Physical and mathematical scientists

Peter Meyer (cosmic-ray physicist)

Peter Meyer (1920–2002) was a German-born cosmic-ray physicist at the University of Chicago, known for measurements of cosmic-ray acceleration and for instruments flown on balloons, satellites, and the Space Shuttle.

Peter Molnar

Peter Molnar (1943–2022) was an American geophysicist and professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for work on the tectonics of the Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau.

Peter Moore (biophysicist)

Peter Moore, born 1939, is an American biophysicist and Sterling Professor emeritus at Yale known for determining the atomic structure of the ribosome's large subunit.

Peter Mueller

Peter Mueller is a Principal Physicist at Argonne National Laboratory who applies krypton-81 radiodating to deep groundwater and received the 2011 Presidential Early Career Award.

Peter Nordlander

Peter Nordlander is a Swedish-born theoretical physicist at Rice University, Wiess Chair, known for the 2003 plasmon hybridization model and plasmon-induced hot carrier theory, and co-founder of Syzygy Plasmonics.

Peter Ozsváth

Peter Ozsváth is a Princeton mathematician who, with Zoltán Szabó, introduced Heegaard Floer homology in 2000, an invariant of three- and four-dimensional manifolds, and won the 2007 Veblen Prize.

Peter P. Edwards

Peter P. Edwards, born 1949, is a British inorganic and materials chemist, Emeritus Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Oxford, known for metal–nonmetal transitions and microwave routes to hydrogen.

Peter Pauson

Peter Ludwig Pauson (1925–2013) was a German-born British chemist who co-discovered ferrocene in Pittsburgh in 1951 and worked in Glasgow, where the Pauson–Khand reaction is named for him.

Péter Pulay

Péter Pulay, born 1941 in Veszprém, Hungary, is a quantum chemist at the University of Arkansas whose analytic gradient method made routine molecular structure computation possible.

Peter R. Buseck

Peter R. Buseck is an American geochemist and mineralogist who pioneered transmission electron microscopy of minerals, meteorites, and atmospheric aerosols during 60 years at Arizona State University.

Peter R. Schreiner

Peter R. Schreiner, also known as Peter Schreiner, is a German physical organic chemist who holds the Liebig Chair at Justus Liebig University Giessen and won the 2024 Leibniz Prize.

Peter Rakich

Peter T. Rakich is an applied physicist and professor at Yale University whose lab demonstrated stimulated Brillouin scattering in silicon waveguides and developed a silicon Brillouin laser.

Peter Roesky

Peter W. Roesky, born 1967 in Göttingen, is a German inorganic chemist and professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, known for lanthanide coordination chemistry and single-molecule magnets.

Peter Roll

Peter Roll was an American physicist at Princeton who, in Robert Dicke's group, built the radiometer that made the first confirming measurement of the cosmic microwave background in 1965.

Peter Rossky

Peter Rossky is an American theoretical chemist at Rice University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011 for pioneering statistical mechanics of liquids.

Peter S. Eagleson

Peter S. Eagleson (1928–2021) was an American hydrologist at MIT who transformed hydrology into a global Earth science, founded ecohydrology, led AGU, and won the 1997 Stockholm Water Prize.

Peter S. Kim

Peter S. Kim is an American biochemist and medicinal chemist, a Stanford professor known for the gp41 structure behind HIV entry inhibitors and for leading Merck Research Laboratories.

Peter S. Liss

Peter S. Liss (P. S. Liss) is an environmental chemist and emeritus professor at the University of East Anglia, known for research on gas exchange between ocean and atmosphere.

Peter Sarnak

Peter Sarnak, born in Johannesburg in 1953, is a South African-born mathematician at Princeton University known for analytic number theory, automorphic forms, and arithmetic quantum chaos.

Peter Schall

Peter Schall (born 1971) is a German soft condensed matter physicist and chair at the University of Amsterdam, known for imaging defects in colloidal crystals.

Peter Schiffer

Peter Schiffer is an American experimental condensed-matter physicist known for pioneering artificial spin ice, launched at Penn State in 2006, and now serves as Princeton's Dean for Research.

Peter Schmelcher

Peter Schmelcher is a theoretical physicist and professor of physics at Universität Hamburg since 2010, known for research on ultracold Rydberg atoms, strongly correlated bosons, and Bose-Einstein condensates.

Peter Scholze

Peter Scholze, born 1987 in Dresden, Germany, is a German mathematician who created perfectoid spaces for p-adic geometry and won the 2018 Fields Medal, and directs the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn.

Peter Schwerdtfeger

Peter Schwerdtfeger is a German-born theoretical chemist and physicist, a Distinguished Professor at Massey University in New Zealand known for relativistic quantum chemistry, especially gold and the heaviest elements.

Peter Sercel

Peter Sercel is a condensed matter theorist who trained at Caltech and taught at the University of Oregon from 1992 to 2002, known for modeling spin splitting in hybrid perovskites.

Peter Shawhan

Peter Shawhan, also known as Peter Sven Shawhan, is an American physicist and professor at the University of Maryland who helped validate LIGO's first gravitational-wave detection in 2015.

Peter Sorokin

Peter Sorokin (1931–2015) was an American physicist at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center who co-invented the organic dye laser in 1966, a laser tunable over a broad wavelength range.

Peter Strasser

Peter Strasser is a chemist and professor of electrochemistry and electrocatalysis at TU Berlin since 2007, known for dealloyed core–shell catalysts for fuel cells and water electrolysis.

Peter Swinnerton-Dyer

Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, full name Sir Henry Peter Francis Swinnerton-Dyer, was a British mathematician who co-authored the Birch–Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, one of the seven Clay Millennium Prize Problems.