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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.
Paul Malliavin
Paul Malliavin (1925–2010) was a French mathematician at Pierre and Marie Curie University who founded Malliavin calculus, giving a probabilistic proof of Hörmander's hypoellipticity theorem.
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 Milly
Paul Milly is an American hydrologist who showed that climate change is already altering streamflow and flood risk, and declared in 2008 that "stationarity is dead".
Paul Monsky
Paul Monsky is a mathematician and longtime Brandeis University professor known for Monsky's theorem, the 1970 result that a square cannot be cut into an odd number of equal-area triangles.
Paul Montel
Paul Montel (1876–1975) was a French mathematician whose theory of normal families of analytic functions became a working tool of complex analysis and a foundation for Fatou and Julia's iteration theory.
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 Mulvaney
Paul Mulvaney is an Australian physical and colloid chemist at the University of Melbourne, recognized as a pioneer of surface plasmon spectroscopy of metal nanoparticles.
Paul N. Pearson
Paul N. Pearson is a micropaleontologist at Cardiff University and University College London whose boron-isotope work on foraminifera produced a 60-million-year record of atmospheric CO2.
Paul Niggli
Paul Niggli (1888–1953) was a Swiss crystallographer, mineralogist, and petrologist who, as professor at the ETH Zurich from 1920 until his death, founded the Zürich crystallographic school and originated space-group determination from X-ray data.
Paul O. Wennberg
Paul O. Wennberg is an American atmospheric chemist, the R. Stanton Avery Professor at Caltech since 1998, known for radical measurements and greenhouse-gas tracking systems.
Paul Painlevé
Paul Painlevé (1863–1933) was a French mathematician and statesman who discovered the Painlevé transcendents and served twice as prime minister of France, in 1917 and 1925.
Paul Pascal
Paul Pascal (1880–1968) was a French chemist considered the father of magnetochemistry, known for the Pascal constants, an additive scheme for diamagnetic susceptibility still in routine use.
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 Pierre Lévy
Paul Pierre Lévy (1886–1971) was a French mathematician who became a major contributor to modern probability theory, working on stable laws, martingales, and Brownian motion.
Paul Poulet
Paul Poulet (died 1946) was a self-taught Belgian number theorist whose name attaches to Poulet numbers, base-2 pseudoprimes, and the first sociable numbers, published in 1918.
Paul R. Renne
Paul R. Renne is an American geochronologist who founded the Berkeley Geochronology Center and teaches at UC Berkeley, known for argon dating of the Siberian Traps and the dinosaur-killing extinction.
Paul R. Rosenbaum
Paul R. Rosenbaum is a statistician and emeritus professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, who co-invented the propensity score with Donald B. Rubin and developed methods for observational studies.
Paul Rabe
Paul Rabe (1869–1952) was a German alkaloid chemist and professor in Hamburg, known for the 1918 partial synthesis of quinine from quinotoxine with Karl Kindler.
Paul Rabinowitz
Paul Rabinowitz (born 1939) is an American mathematician who spent his career at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for nonlinear analysis, variational methods, and the 1973 global bifurcation theorem.
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. Anderson
Paul S. Anderson, born 1938 in Vermont, is an American medicinal chemist who led discovery of the HIV drugs Crixivan and Sustiva at Merck and DuPont.
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 S. Weiss
Paul S. Weiss (born 1959) is an American nanoscientist, a distinguished professor at UCLA who studies the ultimate limits of miniaturization and founded ACS Nano.
Paul Sabatier (chemist)
Paul Sabatier was a French chemist at the University of Toulouse who won the 1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for hydrogenating organic compounds over finely divided metals.
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.