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Petahertz oscilloscope
A petahertz oscilloscope measures the time-dependent electric field of an optical pulse with an ultrafast gate event, reaching the petahertz bandwidths of visible and near-infrared light.
Petahertz-scale current injection in solids
Petahertz-scale current injection in solids is the use of light's oscillating electric field to drive currents in materials at around 10^15 hertz, the basis of lightwave electronics.
Petasis reaction
The Petasis reaction is a multicomponent organic reaction combining a boronic acid, an amine, and a carbonyl compound to form substituted amines, reported in 1993.
Petawatt laser
A petawatt laser is a laser system delivering a peak power of one quadrillion watts in femtosecond pulses, first achieved at Lawrence Livermore in 1996.
Peter A. Stott
Peter A. Stott, also published as Peter Stott, is a British climate scientist at the Met Office Hadley Centre who pioneered attributing the 2003 European heatwave to human influence.
Peter Abbamonte
Peter Abbamonte is a condensed matter physicist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who developed M-EELS and observed the plasmon known as a demon in 2023.
Peter Atkins
Peter Atkins, also known as Peter William Atkins, is a British chemist and Emeritus Professor at Oxford, best known for the standard textbook Atkins' Physical Chemistry and popular science books.
Peter B. deMenocal
Peter B. deMenocal is an American marine geologist and paleoclimatologist known for linking African climate change to human evolution, and president of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution since 2020.
Peter B. Dervan
Peter B. Dervan, born 1945 in Boston, is an American chemical biologist and Caltech professor known for pyrrole–imidazole polyamides that read DNA sequences, winning the 2022 Priestley Medal.
Peter B. Kelemen
Peter B. Kelemen is an American petrologist and Arthur D. Storke Professor at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014.
Peter B. Kronheimer
Peter B. Kronheimer is a mathematician at Harvard working on gauge theory and low-dimensional topology, known for proving Property P and the Milnor conjecture on torus knots.
Peter Bäuerle
Peter Bäuerle (born 1956) is a German organic chemist and professor emeritus at Ulm University, known for oligothiophene chemistry and organic solar cells, and a co-founder of Heliatek GmbH.
Peter Baum
Peter Baum is a professor of experimental physics at the University of Konstanz who pioneered attosecond electron microscopy, earning ERC grants and the 2022 Falling Walls prize.
Peter Beak
Peter Beak was an American organic chemist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign known for the endocyclic restriction test and the complex-induced proximity effect in organolithium chemistry.
Peter Bergmann
Peter Gabriel Bergmann (1915–2002) was a German-American physicist who worked as Albert Einstein's assistant on unified field theory and pioneered quantum gravity research at Syracuse University.
Peter Borwein
Peter Borwein (1953–2020) was a Canadian mathematician and professor at Simon Fraser University who, often with his brother Jonathan, developed fast algorithms for computing pi.
Peter Bosler
Peter Bosler is an American applied mathematician at Sandia National Laboratories who works on Lagrangian numerical methods for climate modeling and won a 2025 PECASE award.
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.