edgepedia

Engineers and materials scientists

3,787 articles

Peter Wilderer

Peter Wilderer is a German civil engineer known for biofilm-based wastewater treatment and the first Stockholm Water Prize awarded to a German academic, in 2003.

Peter Zandstra

Peter W. Zandstra is a Canadian bioengineer known for stem cell bioengineering, a professor at the University of British Columbia and its Vice-President, Research and Innovation since 2026.

Peters Max Stone

Peters Max Stone (1920–2011) was an American chemical engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1969 and dean of engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Petre Stoica

Petre Stoica is a signal processing researcher and emeritus professor at Uppsala University in Sweden, known for system identification, spectral analysis, wireless communications, and the SPICE sparse estimation method.

Petro Maksymovych

Petro Maksymovych, who publishes as Peter Maksymovych, is a Ukrainian-born materials scientist known for ferroelectric nanoscience at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a Clemson University professor since 2024.

Phaedon Avouris

Phaedon Avouris is a Greek-trained chemical physicist at IBM who pioneered carbon nanotube logic circuits and gigahertz graphene transistors, and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 2017.

Philip A. Thompson

Philip A. Thompson was an American mechanical engineer who taught at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, wrote the 1972 textbook Compressible-Fluid Dynamics, and discovered liquefaction shock waves; he died in 2001.

Philip Barkan

Philip Barkan (1925–1996) was an American mechanical engineer with 51 circuit-breaker patents at General Electric who became a Stanford professor and pioneer of design for manufacturability.

Philip C. Singer

Philip C. Singer (born 1942) is an American environmental engineer and professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a leading authority on drinking-water disinfection by-products.

Philip Feng

Philip X.-L. Feng is an electrical engineer known for nanoelectromechanical systems built from atomically thin 2D materials such as molybdenum disulfide, and a 2016 PECASE recipient.

Philip G. Hodge

Philip G. Hodge (1920–2014) was an American mechanical engineer and applied mathematician who advanced plasticity theory, taught at Illinois Tech and Minnesota, and received the ASME Medal in 1987.

Philip Lett

Philip Lett (1922–2014) was an American mechanical engineer called the "Father of the M1 Tank" for leading the M1 Abrams tank's design, development, and production at Chrysler.

Philip M. Condit

Philip M. Condit, born in 1941 in Berkeley, California, is an American aerospace engineer who led Boeing as CEO and chairman from 1996 until his resignation in 2003.

Philip M. Gschwend

Philip M. Gschwend is an environmental organic chemist and Ford Professor of Engineering at MIT who studies how organic pollutants move between water, sediments, and air.

Philip S. Klebanoff

Philip S. Klebanoff (1918–1992) was an American fluid mechanician at the National Bureau of Standards whose boundary-layer measurements gave turbulence research the Klebanoff intermittency function.

Philip S. Low

Philip S. Low (1947–2026) was an American chemist and Purdue University professor credited with establishing ligand-targeted drug delivery, best known for folate receptor-targeted cancer therapies; his company Endocyte sold to Novartis for $2.1 billion in 2018.

Philip Sporn

Philip Sporn was an Austrian-born American electrical engineer who served as president of American Electric Power from 1947 to 1961, building one of the largest investor-owned electric utility systems in the world.

Philip T. Krein

Philip T. Krein is an American electrical engineer and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois. He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 2016.

Philip Tinnefeld

Philip Tinnefeld is a physical chemist and Chair of Physical Chemistry at LMU Munich, known for co-inventing dSTORM and DNA-PAINT and for DNA origami nanorulers.

Philipp Adelhelm

Philipp Adelhelm is a physical chemist and materials scientist who became Professor of Physical Chemistry of Materials at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 2019, working on sodium-ion batteries.

Philippe Roland Spalart

Philippe Roland Spalart is an aerodynamicist trained in Paris and at Stanford who created the Spalart–Allmaras turbulence model and worked as a Senior Technical Fellow at Boeing.

Phillip B. Messersmith

Phillip B. Messersmith is a materials scientist and bioengineer at the University of California, Berkeley, known for mussel-inspired adhesives, including a 2007 Science paper on polydopamine coatings.

Phillip Eisenberg

Phillip Eisenberg was an American naval hydrodynamics researcher known for his work on cavitation, which erodes ship propellers. He headed research at the David Taylor Model Basin and co-founded Hydronautics, Inc., in 1959.

Phillip S. Myers

Phillip S. Myers (1916–2006) was an American mechanical engineer and University of Wisconsin–Madison professor who pioneered measuring temperatures inside engine combustion cylinders and co-founded its Engine Research Center.

Pierre Armand Jacquet

Pierre Armand Jacquet (1906–1967) was a French chemical engineer and metallurgist who discovered electrolytic polishing in 1929, known as the Jacquet method, and named the Jacquet layer.

Pierre M. Beaujuge

Pierre M. Beaujuge, also published as Pierre Beaujuge, is a materials scientist at the KAUST Solar Center in Saudi Arabia, known for electrochromic polymers and organic solar cells.

Pil J. Yoo

Pil Jin Yoo (유필진) is a South Korean chemical engineer and professor at Sungkyunkwan University, trained at Seoul National University and MIT, working on battery materials.

Ping King Tien

Ping King Tien (田炳耕), known as P. K. Tien, was a Chinese-born American electrical engineer at Bell Labs, a central figure in integrated optics and inventor of the prism-film coupler.

Ping Liu

Ping Liu is a battery and energy storage researcher at UC San Diego, known for lithium–sulfur and lithium-metal battery work published in Nature and Nature Energy.

Piya Pal

Piya Pal is a signal processing researcher and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC San Diego, known for sparse array geometries and winning the 2019 PECASE award.