissan in 1900, and bromine trifluoride.

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 Leyland

Paul Leyland is a computing researcher known for integer factorization and prime-number searches, a former Cunningham Project maintainer, namesake of Leyland numbers, and co-author of the record RSA-140 factorization.

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.