Scientist/researcher Famous Names Starting with Letter P

Was a French Egyptologist and philologist. He served as Egypt's director of antiquities from 1914 un

Was a French Egyptologist and philologist. He served as Egypt's director of antiquities from 1914 until 1936, and oversaw the 1922 discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings by Howard Carter.

Was a French naturalist and explorer. Sonnerat was the nephew of the botanist Pierre Poivre. He made

Was a French naturalist and explorer. Sonnerat was the nephew of the botanist Pierre Poivre. He made several voyages to southeast Asia, visiting the Philippines and Moluccas between 1769 and 1772, and India and China from 1774 to 1781. He was the first person to give a scientific description of the south Chinese fruit tree lychee.

Was a French explorer from the city of Vitré. Pierre-Olivier Malherbe went on 27-year world tour, a

Was a French explorer from the city of Vitré. Pierre-Olivier Malherbe went on 27-year world tour, and returned to France in 1609. He has a claim to being the first French circumnavigator.[1] He visited China, and in India had an encounter with Akbar.[1]

Is a British-American scientist and a NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions.

Is a British-American scientist and a NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions.He met the band in Houston, Texas when the band played there in April 2002. He told them he would be taking their albums into space with him. When he met t

Was a Danish scientist, mathematician, inventor, author, and poet, often writing under the Old Norse

Was a Danish scientist, mathematician, inventor, author, and poet, often writing under the Old Norse pseudonym "Kumbel" meaning "tombstone". His short poems, gruks (or grooks), first started to appear in the daily newspaper "Politiken" shortly after the Nazi Occupation in April 1940 under the pseudonym "Kumbel Kumbell".[1]

Was a wealthy Dutch merchant in linen and Spanish wool, and an entomologist. Cramer was the director

Was a wealthy Dutch merchant in linen and Spanish wool, and an entomologist. Cramer was the director of the Zealand Society, a scientific society located in Flushing and a member of Concordia et Libertate, based in Amsterdam. This literary and patriotic society, where Cramer gave lectures on minerals, commissioned and/or financed the publishing of his book on outlandish (exotic) butterflies, occurring in three parts of the world Asia, Africa and America: De uitlandsche Kapellen.[1]

Was a Dutch medallist and coiner in Amsterdam.

Was a Dutch medallist and coiner in Amsterdam.

Was an Italian scientist and entomologist.Rossi’s academic career was conducted at the university

Was an Italian scientist and entomologist.Rossi’s academic career was conducted at the university of Pisa. There in 1759 he attained a doctorate in philosophy and medicine. He was then made (from 1763 to 1801) a professor of logic , before he finally rece

Was an Indian physicist and meteorologist, and is considered to be the father of remote sensing in I

Was an Indian physicist and meteorologist, and is considered to be the father of remote sensing in India.P. R. Pisharoty was born on February 10, 1909 in the town of Kollengode in the Indian state of Kerala.His parents were Sivaramakrishnan alias Gopala Vadhyar and Lakshmi Pisharassiar. He had two other brothers Balan and Rajan. Balan was a famous chemist and was heading the Central Medical Stores at Madras Medical College

German-American physicist. In 1955 he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics with Willis Eu

German-American physicist. In 1955 he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics with Willis Eugene Lamb for his accurate determination that the magnetic moment of the electron was greater than its theoretical value, thus leading to reconsideration of—and innovations in—quantum electrodynamics.

Was a Bengali academician, a distinguished chemist and entrepreneur. He was born on August 2, 1861 i

Was a Bengali academician, a distinguished chemist and entrepreneur. He was born on August 2, 1861 in the village Raruli-Katipara in Khulna District (now in Bangladesh) and died on June 16, 1944. He was the founder of Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals, India's first pharmaceutical company.Prafulla Chandra returned to India in 1889 and joined Presidency College, Calcutta as Assistant Professor of Chemistry. He was reputed as a successful, inspiring and popular teacher. Also, he was surrounded by a group of dedicated research students . Though at that time, the Chemistry department of Presidency College did not boast of any well-equipped world standard laboratory, but a lot of original chemical experimentation occurred there.

Was an Indian scientist and applied statistician. He is best remembered for the Mahalanobis distance

Was an Indian scientist and applied statistician. He is best remembered for the Mahalanobis distance, a statistical measure. He did pioneering work on anthropometric variation in India. He founded the Indian Statistical Institute, and contributed to large

Is an Indonesian scientist. She is currently professor of microbiology at the University of Indonesi

Is an Indonesian scientist. She is currently professor of microbiology at the University of Indonesia, Jakarta. Pratiwi Sudarmono received a Master's degree from the University of Indonesia in 1977, and the Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Osaka, Japan, in 1984. She then started her scientific career as WHO grantee researching the molecular biology of Salmonella typhi. From 1994 to 2000, she was head of the Department of Microbiology of the Medical Faculty of the University of Indonesia. From 2001 to 2002, she was a scholar in the Fulbright New Century Scholars Program.

A German explorer, ethnologist and naturalist.

A German explorer, ethnologist and naturalist.

Is a prominent Greek Cypriot transcultural nursing researcher and now resides in the United Kingdom.

Is a prominent Greek Cypriot transcultural nursing researcher and now resides in the United Kingdom.

Was a Scottish naturalist and mineralogist, born in Leith, near Edinburgh, in July 1774. As Regius P

Was a Scottish naturalist and mineralogist, born in Leith, near Edinburgh, in July 1774. As Regius Professor at the University of Edinburgh for fifty years, Jameson is notable for his advanced scholarship in natural history, his superb museum collection, and his tuition of Charles Darwin.

Was a Russian explorer who continued the studies of Nikolai Przhevalsky in Mongolia and Tibet. His 1

Was a Russian explorer who continued the studies of Nikolai Przhevalsky in Mongolia and Tibet. His 1907 visit to the Dalai Lama in Lhasa gave "the British War Office a fright",[1] especially after the Lama declared his intention to "settle within the conf

Innovative Soviet/Russian physicist and Nobel laureate, who made important discoveries in a number o

Innovative Soviet/Russian physicist and Nobel laureate, who made important discoveries in a number of different areas.

Was a Greek merchant, geographer and explorer from the Greek colony Massilia (today Marseille, Franc

Was a Greek merchant, geographer and explorer from the Greek colony Massilia (today Marseille, France). He made a voyage of exploration to northwestern Europe around 325 BC. He may have travelled around a considerable part of Great Britain, circumnavigating it between 330 and 320 BC