Physical world and mathematics

Peter Roll

Peter Roll was an American physicist at Princeton who, in Robert Dicke's group, built the radiometer that made the first confirming measurement of the cosmic microwave background in 1965.

Peter Rossky

Peter Rossky is an American theoretical chemist at Rice University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011 for pioneering statistical mechanics of liquids.

Peter S. Eagleson

Peter S. Eagleson (1928–2021) was an American hydrologist at MIT who transformed hydrology into a global Earth science, founded ecohydrology, led AGU, and won the 1997 Stockholm Water Prize.

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Peter S. Kim

Peter S. Kim is an American biochemist and medicinal chemist, a Stanford professor known for the gp41 structure behind HIV entry inhibitors and for leading Merck Research Laboratories.

Peter S. Liss

Peter S. Liss (P. S. Liss) is an environmental chemist and emeritus professor at the University of East Anglia, known for research on gas exchange between ocean and atmosphere.

Peter Sarnak

Peter Sarnak, born in Johannesburg in 1953, is a South African-born mathematician at Princeton University known for analytic number theory, automorphic forms, and arithmetic quantum chaos.

Peter Schall

Peter Schall (born 1971) is a German soft condensed matter physicist and chair at the University of Amsterdam, known for imaging defects in colloidal crystals.

Peter Schiffer

Peter Schiffer is an American experimental condensed-matter physicist known for pioneering artificial spin ice, launched at Penn State in 2006, and now serves as Princeton's Dean for Research.

Peter Schmelcher is a theoretical physicist and professor of physics at Universität Hamburg since 2010, known for research on ultracold Rydberg atoms, strongly correlated bosons, and Bose-Einstein condensates.

Peter Scholze

Peter Scholze, born 1987 in Dresden, Germany, is a German mathematician who created perfectoid spaces for p-adic geometry and won the 2018 Fields Medal, and directs the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn.

Peter Schwerdtfeger

Peter Schwerdtfeger is a German-born theoretical chemist and physicist, a Distinguished Professor at Massey University in New Zealand known for relativistic quantum chemistry, especially gold and the heaviest elements.

Peter Sercel

Peter Sercel is a condensed matter theorist who trained at Caltech and taught at the University of Oregon from 1992 to 2002, known for modeling spin splitting in hybrid perovskites.

Peter Shawhan

Peter Shawhan, also known as Peter Sven Shawhan, is an American physicist and professor at the University of Maryland who helped validate LIGO's first gravitational-wave detection in 2015.

Peter Sorokin

Peter Sorokin (1931–2015) was an American physicist at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center who co-invented the organic dye laser in 1966, a laser tunable over a broad wavelength range.

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Peter Strasser

Peter Strasser is a chemist and professor of electrochemistry and electrocatalysis at TU Berlin since 2007, known for dealloyed core–shell catalysts for fuel cells and water electrolysis.

Peter Swinnerton-Dyer

Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, full name Sir Henry Peter Francis Swinnerton-Dyer, was a British mathematician who co-authored the Birch–Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, one of the seven Clay Millennium Prize Problems.

Peter T. Cummings

Peter T. Cummings is an Australian-trained chemical engineer in statistical mechanics and molecular simulation, a Vanderbilt professor elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2023.

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

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.