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Peter H. Verburg
Peter H. Verburg is a Dutch environmental geographer and professor at VU Amsterdam known for the CLUE land-use models, elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2026.
Peter Hamm
Peter Hamm is a German and Swiss physical chemist known for two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy, a laser method reading molecular motion on femtosecond timescales, and a professor at the University of Zurich since 2007.
Peter Hänggi
Peter Hänggi, born 1950 in Switzerland, is a theoretical physicist who held the Theoretical Physics chair at the University of Augsburg and won the 2023 Lars Onsager Prize.
Peter Harrowell
Peter Harrowell (Peter R. Harrowell) is an Australian materials chemist and professor at the University of Sydney known for work on crystal growth, glass-forming liquids, and ultrafast metal crystallization.
Peter Higgs
Peter Ware Higgs (1929–2024) was a British theoretical physicist who proposed the Higgs mechanism, shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics, and gave the Higgs boson its name.
Peter Hilton
Peter Hilton (1923–2010) was a British mathematician who contributed to algebraic topology and homological algebra and worked as a codebreaker at Bletchley Park during World War II.
Peter Hofmann
Peter Hofmann (1947–2015) was a German chemist at Munich and Heidelberg known for small-bite-angle bidentate ligands, revised Dötz and hydroformylation mechanisms, and founding the CaRLa laboratory with BASF.
Peter Hommelhoff
Peter Hommelhoff is a German laser physicist at LMU Munich, known for attosecond control of electron emission from metal nanotips and acceleration on photonic chips.
Peter Hore
Peter Hore is a British biophysical chemist at Oxford known for work on NMR of proteins and on how migratory birds sense Earth's magnetic field.
Peter Høyer
Peter Høyer is a theoretical computer scientist and associate professor at the University of Calgary, known for foundational work on quantum algorithms, query complexity, and quantum walks.
Peter Huybers
Peter Huybers is an American climate scientist and chair of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard, known for work on ice age cycles and correcting historical sea surface temperature records.
Péter István Mészáros
Péter István Mészáros is a Hungarian-born theoretical astrophysicist at Penn State known for the gamma-ray burst fireball model, developed with Martin Rees, and the Mészáros effect.
Peter J. Bickel
Peter J. Bickel is a statistician who joined UC Berkeley in 1963 and is known for asymptotic theory of the bootstrap, semiparametric models, and high-dimensional inference.
Peter J. Freyd
Peter J. Freyd, born 1936 in Evanston, Illinois, is an American mathematician at the University of Pennsylvania whose 1964 book Abelian Categories first printed the General Adjoint Functor Theorem.
Peter J. Stang
Peter J. Stang is an American chemist at the University of Utah, a pioneer of coordination-driven self-assembly who won the National Medal of Science in 2010 and the Priestley Medal in 2013.
Peter J. Wyllie
Peter J. Wyllie (P. J. Wyllie) is an experimental petrologist known for laboratory studies of magmas and volatiles, and was Professor of Geology at Caltech from 1983 to 1999.
Peter John Wyllie
Peter John Wyllie, born 1930 in London, is a British-born experimental petrologist and Caltech professor emeritus known for laboratory work on magma formation, granite genesis, and carbonatite magmas.
Peter Klason
Peter Klason, born Johan Peter Klason (1848–1937), was a Swedish chemist and professor at the Royal Institute of Technology who devised the Klason lignin method.
Peter L. Knight
Sir Peter L. Knight is a British theoretical physicist at Imperial College London whose quantum optics research laid foundations for quantum technology and drove the UK's National Quantum Technologies Programme.
Peter L. Wizinowich
Peter L. Wizinowich is an optical scientist at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii who led its adaptive optics systems, earning the 2022 Joseph Weber Award.
Peter Lax
Peter Lax was a Hungarian-born American mathematician who spent his career at NYU's Courant Institute and won the 2005 Abel Prize for partial differential equations.
Peter Lee Jung-sum (李忠琛)
Peter Lee Jung-sum (李忠琛) was a Hong Kong meteorologist and assistant director of the Royal Observatory Hong Kong from 1981 to 1992, who led the introduction of automated weather monitoring there.
Peter Liljeroth
Peter Liljeroth (born 1975) is a Finnish-based physicist and Professor of Atomic Scale Physics at Aalto University, known for switching a single molecule with current in 2007.
Peter Lodahl
Peter Lodahl is a Danish physicist and professor of quantum physics and technology at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, known for quantum-dot photonics and for founding Sparrow Quantum.
Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow
Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow (1832–1918) was a Norwegian mathematician who proved the three Sylow theorems of finite group theory, published in 1872, and edited Abel's collected works.
Peter M. Banks
Peter M. Banks is an American space physicist at Stanford and UC San Diego known for radar studies of the aurora and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Peter M. Cox
Peter Cox, also published as Peter M. Cox, is a British climate scientist at the University of Exeter who led the first climate simulation with an interactive carbon cycle.
Peter M. Rentzepis
Peter M. Rentzepis is a Greek-born physical chemist who originated picosecond ultrafast spectroscopy, pioneered 3D optical storage, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1978.
Peter M. Shearer
Peter M. Shearer is an American seismologist and professor of geophysics at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, known for imaging Earth's mantle and the textbook Introduction to Seismology.
Peter McMullen
Peter McMullen is a mathematician at University College London who works on convex polytopes; he proved the Upper Bound Theorem in 1970 and conjectured the g-theorem.