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Peter C. Searson
Peter C. Searson is an American materials scientist and engineer, the Reynolds Professor at Johns Hopkins University, known for tissue-engineered models of the blood-brain barrier.
Peter Carl Goldmark
Peter Carl Goldmark (1906–1977) was a Hungarian-born American engineer who led CBS Laboratories, invented the 33⅓ rpm LP record introduced in 1948, and developed the first commercial color-television system.
Peter Cooper Hewitt
Peter Cooper Hewitt (1861–1921) was an American electrical engineer and grandson of industrialist Peter Cooper who invented the first commercially successful mercury-vapor lamp and the mercury-arc rectifier.
Peter Fajfar
Peter Fajfar, born 1943 in Ljubljana, is a Slovenian earthquake engineer known for the N2 method, a seismic analysis procedure adopted in Eurocode 8 in 2002.
Peter Fratzl
Peter Fratzl, born 1958 in Vienna, is an Austrian materials scientist directing biomaterials research at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam.
Peter G. Bruce
Peter G. Bruce is a British materials chemist, Wolfson Professor at Oxford, founder of the Faraday Institution, and pioneer of the rechargeable lithium-air battery, knighted in 2022.
Peter G. Wilhelm
Peter G. Wilhelm (1935–2025) was an American space systems engineer who spent 55 years at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, working on roughly 100 satellites including GRAB.
Peter Gumbsch
Peter Gumbsch is a German materials scientist known for multiscale modeling of deformation and fracture and for mechanical metamaterials; he won the Leibniz Prize in 2007.
Peter H. L. Notten
Peter H. L. Notten (born 1952) is a Dutch materials electrochemist known for rechargeable NiMH and lithium-ion battery research at Philips Research and Eindhoven University of Technology.
Peter Haasen
Peter Haasen was a German physicist and professor of metal physics. He was known for his work on dislocation mechanics and his textbook, Physical Metallurgy.
Peter Hirsch (materials scientist)
Peter Hirsch, full name Sir Peter Bernhard Hirsch, was a British materials scientist who in 1956 first observed dislocations moving in metals by electron microscopy, and led Oxford's metallurgy department.
Peter J. Pupalaikis
Peter J. Pupalaikis is an American electrical engineer known for digital signal processing in high-bandwidth real-time oscilloscopes, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.
Peter J. Vikesland
Peter J. Vikesland is an environmental engineer and the inaugural Pryor Professor of Engineering at Virginia Tech, known for research on nanomaterials and sensors for drinking water treatment.
Peter J. Winzer
Peter J. Winzer is an optical communications researcher elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017, known for work on fiber capacity limits, coherent detection, and constellation shaping.
Peter Joel Basser
Peter Joel Basser is a biomedical engineer at the NIH known for inventing diffusion tensor imaging and tractography, and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020.
Peter K. H. Ho
Peter K. H. Ho is a Singaporean physicist and professor at the National University of Singapore who researches organic semiconductor devices, including LEDs and solar cells.
Peter K. Kitanidis
Peter K. Kitanidis, also known as Peter Kitanidis, is an environmental engineer and Stanford professor of civil and environmental engineering known for the geostatistical approach to groundwater inverse problems.
Peter K. Liaw
Peter K. Liaw, also published as Peter Liaw, is a materials scientist at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, who studies the fatigue and fracture of high-entropy alloys and is a Fellow of ASM, MRS, and TMS.
Peter Lee (materials scientist)
Peter Lee, also known as Peter D. Lee, is a professor of materials science at University College London known for synchrotron X-ray imaging of materials and intact human organs.
Peter Louis Andresen
Peter Louis Andresen is an American materials scientist known for predicting and preventing stress corrosion cracking in nuclear reactors, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013.
Peter Morgan (Zimbabwean water and sanitation researcher)
Peter Morgan, born 1943, is a Zimbabwean water and sanitation researcher known for the Blair toilet, the Bush Pump, and ecological sanitation, winning the 2013 Stockholm Water Prize.
Peter Müller‐Buschbaum
Peter Müller-Buschbaum (born 1966) is a German physicist who heads the Chair of Functional Materials at the Technical University of Munich, studying solar cells and batteries.
Peter Murray (metallurgist)
Peter Murray (1920–2009) was a British-born nuclear metallurgist who worked at Harwell and Westinghouse and was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 1976.
Peter N. Belhumeur
Peter N. Belhumeur is an American computer vision scientist, professor of computer science at Columbia University, known for face recognition research and the Leafsnap plant-identification app.
Peter Staudhammer
Peter Staudhammer (1934–2008) was an American aerospace engineer who spent four decades at TRW, retiring in 2002 as Vice President and Chief Technical Officer overseeing 17,000 engineers.
Peter Stoica
Peter Stoica, also known as Petre Stoica, is a signal processing researcher and Professor of Systems Modeling at Uppsala University, known for system identification, spectral analysis, and array processing.
Peter Sutter
Peter Sutter is a materials scientist and professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln known for epitaxial graphene growth on metals and twisted van der Waals nanowires.
Peter Swerling
Peter Swerling (1929–2000) was an American mathematician and radar theoretician whose statistical models of fluctuating radar targets, the Swerling Cases I–IV, remain standard tools in radar system design.
Peter W. Voorhees
Peter W. Voorhees is a materials scientist at Northwestern University known for research on Ostwald ripening, elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016.
Peter Wasserscheid
Peter Wasserscheid, born 1970 in Würzburg, is a German chemist known for ionic liquids in catalysis and liquid organic hydrogen carriers, holding the Chemical Reaction Engineering chair at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg since 2003.