Technology and the built world

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 Naur

Peter Naur (1928–2016) was a Danish computer scientist who edited the 1960 Algol 60 report, helped establish Backus-Naur Form, coined "datalogy", and won the 2005 Turing Award.

Peter Norbeck Scenic Byway

The Peter Norbeck Scenic Byway is a roughly 70-mile figure-eight loop through the Black Hills of South Dakota, passing Mount Rushmore, six rock tunnels, and spiraling pigtail bridges.

Peter Norvig

Peter Norvig is an American computer scientist, Director of Research at Google since 2005 and co-author with Stuart Russell of the leading AI textbook Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach.

Peter O'Hearn

Peter O'Hearn is a computer scientist whose separation logic enabled tractable reasoning about program memory, and whose Infer analyzer found hundreds of thousands of bugs at Facebook.

Peter R. Bridenbaugh

Peter R. Bridenbaugh is a retired American materials executive who served as Alcoa's chief technology officer and chaired a National Research Council study on globalizing materials R&D.

Peter Sheridan Dodds is a professor of computer science at the University of Vermont who works on network science and contagion, and is best known for the Hedonometer, a Twitter-based instrument measuring happiness.

Peter Shor

Peter Shor is an American theoretical computer scientist, the Morss Professor of Applied Mathematics at MIT, known for Shor's 1994 quantum factoring algorithm and for quantum error correction.

Peter Siebold

Peter Siebold (born 1971) is an American aerospace engineer and test pilot at Scaled Composites in Mojave, California, who flew SpaceShipOne above 100,000 feet and survived the 2014 SpaceShipTwo breakup.

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 Steinberger (programmer)

Peter Steinberger, known online as @steipete, is an Austrian software engineer who founded the PDF company PSPDFKit, created the AI agent OpenClaw, and joined OpenAI in 2026.

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 Sunde

Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi, known online as brokep, is a Norwegian-Finnish internet entrepreneur and activist best known as a co-founder and spokesperson of The Pirate Bay, later founding Flattr and Njalla.

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 Szolovits

Peter Szolovits is an American computer scientist and MIT professor who heads the Clinical Decision-Making Group in CSAIL, applying artificial intelligence to medical decision making since 1974.

Peter Townsend (RAF officer)

Peter Wooldridge Townsend was a Royal Air Force officer and Battle of Britain pilot who commanded No. 85 Squadron and later became known for his romance with Princess Margaret.

Peter Twiss

Peter Twiss, born Lionel Peter Winterton Twiss, was a British test pilot who in 1956 flew the Fairey Delta 2 past 1,000 mph, breaking the world air-speed record.

Peter V. Coveney

Peter V. Coveney, also known as Peter Coveney, is a computational scientist who directs the Centre for Computational Science at University College London and works on multiscale modeling and high-performance computing.

Peter W. Barlow

Peter W. Barlow, also known as Peter William Barlow, was an English civil engineer who patented a cylindrical tunnelling shield in 1864, used in the Tower Subway.

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.

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.

Peter Zumthor

Peter Zumthor, born 1943 in Basel, is a Swiss architect known for carefully detailed buildings like the Therme Vals and winner of the 2009 Pritzker Prize.

Peterbilt

Peterbilt Motors Company is an American manufacturer of medium-duty and heavy-duty commercial trucks, founded in California in 1939 by T.A. Peterman and owned since 1958 by PACCAR, building its trucks primarily in Denton, Texas.

Peterbilt 579

The Peterbilt 579 is a Class 8 on-highway conventional tractor built by Peterbilt Motors Company at its Denton, Texas plant, introduced in 2012 as the company's aerodynamic flagship.

Peterhead power station

Peterhead power station is a 1,180 MW gas-fired combined cycle power station at Boddam near Peterhead, Scotland, owned by SSE, opened in 1982 and repowered in 2000.