Technology and the built world

Peter C. Schultz

Peter C. Schultz is an American glass chemist and materials scientist who co-invented the first low-loss optical fiber at Corning in 1970, the physical basis of global telecommunications, and holds 26 U.S. patents.

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 Chen (Taiwanese-American computer scientist)

Peter Pin-Shan Chen (陈品山) is a Taiwanese-American computer scientist who formalized and popularized the entity–relationship model in his 1976 paper, one of the most cited works in computer science.

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 Diamandis

Peter H. Diamandis (born 1961) is a Greek-American physician, engineer, and entrepreneur best known as founder and executive chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, which created the $10 million Ansari XPRIZE.

Peter England

Peter England is a menswear brand founded in the late 19th century in Londonderry, Ireland, to supply British military shirts, and known today as one of India's largest menswear brands.

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.

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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.

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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 Gutmann (computer scientist)

Peter Gutmann is a New Zealand computer security researcher at the University of Auckland, known for the 35-pass Gutmann wipe method and the cryptlib security toolkit.

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 Hall (town planner)

Sir Peter Hall (1932–2014) was a British town planner and geographer, widely credited as the originator of the enterprise zone and author of around 50 books.

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 John Bethell

Peter John Bethell is a coal preparation and mineral processing engineer, trained at the University of Nottingham, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2014 for fine coal cleaning.

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 Meer

Peter Meer is an electrical engineer and computer vision researcher, a Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University from 1991 to 2018, known for the mean shift algorithm and kernel-based object tracking.