Social and behavioral scientists

Paul Fitts

Paul Morris Fitts (1912–1965) was an American psychologist at Ohio State and Michigan who developed Fitts's law, a 1954 model of aimed movement foundational to human-factors engineering and human-computer interaction.

Paul Fraisse

Paul Fraisse (1911–1996) was a French experimental psychologist known for research on time perception, director of the EPHE psychology laboratory, and author of Psychologie du temps.

Paul Gilroy

Paul Gilroy, born in 1956, is a British scholar of the Black diaspora whose book The Black Atlantic (1993) transformed the study of race and culture; he won the 2019 Holberg Prize.

Paul H. Douglas

Paul Howard Douglas was an American economist at the University of Chicago who co-created the Cobb–Douglas production function and served as a US senator from Illinois.

Paul Klemperer

Paul Klemperer is an economist and Oxford's Edgeworth Professor of Economics since 1995, best known for auction theory, the UK 3G auction, and the Product-Mix Auction.

Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman, American economist born 1953, Nobel Memorial Prize 2008 (sole winner) for trade patterns and economic activity location; founder of new trade theory (1979 economies-of-scale model) and new economic geography (1991 core-periphery model); longtime New York Times columnist.

Paul Lazarsfeld

Paul Lazarsfeld was an Austrian-born American sociologist who taught at Columbia University from 1940 to 1969, where his classic research on mass media influence and voting behavior founded modern survey research.

Paul Piff

Paul K. Piff is an American social psychologist at the University of California, Irvine, best known for a 2012 study linking higher social class to more unethical behavior.

Paul R. Milgrom

Paul R. Milgrom, also known as Paul Milgrom, is an American economist at Stanford who won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for auction theory.

Paul Romer

Paul Romer (born 1955), American economist, co-recipient of the 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize with Nordhaus, developer of endogenous growth theory via the 1990 paper Endogenous Technological Change, former World Bank Chief Economist, and originator of the charter cities concept.

Paul Samuelson

Paul Samuelson, also known as Paul Anthony Samuelson, was an American economist at MIT who won the 1970 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, the first American to receive it.

Paul Slovic

Paul Slovic (born 1938) is an American psychologist known for research on risk perception, judgment, and decision making, and for founding Decision Research in Eugene, Oregon.

Paul Smolensky

Paul Smolensky is a cognitive scientist who created Optimality Theory, harmony theory, and tensor product representations, and is a professor at Johns Hopkins University and researcher at Microsoft.

Paul T. Baker

Paul T. Baker (1927–2007) was an American biological anthropologist at Pennsylvania State University who pioneered human adaptation studies, notably high-altitude research on the Quechua of Nuñoa, Peru.

Pauline Wiessner

Pauline "Polly" Wiessner is an American anthropologist at Arizona State University known for long-term fieldwork among the Kalahari San and the Enga of Papua New Guinea.

Per Krusell

Per Krusell, born 1959, is a Swedish macroeconomist, professor of economics, and director of the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University, known for the Krusell–Smith method.

Peter A. Diamond

Peter A. Diamond, also known as Peter Diamond, is an American economist at MIT who won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for search-friction markets.

Peter A. Ubel

Peter A. Ubel is an American physician and behavioral scientist at Duke University, a National Academy of Medicine member known for research on how patients and physicians make decisions.

Peter Blau

Peter Blau (1918–2002) was an Austrian-born American sociologist, a pioneer of social exchange theory and organizational sociology who was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1980.

Peter Buerhaus

Peter Buerhaus is an American nurse and healthcare economist, a professor at Montana State University who directs the Center for Interdisciplinary Health Workforce Studies and studies the nursing workforce.

Peter C. B. Phillips

Peter C. B. Phillips is a New Zealand-born econometrician and Sterling Professor Emeritus at Yale, ranked 8th among economists worldwide and creator of the Phillips–Perron test.

Peter Doolittle

Peter Doolittle is an American educational psychologist and professor at Virginia Tech whose research examines working memory in multimedia learning; his 2013 TED Talk has over 3 million views.

Peter Frankopan

Peter Frankopan, Oxford Professor of Global History and Byzantinist, author of The Silk Roads (2015), The New Silk Roads (2018) and The Earth Transformed (2023), Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research.

Peter H. Egger

Peter H. Egger (born 1969) is an Austrian economist who has been Professor of Economics at ETH Zurich since 2009, working on international trade, taxation, and gravity models.

Peter Haggett

Peter Haggett (1933–2025) was a British human geographer, professor at Bristol from 1966 to 1998, who led the quantitative revolution and later studied epidemic spread.

Peter Howitt (Nobel laureate)

Peter Howitt, born 1946 in Guelph, Ontario, is a Canadian economist at Brown University who won a quarter share of the 2025 Nobel economics prize.

Peter J. Klenow

Peter J. Klenow is an American macroeconomist, the Ralph Landau Professor at Stanford University since 2003, known for research on economic growth, productivity, misallocation, and prices.

Peter McGraw

Peter McGraw is an American marketing and psychology professor at the University of Colorado Boulder who co-created the benign violation theory of humor and founded the Humor Research Lab.

Peter Nathan Ganong

Peter Nathan Ganong is an American labor economist and Associate Professor at the University of Chicago's Harris School, known for research on unemployment insurance and mortgage default.