Peter Rudolf Wyder (26 February 1934 – 30 July 2024) was a Swiss physicist and a professor of experimental solid-state physics at the Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands from 1967 until 1988 and in 1990.
[1][2] Wyder later served as director of the Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses (High Magnetic Field Laboratory) in Grenoble, France.
[3] He obtained his PhD at ETH Zurich in 1965 with a doctoral thesis titled: "Freie Weglängen für die elektrische und die thermische Leitfähigkeit" and thesis advisor Jorgen Lykke Olsen.
[3] Starting in 1967 Wyder was a professor of experimental solid-state physics at Radboud University Nijmegen.
[1][12] Wyder was elected a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1985.