Peter David Wothers, MBE, is a British chemist and author of several popular textbooks aimed at university students.

[2][3] Wothers was educated at Bedford Modern School and represented the UK at the International Chemistry Olympiad in 1987, winning a silver medal.

[5][6][7][8] Wothers has co-authored the first edition of the well-known and best-selling Organic Chemistry[9] textbook together with Jonathan Clayden, Nick Greeves and his fellow Cambridge lecturer Stuart Warren.

[13] Peter Wothers has made numerous television appearances as a chemistry specialist, notably as one of the presenters in the Discovery Channel series "The Big Experiment".

Wothers talked about modern day chemistry and science along with Ewan Birney, Sanjeev Gupta and Helen Bynum who were also guests on the show.