Physical and mathematical scientists

Peter T. Flawn

Peter T. Flawn (1926–2017) was an American geologist known for work on Texas basement rocks, who directed the Bureau of Economic Geology and led UT Austin as president.

Peter Toschek (1933–2020) was a German experimental physicist and laser spectroscopy pioneer who, working with Hans Dehmelt, first photographed single trapped ions and demonstrated their laser cooling.

Peter U. Clark

Peter U. Clark is an American paleoclimatologist and University Distinguished Professor at Oregon State University, known for research on glaciers, ice sheets, and past sea level.

Peter Vail

Peter Robbins Vail (1930–2024) was an American geologist who pioneered sequence stratigraphy during three decades at Exxon research laboratories, producing the global sea-level curves known as the Vail curves.

Peter van Nieuwenhuizen

Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, born in Utrecht, the Netherlands, in 1938, is a Dutch theoretical physicist who co-discovered supergravity at Stony Brook in 1976 and shared the $3 million Special Breakthrough Prize in 2019.

Peter Vogt

Peter Vogt, also publishing as P. R. Vogt, is an American marine geophysicist who argued from the late 1960s that sea-floor spreading runs in episodes, not at a steady state.

Peter W. Carr

Peter W. Carr (1944–2025) was an American analytical chemist at the University of Minnesota, known for zirconia stationary phases, the hydrophobic-subtraction model, and two-dimensional liquid chromatography.

Peter Woit

Peter Woit is a Senior Lecturer in mathematics at Columbia University since 1989, known for his 2006 book Not Even Wrong, which argues string theory makes no testable predictions.

Peter Wothers

Peter Wothers is a British chemist at the University of Cambridge who presented the 2012 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures and was awarded an MBE in 2014.

Peter Zerwas

Peter M. Zerwas is a theoretical particle physicist who worked at DESY in Hamburg on QCD, Higgs physics, and supersymmetry, credited in the 2004 Nobel advanced information for collecting measurements of the running strong coupling.

Peter Zoller

Peter Zoller, born 1952, is an Austrian theoretical physicist at the University of Innsbruck, a founder of quantum information science with trapped ions and cold atoms.

Petra E. de Jongh

Petra E. de Jongh is a Dutch materials chemist, professor of catalysts and energy materials at Utrecht University, known for nanoparticle catalysts and hydrogen storage research.

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Petra Schwille

Petra Schwille, born 1968, is a German biophysicist directing the Department of Cellular and Molecular Biophysics at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, known for reconstituting E. coli's Min proteins.

Petros Koumoutsakos

Petros Koumoutsakos is a Greek computational scientist, a Harvard professor who applies computing and AI to fluid flows, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2018.

Petros Tzeferacos

Petros Tzeferacos is a plasma physicist at the University of Rochester who directs the Flash Center for Computational Science and won a 2025 PECASE award.

Petter Minnhagen

Petter Minnhagen is a theoretical physicist known for work on the Kosterlitz–Thouless transition in two-dimensional superconductors; his theory appears in the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics background.

Pher G. Andersson

Pher G. Andersson is a Swedish organic chemist, professor of organic chemistry at Stockholm University since 2013, known for iridium-catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenation and a Fulbright stay with K. Barry Sharpless at Scripps.

Phil Mason

Phil Mason, known online as Thunderf00t, is a British chemist at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague whose YouTube channel debunks creationism and pseudoscience.

Phil Muntz

Phil Muntz, born Eric Phillip Muntz, was a Canadian-born aerophysicist at the University of Southern California known for electron beam fluorescence diagnostics and the Knudsen compressor.

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Phil S. Baran

Phil S. Baran, born 1977 in Denville, New Jersey, is an American organic chemist at Scripps Research known for ideal synthesis, named reagents, and a 2013 MacArthur Fellowship.

Philip A. Ekstrom

Philip A. Ekstrom is a physicist and former student of Hans Dehmelt who co-authored the 1973 isolation of a single electron at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Philip A. Gale

Philip A. Gale is a British supramolecular chemist known for work on anion recognition and transport, and Professor of Supramolecular Chemistry at the University of Groningen since 2026.

Philip Abelson

Philip Abelson (1913–2004) was an American nuclear physicist who co-discovered the element neptunium in 1940, directed Carnegie's Geophysical Laboratory, and edited Science from 1962 to 1984.

Philip Anderson Shaffer

Philip Anderson Shaffer (1881–1960) was an American biological chemist who established that insulin is a protein and headed the Department of Biological Chemistry at Washington University School of Medicine from 1910 to 1946.

Philip B. Allen

Philip B. Allen is an American theoretical physicist who spent 1971 to 2016 as a professor at Stony Brook University, known for his 1975 reanalysis of superconductor transition temperatures.

Philip Burke King

Philip Burke King (1903–1987) was an American geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey who compiled the standard tectonic maps of the United States and North America.

Philip Burton Moon

Philip Burton Moon (1907–1994) was a British experimental physicist who proved neutrons reach thermal energies, worked on the MAUD Committee and at Los Alamos, and held Birmingham's Poynting Chair.

Philip E. LaMoreaux Sr.

Philip E. LaMoreaux Sr. (Philip Elmer LaMoreaux, 1920–2008) was an American hydrogeologist, Alabama state geologist from 1961 to 1976, and a leading expert on karst.

Philip Elmer LaMoreaux

Philip Elmer LaMoreaux (1920–2008) was an American hydrogeologist known for his work on karst, who served as Alabama state geologist from 1961 to 1976 and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989.