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Philippe Ghosez
Philippe Ghosez, born 1969 in Tournai, Belgium, is a Belgian condensed-matter physicist and professor at the University of Liège working on the first-principles theory of ferroelectric oxide perovskites.
Philippe Goy
Philippe Goy is a French condensed-matter physicist and CNRS researcher at ENS Paris whose millimeter-wave cavities enabled the 1983 experiments cited in Serge Haroche's 2012 Nobel Prize.
Philippe Grangier
Philippe Grangier, born in 1957, is a French CNRS physicist at the Institut d'Optique in Palaiseau, known for single-photon experiments, Schrödinger cat states, and continuous-variable quantum key distribution.
Philippe Guyot-Sionnest
Philippe Guyot-Sionnest is a French physicist and chemist at the University of Chicago, known for pioneering work on colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals, quantum dot doping, and infrared detection.
Philippe Lalanne
Philippe Lalanne is a French CNRS physicist and nanophotonics researcher at the Institut d'Optique near Bordeaux, known for his microscopic theory of extraordinary optical transmission.
Philippe Nozières
Philippe Nozières (1932–2022) was a French theoretical physicist known for the many-body problem, quantum liquids, and crystal growth, and winner of the Wolf Prize and CNRS Gold Medal.
Philippe Poulin
Philippe Poulin is a French physical chemist at the Centre de recherche Paul Pascal, CNRS, near Bordeaux, known for colloids, liquid crystals, and carbon nanotube fibers.
Philippe Sautet
Philippe Sautet, born 1961, is a French theoretical chemist who studies heterogeneous catalysis and electrocatalysis by computer simulation, a UCLA professor since 2016 and a member of the French Academy of Sciences.
Philippe Van Cappellen
Philippe Van Cappellen is a Belgian-trained environmental biogeochemist at the University of Waterloo since 2011, known for the 1996 phosphorus–oxygen theory of ocean–atmosphere redox stability.
Phillip Christopher
Phillip Christopher is an American chemical engineer who studies heterogeneous catalysis, single-atom metal catalysts, and light-driven catalysis, and holds the Mellichamp Chair at UC Santa Barbara.
Phillip Fitton
Phillip (Peter) Fitton was an industrial organometallic chemist at Union Carbide who reported in 1968 that aryl halides react with palladium(0), the entry step of the Heck reaction.
Phillip Griffiths
Phillip Griffiths (born 1938) is an American mathematician in algebraic geometry and Hodge theory who directed the Institute for Advanced Study from 1991 to 2003 and won the 2014 Chern Medal.
Phillip J. Stiles
Phillip J. Stiles, also known as Phillip John Stiles, is an American solid-state physicist who co-discovered the two-dimensional electron gas at IBM in 1966 and shared the 1988 Buckley Prize.
Phillip Milner
Phillip J. Milner is an American organic and materials chemist, an associate professor at Cornell University whose group designs metal–organic frameworks for separations, catalysis, and gas handling.
Phoebus Levene
Phoebus Levene (born Fishel Aaronovich Levin) was a Russian-born American biochemist who spent his career at the Rockefeller Institute studying nucleic acids, identifying ribose and deoxyribose and proposing the tetranucleotide hypothesis.
Photochemistry
Photochemistry, also called the photochemical effect, is the branch of chemistry concerned with the chemical effects of light, covering reactions inaccessible under ordinary thermal conditions.
Piermaria Oddone
Piermaria Oddone is a Peruvian-born American experimental particle physicist who invented the asymmetric B-factory and served as the fifth director of Fermilab, from 2005 to 2013.
Piero Madau
Piero Madau is an Italian theoretical astrophysicist, Distinguished Professor at UC Santa Cruz, known for measuring the cosmic star-formation history and winning the 2014 Heineman Prize.
Pierre Agostini
Pierre Agostini, born 1941 in Tunis, is a French physicist and Ohio State emeritus professor who shared the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for attosecond light pulses.
Pierre Aigrain
Pierre Aigrain (1924–2002) was a French physicist who pioneered French semiconductor research, founded the École normale supérieure solid-state physics laboratory, and presented the semiconductor laser principle in 1958.
Pierre Cartier (mathematician)
Pierre Cartier (1932–2024) was a French mathematician whose name is attached to Cartier divisors, the Cartier isomorphism, and Cartier duality, and who belonged to Bourbaki from 1955 to 1983.
Pierre Chappuis
Pierre Chappuis (1855–1916) was a Swiss physicist at the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures whose gas-thermometer work led to the hydrogen temperature scale in 1884.
Pierre Cousin
Pierre Auguste Cousin (1867–1933) was a French mathematician whose 1895 theorem on functions of several complex variables gave his name to the Cousin problems, still standard in the field.
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie (1859–1906) was a French physicist who discovered piezoelectricity, formulated Curie's law of magnetism, and shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Marie Curie and Henri Becquerel.
Pierre Deligne
Pierre Deligne is a Belgian mathematician in algebraic geometry and number theory, best known for proving the Weil conjectures and winning the Fields Medal and Abel Prize.
Pierre Duhem
Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem (1861–1916) was a French physicist, philosopher, and historian of science at Bordeaux, known for the Gibbs–Duhem equation and the Duhem–Quine thesis.
Pierre Fatou
Pierre Fatou (1878–1929) was a French mathematician and astronomer who spent his career at the Paris Observatory and founded the iteration theory of rational maps, now called complex dynamics.
Pierre Gassendi
Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655) was a French Catholic priest, mathematician, and philosopher who restored Epicurean atomism within Catholic doctrine and made the first recorded observation of a transit of Mercury.
Pierre Gentine
Pierre Gentine is a hydrologist, the Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel Professor of Geophysics at Columbia University, who studies land–atmosphere coupling and machine learning for Earth systems, and directs the NSF center LEAP.
Pierre Hohenberg
Pierre Hohenberg (1934–2017) was a French-American theoretical physicist at Bell Labs, Yale, and NYU, known for the 1964 Hohenberg–Kohn theorem on which density functional theory rests.