Peter Edwin Wright is a scientist, an NMR spectroscopist and a professor at the Scripps Research Institute.

[2][3][4] He serves as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Molecular Biology.

[5] Wright is from New Zealand and studied at the University of Auckland.

He completed his PhD in chemistry in 1972[6] with a thesis on the physico-chemical properties of metal ion sites in cuproproteins: an investigation of selected copper(II) complexes.

[6][8] Wright is a proponent of the theory of conformational sampling being of importance to enzyme catalysis and intrinsically disordered proteins,[9][10][11] which is opposed to the theory of electrostatic preorganization.