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Paul Segall
Paul Segall is an American geophysicist, the Cecil and Ida Green Professor at Stanford University, known for measuring crustal deformation to reveal fault slip and magma movement.
Paul Seidel
Paul Seidel is a symplectic topologist and professor of mathematics at MIT known for work on Lagrangian Floer homology, Fukaya categories, and homological mirror symmetry.
Paul Seymour (mathematician)
Paul Seymour, born in England in 1950, is a British mathematician at Princeton University known for the Graph Minors project with Neil Robertson and the 2002 strong perfect graph theorem.
Paul Sophus Epstein
Paul Sophus Epstein (1883–1966) was a mathematical physicist and Caltech professor known for his 1916 quantum theory of the Stark effect and for Epstein drag.
Paul T. Bateman
Paul T. Bateman (1919–2012) was an American analytic number theorist at the University of Illinois, known for the Bateman–Horn conjecture on prime values of polynomials.
Paul Tackley
Paul J. Tackley is a geophysicist and professor at ETH Zurich who numerically models mantle convection on Earth and other planets; he received the 2025 Arthur Holmes Medal.
Paul Townsend
Paul Kingsley Townsend (P.K. Townsend) is a British theoretical physicist, Professor of Theoretical Physics at Cambridge DAMTP, known for supergravity, supermembranes, string duality, and M-theory.
Paul Vojta
Paul Vojta is a mathematician and Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, known for a conjecture in Diophantine geometry that unifies Roth's theorem, the Mordell conjecture, and the abc conjecture.
Paul von Ragué Schleyer
Paul von Ragué Schleyer, often cited as P. von R. Schleyer, was an American physical organic and computational chemist who synthesized adamantane and introduced the NICS aromaticity probe.
Paul W. Ayers
Paul W. Ayers (Paul Woodson Ayers) is a theoretical chemist and Canada Research Chair at McMaster University known for conceptual density functional theory and the Fukui function.
Paul W. Bohn
Paul W. Bohn is an American analytical chemist, the Arthur J. Schmitt Professor at the University of Notre Dame, known for nanofluidics and the 2017 ACS Award in Electrochemistry.
Paul W. Merrill
Paul W. Merrill (1887–1961) was an American astronomer at Mount Wilson Observatory who defined spectral class S in 1922 and detected technetium in stellar spectra in 1952.
Paul Walden
Paul Walden (Павел Иванович Вальден, 1863–1957) was a chemist who discovered the Walden inversion, taught at Riga and St. Petersburg, and was nominated seven times for the Nobel Prize.
Paul Wender (chemist)
Paul Wender is a chemist who is the Francis W. Bergstrom Professor at Stanford University, known for over 50 total syntheses, including taxol and bryostatin analogs.
Paul-Pierre Henry
Paul-Pierre Henry (1848–1905) was a French astronomer and optician who, with his younger brother Prosper-Mathieu, discovered fourteen asteroids and built the refractors adopted for the Carte du Ciel.
Paula T. Hammond
Paula T. Hammond is an American chemical engineer at MIT, an Institute Professor and dean of its School of Engineering, known for layer-by-layer drug-delivery nanoparticles.
Pavel A. Cherenkov
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (1904–1990) was a Soviet experimental physicist at the Lebedev Institute in Moscow who discovered Cherenkov radiation in 1934 and shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Pavel A. Levkin
Pavel A. Levkin is a German-based chemist and materials scientist at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, known for droplet microarray surfaces where droplets act as miniaturized test tubes.
Pavel Aleksandrov
Pavel Aleksandrov (1896–1982) was a Soviet mathematician, a founder of the Soviet school of topology, and a full member of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Pavel Hobza
Pavel Hobza is a Czech computational chemist who leads the Non-Covalent Interactions group at IOCB Prague, known for discovering the improper hydrogen bond and creating the S66 benchmark.
Pavel Jelínek
Pavel Jelínek (Pavel Jelinek; born 1972) is a Czech condensed-matter physicist at the Institute of Physics in Prague, best known for the first real-space imaging of a σ-hole in 2021.
Pavel Jungwirth
Pavel Jungwirth (1966–2026) was a Czech physical chemist who led the Molecular Modeling group at IOCB Prague and created the first gold-colored metallic water solution in 2021.
Pavel Kroupa
Pavel Kroupa, born 1963 in Czechoslovakia, is a Czech-Australian astrophysicist and professor at the University of Bonn known for the canonical stellar initial mass function and MOND.
Pavel Urysohn
Pavel Urysohn (Павел Самуилович Урысон) was a Russian mathematician who founded dimension theory, proved the metrization theorem, and formulated the Urysohn lemma before drowning in 1924 at 26.
Pavle Savić
Pavle Savić (Павле Савић, 1909–1994) was a Serbian physical chemist who nearly discovered nuclear fission with Irène Joliot-Curie and founded Yugoslavia's Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences.
Pavle V. Radovanovic
Pavle V. Radovanovic, also published as P. V. Radovanovic, is a materials chemist and professor at the University of Waterloo who studies multifunctional doped semiconductor nanocrystals.
Paweł Hawrylak
Pawel Hawrylak is a Polish-Canadian theoretical condensed matter physicist known for the theory of quantum dots as artificial atoms, and a professor at the University of Ottawa.
Pedro M. Reis
Pedro M. Reis (Pedro Miguel Reis) is a physicist and mechanical engineer who studies the mechanics of slender structures and elastic instabilities, and is a Full Professor at EPFL in Switzerland.
Pedro Pérez (Spanish chemist)
Pedro J. Pérez, born 1965 in Aroche, Spain, is a Spanish organometallic chemist and professor of inorganic chemistry at the Universidad de Huelva, known for coinage-metal C–H activation catalysts.
Pekka Pyykkö
Pekka Pyykkö, born 1941 in Finland, is a theoretical chemist and professor emeritus at the University of Helsinki, known for relativistic quantum chemistry of gold and widely used covalent radii.