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Peter Doyle (mathematician)
Peter Grant Doyle is a mathematician, Professor of Mathematics at Dartmouth College, best known as coauthor of Random Walks and Electric Networks and for work on circle packing.
Peter F. Moulton
Peter F. Moulton is an American laser physicist and engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory who invented the Ti:sapphire tunable solid-state laser in 1982 and belongs to the National Academy of Engineering.
Peter Fitzroy Green
Peter Fitzroy Green is an American polymer physicist and materials scientist at the National Laboratory of the Rockies in Golden, Colorado, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.
Peter G. Bolhuis
Peter G. Bolhuis, also published as Peter Bolhuis, is a Dutch computational physical chemist at the University of Amsterdam known for pioneering transition path sampling.
Peter G. Brewer
Peter G. Brewer, also known as Peter Brewer, is a British-born chemical oceanographer at MBARI known for work on the ocean carbon cycle and ocean acidification.
Peter G. Roll
Peter G. Roll (1933–2020) was an American physicist at Princeton University who co-built the radiometer confirming the cosmic microwave background and co-authored its 1965 interpretation.
Peter G. Schultz
Peter G. Schultz (born 1956) is an American chemist known for discovering catalytic antibodies and expanding the genetic code, and has led Scripps Research since 2015.
Peter Gavin Hall
Peter Gavin Hall (1951–2016) was an Australian statistician and probabilist, Professor of Statistics at the University of Melbourne, known for his work on the bootstrap and functional data analysis.
Peter Goddard (mathematical physicist)
Peter Goddard (born 1945) is a British mathematical physicist who proved the string theory no-ghost theorem and directed the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton from 2004 to 2012.
Peter Goldreich
Peter Goldreich, born 1939 in New York City, is an American theoretical astrophysicist and planetary scientist, emeritus at Caltech, known for work on planetary rings and pulsars.
Peter Grieß
Peter Grieß, also known as Johann Peter Grieß, was a German-born British industrial chemist who discovered diazonium salts in 1858, the basis of the azo dye industry.
Peter Grünberg
Peter Grünberg was a German physicist who shared the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics with Albert Fert for discovering giant magnetoresistance, which enabled hard disk read heads.
Peter Günter
Peter Günter is a Swiss physicist in nonlinear optics who led ETH Zurich's Nonlinear Optics Laboratory until his 2010 retirement and is best known for the organic electro-optic crystal DAST.
Peter Guthrie Tait
Peter Guthrie Tait (1831–1901) was a Scottish mathematical physicist who held the Edinburgh chair of natural philosophy from 1860, founded knot theory, and championed quaternions.
Peter H. Gleick
Peter H. Gleick is an American hydroclimatologist who co-founded the Pacific Institute in Oakland in 1987 and is known for the concepts of the soft path for water and peak water.
Peter H. McBreen
Peter H. McBreen, born 1953 in Ireland, is a Canadian surface chemist at Université Laval known for chirality transfer on chirally modified platinum catalysts and named professor emeritus in 2026.
Peter H. Seeberger
Peter H. Seeberger (born 1966) is a chemist working in glycoscience and flow chemistry, known for automated glycan assembly, glycan microarrays, and a continuous-flow synthesis of artemisinin.
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.