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Peter Bühlmann
Peter Bühlmann (born 1965, in Zürich) is a Swiss statistician and full professor at ETH Zurich, known for stability selection, the MissForest imputation algorithm, and causal machine learning.
Peter Buser
Peter Buser, born 1946, is a Swiss mathematician at EPFL in Lausanne known for Buser's inequality, isospectral non-isometric surfaces, and his 1992 monograph Geometry and Spectra of Compact Riemann Surfaces.
Peter C. Burns
Peter C. Burns (born 1966 in Fredericton, New Brunswick) is a Canadian-American inorganic chemist at Notre Dame known for work on uranyl peroxide minerals and nuclear waste.
Peter C. Fishburn
Peter C. Fishburn (1936–2021) was an American mathematician who worked at Bell Labs on utility theory, voting and social choice, and combinatorics, winning the 1996 John von Neumann Theory Prize.
Peter Cameron (mathematician)
Peter Jephson Cameron is an Australian-born British mathematician at Oxford, Queen Mary, and St Andrews known for permutation groups, combinatorics, coining "oligomorphic", and an Erdős number of 1.
Peter Chen
Peter Chen, born 1960, is an American physical organic chemist who spent 1994 to 2025 as a professor at ETH Zurich, known for growing diamond from methyl radicals in 1994.
Peter Clifford (statistician)
Peter Clifford (1943–2025) was a British statistician at the University of Oxford, co-originator of the Hammersley-Clifford theorem and the Voter model, and a contributor to particle filters and Monte Carlo methods.
Peter Constantin
Peter Constantin is an applied mathematician, the John von Neumann Professor at Princeton University, known for work on the Euler and Navier–Stokes equations of fluid mechanics.
Peter D. Johnson
Peter D. Johnson is a British-trained condensed matter physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory who led its Electron Spectroscopy Group from 1995 to 2021 and won the 2011 Buckley Prize.
Peter D. Ward
Peter D. Ward, born 1949, is an American paleontologist and astrobiologist at the University of Washington known for mass extinction research and popular science books including Rare Earth.
Peter D. Welch
Peter D. Welch was an IBM Research statistician who spent over three decades at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center and is best known for Welch's method of spectral estimation.
Peter Debye
Peter Debye (Petrus Josephus Wilhelmus Debije) was a Dutch-born physical chemist who won the 1936 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and later taught at Cornell University.
Peter Donnelly
Peter Donnelly, also known as Sir Peter Donnelly, is an Australian statistician and statistical geneticist at Oxford known for genetic analysis tools and human genetics research.
Peter Doyle (mathematician)
Peter Grant Doyle is a mathematician, Professor of Mathematics at Dartmouth College, best known as coauthor of Random Walks and Electric Networks and for work on circle packing.
Peter F. Moulton
Peter F. Moulton is an American laser physicist and engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory who invented the Ti:sapphire tunable solid-state laser in 1982 and belongs to the National Academy of Engineering.
Peter Fitzroy Green
Peter Fitzroy Green is an American polymer physicist and materials scientist at the National Laboratory of the Rockies in Golden, Colorado, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.
Peter G. Bolhuis
Peter G. Bolhuis, also published as Peter Bolhuis, is a Dutch computational physical chemist at the University of Amsterdam known for pioneering transition path sampling.
Peter G. Brewer
Peter G. Brewer, also known as Peter Brewer, is a British-born chemical oceanographer at MBARI known for work on the ocean carbon cycle and ocean acidification.
Peter G. Roll
Peter G. Roll (1933–2020) was an American physicist at Princeton University who co-built the radiometer confirming the cosmic microwave background and co-authored its 1965 interpretation.
Peter G. Schultz
Peter G. Schultz (born 1956) is an American chemist known for discovering catalytic antibodies and expanding the genetic code, and has led Scripps Research since 2015.
Peter Gavin Hall
Peter Gavin Hall (1951–2016) was an Australian statistician and probabilist, Professor of Statistics at the University of Melbourne, known for his work on the bootstrap and functional data analysis.
Peter Goddard (mathematical physicist)
Peter Goddard (born 1945) is a British mathematical physicist who proved the string theory no-ghost theorem and directed the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton from 2004 to 2012.
Peter Goldreich
Peter Goldreich, born 1939 in New York City, is an American theoretical astrophysicist and planetary scientist, emeritus at Caltech, known for work on planetary rings and pulsars.
Peter Grieß
Peter Grieß, also known as Johann Peter Grieß, was a German-born British industrial chemist who discovered diazonium salts in 1858, the basis of the azo dye industry.
Peter Grünberg
Peter Grünberg was a German physicist who shared the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics with Albert Fert for discovering giant magnetoresistance, which enabled hard disk read heads.
Peter Günter
Peter Günter is a Swiss physicist in nonlinear optics who led ETH Zurich's Nonlinear Optics Laboratory until his 2010 retirement and is best known for the organic electro-optic crystal DAST.
Peter Guthrie Tait
Peter Guthrie Tait (1831–1901) was a Scottish mathematical physicist who held the Edinburgh chair of natural philosophy from 1860, founded knot theory, and championed quaternions.
Peter H. Gleick
Peter H. Gleick is an American hydroclimatologist who co-founded the Pacific Institute in Oakland in 1987 and is known for the concepts of the soft path for water and peak water.
Peter H. McBreen
Peter H. McBreen, born 1953 in Ireland, is a Canadian surface chemist at Université Laval known for chirality transfer on chirally modified platinum catalysts and named professor emeritus in 2026.
Peter H. Seeberger
Peter H. Seeberger (born 1966) is a chemist working in glycoscience and flow chemistry, known for automated glycan assembly, glycan microarrays, and a continuous-flow synthesis of artemisinin.