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Sir Peter Markham Scott (14 September 1909 – 29 August 1989) was a British ornithologist, conservationist, painter, naval officer, broadcaster and sportsman. The only child of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott , he took an interest in observing and shooting wildfowl at a young age and later took to their breeding.
Peter T. Kirstein (1933–2020) was a British computer scientist and a leader in the international development of the Internet. [151] In 1973, he established one of the first two international nodes of the ARPANET. [152]
The Brynmawr Experiment was an effort led by the visionary idealist Peter Scott to address issues of poverty and unemployment in Brynmawr, South Wales, between 1929 and 1939. Initially a relief project response of the Quakers in South-East England, it grew first into an effort to set up small industries and finally an ambitious utopian ...
An Internet entrepreneur is an owner, founder or manager of an Internet-based business. This list includes Internet company founders and people brought on to companies for their general business or accounting acumen, as is the case with some CEOs hired by companies started by entrepreneurs.
Peter Bowman Scott-Morgan (né Scott; 19 April 1958 – 15 June 2022) was an English-American organizational theorist, author, and expert in robotics. He had motor neurone disease and was known for his efforts to extend his life by becoming what he called a human cyborg. In 2020 he was the subject of Channel 4's documentary Peter: The Human Cyborg.
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Peter Scott was knighted in 2007 for "services to education". [3] He is a member of Academia Europaea [20] and the Academy of Social Sciences, [21] and has received the following honorary degrees: Doctor of Laws (University of Bath, 1992) [22] Doctor of Letters (Council for National Academic Awards, at its last awards ceremony)