List of Physicists - P

P

• Thanu Padmanabhan — India (born 1957)
• Heinz Pagels — United States (1939–1988)
• Abraham Pais — Netherlands, United States (1918–2000)
• Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky — Germany, United States (1919–2007)
• Blaise Pascal — France (1623–1662)
• John Pasta — United States (1918–1984)
• Jogesh Pati — United States (born 1937)
• Wolfgang Paul — Germany (1913–1993)
• Wolfgang Ernst Pauli — Austria-Hungary (1900–1958)
• G. B. Pegram — United States (1876–1958)
• Rudolf Peierls — Germany, UK (1907–1995)
• Jean Peltier — France (1785–1845)
• Roger Penrose — UK (born 1931) Wolf laureate
• Arno Allan Penzias — United States (born 1933)
• Saul Perlmutter — United States (born 1959)
• Jean Baptiste Perrin — France (1870–1942)
• Bernhard Philberth — Germany (1927–2010)
• William Daniel Phillips — United States (born 1948)
• Max Planck — Germany (1858–1947)
• Joseph Plateau — Belgium (1801–1883)
• Milton S. Plesset — United States (1908–1991)
• Ward Plummer — United States (born 1940)
• Henri Poincaré — France (1854–1912)
• Eric Poisson — Canada (–)
• Siméon Denis Poisson — France (1781–1840)
• Balthasar van der Pol — Netherlands (1889–1959)
• Joseph Polchinski — UK (born 1954)
• Hugh David Politzer — United States (born 1949)
• John Polkinghorne — UK (born 1930)
• Alexander M. Polyakov — Russia-United States (born 1945)
• Heraclides Ponticus — Greece (387–312 BC)
• Heinz Pose — Germany (1905–1975)
• Cecil Frank Powell — UK (1903–1969)
• John Henry Poynting — UK (1852–1914)
• Ludwig Prandtl — Germany (1875–1953)
• Ilya Prigogine — Belgium (1917–2003)
• Aleksandr Prokhorov — Soviet, Russian (1916–2002)
• William Prout — UK (1785–1850)
• Luigi Puccianti — Italy (1875–1952)
• Ivan Pulyuy — Ukraine (1845–1918)
• Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin — Serbia, United States (1858–1935)
• Edward Mills Purcell — United States (1912–1997)
• Boris Podolsky — Taganrog
• Bruno Pontecorvo — Italy, Soviet Union (1913–1993)
• Alexander Prokhorov — Atherton, Queensland, Australia