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Peter J. Freyd
Peter J. Freyd, born 1936 in Evanston, Illinois, is an American mathematician at the University of Pennsylvania whose 1964 book Abelian Categories first printed the General Adjoint Functor Theorem.
Peter J. Stang
Peter J. Stang is an American chemist at the University of Utah, a pioneer of coordination-driven self-assembly who won the National Medal of Science in 2010 and the Priestley Medal in 2013.
Peter J. Wyllie
Peter J. Wyllie (P. J. Wyllie) is an experimental petrologist known for laboratory studies of magmas and volatiles, and was Professor of Geology at Caltech from 1983 to 1999.
Peter John Wyllie
Peter John Wyllie, born 1930 in London, is a British-born experimental petrologist and Caltech professor emeritus known for laboratory work on magma formation, granite genesis, and carbonatite magmas.
Peter Klason
Peter Klason, born Johan Peter Klason (1848–1937), was a Swedish chemist and professor at the Royal Institute of Technology who devised the Klason lignin method.
Peter L. Knight
Sir Peter L. Knight is a British theoretical physicist at Imperial College London whose quantum optics research laid foundations for quantum technology and drove the UK's National Quantum Technologies Programme.
Peter L. Wizinowich
Peter L. Wizinowich is an optical scientist at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii who led its adaptive optics systems, earning the 2022 Joseph Weber Award.
Peter Lax
Peter Lax was a Hungarian-born American mathematician who spent his career at NYU's Courant Institute and won the 2005 Abel Prize for partial differential equations.
Peter Lee Jung-sum (李忠琛)
Peter Lee Jung-sum (李忠琛) was a Hong Kong meteorologist and assistant director of the Royal Observatory Hong Kong from 1981 to 1992, who led the introduction of automated weather monitoring there.
Peter Liljeroth
Peter Liljeroth (born 1975) is a Finnish-based physicist and Professor of Atomic Scale Physics at Aalto University, known for switching a single molecule with current in 2007.
Peter Lodahl
Peter Lodahl is a Danish physicist and professor of quantum physics and technology at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, known for quantum-dot photonics and for founding Sparrow Quantum.
Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow
Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow (1832–1918) was a Norwegian mathematician who proved the three Sylow theorems of finite group theory, published in 1872, and edited Abel's collected works.
Peter M. Banks
Peter M. Banks is an American space physicist at Stanford and UC San Diego known for radar studies of the aurora and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Peter M. Cox
Peter Cox, also published as Peter M. Cox, is a British climate scientist at the University of Exeter who led the first climate simulation with an interactive carbon cycle.
Peter M. Rentzepis
Peter M. Rentzepis is a Greek-born physical chemist who originated picosecond ultrafast spectroscopy, pioneered 3D optical storage, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1978.
Peter M. Shearer
Peter M. Shearer is an American seismologist and professor of geophysics at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, known for imaging Earth's mantle and the textbook Introduction to Seismology.
Peter McMullen
Peter McMullen is a mathematician at University College London who works on convex polytopes; he proved the Upper Bound Theorem in 1970 and conjectured the g-theorem.
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.