Physical world and mathematics

Philip Franklin

Philip Franklin (1898–1965) was an American mathematician at MIT who worked in topology, graph theory, and analysis; he gave the Franklin graph, the only known counterexample to the Heawood conjecture.

Philip H. Bucksbaum

Philip H. Bucksbaum, also published as P. H. Bucksbaum, is an American atomic physicist at Stanford and SLAC who works on ultrafast optics and attosecond science, and who organized the PULSE Institute.

Philip Hall

Philip Hall (1904–1982) was a British group theorist at Cambridge who proved Hall's marriage theorem, generalised the Sylow theorems to finite soluble groups, and revived finite group theory.

Philip Hartman

Philip Hartman (1915–2015) was an American mathematician at Johns Hopkins University who worked on ordinary differential equations, proved the Hartman–Grobman theorem, and wrote the textbook Ordinary Differential Equations.

Philip Henry Kuenen

Philip Henry Kuenen (1902–1976) was a Dutch geologist at Groningen who pioneered marine geology and showed experimentally that turbidity currents produce graded deep-sea sand beds.

Philip Herbert Cowell

Philip Herbert Cowell (1870–1949) was a British astronomer who transformed orbit computation by integrating the equations of motion directly, and with Andrew Crommelin predicted the 1910 return of Halley's Comet to within 2.68 days.

Philip Hofmann

Philip Hofmann, born 1967 in Berlin, is a German experimental condensed matter physicist and professor at Aarhus University who directs the ASTRID2 synchrotron and studies surfaces of topological materials.

Philip Holmes

Philip Holmes, born 1945, is a British-born mathematician and mechanical engineer at Princeton University known for dynamical systems and chaos theory and a standard 1983 textbook with John Guckenheimer.

Philip John Bart

Philip John Bart is an Antarctic marine geologist at Louisiana State University, known for reconstructing Antarctic ice sheet advance and retreat from seismic records and a 2001 PECASE award recipient.

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Philip Kim (physicist)

Philip Kim is a Korean-American experimental condensed matter physicist and Professor of Physics at Harvard University, known for co-discovering the quantum Hall effect in graphene and pioneering van der Waals heterostructures.

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Philip Kitcher

Philip Kitcher (born 1947, London) is a British-American philosopher of science at Columbia University, known for his account of scientific explanation as unification and his defense of science in democracy.

Philip M. Jardine

Philip M. Jardine (died 2014) was an American soil scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory who won a 1996 Presidential Early Career Award and pioneered field-scale bioremediation of uranium-contaminated groundwater.

Philip M. Morse

Philip M. Morse (1903–1985) was an American physicist at MIT who worked in quantum mechanics, acoustics, and operations research, and became the first director of Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Philip M. Platzman

Philip M. Platzman (Philip Moss Platzman) was an American condensed-matter physicist at Bell Labs who co-developed the theory of collective excitations in the fractional quantum Hall liquid.

Philip Moll

Philip Moll is a condensed matter physicist who studies quantum materials by carving crystals into microscopic devices, and directs a Max Planck institute department in Hamburg.

Philip Moriarty

Philip Moriarty is a physicist, Professor of Physics at the University of Nottingham since 2005, known for manipulating single atoms with scanning probe microscopes and for the Sixty Symbols videos.

Philip Morrison

Philip Morrison was an American physicist who worked on the first atomic bomb, then pursued cosmic rays, X-ray astronomy, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence at Cornell and MIT.

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Philip P. Power

Philip P. Power (Philip Patrick Power) is a retired inorganic chemist at UC Davis known for low-valent main-group compounds and the quintuple-bonded dichromium species ArCrCrAr.

Philip Phillips (physicist)

Philip W. Phillips is an American theoretical condensed matter physicist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who works on high-temperature superconductivity and strange metals, and coined the term Mottness.

Philip Skell

Philip Skell (1918–2010) was an American chemist at Pennsylvania State University, a founder of modern carbene chemistry known for the Skell Rule and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1977.

Philip Stein

Philip Stein (1890–1974) was a Lithuanian-born mathematician who spent his career in South Africa, known for his 1933 proof of M. Riesz's theorem on conjugate functions.

Philip W. Anderson

Philip W. Anderson, also known as P. W. Anderson, was an American condensed matter physicist who won the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics and spent 35 years at Bell Laboratories.

Philip Wolfe (mathematician)

Philip Wolfe, also known as Philip Starr Wolfe, was an American mathematician and founding figure in mathematical programming, known for the Dantzig–Wolfe decomposition and Frank–Wolfe algorithms.

Philipp Lenard

Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard (1862–1947) was a German experimental physicist who won the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on cathode rays.

Philipp Podsiadlowski

Philipp Podsiadlowski is a theoretical astrophysicist, Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford, known for binary star evolution and the supernova 1987A merger model.

Philipp Werner

Philipp Werner is a condensed-matter physicist and professor of computational physics at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, known for nonequilibrium dynamical mean-field theory and winner of the 2020 Charpak-Ritz Prize.

Philippe A. Guye

Philippe Auguste Guye (1862–1922) was a Swiss physical chemist, professor at the University of Geneva, and founder of the Journal de chimie physique, known for precise gas density and atomic weight measurements.

Philippe Barbier

Philippe Barbier was a French organic chemist who performed the first organomagnesium synthesis in 1899; the Barbier reaction is named for him, though his student Victor Grignard alone won the 1912 Nobel Prize.

Philippe Ciais

Philippe Ciais, born 1966, is a French climate scientist at CEA's LSCE near Paris who studies the global carbon cycle, combining atmospheric observations with modeling to track carbon sinks.