Physical and mathematical scientists

Peng Wu (molecular biologist)

Peng Wu (吴鹏) is a chemical biologist and professor at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for chemoenzymatic methods that edit cell-surface glycans and target cancer immunotherapy.

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Pengcheng Dai is a Chinese American experimental condensed matter physicist, the Sam and Helen Worden Professor at Rice University, known for neutron scattering studies of high-temperature superconductors.

Pentti Eskola

Pentti Eskola (1883–1964) was a Finnish geologist and petrologist, professor at the University of Helsinki, who originated the metamorphic facies concept and won the Wollaston Medal.

Per Bak

Per Bak (1947–2002) was a Danish theoretical physicist who proposed self-organized criticality with Chao Tang and Kurt Wiesenfeld at Brookhaven in 1987, later professor at the Niels Bohr Institute.

Per E. M. Siegbahn

Per E. M. Siegbahn, born 1945 in Stockholm, is a Swedish theoretical chemist at Stockholm University who introduced the CASSCF method and models metalloenzyme mechanisms, including nitrogenase.

Per Geijer

Per Geijer was a Swedish geologist specializing in ore geology, professor at the Royal Institute of Technology and head of the Geological Survey of Sweden.

Per Lindström

Per Lindström, known as Pelle Lindström, was a Swedish logician at the University of Gothenburg who proved Lindström's theorem in 1969 and introduced Lindström quantifiers in 1966.

Per Linse

Per Linse was a physical chemist at Lund University, PhD in 1984, who pioneered Monte Carlo simulation of charged colloids and polyelectrolytes and developed the MOLSIM simulation software used worldwide.

Per Martin-Löf

Per Martin-Löf (born 1942) is a Swedish logician and mathematician who held a chair at Stockholm University, known for his 1966 definition of random sequences and intuitionistic type theory, which influences proof assistants like Agda.

Percy Alexander MacMahon

Percy Alexander MacMahon (1854–1929) was a British mathematician and retired Royal Artillery officer, the leading British combinatorialist of his era, known for the Master Theorem, plane partitions, and Combinatory Analysis.

Percy Deift

Percy Deift is a South African-born mathematician, Silver Professor at NYU's Courant Institute, known for integrable systems, random matrix theory, and the nonlinear steepest descent method.

Percy Edward Kent

Percy Edward Kent, known from early life as Peter, was a British petroleum exploration geologist who rose to Chief Geologist at BP, helped find the Forties field, and was knighted in 1973.

Percy John Daniell

Percy John Daniell (1889–1946) was a British mathematician, Senior Wrangler at Cambridge in 1909, who created the Daniell integral and anticipated Kolmogorov's extension theorem by a decade.

Percy John Heawood

Percy John Heawood (1861–1955) was a British mathematician at Durham who exposed the flaw in Kempe's 1879 four-color proof, proved the five-color theorem, and gave the Heawood number bound.

Percy Lavon Julian

Percy Lavon Julian, also known as Percy Julian, was an American organic chemist who synthesized physostigmine and low-cost cortisone from soybeans and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1973.

Percy W. Bridgman

Percy Williams Bridgman (1882–1961) was an American experimental physicist at Harvard who won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics for high-pressure research, and wrote The Logic of Modern Physics.

Perry Byerly

Perry Byerly was an American seismologist at UC Berkeley who directed its seismographic stations for 38 years and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1946.

Persi Diaconis

Persi Diaconis is a Stanford mathematician and statistician who spent ten years as a professional magician and proved that seven riffle shuffles randomize a deck of cards.

Persis Drell

Persis Drell is a particle astrophysicist and Stanford professor who directed SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory from 2007 to 2012 and served as Stanford's 13th provost from 2017 to 2023.

Peter A. Stott

Peter A. Stott, also published as Peter Stott, is a British climate scientist at the Met Office Hadley Centre who pioneered attributing the 2003 European heatwave to human influence.

Peter Abbamonte

Peter Abbamonte is a condensed matter physicist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who developed M-EELS and observed the plasmon known as a demon in 2023.

Peter Atkins

Peter Atkins, also known as Peter William Atkins, is a British chemist and Emeritus Professor at Oxford, best known for the standard textbook Atkins' Physical Chemistry and popular science books.

Peter B. deMenocal

Peter B. deMenocal is an American marine geologist and paleoclimatologist known for linking African climate change to human evolution, and president of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution since 2020.

Sep 20, 2026

Peter B. Dervan

Peter B. Dervan, born 1945 in Boston, is an American chemical biologist and Caltech professor known for pyrrole–imidazole polyamides that read DNA sequences, winning the 2022 Priestley Medal.

Peter B. Kelemen

Peter B. Kelemen is an American petrologist and Arthur D. Storke Professor at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014.

Peter B. Kronheimer

Peter B. Kronheimer is a mathematician at Harvard working on gauge theory and low-dimensional topology, known for proving Property P and the Milnor conjecture on torus knots.

Peter Bäuerle

Peter Bäuerle (born 1956) is a German organic chemist and professor emeritus at Ulm University, known for oligothiophene chemistry and organic solar cells, and a co-founder of Heliatek GmbH.

Peter Baum

Peter Baum is a professor of experimental physics at the University of Konstanz who pioneered attosecond electron microscopy, earning ERC grants and the 2022 Falling Walls prize.

Peter Beak

Peter Beak was an American organic chemist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign known for the endocyclic restriction test and the complex-induced proximity effect in organolithium chemistry.