Peter Michelson

{{short description|American physicist}}

Peter F. Michelson is an American physicist who focuses on high energy astrophysics, particularly X-ray and gamma-ray observations and instrument development. He is currently the Luke Blossom Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University.{{Cite web |url=https://physics.stanford.edu/people/faculty/peter-f-michelson |title=Peter Michelson |publisher=stanford.edu |accessdate=May 12, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911112701/https://physics.stanford.edu/people/faculty/peter-f-michelson |archive-date=September 11, 2017 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=https://web.stanford.edu/~peterm/ |title=Peter Michelson |publisher=stanford.edu |accessdate=May 12, 2017}}

Michelson is the Principal Investigator of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope's main instrument, the Large Area Telescope (LAT) and spokesman for the LAT collaboration.{{cite web |title=Perspectives on 10 Years of Discovery With Fermi |url=https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2018-06-11-perspectives-10-years-discovery-fermi |access-date=19 February 2025}}